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by svnt 1y ago
This has no relevance to whether fertility rates below replacement can end a country.
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by svnt 1y ago
Seems like a temporary fix: outsourcing the externalities of having children.
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by svnt 1y ago
This is unfortunately not true because of the dynamics of diesel engines: there is by design surplus energy relative to requirements from running them at efficient operating points. Otherwise the ship is not a good ship.
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by svnt 1y ago
He is for some reason comparing the levelized cost of energy. This is a metric used to analyze energy generating devices, not energy consuming devices. His tweet says that if you wanted to buy electricity from an electric scooter and use it
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by svnt 1y ago
An analysis of the Nordic ferry systems ten years ago found that 70% would benefit from electrification —- about 45% could go fully electric, while about 25% made more sense as hybrid. This means for them 30% didn’t make sense to electrify.
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by svnt 1y ago
Most of them seem to perform opportunity charging (while loading/unloading), using direct rapid charging via pantograph. See eg https://www.energymonitor.ai/sectors/transport/the-secret-to... I have also seen
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by svnt 1y ago
If you want a country in the future, yes.
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by svnt 2y ago
For those keeping score at home, 51% sold at a total valuation of $8.75B, which means they are bringing in around $4.5B, and recognizing a loss of roughly 50% on what was their biggest deal ever when it took place in 2015.
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by svnt 2y ago
For the future of the USA this is fortunately not very accurate, and microplastics are not associated with increased incidence of dark triad personality traits, as far as I know.
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by svnt 2y ago
Be careful extrapolating too much from the emotional maturity of one generation where an unfortunately large majority was lead poisoned as children.
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by svnt 2y ago
No, because of the second-order dynamics: OP will have multiple clients. OP’s sales employees will get to choose which things to sell. OP’s customer still has to do a lot of work to bring OP’s salespeople up to speed at all, and even more i
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by svnt 2y ago
I mean they said it was a bad theory. More seriously, it seems to be essentially the idea that “surpassing human intelligence” is not the binary outcome many thought it would be, and that much of what passes for human intelligence interpers
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by svnt 2y ago
It is interesting, what does it mean? Perhaps it discloses chatgpt is created to align to our idea of a human more than to an actual human.
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by svnt 2y ago
This doesn’t need to be longitudinal — the parent’s point seems to be much simpler: people who don’t work out will have quicker initial muscle gains upon starting than those who already regularly work out. This could be measured over a peri
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by svnt 2y ago
Their methodology does seem to potentially capture what is at question here, by use of perceived exertion to adjust weight for repetition maximums. It is possible it doesn’t capture everything, because they don’t say anything here about set
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by svnt 2y ago
Unless you can start acting on a working plan to rescue it you should get out. Do it now before things get worse between the two of you. Make sure to get good lawyers and get cash or cash equivalents, otherwise you are very likely to get wa
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by svnt 2y ago
Not currently, sure, but that path is typically how they get there.
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by svnt 2y ago
Almost none of this exists for these time periods and populations. Tree cover is mentioned as a problem preventing satellite imagery.
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by svnt 2y ago
There is also mentioned the fact that according to their data estimates significantly improved from 2000 to 2010. This could mean that apparent population growth during that period was much slower than it appeared, and instead down to impro
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by svnt 2y ago
Parent is saying there are too many middle managers/execs and not enough engineers with agency.
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by svnt 2y ago
Eggs are way more resource-intensive than sperm. The female octopus will take care of the eggs and protect them, and then die after they hatch. Both parents are all-in, probably because some less malleable trait or characteristic, whether e
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by svnt 2y ago
I think your statement was compatible-with/implicit-in mine: that conflict, being fundamental in some regimes (as is cooperation) but also high-friction, does not need philosophical reinforcement. If it is philosophical then it is reas
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by svnt 2y ago
If I can speculate: your perspective seems to be at least a second, maybe third-order perspective, of someone in an atypical environment surrounded by would-be stoics, who are all participating in order to succeed in e.g. middle management.
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by svnt 2y ago
I think you hit on it, but the total reason why is slightly different, and the key is in its trigger of your disgust mechanism: Conflict does not need philosophical reinforcement because it is a major biological default. Using our higher ab
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by svnt 2y ago
As an aside, internet hasn’t officially been a proper noun since 2016 or so.
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by svnt 2y ago
I’d suggest we are much closer to that reality now than we were in the 90s, in large part thanks to the internet.
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by svnt 2y ago
Parent wasn’t using it as an analogy though, they were saying it is ironic we were afraid of the state doing that when subtler corporate means are what we ended up with. I don’t know if it is ironic, though — maybe more of an Orwellian inoc
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by svnt 2y ago
This is already something that e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet appears to be able to do very well, with the added benefit of explaining why if you let it -- what is the benefit of this model?: > "Sometimes flu vaccines don't work; there
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by svnt 2y ago
Thank you for passive-aggressively outlining the infinite growth mindset. Falsely equating economic growth with cost of living metrics, and assuming that with more money everything can just continue happily. It’s been a very successful evol
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by svnt 2y ago
Because as wealthy families produce offspring who do not need to work or earn income in order to compete for finite resources with those who do, the cost of those resources increases, while the burden of labor and stress falls increasingly

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