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by pas 7y ago
Fb, G, MS, Twitter, Atlassian, Reddit, and a lot of companies provide the infrastructure that literally billions of people use to better their lives. They are able to organize, communicate, collaborate, share, search, store, work, supervise
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by pas 7y ago
Regarding Ha-Joon Chang: https://eh.net/book_reviews/kicking-away-the-ladder-developm... tl;dr his book is a big exercise in the survivorship bias fallacy
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by pas 7y ago
That's still perfect example of trade. Labor is a very important form of goods.
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by pas 7y ago
HJC is a crackpot :( Basically he argues using survivor bias. All the countries that tried to pick the winners (support X industry) and levy high tariffs but did not make it are simply not discussed. https://eh.net/book_revi
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by pas 7y ago
So here the 2 red 1 blue means 2 up 1 down, right? And the QCD color is different from this, and so it's misleading?
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by pas 7y ago
I don't know the numbers but it doesn't sound like it makes concrete wobbly-wiggly. And ther are always shearing forces, especially with high-rises (wind), and probably this added plastic helps with that. (Less creeping cracks, be
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by pas 7y ago
Could you elaborate on this please?
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by pas 7y ago
They probably got the warning every year every day informally, they got it formally at least once a year.
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by pas 7y ago
The basic Internet is still there. Of course the purpose changed from a defense experiment to an academic communication tool to a general communication substrate to a basic building block of a highly distributed world/society/era.
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by pas 7y ago
The VPN over HTTPS vs DoH argument is interesting. But probably a lot more peoole will benefit from DoH if shipped by Mozilla, Google, Apple than by setting up a VPN manually. (VPNs are a lot more resource intensive than a DNS resolver. Plu
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by pas 7y ago
Infrastructure maintenance costs are higher the bigger area you want to cover. Making small things are rarely efficient (transformers, inverters, heating, cooling, insulation). Moving people one-by-one more distance will always require more
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by pas 7y ago
plenty to do, such as? also, she can't wish away the fact that without data any new theories are worthless, even if someone conveniently comes up with one. also, saying that the LHC haven't taught us anything ignores the reality o
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by pas 7y ago
And that's not necessarily a problem. After all, we can measure things with insane accuracy (LIGO, atto/femto-second laser pulses, neutrino detectors, etc), our theories about the accessible energi regimes are quite good (14+ digi
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by pas 7y ago
And that's basically why any plan that doesn't start with better (drastically less GHG) cement and steel manufacturing is not very insightful. Furthermore the fact that we aren't building 10 test fusion reactors all around th
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by pas 7y ago
The important thing about space is that's there's no elsewhere. In a closed system of a star, the sphere, and the outer space eventually energy will flow from the star to the outer space region. There's no perfect insulation.
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by pas 7y ago
Someone writes a paper using the terminology, others refer to it, and it sticks.
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by pas 7y ago
Dyson spheres/swarms do radiate heat (infrared).
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by pas 7y ago
The job of the union is to take the business interests and then keeping that as a constraint, maximizing labor's share of income. This usually directly means having the right people in the right places, to do an effective job, so there
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by pas 7y ago
But.. but... she can't have it both ways. The current unexplained data is not much, and the best explanations involve a lot of hard to test things. Why? Because there's not enough unexplained data. The easy to test theories have b
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by pas 7y ago
The fact that basic medicine (insulin) is just left to be provided by the not-really-free market is very telling. And this is strictly a problem of lack of imagination, political will and compromise. But that's just the symptoms of a d
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by pas 7y ago
?? Just throw in a few canisters of tear gas and wait for the dude come out. Then open the windows and that's it. How they managed to blow up the house is ... insane. And it took 19 hours? Why? He was using a handgun. Haven't they
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by pas 7y ago
Most of those theories have some implications about lower energy ranges. And pushing up energies is a great way to rule out a lot of them. (And some of those theories have some large scale cosmological implications too, so better telescopes
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by pas 7y ago
... seeking extremes won't work, otherwise we'd rule out everything that's not supported by current theories. Also we can't let ourselves be deceived by the everyday cold-fusion perpetuum-mobile crackpot. But we should m
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by pas 7y ago
At least Lubos uses/shows some math to diss on other's work. Of course since research math is so ungodly far from rigor we can't check without the full burden of becoming a similar theoretician. But maybe, one can dream at le
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by pas 7y ago
It's possible with better models (that make problems look simpler). This part is probably an education issue. Making "smarter" humans (either via sperm/egg/embryo selection, and/or via brain-computer interfaces
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by pas 7y ago
If you put a team to make a better MRI, you'll get the same MRI maybe a bit faster or smaller. If you want the MRI 2.0, you start with something monstrously different, otherwordly, like gravitational wave detection. There you reach met
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by pas 7y ago
Yeah, that's not surprising. Cutting-edge R&D is very boring hyper-parameter tuning basically, and requires a kind of person that is able to do things for a long long time (to gather data) and then to think a bit later. The same go
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by pas 7y ago
Nah, it works, it just takes a loooot more money than people imagine. Especially because if you want to tackle local problems that require local service providers (education, healthcare, craftsmen) you'll have to pay local (very high)
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by pas 7y ago
The incentive is already set, city limits are already set, eventually they will fill up and then people will be motivated to build up a bit. Sure, fundamentally nothing is sustainable because eventually the useful energy gradients where lif
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by pas 7y ago
The potential energy is close to the energy used during launch. And every time we launch a rocket/sat (and then it comes back eventually) we heat up the atmosphere a bit.

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