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by thx-2718 3y ago
I think they may have used Africa as an example not as the only place. Solar can be exported, for example, as pure hydrogen or potentially as hydrogen in ammonia, or possibly other easier to transport material (I'm not a chemist). Plac
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by thx-2718 3y ago
What's interesting to me is that hydroelectric power generation pretty much dominates when it comes to over output per plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations... https://en.w
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by thx-2718 3y ago
“Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” The answer is ye
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by thx-2718 3y ago
You need energy to do work. This can do work that doesn't release CO2. That's the point.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Wouldn't it already then be energy on earth but now it's energy that humans can make use of? It's a benefit because it's energy that doesn't require releasing carbon to aquire and make use of.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
“I’m probably going to be doing the movie with Sony because they’re the last game in town that is just absolutely, utterly, committed to the theatrical experience,” I know going to the movies might have inspired a good bit of the directors
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I think you're really missing the forest for the trees. Schools aren't the solution to the problem you're describing (children with bad homes) and was a problem before COVID. Bigger picture is that it is better to keep a larg
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"Engineers who have regular contact with customers understand the problems they’re solving for their audience." Pretty much any serious engineer in my book ought to be considering how their tool is used by the end person they made
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Wouldn't that be selection bias? Presumably Married people at that stage are there because they work together not because there's just someone else there.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Can't really teach kids that are dead or with teachers that are dead. Kids can catch up. I think people perceive the less than 2 years of remote school that these kids are irreversibly behind in some huge proportion. The good benefit o
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"This is why the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins was so wrong when he wrote: ‘We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.’ (Richard Dawkins, ‘The Selfish G
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"Our plants require less land than other techniques. E.g., on a land area of 0.42 acres, our Orca plant can remove 4,000 tons of CO₂ from the air every year, which is almost 1,000 times more effective than trees. The same land would ho
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I wonder if this will eventually have applications for long distance space travel as well. Seems like being able to hibernate most of a crew would be useful for conserving energy and resources.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." - Donald Rumsfeld
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by thx-2718 3y ago
It's unfortunate that Nations can't agree to respect the borders they agreed upon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_border#...
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Question is though did Russia have to choose to be anti-west? Putin has been but Russia could have gone a different route rather than keep Putin in power all these years. Russia really doesn't win keeping itself xenophobic of the West.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
”Direct democracy seems far more preferable, assuming a well-educated and well-informed general public. " I'm all for adopting Switzerland style governance. AFAIK they've seem able to run things rather well.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Personally in my experience, regardless of the size of the organization (small family business to thousands of employee orgs) if management is toxic, it's because it's tacitly approved from higher ups. Culture starts at the top.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
From their about page: "Our first experiment, Quality News, is about helping communities to collectively allocate their attention. We propose a news-aggregator ranking formula which reflects the intent revealed by the voting behavior o
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I think the bigger concern for America (really free speech) is that if America isn't keeping international trade safe and secure then another nation or entity will be. That entity might not like the idea of freedom of speech and expres
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Sounds like a nice feature though I imagine it becomes less useful if a page has 6 ads embedded into the text of the article. So I switched to reader mode. I don't need to be able to customize how a website looks to me. I just want to
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Yup. If I'm not mistaken it also made a big push for libreboot and other projects to circumvent or disable as much of it as possible. Purism laptops being a commercial venture to have modern hardware. Then there's vendors repurpos
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I wanted to like this article. Unfortunately the author I feel might need to actually interact with the mentally ill more. A. With respecting choice, healthcare workers are understanding that they can't help everyone. You can't fi
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by thx-2718 3y ago
That's interesting. I really like the idea of having a personalized copy of your class/book once you're end of term. Universities function far beyond just teaching undergraduates. They often function as essential research hub
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Raising prices isn't the only way to raise revenue. Especially if it's a product that consumers are very price consciousness of (though I suspect a bespoke flower/pottery shop isn't one). She can lower prices through sal
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"Liz Vayda, who owns Baltimore plant store B.Willow, says the tipping option she added to transactions during the pandemic generates about $1,000 every two weeks. Five employees split the money. She acknowledges the requests aren’t per
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by thx-2718 3y ago
With that sort of mentality I'm not sure I would want to risk my life with one of their products.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
1) College enrollment is trending downard. 2) Tablets do nearly everything a student generally needs
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by thx-2718 3y ago
That's why you pick stocks on what you think is run well/built to make money within the time frame you want your money there. Because then there's presumably a better chance that they will deliver on those earnings.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Universities are part of the problem in my opinion. With enrollment trending down many colleges appear to focus on making up the loss through raising tuition. To attract students the universities invest in prettier buildings and more "

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