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by unchocked 5y ago
Recertification now goes through a Green energy minister. This is pretty much pulling the plug.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Tangentially, Kalman filters were first applied in... tracking flying objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter#History
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by unchocked 5y ago
Hard to say, but you'd think there are landlines to the nukes.
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by unchocked 5y ago
I try to read these polemics to uncover the seams of my own techno-optimistic worldview. This one, I think, centers around the idea that technological solutions don’t solve social problems (which has merit). But at least superficially, I do
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by unchocked 5y ago
National security considerations encourage geographic dispersal of strategic assets.
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by unchocked 5y ago
From a normative perspective, terminators are self-evidently dangerous as all hell and should be prohibited. From a realist frame, I don’t think there will be a deal. Narrow national interests are too divergent w/r/t/ capabil
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by unchocked 5y ago
I hope to outlive this age of spectacle.
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by unchocked 5y ago
You’re not wrong, you’re just missing the point. It’s that laws should be enforced by people, not by machines.
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by unchocked 5y ago
That’s a feature, which rhymes with the author’s argument: that there are politics and that people decide norms, and whether or not you agree with the decisions, having immutable code just go ahead and enforce/permit/control whate
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by unchocked 5y ago
Not crystal clear after reading the paper - does this result in a glassine (no ice crystals) frozen food that can be maintained as such in an ordinary freezer, or does it require specialized storage (i.e near the triple point)?
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by unchocked 5y ago
Autarky on Mars, sure now. But now, the richest man in the world is existentially dedicated to building 1,000 Starships to build a city on Mars and I'm pretty sure he's going to pull it off. https://twitter.com/elo
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by unchocked 5y ago
Great! That's cheap for what you get. As soon as we've built out a few $trillion in battery storage, we can get going on long-term hydrogen storage and distribution!
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by unchocked 5y ago
The Chernobyl exclusion zone, terrible as it is, doesn’t hold a candle to the realities of climate change. Geological repositories are the solution for long term storage. They are not only technologically feasible, but actually constructed
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by unchocked 5y ago
There are no guarantees. You need to compare vs. the safety of burning coal, for the climate and for human health. You need to compare it with how sure you are that renewables & storage will satisfy our energy needs tomorrow, or the saf
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by unchocked 5y ago
Finland is a hero on nuclear energy development. After the US bailed on Yucca Mountain, Finland is the only country I know building a stable geological waste repository. Great to see the realist Greens coming along on nuclear as well. http
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by unchocked 5y ago
I've been prodding friends in the climate movement about their community's historical opposition to nuclear power lately. In my view, opposing nuclear power after 1989 (Hansen's testimony to the US Senate) is anti-climate. I&
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by unchocked 5y ago
If you can ban public deployment of facial recognition, you can also ban public deployment of engagement maximizers. It’s time to start regulating algorithms.
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by unchocked 5y ago
This is great - now we can have algorithmic production of output from data-driven script bots!
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by unchocked 5y ago
Between the noise of self-driving singularlists, and that of self-driving impossibilists, it's great to see plodding, sequential progress like this.
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by unchocked 5y ago
It's the thing that will most predictably change everything. Anxiety is anticipation with a negative outlook. Living under a power structure that's so inefficacious, and a culture that's so in denial, I think the kids would b
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by unchocked 5y ago
Good. There is no better use of state power than ensuring public health. Supreme Court resolved this in 1905 w/r/t smallpox.
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by unchocked 5y ago
It is a long bet on renewables+storage. From easiest to hardest (and most efficient to least efficient): - Renewables+batteries are already cheap enough for a few hours storage - Flow batteries can go overnight to weeks - Synthetic fuels (i
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by unchocked 5y ago
Yet it's absolutely required for synthesizing hydrocarbons from CO2 so, there's that. I mean, pick any fuel you want, their utility as stores of energy are all based on hydrogen content. So we're going to kick the fossil habi
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by unchocked 5y ago
The scooter shop could have a protection arrangement. The laptop repair man clearly does not.
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by unchocked 5y ago
I find it odd that the author dismisses hydrogen storage largely based on the requirement to mine water for electrolysis and then goes on to propose using ~12,000 tonnes of water for thermal energy storage.
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by unchocked 5y ago
It's bad. It's really bad. And it's already here. So we need to talk about minimizing the forcing and the effects, and stop pretending like we are going to somehow avoid catastrophe. That means driving emissions toward zero,
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by unchocked 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that commodity retail has always, for my living memory at least, been a pretty stressful, insecure, and low-wage position. Amazon's scale brings welcome visibility to the problem, and offers employees the chance to
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by unchocked 5y ago
It's been a long time coming - manufacturer's been working on this for at least about a decade. What's important about this fuel is that it should work in _any_ application that requires leaded gas. The most demanding applica
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by unchocked 5y ago
You're conflating chronic and acute exposure. Pop epidemiology 101.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Honestly I'm okay with that.

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