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by mgfist 4y ago
Nuclear power pollution is the best kind: dense and contained. Imagine I tell you we could put 10% of the world's trash in a olympic sized swimming pool. Pretty appealing eh?
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by mgfist 4y ago
The big con for a solar/battery grid isn't the cost, it's the raw materials. We need an absurd amount of copper/lithium/cobalt etc.. and we need to be mining orders of magnitudes more than we do now.
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by mgfist 4y ago
The US has been decommissioning nukes for ages now. They're expensive as hell to maintain and the US has enough to flatten the earth as is.
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by mgfist 4y ago
It's much easier to be a polymath when the subjects are an expert in are pretty relatively unexplored. Today people spend their whole lifetime studying a deep branch in a single field, because the tree of math/physics/bio etc
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by mgfist 4y ago
But also like 4x revenue since then (or around there)
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by mgfist 4y ago
That's funny, my reasoning comes from the opposite end of the ego spectrum - creating a blog or any other kind of social media presence means putting myself out there and inviting attacks on my ego. So I avoid doing so to protect my eg
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by mgfist 4y ago
A brute force solution would be a second (or third) phone for those situations
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by mgfist 4y ago
In your example it's more like trusting the mobsters that prosecutors are investigating.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Was just an example. But point still stands with snail mail which many people (myself included) don't go through all that carefully.
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by mgfist 4y ago
> Like, Shakespeare was not high art. We must stop treating him that way and kill the love of literature in children by forcing them dryly read “To be or not to be.” Is that not the same thing?
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by mgfist 4y ago
Whoever has less power has the responsibility. If the IRS sends you a notice about an audit or something (just as an example), and you miss that because of an unorganized inbox, that's on you. If an entrepreneur emails you for capital
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by mgfist 4y ago
Think you're missing the point about the "high art" comment, which is just that we should introduce people to shakespeare in the way it was intended - as entertaining theater, not boring undecipherable books. I can vouch for
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by mgfist 4y ago
> If YOUR environment isn't conducive to getting work done -- fix it! You listed a bunch of ways one can do this. I'll list one more: going to work in-person! I think we're in agreement here: environment plays a huge role
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by mgfist 4y ago
> EDIT: I definitely should have mentioned that my children are learning from a laptop WITH very close guidance from my wife who is raising them full-time and with intense dedication! lol Pretty big caveat
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by mgfist 4y ago
Congrats, but do you ever wonder if it would've been faster/easier in person?
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by mgfist 4y ago
At the same time, being able to maintain productivity while handling questions is a skill in of its own. I work on a team building/maintaining internal tools/infra and a large part of my job is interfacing with other teams and mai
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by mgfist 4y ago
You're totally missing the original point. > I work very well remotely but only because everything is second nature to me now after so many years. This is coming from the narrow view that people who struggle remotely only do so be
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by mgfist 4y ago
And my criticism on RBG is she should've stepped down when Obama was in office instead of dying and giving Trump an appointee.
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by mgfist 4y ago
You're not necessarily wrong. At the end of the day we lost all nuclear expertise when the public turned against it 40 years ago. Per kwh fossil fuel disasters have killed more people and have caused more damage to the environment. Com
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by mgfist 4y ago
It's expensive when you rely on cheap Russian/ME fossil fuels > Why there is a resurgence of interest now when dirt cheap solar and wind have effectively rendered it a costly relic of the past is somewhat puzzling. If cheap sol
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by mgfist 4y ago
> The amount of proposed solar and wind and battery projects in the United States at the end of 2021 was 1000s of time larger than the amount of proposed nuclear power projects Because the public has been anti nuclear energy for the past
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by mgfist 4y ago
No? If LaMDA was actually a drugged sentient AI than undrug it and lets see what it can do.
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by mgfist 4y ago
This article is weird to me. > All they do is match patterns, draw from massive statistical databases of human language. The patterns might be cool, but language these systems utter doesn’t actually mean anything at all. And it sure as h
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by mgfist 4y ago
If Taiwan didn't have the world's most advanced semiconducter industry, which China (and all other nations) rely on, China would have long ago attacked it. So that's an easy example of how trade helps keeps peace.
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by mgfist 4y ago
What's wrong with that? There are many things that would go to shit without active maintenance. I'd also prefer to be around in 40-80 years, which is harder if we're burning fossil fuels than clean energy like nuclear.
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by mgfist 4y ago
At this point population decline is a bigger risk than population growth.
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by mgfist 4y ago
UBI is a concept not a policy. Sure the government could create a policy called "UBI" and literally anything could be in it.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Well it's actually a pretty bad transactional currency because it costs so much to transfer btc. So it's kinda the opposite, where people mostly hold it instead of transacting. The argument for a store of value is that of gold but
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by mgfist 4y ago
I just do whatever I feel like on that particular walk. I'd say 40/20/40 on whether I want to listen to a podcast/audiobook, listen to music or walk in silence.
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by mgfist 5y ago
Simplicity, speed, responsibility, authority. A lot of reasons why having a clear hierarchy makes sense. How do you assign blame in a co-op that makes bad decisions?

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