nyokodo

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by nyokodo 4y ago
> There are many industries that lead to natural monopolies Care to provide a list of these industries conducive to natural monopolies that have monopolies broken up by government?
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Freight rates on the main ocean trade routes are sinking during what is typically the industry’s peak season after cargo owners shipped holiday goods early and inflation dented consumer demand.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Solar panels also cannot support apartment buildings Solar windows might help there: https://www.solarwindow.com/
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> if i have it already, then using it more comes with zero additional impact. Except using it more means more wear and tear which means replacing it sooner. So unfortunately it doesn’t make the math easier.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
Are you always in the chair? Then, perhaps you’re the magnet.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> rooted in observation of actual occurrence So by observation of actual occurrence Foucault means ignoring the entire history of science radically improving living conditions and extending lifespans for the previous centuries and instea
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Foucault say science is a power-confirming tool first Can you summarize why Foucault thought the application of the scientific method to empirical questions is “power-confirming first?” If that’s not what he meant by science then what
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> relatively small segment of cannabis users out there are embedded in bar/party culture I’d love some statistics to back up this assertion as from what I have seen regular recreational pot smoking and regular excessive drinking hav
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> I am wary of nuclear's sustainability due to usage of fresh water I feel like there should be ways to engineer around this especially for reactors near the coast. Use some of the power from the plant to desalinate sea water or eng
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by nyokodo 4y ago
This is a pragmatic decision as California, like many other regions, tries to make a transition away from fossil fuels while also dealing with the persistent disinformation from the anti-nuclear lobby.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> his major credentials come from having built 3d game engines, which by today's standards are quite primitive Primitive now but in their time they were groundbreaking and incredibly difficult to make work on the primitive hardware
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> GPUs can be imported through other countries! The chances of nothing getting through is zero, but it’s harder to do at scale and much more expensive. Plus the US does go after foreigners that help targeted nations dodge sanctions so ca
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> it's not your life, or your life's work. This is true for the vast majority of people, but, for some their work is a true vocation. Monastics are one example but so are Doctors Without Borders, many War Journalists, and those
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> sign of immaturity or something that they will grow out of... Or perhaps they meant that it’s a sign of youthful vitality and openness that they lost via the detriment of aging?
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> we have to wait 3 - 5 business days (sometimes longer) for money to transfer between banks here in the US The US has been historically so flush with capital and regionally isolated that there was no burning need nor desire for much cen
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Technically the US supports the one China policy. It is assumed WW3 starts if that ever changes. The US walks a line on Taiwan that falls far short of actual support for One China but does enough to support it that the US has a lot of
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability Smaller farms -may- have less vast monoculture sustainability issues. However, how do the
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by nyokodo 4y ago
And, since they were mentioned, China/CCP really really wants to seize Taiwan.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
I think the gp may have been referring to the LHC, a scientific mega-project completed in 2010, ie not long ago. ITER is still progressing. These projects are “optional” and history suggests that Europe can do fantastical and terrible thing
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> The ancient "state" of Israel has been in that land for north of 3000 years With a ~2500 year gap between the fall of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the 1948 modern state.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> the decisions were more about politics, than sending people to the moon NASA is a political organization created by politicians for political purposes and remains beholden to politicians for its continued existence. The engineering inn
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> I find it funny that we call things like “Moore’s law” laws at all Because “Moore’s contemporary short lived phenomena” isn’t as catchy? Words can be used in all sorts of non-literal ways.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
There’s a long road to Christian unity but the first Protestant group and Catholics agreeing on one of the key justifications (pun not intended) of the reformation is a massive and far reaching development that will reverberate for centurie
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Because a billion Protestants would say that the verse tells you it is by faith alone, and a billion Catholics will quote James 2 20:24 in saying that faith without works is useless: In 1999 the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World F
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> If you think of specialized needs students the 13k number looks ridiculous. You’re comparing an average per student spend to a high needs minority. Average spend should be compared to the average student who does not have dyslexia etc.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> major progress Can you link to an account of this progress where it indicates how much less carbon intensive they are vs steel in the majority of steel reinforced concrete use cases and how imminently they’re going to replace steel and
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> unsuitable for steel reinforced concrete > requires a similar amount of energy as regular cement A better title for this article is “seawater derived cement could marginally decarbonize concrete industry”
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> when the "world" for all practical purposes included only European powers The United States, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia all entered the war. There were significant theaters of the war in Africa and the Middle E
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by nyokodo 4y ago
The World Economic Forum says Africa has 60% of global uncultivated arable land. [1] This might be what you remembered? Africa’s problem isn’t the availability of arable land it’s soil fertility. The soils in Africa are mostly bad to meh. [
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> That's not inventing money. Since the same money can be spent by the borrower and the saver separately and go off into circulation separately then it is creating new money.

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