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by vlehto 11y ago
>We can put solar on everyone's roof and turbines in windy areas and it's completely safe, dumb nuts simple, and decentralized. ...and not enough. http://www.withouthotair.com/ That's from British perspect
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by vlehto 11y ago
It would be on right ballpark in Sahara. Assuming that we use current kilometer scale safety zones around power stations.
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by vlehto 11y ago
The problem is that we have very limited amount of natural reservoirs. Practically every natural reservoir out there already has power plant, is on a desert or belongs to natural reserve. With tesla solution the problem is going to be limit
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by vlehto 11y ago
1. You can make same argument about any energy recourse. "we need so big number of them, that it's futile." I guess my grandchildren will die then. 2. No way to recycle.. Except there is. Over half of current energy productio
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The other two options are armed rebellion and moving out of U.S. These people probably don't have time, money or influence to do these things either.
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by vlehto 11y ago
One of the most amazing is "r/nofap" in reddit. Some dude said in TED talk that "We have no idea how porn affects brain. Porn happened suddenly and now we don't even have a control group because everybody is doing i
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What does it provide?
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Has democratic nation ever been overruled by the people? Or even the poor part of the people?
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It only shows lots of correlations. The real problem might just as well be obesity, teenage births, imprisonment, educational performance or drug use. If inequality is just one of the symptoms and not the real devil, then eradicating inequa
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It wont happen. Both parties are just waiting for the right price to buy those votes. Democracy exists for stability on national and international levels. Everything else is just a side effect.
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by vlehto 11y ago
>You've substituted "accomplishment" for "enlightenment", which isn't the same thing. No I haven't. I don't think enlightenment exists. I was also very aware that original U.S. constitution didn&#x
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Unconscious thought is not very good at being logical.
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Starts good. The idea that enlightenment is constructed later doesn't even surprise me too much. Cohesive political movements usually have some sort of geopolitical motivation behind them. And that element seems to be missing from the
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Why would bronze age humans dispose corpses at all? Just drag them away so you don't get diseases. But every culture we know of disposed bodies in some way that wolves, lions and other big land predators could not eat them.
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Finland.
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Btw, have you ever considered the real reason why humans so eagerly bury/burn their dead? It's quite likely because we don't want natural predators to get used to the taste of human flesh. I live in a country where bears have
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by vlehto 11y ago
>new welding technique that consumes 80 percent less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50 percent stronger. I don't care at all about the energy required. It's peanuts anyhow compared to making
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by vlehto 11y ago
If I would find a country where people voted out democracy, you would probably just say the election was rigged.
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by vlehto 11y ago
CEO can't really improve a company that much. (CEOs typically don't have any part in the actual production. And very small part in sales.) But CEO can fuck up big time. If you would hire CEO with low pay, you have to choose inexpe
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by vlehto 11y ago
On many levels too. Imagine you have just gotten some utter crap into a gallery. You are silently laughing at your own joke. And telling everybody that "each person finds different aspect of it.. so I don't want to ruin that with
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by vlehto 11y ago
"Royalists" have been a phenomena everywhere. Then again population of a country is able to change it's mind. Just before WWI lot's of European intelligentsia favored communism. Same happened before WWII with fascism. It
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by vlehto 11y ago
I think its more about people. I'd love to work for something like this. I might not even need money for it. But I would not do it just to "sleek up this box", I would want to take part in the design process. (Or some money.
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by vlehto 11y ago
No. Some jokes keep getting better if repeated. Canning shit and presenting that as art piece is hilarious. Someone paying $37 for that canned shit in 1961 is even more hilarious. But somebody paying £182,500 for that his is again even more
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by vlehto 11y ago
Increasing income increases freedom. But you get diminishing returns the more you increase income of a person. Here 500e/month is effectively "yeah, I can choose what I do with my life". 5000e/month is still not enough f
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Radiation doesn't increase cancer linearly. Otherwise eating bananas would be very bad idea. If you stay under certain threshold, it's unlikely that small dose can do anything that your immune system could not handle.
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by vlehto 11y ago
>3. Adaptive content The only reason I don't order morning paper these days is that it's physically so big. I only read about 5% of it. If I forget about it, it's going to explode my mailbox. And I would have to take the p
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I think that attitude is great. It leaves room for the people who think "OK this exists. Now how about making GOOD version of it." Problems start when everybody too perfectionist or everybody is too quick and dirty.
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Target has been profiling people by their offline purchases long enough to be printed in books.
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"six weeks of brain training, with 10-minute sessions three times each week" Average couch potato could do miracles to his/her oxygen uptake with that amount of hard aerobic training. Ten minutes running uphill at full speed,
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by vlehto 11y ago
abathur already got the gist of the subject. If I asked her what women generally don't understand about men, she was unable to answer. If I asked her what men don't understand about women, she replied with the standard feminist pr

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