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by jl6 2y ago
If prices encode information, then we are talking about a one-way encoding. You can’t turn that price back into a description of the whole vast supply chain behind it. That gives us another problem: prices can’t tell us whether a price is l
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by jl6 2y ago
Densely populated small countries like England probably won't have many giga-scale solar farms, but England is blessed with offshore wind.
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by jl6 2y ago
The copper cables that POTS ran on are still in widespread use, and their replacement is mostly wired cable/fiber, not wireless-only. Power will probably follow a similar pattern: gridless renewables for some use cases, wired power for
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by jl6 2y ago
(electricity + water + CO2) Seems like there is a startup trying to do this: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/air-travel/this-new-fac...
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by jl6 2y ago
The unintended consequences of this would be: Massive increase in the cost of public transport as buses pass their tax costs onto users. Massive increase in the cost of freight shipping, which would be passed on to consumers, i.e. everybody
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by jl6 2y ago
They mention using waste heat from the reaction to minimize the energy cost of discharge. As long as they still get some power out of it, it could be a win even if it’s quite inefficient. When the input hydrogen is “free” in the summer (due
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by jl6 2y ago
I’ll take it. There are far worse ways to end up than Japan.
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by jl6 2y ago
A very sad, but not unexpected, end to another important source of quality journalism. Outcompeted, no doubt, by the noise & churn of the attention economy. I hope they open source their benchmarking procedures. It’s valuable to see the
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by jl6 2y ago
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history?timeline=... Web Design History seems to have trickled to an end in the 2010s. Checks out, IMHO.
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by jl6 2y ago
Out of interest, what would the right resolution have been to reduce the risk of a crush due to overcrowding? Close the station entrance when at capacity?
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by jl6 2y ago
Knee Deep in the Death of the Author.
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by jl6 2y ago
> most of the generally valid questions have already been answered My experience was that SO excelled at answering basic questions with definitive answers, but anything creeping outside that sweet spot would be poorly understood by both
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by jl6 2y ago
“Waxy” is the normal taste for chocolate produced using vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter or otherwise skimping on the dairy content (one of the main reasons why cheap US chocolate is so awful), but I don’t think that’s new in the last
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by jl6 2y ago
Something that used to be popular was the concept of the Western Canon: a core reading list of timeless works for the ages, around which our collective culture revolved. But I don’t think such a thing exists or can exist any more, in our hy
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by jl6 2y ago
That was indeed an inspiration for lab6.com.
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by jl6 2y ago
I might make a website about this sort of stuff!
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by jl6 2y ago
Seems to be just a rumor, but one that I hope is true. I also hope they use it as an opportunity to finally fix the longstanding ugly wart of having Live Photos be a separate .MOV file sitting alongside the HEIC file. JPEG XL is a container
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by jl6 2y ago
> I have never witnessed this in real life. It is extremely common in the practice of citations. What you see written in a paper is: “Intervention X can help patients with condition Y (Smith, 2012)” But when you actually read Smith the r
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by jl6 2y ago
> One crucial question he studied: Should you give patients a beta blocker, which lowers blood pressure, before certain heart surgeries? Poldermans’s research said yes. European medical guidelines (and to a lesser extent US guidelines) r
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by jl6 2y ago
I think next time I’d better make the apologies to Kronecker explicit.
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by jl6 2y ago
Yes, but did God make the algebraic integers? Because this looks suspiciously like the work of man.
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by jl6 2y ago
Or is the US BTC ETF just a convenient way to speculate on the rising value of BTC, when the rising value is driven by the illicit activity happening elsewhere?
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by jl6 2y ago
Assuming full regulation is possible, would crypto still be useful? It seems a very large portion of its utility is in its semi-unregulated nature.
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by jl6 2y ago
Killer applications solve real problems. What is the biggest real problem on the web today? The noise flood. Can semantic web standards help with that? Maybe! Something about trust, integrity, and lineage, perhaps.
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by jl6 2y ago
The ethical considerations depend on who you are building weapons for. A state with noble goals is better equipped to pursue those noble goals if they are well defended. A state with malign intentions is better equipped to inflict those int
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by jl6 2y ago
I had always hoped that the improved healthcare of the 20th and 21st centuries would enable the supercentenarians to keep pushing the boundary for this record, but nobody is getting close to Jean Calment’s record of 122 (I’m aware it’s been
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by jl6 2y ago
The BBC has a sorta-kinda-taxpayer-funded model and manages to attract criticism from all sides, which is generally taken as a compliment to its neutrality.
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by jl6 2y ago
Where would exploit code persist? In the BIOS EEPROM? Are Dual-BIOS motherboards such as from Gigabyte (which can re-flash the BIOS from a read-only copy on a second chip) a viable recovery option for a system which has been infested using
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by jl6 2y ago
Of the 129,864,880 books, the article mentions 5, and I’ve read 4 of those. What a little bubble us tech people inhabit.
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by jl6 2y ago
University PR is not generally to be trusted, but if we give them the benefit of the doubt, how exactly would their “paint it onto a rucksack” idea work? Where does the electricity come out?

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