tuatoru

22 ms·

271.
by tuatoru 2y ago
> The benefits of increased yield to supply food for expanding populations outweigh small nutrient dilution effects So they are declining, just not very much, nothing to see here, move along. Although it's a fair point that the natu
272.
by tuatoru 2y ago
404 guy seems like a typical historiphobic young journalist. Do some research before speaking, young ones. Here are some names off the top of my head: Rupert Murdoch. Robert Maxwell. John Edward Taylor. I'm sure five minutes' duck
273.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Output per year = value produced per action x actions per hour x hours worked per year. Relabelled, Production = productivity x work intensity x duration What nearly everybody calls productivity is in fact the product of
274.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Elon Musk isn't playing "capitalism". I don't know the name of the game he's playing, but that isn't it.
275.
by tuatoru 2y ago
I wish corporations much joy of their AI employee replacement efforts. Much, much joy. ( /sarcasm, if it's needed.)
276.
by tuatoru 2y ago
3000 Kelvin would be useful. Melting silicon metal requires temperatures in that neighborhood.
277.
by tuatoru 2y ago
It's the only newspaper with much of a connection to objective, fair, non-selective reportage. And it knows that. Your alternative is a Bloomberg terminal. How much are they, again?
278.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Ya go' us bang to righ's, guv. Ih's a fair cop.
279.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Trenchant, and it will be confronting for many people. Definitely worth the read. Thanks, @mentaliccally.
280.
by tuatoru 2y ago
> AI can draft legal documents, write code, author books, and perform any intellectual task at a fraction of the time and cost. In the past, people needed to invest years to become experts, but now, AI provides that expertise instantly.
281.
by tuatoru 2y ago
I thought it was because females have two copies of the X, so defects in a region of one copy can be compensated for by the other. RAID-1 ftw.
282.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Substack is doing OK, I think. It's the intellectual child of the blogosphere.
283.
by tuatoru 2y ago
According to genome studies, only about 1 man in 17 had great-great-grandchildren, back in the day. 1. https://sciencealert.com/neolithic-y-chromosome-bottleneck-w...
284.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Modern humans have control over this with centrifuged, sex-selected semen for cows. Boy (sans testicles) beef, girl milk.
285.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Not bad now? Yeah, right. They're still barely complying with the law. I hope this new law comes with domain cancellation and registration blocking penalties.
286.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Honest puzzlement: how is it possible to be so underinformed when google, duckduckgo and wikipedia are right there ? Are they blocked some places where hacker news isn't?
287.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Almost. Pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. Pretty close to the heart.
288.
by tuatoru 2y ago
The device can have a bigger battery with a thick bezel.
289.
by tuatoru 2y ago
I don't think Sikhs are the problem.
290.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Your implicit assumption is that every person causes about the same level of environmental harm. That is not true; it is a power law. We only solve the problem if there are fewer high polluters, the top five percent of the population by inc
291.
by tuatoru 2y ago
https://dignif.ai/
292.
by tuatoru 2y ago
I'm disappointed that you still can't order ten cubesats from Shenzen Satellite Supply Co via AliExpress.
293.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Yeah, methane is kind of second best (or worse) in many parameters, but most importantly, it's cheap, abundant, and easily and safely storable and transportable, and it does the job.
294.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Great news for employees! They can make proposals and justify them by saying "the culture in this company is to justify things by saying that they feel right. This feels right." Productivity will be through the roof.
295.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Very good observation. I'm sure that the usual responses to the phenomenon--lecturing males, nagging them, criticising them, and shaming them--will work this time. Despite never having worked before.
296.
by tuatoru 2y ago
To speed up turnaround. Musk used to talk about a goal of having turnaround times including refueling and payload loadout be similar to those of passenger aircraft - much less than a day, not the ~half a week of the Falcon 9.
297.
by tuatoru 2y ago
In the middle there is, among other things, the "cardboard drone"[1]. 120 km range. Quoted costs $700 - $3000 depending on role. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sypaq_Corvo_Precision_Payload_...
298.
by tuatoru 2y ago
So much for exploring space beyond the solar system, then. If it takes more than a hundred years to get anywhere, all your automated control systems are dead.
299.
by tuatoru 2y ago
Ed Conway's book Material World has more about silicon. An even more obscure mine in Spain is used for the quartz to make the crucibles that hold molten silicon. For some reason its melting point is just far enough above that of silico
300.
by tuatoru 2y ago
EVs will go mainstream when, and only when, this sort of thing is not needed, because you can charge your EV whenever and wherever you are, and in a few minutes, like gas stations. To replace an incumbent product, a new competitor has to be

More ›