polotics

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1. 781.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   Well no, then the correct answer is anything between zero and fourty depending on whether one wants to recognize slang. Are we closer to AGI if some GPT 5 answers this?
2. 782.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   The correct answer seems to not be discussed much in the comments so far: As we admit the existence of legless elephants, which implies we also admit elephants having between one and four legs, then the total number of legs is anywhere bet
3. 783.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   Can you quantify this assessment? What are the dimensions?
4. 784.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   Does Dr Zubrin actually have any model that can be peer reviewed? If yes, what are the model's predictions? How well have the predictions from the book (11 years ago) matched the changes that have been observed over the past 11 years?
5. 785.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   "Unfortunately ... is not available in your country." Without even a why, how, when...
6. 786.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   The NS10 is not in any way mediocre! it's extremely tight, unflattering to music because that's tbe whole point of a monitor: tell it like it is!
7. 787.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   for now
8. 788.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   I am comparing the greedy fee it charges...
9. 789.▲
   by polotics 3y ago

   Not at all true that nuclear puts more generational demand that any of the other energy sources, taking scale into consideration. Just compute how many wind-turbine poles, how many eventually-leaky solar panels, how much surface of land use
10. 790.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Hydro also fits the bill, mostly, and when there's not enough water in your river for hydro, well the nuclear plant's also got to respect heat-emission norms...
11. 791.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Could you point us to what these weaknesses are? Thank You!
12. 792.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Thanks for asking. - Advertisement: the free internet has lots of places for adds - Distribution: there are several very good protocols for transferring files, even ones with DRM! - Storefront: ...stores don't take a 30% cut of what th
13. 793.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Payment-processing companies for credit-cards typically take less than 2% of the paid amount, also capped with a maximum fees in the low single digit $ for larger payment amounts. That is "not greedy" in my reckoning, and it pays
14. 794.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Energy prices do not follow the simple price elasticity curves of substitutable goods: check out the non-correlation curve between availability and price for oil, as published by JM.Jancovici, also his explanation of why.
15. 795.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    So much "news" these days is just unadulterated crass clickbait, that a friendly reminder to revisit interesting subjects really does qualify as above average "news", yes. Sadly?
16. 796.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Going on a tangent sorry, you started it! So... in a private company the employees are very often a lot more beholden to the managers/owners, so top-down command and control can be applied a lot more than in an administration wh
17. 797.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    why?
18. 798.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    the next time you see a doctor ask about possible food intolerances
19. 799.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    On any diagram showing the placement of organs, you will notice the stomach is assymetric, and when lying on your left side, its contents will have to fight gravity more to find their way back into your oesophagus.
20. 800.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Canadian uppercase hello here! ...Here's your baseload: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Baseload_power#:~:te... . Also, I guess: what in your mind is the difference between what baseload is, and what baselo
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    by polotics 3y ago

    For an example of one very interesting and relevant recent work in the field of religious topics that you decry, may I recommend Jason Josephson-Storm's excellent "the myth of disenchantment"? It starts with Marie Currie&#x27
22. 802.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Alors là pas de soucis: serendipity, abate, etc... https://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/list
23. 803.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    May I suggest a refresher in basic set theory? "Groups that represent themselves as X" isn't equal to X.
24. 804.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    How is this even true? All members of a very vaguely and variably defined large group of humans have engaged in one specific behaviour, that to top it off is understood to bear responsibility very vaguely connected to the behaviour's l
25. 805.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    According to Hubermann, Modafinil will boost your dopamine. I suspect once you raised your baseline level enough, you end up lower
26. 806.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    What I always guessed: if you don't want to bite the bullet of trusting SRE scripters (with an s) to the role of building the CD that actually makes sense for your use case, why do you expect some random company will have more of your
27. 807.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Seriously? This looks pretty random: "Arleigh" is in the list of English-German names...
28. 808.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Sauerkraut toi même, je trouve ce factoid assez intéressant.
29. 809.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Maybe you could consider a bit more dimensions than that. For example the problems-to-solve vs problems-to-find one, there are many.
30. 810.▲
    by polotics 3y ago

    Could you point us to examples of Vaclav Smil's evil doings? I was under the impression he's a very strict honest scientist. Thank You!