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by marvin 6y ago
Are people actually following the measures? If no one ever meets more than one other person per day, it's astounding if the number of cases is still rising.
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by marvin 6y ago
Quisling would be an appropriate word. I really wish the political right managed to put their ideology on the shelf for this case. It's a case of blindly following heuristics rather than reasoning about the underlying principles.
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by marvin 6y ago
I agree, also regarding the latest wind power projects. These are often built on public land, and regardless on land that's open to the public through the right to roam. I would have less of a problem with it if the incomes from thes
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by marvin 6y ago
Norway's system of municipal hydropower ownership combined with export of surplus hydropower, effectively converts the (basically mandatory) electricity bill into a tax. Reducing the need for other forms of local government taxation,
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by marvin 6y ago
Thanks for digging up the concrete data backing up my claim. I was certain that I correctly remembered every observer that counted being blindsided by SpaceX’s success, in spite of their announcing their progress and stating their intention
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by marvin 6y ago
Go back five years, to December 2015, and you’d find most people on Hacker News deride SpaceX’s landing attemps as impossible at worst or economically infeasible at best, three weeks before they first succeeded. Hopefully you (like me) were
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by marvin 6y ago
Soooooo... If you were somewhat pragmatic, you'd acknowledge that a lot of people, maybe even a majority, actually support various social distancing measures and shutdowns. These measures certainly have a negative economic impact, irre
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by marvin 6y ago
You might not even need wings. You could just shape the fuselage like a wing. Not sure if that would be the ideal for all applications, though. Maybe the smaller cross-section of small wings and a more narrow fuselage would be better in som
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by marvin 6y ago
My layman's aerodynamic hunch says that Lilium is on the right design track for practical, reliable, long-range electric VTOL aircraft. There's two critical ingredients: Transitioning out of powered lift immediately after takeoff,
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by marvin 6y ago
Oh my. Today's polarized online discourse. All right, let me be more precise, since multiple people seem to be jumping to the conclusion that I'm some rabid anti-mask, anti-lockdown, science-hating, Trump-voting neoliberal. I was
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by marvin 6y ago
Yep. Classic catastrophe. A lot of people died, and then life eventually went on for most people. A tragedy that was remembered for generations, but not the end of the world.
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by marvin 6y ago
Yep, and in such a world, a reasonable level of taxation would eventually be able to pay for a modest lifestyle for everyone who wanted it. In a world of such dramatic surplus, it's either that or violent revolution, so I'm fairly
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by marvin 6y ago
That sounds reasonable at first glance, but it would be really interesting to see a proper study of leveraged investments throughout the modern era, and their tendency to blow up compared to the volatility of what would be the reasonable al
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by marvin 6y ago
>or go on offense with you to acquire necessary resources Are you seriously suggesting, on a hacker forum, to be prepared to use the proceeds of your emergency fund to violently steal life-critical resources from other people in a crisis
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by marvin 6y ago
And certainly you are well protected against black swan type events, even at 10x leverage...?
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by marvin 6y ago
General artificial intelligence, once we figure it out, will cause an increase in the annual economic growth more extreme than even the industrial revolution caused. Either that or a disaster, but hopefully the former. Anyone who thinks we
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by marvin 6y ago
Well, you could do that, and then it would catch fire. No problemo.
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by marvin 6y ago
Oh, come on. Yes, Panasonic carries part of the partnership when it comes to battery cells manufacturing. Tesla is still heavily involved in decisions regarding cell chemistry, and exclusively involved regarding battery pack design and manu
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by marvin 6y ago
The exceptionally good touchpad on the macbooks are almost half the reason you’d buy the machine in the first place. Wish it was as good on the alternatives. Hopefully it works 100% out of the box, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it.
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by marvin 6y ago
Complete layman's take here, but wouldn't a simpler explanation be that bond yields have been artificially manipulated by central banks for the last 12 years, and that they thus don't truly represent the market's expecta
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by marvin 6y ago
I've never felt as disposable and low-value in my entire life as when I tried online dating for a year or two. Ended up ditching the entire thing and only went for real-life interactions instead. Happily had much more success there, in
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by marvin 6y ago
>The most irritating thing was the reduced input latency on Linux Huh. That's a big competitive advantage in competitive games. Why don't pro CS players use Linux? Is the difference smaller in the games that have been optimized
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by marvin 6y ago
I always tend to fall asleep after midnight. 00:30 on weekdays where I have to force myself to get out of bed to get to work, 02:30 on holidays or self-employed periods where I can allow myself to follow a rhythm that's closer to natur
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by marvin 6y ago
I was about to say that this is practically an act of war. You could make a good case that military intervention is justified.
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by marvin 6y ago
Not okay with planting trees; they will live on the whims of politicians and are too likely to be cut down later. It would have to be in the form of permanent reforestation, and I don't think anyone can credibly promise that. The clime
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by marvin 6y ago
Can't reduce them to zero. CO2 capture and sequestering, or the same effect through other means that don't have externalities, is required to go CO2 neutral on a personal level.
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by marvin 6y ago
Is there anywhere I can credibly pay any reasonable amount of money to offset my CO2 emissions? I would be willing to pay a monthly salary for this, if the effect can be demonstrated to be sustainable and permanent. I've been wonderi
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by marvin 6y ago
Do you know any details? I had the distinct impression that these debts would never be discharged. Are the authorities just not following up on using the legal framework to seize any of their earnings towards the debt?
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by marvin 6y ago
Yeah, Sweden doesn’t allow for zeroing debts due to legal judgements in personal bankruptcy, IIRC. This means that they were effectively sentenced to lifelong debt slavery. This is another dark part of the Scandinavian model that most aren’
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by marvin 6y ago
There must be a startup working on this. If not, it sounds like a ripe thing to try out.

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