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by jjk166 1y ago
I don't see how that conflicts with my point. The period from Jan 1978 to Jan 1982 was a momentary spike, peaking January 1980, which was nearly 3 times the long term average from 1971 to 2008. If you set that as your baseline, everyth
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by jjk166 1y ago
it really is https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha... Note 10 years ago is 2015. The period over 10 years ago is the period of extremely high prices under discussion(mid 2000s to 2014)
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by jjk166 1y ago
20 years ago (ie mid 2000s) was a unique time of extremely high gas prices with 2008 being the all time high both adjusted for inflation and absolute. Adjusted for inflation, oil is currently higher than any point between 1990 and 2004, and
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by jjk166 1y ago
That's exactly why gold is a useful proxy. The price of gold is pretty much purely a function of how much money speculators have in their pockets. If inflation is high, it means there are more dollars that can go into gold speculation,
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by jjk166 1y ago
Well first certain activities are very difficult to directly police so rather than getting better at dealing with the actual criminal behavior, you instead go after the money which is merely a proxy for the behavior. Unfortunately tracking
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by jjk166 1y ago
Presumably they wouldn't torch the equipment and shoot the engineers when shutting down. If some business unit within Kodak is producing something the world needs, then there will be money to restart that particular production back up
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by jjk166 1y ago
This sounds like cherry picked data to support a predetermined conclusion. Note they only asked if participants pretended to have more progressive views, not views different from their own. Nor did they ask how frequently or how extreme the
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by jjk166 1y ago
The question wasn't what should they do, it's why are they doing what they are currently doing? That said, obviously the point of remaining is so that they can refuse those worse orders when they come, so that they can convince th
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by jjk166 1y ago
There's still money in those places to support people even if it's not flowing through public services. Many homeless people work, and it's easier to get work in high productivity areas. Most of those who don't rely on g
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by jjk166 1y ago
For anyone who disobeys the order, it's the end of their career; and every person with a conscience who leaves now will be replaced by someone who will gleefully follow much worse orders in due time. Everyone at the top levels whose jo
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by jjk166 1y ago
These do not seem like the actions of a an administration that feels the need to justify anything.
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by jjk166 1y ago
You're swapping cause and effect. Places with lots of economic opportunity and significant public services to assist the homeless are the place where you can have large homeless populations, ie large numbers of people just barely scrap
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities." > The order also instructs agencies to formalize the ability t
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by jjk166 1y ago
The same reason bridges and aircraft carriers and public schools aren't funded by private philanthropy. Why am I paying taxes if not to fund things done for the public interest?
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by jjk166 1y ago
I read GP as saying Waymo does indeed have self driving cars, but that doesn't count because such cars are not available for the average person to purchase and operate. Waymo cars aren't being driven by people at a remote location
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by jjk166 1y ago
I meant serious predictions. A surprisingly large percentage of people claim the Earth is flat, of course there's going to be baseless claims that the very nature of transportation is about to completely change overnight. But the peopl
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by jjk166 1y ago
I don't think anyone was ever arguing "not only are we going to develop self driving technology but we're going to build out the factories to mass produce self driving cars, and convince all the regulatory bodies to permit th
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by jjk166 1y ago
“If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.”
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by jjk166 1y ago
There may not be a universally agreed upon threshold for the minimum required for AGI, but there's certainly a point where if you find yourself beyond it then AGI definitely has been developed.
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by jjk166 1y ago
Looks like a lot of players getting closer and closer to an asymptotic limit. Initially small changes lead to big improvements causing a firm to race ahead, as they go forward performance gains from innovation become both more marginal and
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by jjk166 1y ago
400 MPa is better than the best structural steel. 1000 MPa is not for structural steel, it is for high grade steel, the sort you make submarines out of. Why would I list 400 and 1000 for the same value? Steel is weaker in compression than t
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by jjk166 1y ago
At the depth of the titanic to see a 1% variation in pressure between the top most and bottom most points of a sphere, the sphere would need to be 40 meters in diameter. For context, the pressure vessels of the largest submarine in the worl
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by jjk166 1y ago
> As soon as they're done with a house / harvest, either a consumer or a speculator buys it and they can focus on producing the next house/crop. Without speculators, they'd have to not only do their value-add, they&#x
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by jjk166 1y ago
King George III didn't start really start showing symptoms of mental illness until 1788, and it was only during temporary periods until 1810. There had been a brief episode in 1765, but it was poorly documented, and is described more l
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by jjk166 1y ago
Internal bracing is to resist buckling. You need it as your cylinder gets longer (as military subs tend to be), but has nothing to do with the diameter. It's also good for torsional strength, which is not really a concern for a pressur
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by jjk166 1y ago
I would not call 400 MPa "very low" that's better than the best structural steel. Further, the important thing is the specific strength. CFRP has a density 5 times lower than steel, meaning you can use 5 times as much for the
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by jjk166 1y ago
Well the "glue" in this case is actually a very good material for the application. Epoxy has compressive strength comparable to structural steel, and more importantly its density is almost the same as water. This means you can mak
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by jjk166 1y ago
Pressure doesn't grow with volume. The exterior design pressure is constant. The stress on the wall scales linearly with the diameter. Making submarines bigger actually makes it easier because the buoyancy scales cubically with the vol
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by jjk166 1y ago
Carbon fiber is actually a pretty good material for submarine type loads. Submarines have to balance their need for an extremely strong hull with the need for buoyancy. For a given size, to make your hull stronger, you must make your walls
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by jjk166 1y ago
Being weaker in compression than in tension is not the same as being unable to handle compression. 40% of carbon fiber's tensile strength is still comparable to the compressive strength of high strength steel.

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