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An Audit of Facebook's Political Ad Policy Enforcement(usenix.org)
5 points by spenrose 4y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 4y ago
The Annotated Turing: how has it been received, how does he feel about it?
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Uber’s P&L Driven by Higher Fares, Transfers from Drivers to Shareholders(nakedcapitalism.com)
2 points by spenrose 4y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 4y ago
1.5MW * (24 365) 20 year working life ~= 262,000 MWh. $25M -> ~$100/MWh. Much better than I would have thought for a pilot.
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by spenrose 4y ago
Serious studies of this question: * https://netzeroamerica.princeton.edu/ (US, but takeaways apply more broadly) * World-wide: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z * Stanford's Marc
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by spenrose 4y ago
"Over the years, the heat from the trains soaked into the clay to the point where it can no longer absorb any more heat. Tunnels that were a mere 14 degrees Celsius in the 1900s can now have air temperatures as high as 30 degrees Celsi
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?(constructionphysics.substack.com)
352 points by spenrose 4y ago|496 comments
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by spenrose 4y ago
Notes on the Synthesis of Form is a weird, brilliant book defining a sort of meta-method for problem decomposition. It's the kind of book you'll love—if you like that kind of book ;-) https://www.designthatmatters.org&#
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The ups and downs of automated code checking software(constructionphysics.substack.com)
50 points by spenrose 4y ago|8 comments
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by spenrose 4y ago
Source paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30505-2 Extracting ubiquitous atmospheric water is a sustainable strategy to enable decentralized access to safely managed water but remains challenging due to it
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by spenrose 4y ago
Paper from researchers: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00436-3 "Using life-cycle assessment modelling of potential supply chain impacts for twelve nations undertaking Enhanced Rock Weathering deploymen
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by spenrose 4y ago
Shirky's review is much better than the excerpt: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/review/after-steve-...
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by spenrose 4y ago
"Epilogue aside, the book is an amazingly detailed portrait of the permanent tension between strategy and luck: Companies make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. What happened after Steve was that Cook’s greates
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The Bessemer Process: What It Is and How It Changed History(dozr.com)
2 points by spenrose 4y ago|1 comments
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The Prefab Pivot(constructionphysics.substack.com)
4 points by spenrose 4y ago|0 comments
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The (Edited) Latecomer's Guide to Crypto(mollywhite.net)
17 points by spenrose 5y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 5y ago
"A single Bitcoin transaction now requires more than 2,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, or enough energy to power the average American household for 73 days"
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Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-Friendly(nytimes.com)
1 points by spenrose 5y ago|7 comments
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by spenrose 5y ago
Scholarly paper: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan-Olweus/publication/...
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by spenrose 5y ago
I've read a couple dozen. Best by far is David Wootton's The Invention of Science. Wootton has the language skills to work through the primary materials, and shows how in 100 years we went from educated people believing in werewol
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by spenrose 5y ago
Title should be plural: this is a roundup of links to critiques
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by spenrose 5y ago
This appears to be the source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e35/... Central claim: "Their revisions most profoundly reduce predicted land use change (LUC) emissions, for w
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by spenrose 5y ago
Source paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.06387.pdf
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by spenrose 5y ago
Preprint version, no paywall: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.06387
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Mayor Breed's push to streamline housing production killed by supervisors(sfchronicle.com)
4 points by spenrose 5y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 5y ago
This story [1] (NYT paywall) is clearer IMHO: 1. 600,000 more elderly Americans, or 1 of 100, have died during the Covid epidemic than would have died had the epidemic not occurred. 2. 200,000 more non-elderly Americans, or 1 of 1,400, have
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As U.S. Nears 800k Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished(nytimes.com)
2 points by spenrose 5y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 5y ago
The world used about (12,000 Mtoe = ) 140,000 TWh [1], making this 0.1% of world consumption. OP claims 64 MtCO2e of associated GHG emissions, which is also about 0.1%. I'd call these figures under "troubling but not yet material
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by spenrose 5y ago
1. He does mean GW 2. Orsted will average around 60% of nameplate, with wide but predictable variance[1] 3. Nuclear averages 90% of nameplate, with a mix of planned and sudden large outages [op. cit.] 4. Nuclear has higher running costs but
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Chipmakers' nightmare: Will shortages give way to a supply glut?(asia.nikkei.com)
3 points by spenrose 5y ago|0 comments

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