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by tomp 3y ago
Probably a good idea to read the rest of the article. They explain why. > Whereas nuclear power accounts for all materials through the decommissioning phase—and surprisingly, 90 percent of all materials from a nuclear power plant can be
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by tomp 3y ago
Math is a hard, abstract, mental discipline, so it’s very plausible that mere exposure to some concepts increases the subsequent understanding. For example, I was one of the best students in class, yet it took me about a year to really get
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by tomp 4y ago
I installed it on Mac to use Bing Chat. It immediately took over my whole screen, in a completely weird way that no native Mac app ever did before (in my experience, though I don't use that many Mac apps).
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by tomp 4y ago
It won't, but economic progress will. Most rich countries are increasing forest (reforesting, not deforesting).
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by tomp 4y ago
> not using AC in the summer Can you expand on this? AC is 100% matched by the curve of solar energy input (sun -> heat -> AC cooling but also sun -> solar power), so presumably as we transition towards more and more solar, we s
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by tomp 4y ago
Reasoning from first principles (physics), there is zero CO2 impact of food, including beef (especially discounting methane). Animals are part of the CO2 cycle. They breathe out CO2, you eat meat and breath out CO2, grass consumes CO2 to
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by tomp 4y ago
You describe the auction system as a bad thing. But actually it's a good thing. The providers who (through investment and/or technological superiority) are able to provide cheaper electricity, make more money. Capitalist progress
518.
by tomp 4y ago
Modern C++ has reference counting (“smart pointers”) and memory leaks instead, so YMMV.
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by tomp 4y ago
Well he did prove the company is overstaffed by like 300%. So clearly he’s an exceptional leader & manager. Doesn’t mean that all his decisions about the direction he’s leading to, are “correct” (a.k.a. I or you agree with them).
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by tomp 4y ago
This is 100% delusional thinking. The only countries that somewhat managed do achieve that, are Australia and New Zealand, which are islands with long-term restrictive border control (completely a no-go in the US). And even they needed
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by tomp 4y ago
I talk to people who want to set up infra to use cloud GPUs and many of them say "I want to use Modal". Common reasons not to include (1) "I have soooo many AWS credits that I want to use" and (2) (our company's r
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by tomp 4y ago
I recently researched "cheap" (not really but not super extra expensive) robot arms. (Disclaimer: I haven't bought any of them, so can't say anything about the quality.) UFactory Lite $3900 https://www.ufact
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by tomp 4y ago
Those are 100% not comparable metrics. What you breathe out is mostly what you eat, and most of the carbon there is part of a continuous carbon cycle. A part of it comes from fossil fuels, mainly transport and energy to power the Haber Bosc
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by tomp 4y ago
the secret sauce of AI
525.
by tomp 4y ago
My impression of the article is, that things do not look the same. Apartments: wooden floors white walls straight roof light-shade chairs/sofas square tables pastel colors windows Car brands - I can't even pick any similar
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by tomp 4y ago
"Natural" basically means local optimisation, whereas "artificial" means global optimisation. Note also that most companies aren't optimising for nutrition or satiety, but instead for low cost and high addictiveness
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by tomp 4y ago
Are you sure about that? This 2019 article claims that Asian Americans (in several states) live longer than the Japanese (in Japan). https://180degreehealth.com/blue-zones-bullshit/ (though I haven't checked the s
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by tomp 4y ago
Does this actually work in your experience? IME whenever I tried this, I spent more kn the extra day’s accommodation that I saved on the plane ticket…
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by tomp 4y ago
I don't understand what's bad/wrong with filtering out trans people (except that it's contra the mainstream woke agenda). What if you're dating to have (biological) kids?
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by tomp 4y ago
Non-clickbait title: it’s halfway there.
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by tomp 4y ago
I’m 100% certain that the vast majority of the population wants cheap, efficient, reliable, fast, private means of transportation. Companies (both car and oil) are just serving that want.
532.
by tomp 4y ago
Yeah, carbon tax is also my best idea. Another simple option is actually taking into account all (or at least most) market conditions when drafting regulation / market rules. E.g. going beyond instantaneous price of energy (which u
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by tomp 4y ago
As a fellow European - don't apologize, I thank you! We all know the problems with planned economy, and governmental bans are some of the worst examples of that. Instead, government should support development of alternative technologie
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by tomp 4y ago
Sure but then you don’t need wealth redistribution, because everything is dirt cheap. The correct mental model isn’t “communism” or “wealth distribution”, but instead “salt”. Countries used to go to war because of salt. But now technology h
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by tomp 4y ago
Because game theory? They know they have nothing to lose while having lots to gain (better pay & benefits). Which is kind-of the point. Tragedy of the commons. The individuals (union members) gain while the public loses (more strikes, w
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by tomp 4y ago
If I understand your argument correctly, you’re saying that the quality of public services would be improved by paying people more, not by giving unions more power? If so, I agree 100%. Another viable alternative is to reject socialism (cen
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by tomp 4y ago
If that were true, all unionised jobs would have good security and pensions.
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by tomp 4y ago
Yes. I think that if they wanted better pay or working conditions, they should pick and choose private employers. If they’re employed in public jobs, just their increase job & pension security strongly outweigh most other considerations
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by tomp 4y ago
I somewhat support unions for private corporations (except when membership is obligatory), but unions for public employment just don't make sense! For private corporations, there's an obvious balance - if the union strikes to
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by tomp 4y ago
Don't trust corporate PR. They're obviously lying when they say "out of an abundance of caution". The private key was exposed in a public GitHub repo, it could literally be anywhere. So MITM for some of 50m users is st

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