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by j-pb 6y ago
The issue is not finding a place that's geologically stable now. But finding one that's geologically stable in 850.000 years. And to find a place where no post worldwar 5 civilization accidentally diggs is up. And to have a tracki
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by j-pb 6y ago
Fukushima is what caused the setback, because it proved that, again, "risk of a fault is neglegible" turns out to be not neglegible enough. I don't care if nuclear can be made safe on paper, as long as it's build by huma
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by j-pb 6y ago
Absolutely amazing! I hope you keep at it and we'll be able to get our hands on one some day. It's so ridiculously cool! Currently I'm waiting on a ClockworkPi devterm as my new laptop replacement. I'd love to replace my
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by j-pb 6y ago
Pretty crazy for what seems to be a one person project. How do you even get your hands on/produce such a weirdly sized trackpad?!
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by j-pb 6y ago
I don't understand why these tools always have so much styling, when they would look a lot better if they just never did it in the first place. Drop-shadows, rounded corners, borders, colouring, fades. All extra work, all a pain to loo
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by j-pb 6y ago
Military, police, surveillance. The usual suspects when it comes to oppressive regimes like china. On a more upbeat note though, imagine the possibility of producing a 3d image of your internals during keyhole surgery or inspecting remote s
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by j-pb 6y ago
YES! If P != NP then there is an infinity hierarchy of problems between them which are themselves complete in terms of difficulty within their level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-intermediate Under the assumption t
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by j-pb 6y ago
Most crops grown are for livestock. We grow so much that we've stated to deforest the amazonas for it. You will never be able to feed mainl seaweed, nor by grazing alone. The advantage of soil protection from grazing is thus negated by
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by j-pb 6y ago
For every m2 of top soil you repair with grazing animals, you deforest 10 m2 of rainforest to produce their feed.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Why not take the B12 substitute directly? I take 1 1000% daily reccomended dose per day, as per consultation with my doctor. Together with D3, Folic Acid, and Iron. Most people are vitamin deficient, meat eating/milk drinking or not, u
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by j-pb 6y ago
Oh I didn't mean to say that changing people to go vegan is easy. Just that going vegan is an incredibly simple solution, and itself super easy. I probably wouldn't be vegan if it weren't for all those tasty vegan meat altern
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yeah, don't cop out, go vegan then ;)!
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by j-pb 6y ago
What makes you think that it's not going to happen? It's already happening to such a degree that diary and meat farmer interest groups are HEAVILY lobbying the EU, to make it as difficult as possible for replacement products. We m
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by j-pb 6y ago
All coal plants produce the same amount of CO2, the dirtyness is inly related to micro-particles. The richest countries are the reason for climate change. We've lived way past what is sustainable for a hundred years, and now you want t
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by j-pb 6y ago
Why not go to zero? It's a bit like saying: "Reducing the amount of fossil fuel is a good idea, but why go to zero?"
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by j-pb 6y ago
Habe you tried the latest substitutes? Artificial chicken based on pea proteins has become virtually indistinguishable from real chicken.
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by j-pb 6y ago
The seaweeed is not a full on substitute for the refular feed. You still have the climate, land, and water impact of the majority of the feed. You're also stil stuck with the huge water requirements, antibiotic resistence, disease, and
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by j-pb 6y ago
You mean convince people to stop eating meat? It's already happening. At least in germany the number of vegan meat alternatives has exploded. These used to be niche products, you could only get in specialty stores. Now there's who
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by j-pb 6y ago
I guess everything helps, but we put so much effort into the problems with easy solutions, that could be invested into the difficult stuff. Livestock contributes to 15% of all greenhouse gasses. But the solution is easy, cheap, and only mid
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by j-pb 6y ago
The kind of parallelism relevant to Merge Sort does not really relate to what message passing and particularly Erlang (the topic of this thread) are about. Erlang is about distributed coordination. It's all about concurrency, and paral
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by j-pb 6y ago
The guy you just responded to invented the Actor model. I'd guess he knows... Besides, such a fork join model might be theoretically free of timing and coordination in a system with infinite resources (bus widths, no cache coherence, a
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by j-pb 6y ago
High pressure air can be produced on-board small autonomous vehicles that travel along the solar installations for weeks at a time, themselves powered by solar energy, without any need to refuel or pick up resources like water.
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by j-pb 6y ago
I've yet to encounter non organic dust that doesn't get blown away by high pressure air. Even if you had 25% losses after a month as the linked article suggests, cleaning them "well enough" once a week should give you en
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by j-pb 6y ago
More panels actually brings down the cleaning cost. Build them all in a large strip, side by side. Attach a blower on rails at the top. Done. C'mon this isn't rocket science.
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by j-pb 6y ago
By making the russian economy heavily dependent on europe, europe gets geopolitical influence on russia. The US is the worlds Hard SuperPower, europe is the worlds Soft SuperPower. You'd pre pretty resentfull too btw, if your continent
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by j-pb 6y ago
Energy directly translates to wealth, wealth translates to stability. The lengths of bizzare ideas people go through to not help their close neighbours, so that they can avoid facing the injustices of the past have no end.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Php is "old world" tech in that it's great for web pages, but not so much for web apps. Ruby was the first "webapp" language before node.
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by j-pb 6y ago
I'd argue that there is are two hidden variables that cause ruby to be such a good predictor. Ruby was "the go to web language" in the cabrian "web 2.0" years, where the web tranformed from a "space of personal
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by j-pb 6y ago
> Most forums are created with softwares handling everything, virtually nobody creates a forum from scratch with his own tech stack. If you don't host the forum yourself you need a data processing agreement with the hoster to be GDP
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by j-pb 6y ago
Except that a commonly used user name is already "personal information". And your eMail address you've used to register to the forum. And the IP address that you use to access the forum. AND EVEN THE RANDOM UUID THAT YOU ASIG

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