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by richk449 4y ago
I’m not sure why “effective” is the metric you are using. I’m saying it is easier to dig a canal that can provide water for tens of millions of people than it is to move tens of millions of people to a new state.
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by richk449 4y ago
> We've got plenty of sunlight in the Midwest, I assure you. We don't need any of yours. I grew up in the Midwest. Plenty of sunlight are not words I would use to describe it.
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by richk449 4y ago
If you want the whole dystopia in novel form, read The Water Knife. First half is incredibly enjoyable world building. Second half is a fairly mediocre action mystery plot, which you can skip.
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by richk449 4y ago
> My visceral reaction was also anger and opposition It is interesting that a project like this runs into visceral opposition from two different sides. Those on the left may object that we shouldn't be messing with the natural world
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by richk449 4y ago
It seems easier to move water than people. Plus, sun is good for people and crops. Transferring water to where it will be useful seems like the kind of thing a government should do.
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by richk449 4y ago
Thanks for explaining this. Once you point out the misaligned incentives for the water boards, the disfunction makes so much more sense. If water boards charged a fixed rate, and the state taxes use by tier, would that better align incentiv
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by richk449 4y ago
I assume they are doing some crazy number of patterns to get to that feature size: http://www.monolithic3d.com/blog/the-quad-patterning-era-beg... But I’m curious if someone knows the details.
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by richk449 4y ago
You probably have heard it before, you just need to connect it to the physics terminology. The Lorentz force law says that a charged particle moving in a magnetic field experienced a force given by the cross product of the velocity and the
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by richk449 5y ago
… and the Saint Peter equivalent will check that your torque wrench calibration was still valid before letting you into heaven.
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by richk449 5y ago
Is it true that a large amount of the journalists in the US live in Brooklyn? That doesn’t match my understanding, even at the “everyone knows …” level. When I think of the pundits, the Washington DC area comes to mind.
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by richk449 5y ago
The dailymail writes “bacon cures cancer” because that headline gets clicks and shares, so it makes them money. I’m not sure that has anything to do with “science”.
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by richk449 5y ago
IEEE Spectrum. Second choice would be MIT Technology Review.
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by richk449 5y ago
I don’t see that as a useful question at all. The fact that China has working AP1000 reactors is one piece of circumstantial evidence that regulatory regime has an effect on the ability to build nuclear reactors in a timely way. If you thin
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by richk449 5y ago
I don't think it makes sense to talk about the business of building nuclear reactors as something separate from regulator problems. The two are very tightly intertwined. Four AP1000s are operating in China right now, demonstrating that
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by richk449 5y ago
Dwindling oceans? I thought that the sea levels are rising?
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by richk449 5y ago
It doesn’t seem like your use of the word “failing” is helpful. You should be going to senior devs and telling them that you are finding it surprisingly difficult to get traction, and that you could really use some guidance and mentoring to
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by richk449 5y ago
I wonder what the optimal number of James Webb space telescopes would be? The cost per unit as a function of number built has been debated, but what about the marginal utility (benefit) ? If you built two instead of one, you would get lots
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by richk449 5y ago
> They're not "eliminating", they're "emphasizing" and "considering". It is almost as if words have actual meanings ...
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by richk449 5y ago
> If you want to stand your ground, its usually better to give nothing, even if you feel like you haven't explained well, or in an online discussion, if you feel like your counterpart has "won" by getting the last comment
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by richk449 5y ago
On one hand, your point seems to be technically correct. On the other hand, don't we average things that we can't technically justify all the time? Teachers give out homework and tests, assign a weight to each homework and each te
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by richk449 5y ago
This NASA project seems to be pursuing that line if thinking https://www.nasa.gov/specials/X57/
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by richk449 5y ago
> Haha, what a silly question...except the guy actually did have a large amount of United States currency in the vehicle. Either that cop is the world's luckiest guesser, or they had some reason to think he had a bunch of cash in hi
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by richk449 5y ago
> So the author doesn't even present a coherent position. Maybe the author is a bot.
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by richk449 5y ago
Solution: require a surgical mask to be worn under football helmet. You would have football boycotts in no time.
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by richk449 5y ago
> Why not set SUVs and trucks as the default then? (1) Many people can't afford larger vehicles. (2) It is a bad idea to make everyone spend more money on transportation. (3) Larger vehicles have worse gas mileage and are thus worse
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by richk449 5y ago
Okay, sure, cult leaders and juice box company executives don’t want critical thinking in the populace. I guess those aren’t who I think of when I think of the powerful.
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by richk449 5y ago
I’m curious what you mean by this. Assuming you are American, do you think that Obama or Trump or Biden wish that the population was more compliant, and had weaker critical thinking? Why would that benefit them? Most leaders think they are
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by richk449 5y ago
Every time I hear these types of comments, I think that someone read the first Dune book, but not the rest of the series. In this case, it’s a bit too on the nose.
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by richk449 5y ago
Respectfully, I'm having a hard time following your point. Originally, you linked to a pamphlet and implied that the authors of the pamphlet were "actively undermining the American spirit". I pointed out that the packet appea
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by richk449 5y ago
The letter appears to be criticizing a different document: The California Mathematics Framework. That framework appears to be around a thousand pages, which I don't have time to read right now, unfortunately. It is strange that you thi

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