konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
Paper is pretty close to a carbon sink, so the more CO2 you sequester.
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by konjin 6y ago
Housing can at most grow as l^3, population can grow as e^n. If you want to be withing t hours of place x then you need transport systems that travel at l/t km/h. Until people have two children or less population will always outpa
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by konjin 6y ago
Khun sounds reasonable to people who don't know mathematics, which is just about everyone in the humanities. The few who do know mathematics have very interesting things to say, but again, they are very few and they are very far from b
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by konjin 6y ago
Send me $500k and we can talk again.
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by konjin 6y ago
>Just... who cares? Your mom has sex. Get over it... I am alive, so yes, she did at some point, more than likely 9 months before I was born. I would assume more than once given average human reproduction chances and barring divine interv
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by konjin 6y ago
I got half way through a physics phd and the only time anyone quoted Khun was as what happens when you read science books without understanding mathematics.
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by konjin 6y ago
We need more science literacy, not humanities trying to stay relevant by dragging science down. Teaching students sentential and first order logic would be a much better start since they would at least know what they are trying to prove, th
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by konjin 6y ago
That's even more boring.
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by konjin 6y ago
>Have you considered that cancel culture is the new punk rock? Punk wasn't pushed down from Exxon's board room, cancel culture is pushed down from Google's though. You can't be a rebel when the establishment supports
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by konjin 6y ago
Like usual you focus on the few dozen Americans that it happened to while ignoring the millions of South Americans and South Asians who were murdered for being communist. Which is the point of identity politics, and the reason why more blac
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by konjin 6y ago
Why not cite an actual paper instead of an interview with someone who 'feels their duty' is to tell us about the dangers of nuclear accidents? >In contrast, our long-term empirical data showed no evidence of a negative influenc
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by konjin 6y ago
> Surprising how much press "cancel culture" gets these days as if it's a new thing or as if it's a new thing being pushed on society by the left. We've always had cancel culture. It's a new thing on the int
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by konjin 6y ago
#MeToo died the second it was used on Biden. Something I got banned from twitter for pointing out would happen 6 months ahead of time for 'hatred'. All I did was use the Salem witch trials as a blue print.
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by konjin 6y ago
Hate speech is free speech you don't like.
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by konjin 6y ago
Distributed networks and the like. The first draft of an actual underground which can't just be shutdown by attacking a server is https://getaether.net/ having build up on the lessons of freenet and bittorrent. It isn&
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by konjin 6y ago
Small reactors, they remove the main problem with nuclear power: huge reactors that no western country knows how to build any more. The largest projects we can build today are the size of a large office building. Anything bigger will be ove
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by konjin 6y ago
We already have the solution: nuclear power. The rest is the political problem of the anti-science attitude of one party in the US being spread to the rest of the world.
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by konjin 6y ago
Are you interested in my hamster wheel solution? I'm not arguing that we should go 100% hamster, but not having it be part of the energy mix going forward is dangerous since we need the diversification of energy sources.
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by konjin 6y ago
>That's a huge exaggeration. There are several solutions building commercial plants right now that should be good enough. Ambri is one example that was designed from the ground up for grid energy storage. The largest such example co
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by konjin 6y ago
Because we can't build anything larger than an office building on time and on budget.
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by konjin 6y ago
Ever noticed how liberals say "do you believe in global warming?" and not "do you understand global warming?" it's not about knowing science, it's about using "science" to defend whatever your group h
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by konjin 6y ago
And yet the exclusion zone around Chernobyl has biodiversity higher than anywhere else in Europe. So even if nuclear power is as bad as hippies say it's still better for the environment than human civilization.
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by konjin 6y ago
Nothing because the incident killed fewer people than a coal plant does during regular operation in the same time period.
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by konjin 6y ago
No other fuel has the energy density of nuclear, no other source has the capability to run 24/7/365. Renewables are based on the hope that one day we will either had transcontinental grids, which no one has managed to build, or ge
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by konjin 6y ago
> If you want a higher standard why aren’t you willing to compensate at a higher rate? They will be, but they only gain new wealth at the same rate that everyone else in the country can. No more insider trading for congress, or anyone el
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by konjin 6y ago
Given their record I give it 6 months to 2 years until they ban porn. It's a shame that they sold out so thoroughly, especially since they gave up on the project and left, then came back when it had succeeded without them. C'est l
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by konjin 6y ago
We give politicians the power of life and death over us, they should be held to a higher standard. If you can't stop being greedy enough to give up your 7 mansions and get paid their equivalent in cash as everyone else who has to work
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by konjin 6y ago
MIT scheme does not have the picture language.
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by konjin 6y ago
If you want to run the country you should be willing to put your money where your mouth is, since you expect the rest of us to die for it.
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by konjin 6y ago
There are better cancer survival statistics in the US because the US does more pointless cancer tests, which they charge you for, to perform more invasive cancer therapy, which they charge you for, with the end result that total life expect

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