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by tuatoru 3y ago
The identification of bikes with "exercise", as a separate thing from daily transport, a kind of mobile gym, seems specifically American. Most other places this is a subset of uses, and only bike nuts do that. Everyone else just u
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by tuatoru 3y ago
With people, for instance? I commonly hear "less people" these days. It's weird to me to think of people as being like water or sand.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Then there's the ongoing weakening of strong verbs. The past tense of "write" is not "writed". The past tense of "stand" is not "standed".
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by tuatoru 3y ago
A pair of scissors, a pair of trousers. I shortened the trousers with scissors.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
That's not a nitpick; that's agreement. Less water, fewer onions. Edit: not every word ending in "s" is plural. Some of them were just stolen from other languages and ended up with a final "s".
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It'll be interesting to see how the BYD Seagull and (even smaller) Chery QQ do in the next few years, then. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Seagull 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chery_
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Hard to explain why Europeans, for example Volkswagen or BMW, are not treated similarly, then.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
In NZ, MG (brand of SAIC) EVs are going great, because they're cheapest. (MG also sells hybrids still for the rural market here.) BYD is doing well too. Great Wall Motors (Haval, GWM brands) is trying to push hybrids here. China alread
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's on its way to being a Chinese-owned brand. Just like MG, which is now a brand owned by Shanghai Automotive Industrial Co. Or Jaguar Land Rover, owned by Tata Industries. It's only a reductionist view in the very short term.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's probably like photography: just do it a lot. Write about your home, your neighborhood. Edit: also read other writers' work, of course. In novel writing there's very old advice: plan to throw away your first million word
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, getting better at communicating clearly and effectively is worth the time for social reasons. Aesthetic reasons can be important too.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Where do you get "cheaper" from that? It certainly has "better" care for individuals ... at a price. Population health starts with urban design that forces people to walk.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
In The Red: First Light Linda Nagata posits an AI that tries to help people maximise their potential, because by earning more they consume more. The AI escaped from Amazon (the web store), it is theorized. (Nice MilSF if you like that kin
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Profit imposes discipline on consumption of the product. River water is classically treated as "free" which leads to great waste in agriculture and horitculture. Requiring a resource to be sold at a profit ensures it goes to where
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by tuatoru 3y ago
This is right. For grid connected storage, two things matter: 10-year total cost, and durability. At least a 30-year design life. (Well, reliability matters too: that 's implicit.) Volume and mass are just whatever they are. They don&
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Electrolyzing water to make hydrogen for ammonia (fertilizer) and industrial chemical feed stocks, please.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Sure. To go down the Wright's Law learning curve at a rate that keeps pace with PV, we need to ramp up manufacturing to a rate of about a million reactors per year. Is that feasible? In what time frame?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
But not at a rate that can keep up with the growth in demand, especially in China. Demand in China has grown more than 20-fold over the 21st Century but nuclear installs have not come close to keeping up with that. In contrast solar PV and
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by tuatoru 3y ago
How does that work in China and Russia?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It's never sounded futuristic to me. Nuclear just boils water to make steam, the same as James Watt's steam engine. (Well, actually, steam turbines, but still pretty old technology.) Boiling water to make electricity? How quaint.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> There's so many complaints about cost overruns, etc. This is ironic. I recommend you read How Big Things Get Done [1], by Bent Flyvbjerg, the world's foremost expert on megaprojects. The book discusses an analysis of about 1
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Slight amendment: China is installing more wind and solar PV generation capacity this year than the entire generation capacity of the UK. The increment, not the total. Edit: Nuclear power generation in China has, IIRC, tripled in the 21st
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I have no idea why you're being downvoted for sharing a personal story. And your opinion is as valid as anyone else's in matters of taste. De gustibus non est disputandum .
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Why? How big is the penalty?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Anti-centralization, anti-hierarchy. But see also The Tyranny of Structurelessness. 1,. https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Would the new places be handy to good schools (primary, secondary, teertiary)? And good enrichment activities for the kids? The housing problem is not just houses. Although that'd be a great place to start.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Adding to rfrey's comment, in demography "reproduction rate" is the number of daughters per woman. I think it's from a more general population biology definition, the number of female descendants per female. Yes, for the
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It doesn't really matter; the whole notion is mistaken. In the long run survival is dependent on flows of food and materials, not stocks. Survival requires continuous replenishment. Are Mormons investing in farming skills and knowledge
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Prospect theory can explain this. If you are precarious now, but expect or hope to be better off in future, you will delay having children. If you don't expect better prospects, then children are the best available investment in your f
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Just reinforcing NoMoreNicksLeft, this is definitely considered a right wing talking point in the US. On hearing about this leftists immediately jump to "you want to roll back the gains of feminism, keep women in the home, blah blah&qu

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