ozborn

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by ozborn 6y ago
Agree for 12V car batteries, AA batteries, etc... but not for EV batteries. The form has not standardized, they evolve quickly, they can not be purchased in the volume required by all producers, and a better battery and matching charging i
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by ozborn 6y ago
Mongolia is probably not the exampke you are looking for... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/mongo...
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by ozborn 6y ago
It is not flourishing, it is underground and/or illegal in almost every country in the world. Your example of Libya shows just how badly governance has to break down in order for slavery to regain even a shadow of its former importance
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by ozborn 6y ago
There are models much larger than BERT with a much larger footprint, GPT-3 being the most well kniwn example. Models like BERT aren't just trained once either when they are developed, but trained again with different domains, differen
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by ozborn 6y ago
For short haul (think ferries) the same calculations will make electric ships feasible when distance travelled is 1 or 2 order of magnitude less. Such ships already exist. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50233206
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by ozborn 6y ago
EIA projections are garbage and have been for years, go look at their own old projections if you want to verify this. World coal consumption peaked in 2013, not sure why you believe it is coming back in 2050?! Most of the new global energy
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by ozborn 6y ago
Agree, except for I think natural gas for homes (cooling and heating) should be phased out sooner. Letting gas companies build new pipe infrastructure to new homes in warmer climates where induction cooking and heat pumps will do the job j
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by ozborn 6y ago
Would love if governments could better appreciate the value of open source and free software. Some sort of granting process that could determine which projects are worth funding on a sustainable basis would be wonderful. It's a great o
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by ozborn 6y ago
The Huntsville area (including Redstone) is booming - there is a lot going on there in terms of space infrastructure. I think Huntsville is on track to surpass Birmingham (the city) as Alabama's largest. Political will is much less imp
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by ozborn 6y ago
It's configurable on a Tesla.
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by ozborn 6y ago
Quick summary (obviously not comprehensive) relevant for self-interested white working class voter: Relevant Democract policy: Minimum wage(+), Healthcare(+), Progressive Taxation (+), Affirmative Action (Diversity Ban)/California Prop
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by ozborn 6y ago
Reference for this claim? My understanding is that oeganic farming uses less inputs overall (including pesticides and herbicides ) and some organic farmers use no pesticides or herbicides at all depending on the crop.
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by ozborn 6y ago
The radical left in Spain (including even the Anarchists who were a significant poltical force at the time) supported the Republican government. The purges that took place on the left, were the purge of the POUM (Trotskyist, the group Orwe
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by ozborn 6y ago
I think the point being made is that a deep network (GPT-3 was the example with 175B parameters) will (due to the virtue of its size) not have any 'local optima' in the sense that there is no traditional 'local' for thes
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by ozborn 6y ago
That's how it started for me, now it is constant. I'd look into high frequency hearing loss if it becomes more persistent.
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by ozborn 6y ago
The link you cite is a very rough estimate of CFR as described in the paper. CFR varies tremendously based on the underlying demographics of the population and the treatment available - it's unclear why you focus on this metric. COVID-
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by ozborn 6y ago
Agree with your comments regarding Norway and renewable energy. However, I suspect that if the pipeline is built they will still ship via rail if it is profitable - thus the net effect will just be more oil coming from the oil sands. The on
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by ozborn 6y ago
I'm a little puzzled by their methodology, it covered noninstitutionalized folks in Indiana over the age of 12, but the majority of deaths in Indiana were in nursing homes. Looks like they were just trying to do the best with the data
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by ozborn 6y ago
Your first point is not correct, there are about 3.5 billion smart phone users out there. https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-w...
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by ozborn 6y ago
I had not heard that Thomas Jefferson was particularly violent in his slave holding vs other slave holders. A quick google search isn't informative either, do you have any source for that claim?
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by ozborn 6y ago
A more appropriate example of "anarchistan" would probably be Catalonia during the civil war in the 1930s. It has been written and discussed by Orwell, Bookchin and many others. Your point is well taken though, at the end it did f
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by ozborn 6y ago
There has actually been a great deal of thought (and some practice) on provision of services and community grassroots organizations by some strains of anarchism. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism H
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by ozborn 6y ago
I think it is more complicated than that, although I agree in some circumstances laws deter bad behavior. However many laws are passed to protect the bad behavior of the powerful. Moreover, under better environments people may organize the
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by ozborn 6y ago
Folks should parse the article and the platform carefully, it actually reads "existing and advanced nuclear". This could be interpreted as maintaining existing reactors and building advanced (fusion?) reactors and NOT building new
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by ozborn 6y ago
This change allows cubs to be killed in their dens. Don't think the deliberate killing of children is legal anywhere.
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by ozborn 6y ago
I would suggest Crash, IMHO the best film on racism ever made.
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Barakah Nuclear Plant(aljazeera.com)
1 points by ozborn 6y ago|1 comments
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by ozborn 6y ago
An update on the construction and rationale of the Barakah nuclear power plant in UAE. Economic, environmental and political implications are discussed. Article is in Aljazeera and should be considered in the context of the current UAE Qata
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by ozborn 6y ago
The parent post is referring to Native Americans in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Californ...
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by ozborn 6y ago
Data use agreements often specify under what terms the data is held and destroyed. While people may still remember some data, the usual use case is large databases that can't be memorized. If someone revokes that data, that data would

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