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by swores 2y ago
> " Supercapacitors are not perfect. Existing iterations discharge power quickly, and are not ideal for steady output, which would be needed to power a house throughout the day. " Could someone kindly explain to me how this wor
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by swores 2y ago
The other comment, from sib, already shows that there is an example I'd missed of a climate protest leading to a piece of art getting damaged - albeit in a minor way (and I think sounds like it was accidental too, that they were again
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by swores 2y ago
If that were the case the story would just be "18 lorries are going to do a boring trip", and there wouldn't need to be any special plans made for road use at all.
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by swores 2y ago
The comment you replied to was talking about risk of people damaging it, not running off with it. And using your white house example, while I'm sure people stealing copper cabling from it isn't considered a high risk, the possibil
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by swores 2y ago
> - Climate Activists, blocking road and sabotaging the instrument, like they destroy old paintings at museums and art galleries to bring awareness via headlines [1] Saying they "destroyed" any paintings is plain wrong, you&#
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by swores 2y ago
Either 280ft is longer than whatever type of football field they're thinking of, or it's not. No understanding of football needed for that. You haven't said what part of it you think is wrong - though I do believe that both A
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by swores 2y ago
I think you might have it the wrong way round, and that you're a good example of why they do it. You actually care about your computer, and if software isn't available for your OS then you're unlikely to ever switch OS to use
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by swores 2y ago
But assuming Russia doesn't keep all of their nukes in those two cities, destroying them may not be enough to prevent many bombs launching towards far more than 2 European cities? If you're on the receiving end of a nuke it won&#x
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by swores 2y ago
Also, given robotics is also advancing fast, anything that relies on our being in complete control of the physical world (including physical access to on/off buttons and to things like power plants & energy grids) potentially goes
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by swores 2y ago
Same here, have got a bunch of family groups and a few friends on Signal now, but lots still on more popular apps like WhatsApp.
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Boeing's largest plant in 'panic mode' amid safety crisis, say workers and union(theguardian.com)
75 points by swores 2y ago|88 comments
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by swores 2y ago
But some of the ones most relevant to this conversation - SSRI antidepressants - have had wrong theories about how they work that to this day many healthcare professionals still believe.
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by swores 2y ago
I think their comment is pointless, and would agree with you calling it a non-sequitur, however I feel the need to pedantically point out that when you wrote "... it seems really bad logic to assume that...", that is explaining
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by swores 2y ago
They were being polite because you were flat out wrong: a walk through a shopping centre gives you absolutely zero information about whether prices chosen have been tested or were picked by throwing darts at a calculator. It just tells you
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by swores 2y ago
You and I have different definitions of the word "bludgeon", and I see no problem with showing somebody a site rule they've broken if it's a rule you think worth encouraging people to follow (which they clearly do feel).
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by swores 2y ago
Yes - I think if you pick a country at random it's more likely to have WhatsApp high on the list of communication tools than not, albeit with some of the biggest countries like China also joining the US in being exceptions).
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by swores 2y ago
The comment you replied to is more accurate, as WhatsApp is huge in multiple continents not just in Europe (just not as big in North America as you both point out). For example it's big in South America (and I think Central America too
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by swores 2y ago
When you find yourself feeling so limited in valid rebuttals to use, it's OK to sometimes think "I agree, so this doesn't actually need a rebuttal" and just upvote someone without needing to comment with the whataboutism
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by swores 2y ago
Presumably their ethical approvement was about considerably more than just potential physical danger of putting on the device for 10 minutes? Of course ethics does need to make sure that the testing isn't going to harm the participants
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by swores 2y ago
That clearly wasn't the point they were making, they were just explaining why your suggestion of "only make it show to people who search for a specific address" doesn't do anything to limit the ability of landlords to lo
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by swores 2y ago
"Receptacle" isn't seemingly a common term for zips, but you're wrong - in the comment above they definitely use "receptacle" to describe the non-moving part, and as a word it is similar to the term I find on v
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by swores 2y ago
The question you replied to wasn't "why should you believe someone who says they are behind a piece of research", it was about the usefulness of receiving an email saying it. Their point (I assume) was that it would be illogi
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by swores 2y ago
That still only speaks to it being simple enough for students, not whether its too simple for any other use vs. useful enough that students who learn it will spend the rest of their lives using it. For example word processor software is com
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by swores 2y ago
> "The authors are explicit about the target audience and purpose for the algorithm: undergraduates and textbooks." If you're saying it's just for "undergraduates and textbooks", as opposed to just being s
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by swores 2y ago
That's not necessarily evidence of how he treated all VCs rather than one VC one time. (Though I'm inclined to guess it's more accurate than the idea you replied to.)
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by swores 2y ago
More specifically than the title, also FTA: > "This corresponds to the yearly CO2 emissions of 1.88m average US petrol cars." and > "The latest research, which has not been peer-reviewed, used a new model developed b
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Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2M cars (Romania)(theguardian.com)
7 points by swores 2y ago|3 comments
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by swores 2y ago
If they're heavily armed and hard to destroy then most humans might not have a choice whether or not to accept them regardless of whether they're cute and fluffy or barebones metal soldiers.
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by swores 2y ago
I was just asking about the ability of photo aging software, not commenting about privacy at all. Though yes, I am thankfully in Europe (but there are recent photos of me online). But don't disagree with you - in a different comment th
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by swores 2y ago
> photos can be aged virtually and a single photo is enough I'm sure AI-based ageing can do a good enough job to convince many people that a fake image of someone they haven't seen for years is an older version of the person

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