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by tuatoru 2y ago
Wow, a woman with theory of mind.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Bannning biofuels would go a long way to reducing agriculture's use of land. Trying to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis is one of those "what could possibly go wrong?" ideas.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Trivium: vegemite was originally slated to be called "parwill" after an earlier product called marmite ("ma might, but pa will"). But the company didn't like this Boaty McBoatface winner of the naming competition an
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> Would mineral deposits be sufficiently large and conductive that they would cause an actual issue between components? > They would probably represent nothing more than minor stray resistance/capacitance. Spoken like someone who
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Self-report survey of mechanical turkers gave results slightly different from orthodoxy. Revolutionary! Ground-breaking!
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by tuatoru 2y ago
* piqued
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Nuclear fusion would be the canonical case. Closer to home, making cars self-driving, and making actually useful pedestrian robots are good examples of "easier than we thought" too.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
China is so big that when it does anything at all, it looks "rapid" by everyone else's scale.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Yeah, because things we know very little about always turn out to be easier than thought.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Yah, Networkmanager is a rootkit.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
I was told that water beads on leaf surfaces act as lenses, creating burnt spots on the leaves. So water at night.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Antarctic temperatures.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
As usual with journalists, the reporter misunderstands and misrepresents what is going on in her primary example, Israel. Non-Zionism has a better description: [1]. The basic reason that people aren't having children is that our cultur
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by tuatoru 2y ago
This is a deep question, I think. In the past, children just happened. We no longer have load-bearing conceptual or moral frameworks for thinking about reproduction. Religious leaders have lost their moral authority, if they ever had any.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
capex = capital expenditure; opex = operational expenditure. There's some theorem about investments that says it doesn't matter how they are financed. A good one is good, and a bad one is bad, whether or not you use debt.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Being bored is good, I'd tell my kids. It means you're not hungry, or cold, or wet, or hurt, or scared for your life. Enjoy it!
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by tuatoru 2y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to call 1946 a similar place. In 1946 there was a lot of pent-up demand for housing and consumer durables and a young fast-growing population. Now, not so much. It's also a stretch to call 1990 a similar p
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Great safety advice! Ninety percent of practical engineering is thinking about what can go wrong.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> my hacking skills are somewhat confined to the digital domain Texas Instruments have the INA219 and INA226 I2C high-side current sensors for DC up to 36V. I just know of those because of Arduino. There are many others too. Over 36V or
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by tuatoru 2y ago
(1962) > ABOUT fourteen years have elapsed since the invention at Bell Telephone Laboratories of the transistor, a device whose promise as a sophisticated amplifier has yet to be fully realized in the high-fidelity industry. Moral: good
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Physical and chemical processes don't care how incredulous you are.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> It's clearly not "completely" disconnected, otherwise there would be zero volatility in supermarket prices. I understood that supermarkets are always changing prices semirandomly, so that consumers never really know what
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by tuatoru 2y ago
"Faʻafafine (translated: "in the manner of a woman") are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. Fa'afafine are not assigned the role at birth, nor raised as girls due to a lack of daughters, a
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Faʻafafine(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tuatoru 2y ago
But speculation about artificial wombs is not, of course.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
It includes part-tome workers in the total. Perhaps the UK has proportionally more part time work (a less healthy economy).
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Blaming men for their problems isn't going to elicit cooperation from men.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Standing, and standing only, gives people varicose veins, knee, ankle and hip joint problems, spinal problems, and more besides. Heart disease. Thromboses. Stroke. Life causes death. Choose your method.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
What are your expectations of women?
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Here is a counterexample: Universal cheap AI girlfriends and boyfriends. These would have a mildly depressing effect on the economy for a couple of generations, and then the population goes to zero.

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