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by tuatoru 2y ago
This (early death) is a widespread problem with renewables projects. It must surely have a chilling effect on investment by increasing investor uncertainty / risk.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> will finally be free to play in the mud As long as we can still have a few sticks, and some string, or a cardboard box...
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by tuatoru 2y ago
10k cycles is roughly 30 years at one cycle per day, so not quite long enough to be infrastructure grade. Of course if its capacity continues to degrade as slowly after that, it'd be entirely usable. Aluminum is cheap enough, and alrea
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by tuatoru 2y ago
dd if=/dev/cd0 of=moviename.iso bs=4M conv=excl,noerror,fsync status=progress Edit: If errors are a problem, try ddrescue instead of dd.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Yeah, no. Look up "sick sinus syndrome" and "premature ventricular complex". (The latter occurs in up to 75 percent of people at times.) 4B years, yes, but evolution is a pile of kludges on top of kludges.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
It cannot push wages below subsistence for essential workers: those involved in maintenance of infrastructure, logistics, national and local security, and secondary health care. In fact for any work in the world of atoms. There are many, m
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by tuatoru 2y ago
I'm rather tired of these "$LABORATORY_EXPERIMENT could sweep the world" articles. If the complete supply chains for all the ingredients of the thing do not already exist and operate in the billions of dollars, it can't
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by tuatoru 2y ago
As someone said recently, abundant energy is the basis of prosperity. There are no poor countries that use a lot of energy per capita, and no rich countries that use little. (China is a "middle income" country, not a poor one.) h
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by tuatoru 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic%E2%80%93Jurassic_exti... > The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME), often called the end-Triassic extinction, marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic
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by tuatoru 2y ago
While I agree with the general thrust of the piece, many details seem wrong. Food shortages will not kill you.[1] Nor will mass migration per se. But the author omits global thermonuclear war--the biggest, most dangerous risk, as it always
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> The thing is, if women can’t be trusted to assert their desires or boundaries because they'll invariably lie about what they want in order to please other people, it's not just sex they can't reasonably consent to. It&#x
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by tuatoru 2y ago
The interesting thing is the sheer number of different models designed for different tasks, all of which can be performed by one and the same standard-model human. The robot revolution will be a very drawn-out, labour-intensive affair.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Restatement of Moravec's Paradox[1]. > Moravec's paradox is the observation in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensor
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by tuatoru 2y ago
I think it's one of Iain M. Banks' "Outside Context Problems", a problem that governments cannot even see (other than as a labour shortage), let alone understand its causes or what to do about it. 1. https://e
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> Solar and wind lock in cheap clean energy forever. The book "The Price is Wrong" makes the point that it is not price but profitability that determines what is financed and built. 1. https://www.amazon.com/Pri
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by tuatoru 2y ago
What is the difference between (44) Retail Trade and (45) Retail Trade, and why is Best Buy in one and Walmart and Target in another?
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Pacific Palisades, for instance, had literal decades, if not centuries, of forewarning. It chose dereliction of duty. It should reap the consequences.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Try reading what I wrote.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Comprehensively failing to comprehend what I said. Well done.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> Just because the vehicle carries the name and outsold the original Mustang still does not make it a “real Mustang”. I just learned that this is an example of the "jingle" fallacy, one half of the jingle-jangle fallacy pair. T
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> "In an economy that depends on skilled labor, we're falling short," says Catharine Bond Hill, an economist, a former president of Vassar College and the managing director of the higher education consulting firm Ithaka S+
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by tuatoru 2y ago
"Robots". Chick-Fil-A could have used a machine to squeeze lemons in the 1950s, if it had existed then. Robots.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Productivity in knowledge work is not difficult to measure, just very laborious. A few aspects need to be untangled to do it, though. We can use an analogue of the Kaya Identity for CO2 production[1], the production identity:- Dollars of re
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Competing with women in any arena is at best zero-sum for men. Do better than women and you get no prestige. Do worse than any woman and you lose a lot of prestige. Both among men, and with women. That is the basis of the argument for the
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by tuatoru 2y ago
A college credential is a gatekeeping device for access to "good" jobs, those considered high status. Young women looking for partners are complaining that there are no "good" men, those with (among other attributes) hig
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Read the article and the comments on it.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Do you get the depreciated value added on to the house price if you sell? This was always a big problem for solar hot water systems. If the payback period is seven years but the average house turnover is five years, then there is little inc
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> There's plenty of wealthy people that can afford to go solar ... subsidies are a useful tool to get them to take the plunge. So you are in favour of taking taxes from the poor to give to the rich. Good to know. Wealthy people&#x
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by tuatoru 2y ago
midwit delusions.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> if you don't take it graciously. That is the point of the banter: to see how you handle stressful situations. Women don't understand this, but nearly all men do. Why? For every accident, there are around twenty near misses.

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