idlehand

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by idlehand 4y ago
At least in Germany, they shut down the nuclear plants before the coal plants. When you shut down or decline to maintain, upgrade and expand nuclear, in favor of renewables which do not yet exist, fossil energy (coal, oil, or natural gas) t
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by idlehand 4y ago
On a continent-wide grid, there will likely be some wind somewhere, and some pumped hydro ready to take advantage of the low prices. We'll also see micro-storage developing to take advantage of electricity price variability. EVs will c
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by idlehand 4y ago
A functional public transport system also means that people who are too young or old to drive, or have vision problems, or need to take medication which makes it unsafe to operate a vehicle, have the freedom to leave their homes and go wher
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by idlehand 4y ago
It's probably not a very efficient use of capital, but it's better than the Saudis spending it on their military.
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by idlehand 4y ago
The issue lies in who those 1 billion people will be. The most anti-LGBT, anti-women, anti-education, low income cultures which have the most kids? Or a "controlled landing" in which most of the Western world doesn't become a
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by idlehand 4y ago
Governments sometimes demolish highways though. And a lot of the time, the marginal utility of adding another lane to a road is lower than the utility of using that space and public money somewhere else. If we scale a car-centric city to a
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by idlehand 4y ago
Commercial fusion power probably makes it more economical to spend more energy recycling materials.
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by idlehand 4y ago
I second this. I went through a phase of extremely clean eating and it helped me lose the weight I put on in the first half of the pandemic. Now I just have an intuition as to what to eat and in which quantities, and it has helped me keep t
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by idlehand 4y ago
26 million, mostly in prime working and childbearing age - so a larger effect on future population size than the number itself implies.
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by idlehand 4y ago
We're going to see more interconnected grids, the sun is usually shining somewhere and the wind is blowing somewhere. And when it isn't, we're going to see higher prices. Private companies will absorb some part of the societa
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by idlehand 4y ago
Has Google gotten worse in the last few years? I instinctively try to Google these kinds of things, but it is getting harder to find the results I want.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Any car with more than one person in the vehicle should have VIP access. That's at least twice as efficient use of space and natural resources as one person in a 2-ton SUV driving to work or wherever.
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by idlehand 4y ago
I think you're right, but there is also the possibility that people avoiding places and situations which feel unsafe is a factor in the low number of incidents.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Yup - I owe my above-average native fluency to my mother's incessant correcting, and my English proficiency to countless kind strangers on the internet.
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by idlehand 4y ago
If the wages are not rising, then the organization sees no replacement as better than a more expensive replacement. It's just price capping leading to scarcity.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Unfortunately that sentiment is just backend developer elitism. The DOM, frontend state, backend state, and networking end up creating considerable complexity once you start creating more dynamic web applications.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Gentle reminder that wages are set by markets generally based on the cost of replacement. If you don't have a moat in the form of education and experience, you won't have very impressive pay. Working in the public sector just make
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by idlehand 4y ago
I'm 99% sure that Africa is not going to reach 4.3 billion inhabitants. Climate change, food insecurity, economic growth and global instability will ensure that it doesn't turn out that way.
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by idlehand 4y ago
The US does attract plenty of scientists from other parts of the world, including China and Russia.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Both India and China do have high rates of both traffic and pedestrian deaths compared to European countries. I think the answer is going to be government rules because it's important that self-driving cars are predictable when there&#
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by idlehand 4y ago
US productivity, that is, GDP per hour worked, is higher than almost all European countries. Only the Germanic-speaking countries have comparable productivity.
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by idlehand 4y ago
I would say most children in Western nations are wanted by their parents. They're mostly just a cost economically speaking, so no incentive to have more than you want. I think most people can achieve happiness in their situation, even
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by idlehand 4y ago
Sounds like you might be out of touch, housing has become a lot less affordable in the last decades.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Corn is not a complete protein, though. So it's not a valid substitute for chicken or beef, which do provide all the necessary amino acids.
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by idlehand 4y ago
Russia and Ukraine have the same gauge. The reason the railroads weren't used to invade is because Ukraine managed to damage the connecting infrastructure enough. Turns out that railroads are a lot better defensively than offensively,
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by idlehand 4y ago
Adding more inputs to a production process generally increases output. But many parts of the world are already suffering from soil depletion because of intensive farming, and the fertilizers and fossil fuels which we use to raise yields wil
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by idlehand 4y ago
Low interest rates benefit the wealthy, that's why they have been allowed to remain in place for a decade. Inequality accelerated during the 10s.
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by idlehand 4y ago
I didn't like it for years but then I kind of got into it for testing out machine learning and I found it kind of neat. My biggest gripe is no longer the syntax but the slowness, trying to do anything with even a soft performance requi
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by idlehand 4y ago
Unlike socialism, capitalism actually seems to fare better when under a siege mentality. The 50s to 70s was a period of strong growth and right-wing support for worker-friendly policies which made the lives of the ordinary person better, no
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by idlehand 4y ago
Every central bank in the world is caught between a rock and a hard place. A recession would be bad for the long-term economy, likely reducing aggregate productivity. But if they don't manage to get inflation under control, we'll

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