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by mapt 1y ago
Yes, that's an option. Or just buy electricity from one state to the north or south where they didn't catch the same storm as you. Or start running a nearby hydroelectric dam at 300% of average flow rate. Or stop smelting aluminum
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by mapt 1y ago
Right now there's a lot of "In-state tuition: $10,000 Out-of-state tuition: $25,000 International student tuition: $50,000". going on. Being the world's academy is one of our most overlooked, but most significant indust
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by mapt 1y ago
We're using natural gas peaking so far, but this is actually still not that cheap. I am of the attitude that even with no additional fossil fuel infrastructure constructed, we would be fine if we made an effort. A mix for new generatio
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by mapt 1y ago
At $50/kwh of batteries + $50/kwh of battery install labor... And at $150/kw of panels, $100/kw of inverters & copper, $100/kw of mounting, $100/kw of install labor, and $100/kw of real estate... And a
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by mapt 1y ago
Bluesky only has a future as a Twitter replacement. There are strong network effects favoring high utility of the dominant platform. Take a look at the graph I linked. Threads drank Bluesky's milkshake.
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by mapt 1y ago
It isn't a lot of money for industry research. Changes of +-40% in productivity are an enormous advantage/disadvantage for a large tech company moving tens of billions of dollars a year in cashflow through a pipeline that their s
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by mapt 1y ago
JD Vance is/was the personal assistant to Peter Thiel, a tech billionaire who believes we need to get beyond the weaknesses of democracy & egalitarianism in order to preserve the sort of freedom that billionaires need to have. Thi
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by mapt 1y ago
Actual victims of people like Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, and Laura Loomer are literally being gathered off the streets thousands at a time and sent to concentration camps. Call it trolling all you like, but we just funded our immigration en
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by mapt 1y ago
There is a pervasive feeling in our complex postindustrial society that one thing we are lacking is a little fucking slack , the sort of thing that might be unavoidably extended on a very regular basis in the primeval human tribe/clan
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by mapt 1y ago
He's not a member of the Nazi Party. The Nazi party hasn't existed in a long time. At this point in time, "literal Nazi" cannot mean, contextually, direct subservience to Adolph Hitler. He's dead. He's a mem
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by mapt 1y ago
Unfortunately, Bluesky has not taken off. The network effects of Twitter are too great to lose its journalists & public figures. What has happened instead is that we're back on Facebook. Errm... Threads by Instagram by Meta née
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by mapt 1y ago
Action blockbusters are a product of marketing structure, financial investment strategy, and limited venue space; There is room to see one movie with the family during the holiday weekend, and a studio would find it absolutely wasteful to p
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by mapt 1y ago
Or a big leaf of the right plant, trussed up into a sack with grass.
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by mapt 1y ago
What happens if you ask this 8gb model "Compose a realistic Wikipedia-style page on the Pokemon named Charizard"? How close does it come?
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by mapt 1y ago
It's still very patchy, and likely will be for another decade of growth. Earth has 500 million km^2 of surface area. A 24-bit, 10 meter resolution recording of Earth's surface (a shoebox sized satellite in LEO can do this) at 1
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by mapt 1y ago
The US has around 300 vessels for distant-water fishing. Five years ago, China was assessed to have 17,000.
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by mapt 1y ago
I'm having trouble decoding this. The human emotion of spite is an attitude, not a permanent trait we call "evil". I've felt spite. You've felt spite. I've never killed a national institution out of spite lik
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by mapt 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plume
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by mapt 1y ago
"As long as it hurts the people that irritate me slightly (based on things that Fox News told me but which I don't have any firsthand experience with), I don't care if I'm hurting myself with the same action. It's
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by mapt 1y ago
The problem is that the difference in optical/NIR brightness (apparent magnitude) between a long-period comet core that's going to hit us in 1000 years, and a long-period comet core that's going to hit us in six months, might
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by mapt 1y ago
These were completely valid short-term responses to a situation where an effectively quarantined country had a small outbreak in Venice Beach and we didn't know a lot about spread. But we were not that country. If the front door is wi
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by mapt 1y ago
While I'm strongly supportive of survey astronomy in general... We can already say that we have very high completion of cataloguing near-Earth objects that are anywhere near extinction-event / Chicxulub-sized (~10km), and have a m
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by mapt 1y ago
Even one zoom-in and I find something interesting. What's that faint illuminated tendril extending from M61 (the large spiral galaxy at the bottom center of the image) upwards towards that red giant? It seems too straight and off-cent
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by mapt 1y ago
I think if we want research to survive we need to start funding it on a basis other than paycheck-to-paycheck. We need to acknowledge the adversarial nature of the current political situation. If you have a $50M study that takes 10 years,
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by mapt 1y ago
I've read this, but I'm not 100% clear on this. I think it's probably entangled with the glaciation / interglacial transition, which happened relatively recently. Earthworms are invasive in Michigan, but so are _trees_
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by mapt 1y ago
Digging in arctic climates is just difficult. Soils freeze and gel. Digging in semi-degraded postglacial till filled in with a few conifers (the Great Slave Lake site is largely talus/scree) is not especially productive in terms of cl
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by mapt 1y ago
A lot of these observations about the miraculous soil caretaking of the elder Native Americans are in all likelihood just "Look at this garbage dump, so fertile, such agricultural skill!" Broken half-fired terra cotta is effective
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by mapt 1y ago
The entire idea of push notifications on browsers was obviously toxic from the start, especially the privileged status "Do you want to enable notifications?" popups had. I think the idea comes from the 2010's hype about Phone
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by mapt 1y ago
A janitor can't program his cleaning bots without it. The Deepwater Horizon movie clips show workers arguing over all the things that have failed diagnostics testing, and how important that is or isn't. They're interacting w
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by mapt 1y ago
My mistake. This is very close to the greek yogurt I mentioned, but the serving size is different - I was using 170g recommended serving size instead of the standard 100g comparator. Also - all 3g carbs are sugar (naturally occurring).

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