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by tuatoru 3y ago
Desal costs seem to have decreased a lot since 2008. Now maybe one-third as much, based on a quick image search for charts of the price trend of desalination.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Doesn't mention humans. 1293 road fatalities in 2016 according to Wikipedia.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
To me, those are the verb and the noun respectively. "He will fi nance the project." "The project got its fi nance." With silicon, I think I stress the first syllable, if any.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Accelerated weathering of olivine mineral rocks is the easy, safe way to cool the planet. Mine 'em, crush 'em fine, spread the dust in the ocean. The numbers say that even if the whole operation was powered by coal, it'd sequ
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Just stop othering the problem. Look in the mirror. Have you been on a plane? Do you use motor transport? Does your home have electricity? The problem is you, not some baby in a country where people consume in a year what an American does i
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Your opinion is, like, fine. I expect that eventually we'll have "applied CS" and "pure CS", as with mathematics. And statistics. And possibly architecture. (In engineering, pure engineering is "engineering sc
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Ah! That'll be why I instantly preferred San Francisco, the widest typeface.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Binary thinking doesn't lead to a good life. Continua.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
HR is there to control risks to the organisation arising from workers.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The taste thing is a mild issue for me, but the real problem is that they (the artificial sweeteners I have tried to date) trigger my asthma.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yay, some facts!
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Private motor vehicles are a very space-inefficient means of transport. India is pretty crowded.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The claim of "trickle down" was that giving money to rich people, specifically, would somehow have the same effect as making the average household better off. It turns out that rich people buy things that don't employ many pe
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by tuatoru 3y ago
There's a nice review of a book, on Astral Codex Ten,[1] that suggests a large part of the answer is a combination of:- a) The design of the US's government system overly privileging its judicial branch b) Ralph Nader. 1. https:&
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> I once pitched an off-the-shelf program to a corporate, which would have cost 10k to roll out company wide. But the procurement process demanded a proper evaluation first, which eould cost about 5 times that. Normally, the cost of COTS
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by tuatoru 3y ago
IPV4.2: IPV4 with six octets. We'd have it well before now if the second system effect and the architecture astronauts had been quelled.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
The point of the exercise is to require you to make decisions under uncertain conditions with limited (or next to no) information. You don't know what jurisdiction. You don't know what airspace rules apply. "Vehicle" ha
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Kites, toy cars and toy boats are toys (to me). Slippers, skis and skates are footwear. A toboggan isn't normally attached to a person's body, so a vehicle. Drones and balloons I would say are in the park, whereas aircraft (at n
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Rob a bank with a friend, and get caught. Edit: sorry, that was a bit too facile.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It will bring about more efficient use of water. All the technology needed is already available thanks to the Israelis. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Israel
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Sounds like we're living through the early stages of Will McIntosh's Soft Apocalypse . >“Gradual” is the key here: Soft Apocalypse shows normal people clinging to the shreds of life as they knew it, while things slowly go from
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Is advertising spam, for some random tool now with added AI.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Er, you mean materials science, biotech, and politics.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> TL;DR: Most New Yorkers do not own cars, much less drive to work. And the households that do own cars earn a significantly higher income than the ones that don’t. Making it easier to drive, at the expense of transit improvements, does
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I think this is https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363589756_Capitalis... > This paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty (defined as t
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Not having to build housing with parking included could do great things for housing availability. This is a purely political decision that does not depend on the availability of autonomous vehicles. It won't happen because it woul
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Telepresence devices have been a thing for years. No VR or AR needed. Still waiting for a Visicalc for AR.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Calibrating PM2.5 sensors looks difficult. Relative humidity, temperature, different mixes of inorganic and organic aerosols, probably air pressure, integration times -- lots of dimensions. PALMA[1] has a lot of work. 1. https://
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Read further in the essay. It discusses this very imprecision in the "studies" and the idiotic reporting about them. It's also worth reading for the way it puts the boot into the utterly abysmal Frey and Osborne study that st
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by tuatoru 3y ago
In the best American tradition, it's time for a class action suit against CPUC, Waymo, and Cruise.

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