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A deal to keep the Colorado from going dry – for now(nytimes.com)
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>I just use less energy, by an order of magnitude or so, in the winter - and I bundle up out here. Unfortunately this is about as far as "degrowth" gets: "what if we were just cold? " Or worse, hot? How do we enforce
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LA (metro) saw a decadal growth of just 2.9% — total — from 2010 to 2020. That's less than half the national average, and well below many cheap cities. Zoom out to the combined statistical area (including SB/Riverside) and it only
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by scythe 3y ago
My great-great grandfather moved to Wisconsin from Scotland back in the "early days" of the US. Nobody in my family has moved as far since, save the Mennonite branch who fled Germany.
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Coffee can also be decaffeinated by supercritical carbon dioxide, which was the first process I learned about (as an intro to supercritical fluids in a thermodynamics course).
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Ethanol is not a hydrocarbon, nor is TCE. By definition, a hydrocarbon is composed of carbon and hydrogen. Ethanol contains oxygen, while TCE contains chlorine.
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Ethanol is only a "horrible toxin" if it's consumed in amounts that would be nearly or certainly lethal for any other solvent (save water). Human gut bacteria do not produce trichloroethylene. As organic solvents go, ethanol
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by scythe 3y ago
>Bill Gates didn't say much about it, except he didn't know about any of the "bad stuff" and was deceived The quote everyone seems to remember from Stallman was basically the same thing: he said that Minsky was deceiv
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>Stallman's poor behavior over the years could fill a bookcase if written down. If that's true, then you can write informatively rather than with hand-waving. >the narrow contrived defense you're making here. The argume
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LLMs are useful for a variety of things. What you're describing would only be useful for students cheating on assignments. I doubt that it will attract the many millions of dollars spent on training GPT-4. But more importantly, LLMs ar
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>Is it possible these kids now just have a front row seat to witness their generation being systematically torn down in front of them before they even have a chance to get a footing? First, that doesn't explain the gender effect. It
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Explicit sexual references are likely to make some people uncomfortable, and should not be used in project names aimed at a general audience. People have highly variable relationships to sexuality, and the reminder is not always pleasant.
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The article also says: >The arrival of European diseases after Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492 may also have hastened the growth of forests by killing indigenous people farming the region, the scientists wrote in the U.S. journal P
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One thing I've been sort of curious about with non-carbothermal iron ore reduction is whether it could bring back wrought iron. Wrought iron disappeared around the 1960s due to high production costs — the crude product contains carbon,
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by scythe 3y ago
Previously, Linda Yaccarino helped launch Peacock, the NBC/Comcast streaming service that was provided free with our Internet connection for a few months. I would have to give this strategy credit: we actually watched it quite a bit. U
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>Published studies confirm that, unlike for dams, the geography for this is very plentiful (contrary to nuclear lobby propaganda which routinely and dishonestly argues the exact opposite). Could you please link this research? I have yet
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So if you build more housing in cities, there will be more wide open spaces left for the people who hate cities. Of all the anti-urbanist talking points, this one is easily the most nonsensical. Most people who do leave cities complain abou
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>does that sound like overpopulating the SF area No. Asia has many denser cities than the Bay Area. The temperate climate and a dense urban setting with good public transportation make the Bay one of the most environmentally friendly pla
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For all we lament the ban on nuclear power in Germany, we could certainly do to grouse a little more about the ban on onshore wind power in England.
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Separate comment, because I don't want to hijack the archive comment: >with many critics insisting their children need phones in case of an emergency. >[...] >But educators and experts say students need to focus on their surro
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https://archive.ph/0oPuO
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In general, potassium is found in fruits and vegetables. It has to be spread throughout the day, because high quantities of potassium at once have a laxative effect. The highest concentrations are found in some vegetable concentrates — the
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>Is there anything similar in the science of anti-aging? Where (A) The body of research is large, well established, and mostly uncontroversial; (B) The benefits and safety profile are good; (C) The majority of people who are serious abou
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That's an interesting observation. I think it reinforces the point that the prevalence of solar on a near future Chilean grid could demand a lot of storage.
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Chile would certainly benefit from having more battery manufacturing in its economy. They've recently joined the short list of countries where solar power is more than 10% of consumption — growing fast — and they still generate and con
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>I think it's weird that people react so negatively to geoengineering when the status quo is that we're changing the climate adversely just by thoughtless inaction with respect to reducing CO2 emissions. One of the problems wit
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The thing about lithium is that it still isn't as big or valuable of a market as some headlines might make you believe. Chile exports, per the graph, about $900M worth of lithium per annum. For comparison, they also export about $33B w
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Highlight of the thread, IMHO, from 'beefman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818261 >Not small, modular, or new. But certainly a decent reactor. They clearly want something to slot in against the GE BWRX-300
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Building a nuclear warhead requires assembling a large sphere (ish) of material well above critical mass faster than it can explode. Only then does the chain reaction efficiently consume a lot of fuel before it breaks up (inertial confineme
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In the case of Lua, the expression/statement distinction allows the language to be completely whitespace insensitive with no delimiters. The Lua grammar top level rule is just Stmt (ws Stmt)*. I think Ruby might work similarly, but I d

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