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by theothermkn 7y ago
The summary line of the article: > Widening inequalities in pay, health and opportunities in the UK are undermining trust in democracy, says an Institute for Fiscal Studies report. It's addressed again, later in the article: > Si
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by theothermkn 7y ago
This change was reported over 4 weeks, or 28 days. For a 180lb person consuming, on average, 1900 kCal/day, a 37% drop in calories is a 703 kCal/day deficit below their initial equilibrium. This is 19,700 kCal over four weeks. Div
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by theothermkn 7y ago
I'm a layperson like everyone else here, so I'm just going to rely on the fact that fusion research is ongoing, well-supported by government and private sector investment, and is an active area of research for hundreds or thousand
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Commentaries on Criticisms of Magnetic Fusion [pdf](fire.pppl.gov)
16 points by theothermkn 7y ago|27 comments
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New Technique Streamlines Design of Intricate Fusion Devices(scitechdaily.com)
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Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers(threatpost.com)
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by theothermkn 7y ago
> Not human readable... This refrain just cheeses me right off every time. Nothing is human readable! Everything requires a program to read it, because no human being can read states of charge or states of magnetic polarization directly.
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by theothermkn 7y ago
This may sound a little like trivializing, but don't we have to know what "statistics" are and what "machine learning" is to say anything about the difference(s) between them? Looking at this through even the lens o
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by theothermkn 7y ago
GP remembers correctly. From http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/jan/16/climate-change-reca... : > In other words, the land area dedicated to renewable energy (”Renewistan”) would occupy a space about t
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by theothermkn 7y ago
Saul Griffith has an old talk entitled "Climate Change Recalculated." The gist is that he converts everyday energy consumption into averaged watts over a day, and then looks at the energy area density of renewables. The resulting
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by theothermkn 7y ago
I'm a little dismayed that your first link is, as you note, from the 80s, and that your second link is about ITER, another old design that is orders of magnitude larger than the scheme in the article, a size it must have due to the ve
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by theothermkn 7y ago
Well, there's kind of a chain of intuitions here that are off by up to orders of magnitude. First, YBCO has a critical temperature of 93K, not 23K or so as you've suggested (albeit not as a value for YBCO). In other words, there h
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A Commercial Path to Fusion(physicsworld.com)
142 points by theothermkn 7y ago|105 comments
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by theothermkn 7y ago
> [T]hose who endorse anti-vaccine views were far more likely to estimate that they knew as much as experts or doctors, when in fact their knowledge level was extremely low. > Dunning believes that ability to self-assess is also key t
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by theothermkn 7y ago
> As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market. The odiousness of the use of the word "should" has been pointed out elsewhere, and I reitera
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by theothermkn 7y ago
What a sophomoric article. For example: > At first, the state just puts random names on the streets. This helps some, but the residents still colloquially go by the old terms they know, which causes problems for dispatch. Moreover, most
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by theothermkn 7y ago
I think the real reason that airdropping information into North Korea won't help is that it's a slave state held hostage by a ruling family that secures aid for itself with the threat of nuclear Armageddon and the immediate shelli
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by theothermkn 7y ago
> but in order to talk about it you need to be clear about what you're actually talking about. We absolutely do need to know what we're talking about. For example, the seize-or-purchase dichotomy is a false one. The article men
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by theothermkn 7y ago
A sibling post mentioned Deming, the American who's WWII work on bomber production formed the basis for "The Toyota Way," and not in some indirect way, either. Deming went to Japan at the behest of the US to help them rebuild
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by theothermkn 7y ago
As an aside, when you're reading the article and you stumble across the link to a description of how lift works, do yourself a favor and skip it. Instead, check out https://youtu.be/QKCK4lJLQHU?t=803 . Almost no matter
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by theothermkn 7y ago
You might like Matt Risinger's YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/MattRisinger . He's a builder in the Austin area who does very energy efficient homes. He uses (a variation of?) this thing called
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by theothermkn 7y ago
Wow. Three non sequiturs in three sentences. There are sites that suggest any number of things. Unspecified "sites" have little bearing on the actual facts. I'm not sure that Milankovitch Cycles imply the dumping of CO2. >
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The Hot Mess of Hawai‘I’s Renewable Power Push(hakaimagazine.com)
2 points by theothermkn 7y ago|0 comments
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by theothermkn 7y ago
> I'm going to be unpopular and say I still can't see why the metrics being listed here rate higher consideration than all the threats that could reasonably be imagined over the next 40 years. The risk of running out of fossil
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by theothermkn 8y ago
It's probably more complex than that, with more geopolitical factors involved. Right now, for example, Russia's political economy is limited by access to year-round deep water ports. China's relationship to Tibet is shaped by
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by theothermkn 8y ago
A quibble: The point about meltdowns is cute, but probably wrong; the insurance against meltdown is a negative thermal coefficient of reactivity, if I understand correctly. In other words, the thermal expansion drives the fuel out into the
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by theothermkn 8y ago
The article’s premise is that Li-ion can’t be disrupted because of the amount of current infrastructure built to produce them. I can’t help but hear a little desperation in this line of argumentation. I’m no expert, but isn’t this actually
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by theothermkn 8y ago
> Instead of trying to further complicate those laws to outlaw a few arcane tax strategies (likely in vain; more complexity likely leads to more arcane loopholes) we should be simplifying our laws. The issue is that the complexity of the
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by theothermkn 8y ago
While it's easy to complain that this number is "wrong" in that the radial difference is what we always, or mostly, care about, it's worth pointing out that it does accurately represent radio communication lag times. In
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by theothermkn 8y ago
Thank you! Fixed!

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