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by restalis 6y ago
Citroen Ami is not quite a car, it's classed as quadricycle. For the sake of providing an example though, there are cars (recognized as such) having even a lower price: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano
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Algae provide blueprint for super-efficient future solar cells (2019)(uu.nl)
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by restalis 6y ago
"Cows have to go through quite a lot to make it happen, with a multistage digestion process, multiple stomachs, regurgitation and additional chewing of food, the right microbiome. In short it's not an easy trait to just «evolve».
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by restalis 6y ago
Climate also reflects on the level of available grass that the herders had to take into account when deciding where to move. Europe receives smaller quantities of precipitation as one goes from west to east, and then Europe's lush vege
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"For one, you can simply eat the cows, the way it was done for most of human history." Besides what sibling comments already mentioned, eating the livestock directly meant having to herd larger groups of animals. One hypothesis
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by restalis 6y ago
An efficient delivery mechanism would be throwing biodegradable mineral-coated micro-rafts into warm surface marine currents. This way a few distribution points on the planet may suffice.
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by restalis 6y ago
I am not a fan of patent encumbered technologies, but here the assumption of being better has merit. There isn't much sense from a business prospective for a research team to publish a commercial solution that would exhibit inferior or
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by restalis 6y ago
"Especially not compared to a guy wearing a well tailored suit." I think you got it wrong. That suit guy has to wear it, because his trade demands it, most likely for that image which has to be conveyed. That programmer can a
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by restalis 6y ago
Regarding the composition of political domain in UK and the fact that it doesn't have much engineers taking active/prominent roles, it speaks more about the local culture than about the relation between politics and engineering. I
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by restalis 6y ago
On another compiler: https://bellard.org/ffasn1/
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by restalis 6y ago
"indeed, these were some of the darkest/harshest time in our recorded history" I'm still inclined to believe that this is just nowadays optics. The life was very harsh in general for pretty much all but recent history.
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by restalis 6y ago
Voyager probes are under the weight that is otherwise necessary for human life support systems (i.e. fully covering that "we" operative word), Voyager probe travel under the speed that may be considered useful in any way (for huma
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by restalis 6y ago
"natural languages don't have teleology; they don't become «better» over time, just different" I remember reading about the dynamic of language evolution, where an influx of new (and language-wise uneducated) speakers
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by restalis 6y ago
After going through the phase of admiring this new and intellectually stimulating thing, I went on with an exercise of imagination about how it would look like for a society to have evolved somehow into using this at large. Each new word (o
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by restalis 6y ago
Regulations, it seems. Here's an article that provides some clues: https://generalaviationnews.com/2012/09/09/the-cost-of-certi... As I understand it, the most lenient certification to allow someone to s
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by restalis 6y ago
"Every one of those systems can fail and leave you dead. Since evolution only «cares» about you to the point where you bear children and raise them, what are the chances that it engineered ALL those systems to last FOREVER?" Evo
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by restalis 6y ago
That's not quite right to cast the blame on her. She was right, DDT indeed accumulated in soil and caused bad effects. Blame the people that actually made the call to ban DDT without a plan to prevent the bad consequences. That move co
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by restalis 6y ago
"I'm entering my prime earning years I don't have to worry about child care or being around 24/7 the same way I did when my kids were babies. I also have less «free time» now than when I was in college" Although n
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by restalis 6y ago
Designing from top down may help you a bit when you already have a mental model that you'd wish to convey in written form rather quickly, otherwise risking to loose sight of it when you get into details. UML helped me write down ideas
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by restalis 6y ago
"If you occupy the right position in US society you can believe everything is fine. If your a smart kid from a formerly working class family in Ohio, you know by the age of 12 that you need to escape." But that's... common
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by restalis 6y ago
Desperate people steal food, not cooper. Turning cooper into whatever they're supposedly desperate for requires patience and business-like level of effort organization, which goes beyond what desperation can explain. People chose to st
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by restalis 6y ago
This reminds me of "Cartel Land" movie¹, which depicted similar events (in the same Mexican state of Michoacán, BTW) a few years before, mostly around José Manuel Mireles Valverde². ¹ https://www.imdb.com/title&#x2
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by restalis 6y ago
"...and way too high rent in cities..." Rental cost merely reflect the supply and demand. A significant drop in demand should put pressure on rental costs. However, I'm skeptic that such a drop will come from "the desi
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by restalis 7y ago
You may find your answer in a PDF paper from here: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-using-constraint-...
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by restalis 7y ago
"it will start with some simple things like your favorite deodorant brand and snacks disappearing from store shelves" Something tells me that those will come back on the store shelves, no more and no less but for their market po
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by restalis 7y ago
I come to observe suffering in people on the other end of the spectrum - the social butterflies that are like caged wild animals nowadays. Calling acquintances left and right was ok for the first two weeks or so, but as the quality of the d
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by restalis 7y ago
The effective phase of infection only starts when the first symptoms occur. The virus is not airborne, it relies on liquid droplets to be inhaled by the next victim, thus even infected, as long as the individual does not exhibit sings of sn
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by restalis 7y ago
One of the things in the article that feels off is presenting correlations among historic empires by looking through contemporary model view. In their time, those empires were ruled by different models. To give you an example, here is this
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by restalis 7y ago
I wanted to answer to arethuza but you just provided a reference to the essence of what I was going to say: "The [...] Indo-Europeans, a nomadic culture of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, expanded in several waves during the 3rd millennium
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by restalis 7y ago
I'm still trying to reconcile "most influential" with "nobody's ever heard of". It may be that CLU implemented in premiere some concepts, but if later those concepts may as well just have been rediscovered (l

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