konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
Saying solar is cheap when the sun shines is like saying coal is cheap at the mine. You need electricity produced at the right time as well as the right place. I don't understand how people can get that producing electricity in the mid
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>It’s funny seeing people in this thread jumping right past the root cause and suggesting elaborate solutions like nuclear power. The root cause is extreme weather events which will will get more of. Non-renewables are not affected by th
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by konjin 6y ago
> So doesn't Australia have any process to compel the government to comply with the constitution? Australia has the most volatile politics of any English speaking country. The two ways for a government to be forced to follow the con
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by konjin 6y ago
>Electricty travels at the speed of light so a continuous grid from coast to coast would get out of sync on phases just by travel distance. You just need to be in sync with whatever the phase is in your local grid. For a real world examp
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by konjin 6y ago
It is in factorio though. Factorio, as normally played, is much closer to analog electrical circuits than it is to digital computers. In flows of resources and outflows of products that change dynamically and in real time.
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>That's not inbreeding, that's founder effects. Yes, when all your founders are first cousins. Humans as a species are incredibly inbred compared to any other primates. Native Americans even more so.
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The reason for this is that when they did have contact they all died. The natives in America were vastly more inbread (which really is saying something) than the Europeans who came in. They had so little genetic diversity that when one died
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by konjin 6y ago
>Venetian glass trade beads in radiocarbon-dated contexts that predate Columbus's discovery of the Western Hemisphere. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...
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Second and higher order cognition. For starters realizing that what people in power say and what they do are very different. Preferably for their own side first because I am really sick of predicting what the next 4 years will be like, bein
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by konjin 6y ago
> Remember to vote Republican! In NYC and SF? Sure. Or Greens, Independents, Socialists, anyone but Democrats. I'd be giving the same advice to anyone from Alabama about voting not Republican. Politics isn't about good and evil
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The Earth being flat is a very useful approximation in all cases where you don't need to land as spaceship. Just because something is useful doesn't mean it's true.
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In the middle ages multiplication was a skill that was taught at universities. Somehow we now teach it to 7 year olds. The reason why we haven't done the same for critical thinking is that the people in charge won't be if we had a
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by konjin 6y ago
The post has never been able to say what it wants. It's only when it's safe to put a head on a pike that it does it. Nixon wasn't crucified for the genocide in Cambodia (I don't have another word for a bombing campaign t
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The Earth might not be flat, but it isn't round either. That one is a lot more wrong than the other matters little if you're trying to land a spaceship.
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You don't have privacy in your bathroom either. Yet if CNN was to publish nude photos of you you'd be rightly upset.
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>The reason I don't remember is that the effect of reading his essays is that they're so long you forget why he wrote them and what you were thinking before you started it. Honest question: how do you read books if a 10k word a
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by konjin 6y ago
Here's that time where the legacy media threatened to doxx someone if they made memes they didn't like again: >CNN is not publishing "HanA*holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extens
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Having lived through an actual armed insurrection: I hope you get treated for whatever mental illness has caused you to lose touch with reality.
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It's pretty funny that we are at that point again. Deplatformed from Boston means that you have something interesting to say that makes middle class busy bodies uncomfortable. Even PG had something to say about that: >Of course, if
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And it worked so well too. Censors aren't there to protect the public, they are there to make busy bodies feel good about themselves.
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Retard also means to slow down something. That the people outraged over words are illiterate isn't a big surprise.
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I can imagine a lot of things, most of them cost a lot of money.
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Kept at bay means were not given moderator and administration privileges, unlike say reddit where saying retarded gets you banned from dozen of subs. Which is hilarious since automod doesn't check if it was used as a verb or adjective.
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That is not incompetence. This is a hatchet job. Stop giving malicious actors the benefit of the doubt.
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>What a depressing waste of everyone's time. That is an extremely accurate summary of American politics over the last 5 years.
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Pesticide manufacturers, fertilizer manufacturers, seed companies without the gene editing know how. A very large number of people who are happy with the status quo and see disruption as a danger to their bottom line.
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It's reversed. You look like a harmless idiot while being a harmful mastermind.
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Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence.
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Anything lower and you become dangerously involved in the real world. There is a reason why work hours started trending up after the upheaval of the 70s.
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The best talent is not 75% of the work force. In this day and age having a rainbow flag or blm whatever is the equivalent of being 'a Christian company' in the 70s and 80s. All I hear is 'we will pay you less because we will

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