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721.
by tuatoru 3y ago
As good as it gets; possible yes, worth it no; practically, nothing; practically, no; maybe, but NIML (not [likely] in my lifetime).
722.
by tuatoru 3y ago
... happen with scale-free networks; non-rival and non-excluable goods.
723.
by tuatoru 3y ago
If my official wage was 10^12 dollars/euros/pounds sterling, I don't think I'd be worried, really. Even yuan or yen.
724.
by tuatoru 3y ago
It's still basically a join. If it's on a computer, it can be converted to text files, and then it can be JOINed, one way or another.
725.
by tuatoru 3y ago
The way fertility rates are going, not for much longer.
726.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Who said anything about her becoming a programmer? An interior decorator, or a gardener, or a nurse aide, or a yoga instructor, or a nail technician: they all add more to human welfare than this task. If she wants to become an architect, or
727.
by tuatoru 3y ago
This is the "lump of labor" fallacy. If she turns up to work reliably, and stays on-task, there are no end of other things she could be doing that increase general welfare more than this.
728.
by tuatoru 3y ago
The parents of the Baby Boomers had affordable housing, about three times median male income for a single family home. That was when fertility was last above replacement level. House-price-to-income started rising in the late 1960s and has
729.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-08-23/wyoming...
730.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Off topic but I can't resist: happens to a lot of people accused of sexual harassment at work. They get permabanned from work, and don't know what they said or did, nor when, where, or to whom.
731.
by tuatoru 3y ago
They need to come with a huge black-bordered warning, then. SSRIs do, in some jurisdictions.
732.
by tuatoru 3y ago
That's extremely common with recovery from MDD. The ability to act improves before the low mood, so bam! suicide. In hospitals new patients, particularly younger adults, are put on suicide watch for this exact reason. So the suicide wa
733.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Nuclear power only ever existed because of the military applications of the technology. In 1950, if you were a Great Power and wanted to remain one, you had to have nuclear technology tout de suite . Electricity generation was a sop to p
734.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Indeed: agrivoltaics is under active R&D. Initial results seem to indicate that in dry areas PV can actually increase crop yields while reducing irrigation demand. So in effect it has a negative land requirement in those places.
735.
by tuatoru 3y ago
They'd just do it more slowly, with big concave mirrors.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Bent Flyvbjerg has a lot to say about this. He has a new book out How Big Things Get Done In a database of thousands of projects over $1B in size, nuclear power projects come out third worst for cost overruns, behind (before?) Olympic Gam
737.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Somehow it all seems too straightforward, not Machiavellian enough. How does McKinsey make windfall profits? The independent director?
738.
by tuatoru 3y ago
I remember, in my late teens (mumble) decades ago, coming to the conclusion that this is the logical endpoint of capitalism on a finite planet.
739.
by tuatoru 3y ago
That picture didn't look like any building site I've ever seen. Edit: same with the video Where are the piles of stuff everywhere? And the power leads? And the saw tables and tools and ladders and trestles and scaffolding and...
740.
by tuatoru 3y ago
It's called light timber frame construction and drywall cladding. The framing is 100mm x 50mm (dressed, about 87mm x 34mm) timber, the drywall is 122mm thick gypsum (hydrated calcium sulfate) lined with paper on both sides of the frame
741.
by tuatoru 3y ago
AMOC wiki page.[1] The AMOC has high "inter-annual variability", it changes a lot from year to year. Which is why they need 40 years' data to run statistical tests. North-western Europe isn't going to switch to a frozen
742.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Much good it will do them, if they can't personally put food on the table...
743.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Applied science is all about the balance of harms. In the paper we have a tenuous chain of correlations with no causal mechanism described. Glyphosate has unambiguously improved crop yields and quality for decades. The causal mechanism is w
744.
by tuatoru 3y ago
> society should incentivize denser development of more desirable land, by disincentivizing maintaining sparse development of it. That is exactly what a land value tax does, in a negative way. It disincentivizes buying land in a desirabl
745.
by tuatoru 3y ago
There is little reason to believe we have fully explored the space of possible electrolyzers with the alkaline, solid oxide, and proton-exchange membrane types. However, exploration will take time and a lot of computational brute force.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yes of course people know this. But policymakers "flatten" knowledge when making policy. See James C. Scott's "Seeing Like A State" for discussion of how this plays out in development projects. What we have got is
747.
by tuatoru 3y ago
I was speed-watching a couple of videos on YouTube about this fifteen minutes ago. Search for "The Limiting Factor". Battery capacity will be a minor constraint, but only minor, as there are constraints in the PV and wind turbine
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by tuatoru 3y ago
When I was a child, my mother would get cases of Cox's Orange Pippin freighted over from an orchard region. I think late summer/fall. Far and away the best dessert (eating) apple I've tasted, and the texture was great too. B
749.
by tuatoru 3y ago
> The researchers go on to propose that which forms persist is governed by a number of selection pressures – similar to the way Darwinian evolution is based on “survival of the fittest”. This misunderstands Darwin. Persistence is exactly
750.
by tuatoru 3y ago
Well, yes, nutrient density is worth promoting. But it seems to me that the populations of those who oppose herbicides like glyphosate, and those who oppose genetically modified crops with say extra niacin or vitamin D, overlap very heavi

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