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by tuatoru 3y ago
> 3. ... people don't give a shit about male suicide rates; the general response is "they deserve it," Yes, for decades this attitude has been caricatured by the fake-but-entirely-too-plausible news headline "Male sui
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The biggest point loads are aluminum smelters. Probably next are electric arc furnaces for steelmaking, the so-called mini-mills.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
At the time rural domestic light was provided by kerosene lamps. The kerosene was sold in four-gallon(?) tins by general stores. Gasoline was initially sold in the same way, as another product just like kerosene at your local general store.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I don't know anything about Roman food preservation, nor about exact quantities. I was making the points that before refrigeration, a lot more salt was used for food storage, and that salt has other major uses besides flavoring food or
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by tuatoru 3y ago
From the point of view of a maker and seller of cars, the incentive for self driving is that it increases the size of the market. Rather than just selling one car per adult in a family, it could sell one per adult and one per child. Car
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> No one needs 4 liters of salt per week Back in the day people used a lot more salt than we do.[0] Before refrigeration, salting (brining) was the primary method of preserving meat and fish in damp climates. Salt was used to treat olive
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, it's a material science issue. With stronger materials they would just make the blades longer because the power produced is proportional to the square of blade length (or cube?). Anyway, the blades will be at the limits of materi
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Why is that a good thing?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It depends. Mainly on the cost of electrolysis plant, and partly on how close to free "excess" PV power becomes. Natural gas infrastructure can be maintained and used to store and distribute hydrogen to hydrogen peakers if require
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> In my opinion, we are at best in the 1992 internet phase In my opinion, we are in the 2006 phase of 3D TV.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Aside from journalism, which takes a few factoids and generates a plausible narrative, another main application would be psychotherapy/counseling. You don't have to be accurate or even all that grounded in reality when dealing wi
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Eventually, I hope, we will move to safer battery designs less prone to thermal runaway. It might take a few decades, though. Town gas (made from coal, a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) was used for several decades before the change to
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Do they bring marshmallows?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
About a book about the prosecution of Reality Winner for espionage, and how her conviction was based partly on taking fragments of old social media posts out of context. Quote from Amazon blurbs for the book:- > I love this book because
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I hope Elon does run X into the ground. There might be a temporary return nearer to sanity among our elite if that happens.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Summers is a fourth-rate intellectual who wants us to think he is second rate.[1] He does good self-promotion. 1. In this scale first-rate is the likes of John von Neumann and Albert Einstein.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Getting precious about your coffee is the sign of low-effort status signaling.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Non-consensual pornography of public figures has long been a scourge of the internet It's part of being a public figure. If you can't deal with it, don't attempt to be famous. Why should we care about the feelings of nar
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Tautologies are tautologous.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
We have had Roombas for 20 years and they still can't clean floors properly, let alone do anything else. "Could be porters" is a judgement by someone who has never been a porter in a hospital. The social skills required are f
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> This leads to shows like “Ted Lasso”—a “sunshine enema”, in the words of one of its producers—and “The Morning Show”, which debuted as a hard-hitting drama about a broadcast-news network’s toxic culture but has degenerated into a mindl
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Thank you for the laugh.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, it's got so bad that I have canceled my sub and subscribed to Wired instead. That bad.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
So a simple and therefore wrong hypothesis: does anyone know if doctors test glycogen generating capacity when diagnosing this? Impaired liver function, in some of its many duties, would show at least some of the symptoms listed in the wiki
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Sentiment is not rational in this way. Ownership of a house is one of the major milestones of life. If many people are being prevented from achieving it, they are going to say things are bad.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Now add the "All-Transactions House Price Index for the United States" line to the same chart.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
And that's in the formal economy in India, which employs a small fraction of those employed. I found this mini-documentary by Polymatter[1] interesting. It asserts that Indian firms with ten or more employees are subject to inspections
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by tuatoru 3y ago
And is writing above his vocabulary. "Intentional vagaries"? The essence of vagary is being undirected. He probably meant intentional vagueness, or better, strategic ambiguity (which is routinely used by board chairs and other co
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yet another reason to use something other than Chrome.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It should be.

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