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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Cost of living is always important to consider. Looking at this site[0] for a ballpark figure, it would seem that someone living in San Francisco needs to be earning at least the double of someone in Berlin, to afford the same standard of l
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Absolutely, the car industry is entering a period of major disruption, both through electricfication, self-driving and ride sharing. My guess is that the demand for the first level 5 self-driving vehicles is going to be insanely high. It wo
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
And as solar gets cheaper and cheaper, there's only going to be more incentive to install batteries.
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
I think there's a correlation, but I have a feeling that it's a late indicator. I think these businesses go out of business after the gentrification, not before it, though it might still be useful.
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Every mental task can be reduced to putting 0's and 1's in the right order. However, reducing the tasks to this point isn't really helpful in the discussion. You pretty quickly arrive at a mind bending number of ways to order
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
While some jobs have been replaced over sees, it seems like more have been replaced by gradual automation. https://www.ft.com/content/dec677c0-b7e6-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9...
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
I've seen exponential learner mentioned a few times, but I'm not sure I understand exactly how that's supposed to be understood. It would seem like it's someone who's rate of learning goes up, the more he learns, bu
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Some of the Discworld series, like Small Gods, can be read stand alone with out problems, but I think it's a good idea to read the first book of a main character first. Rincewind, the incompetent wizard, starts with the first book in t
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Many shale-oil outfits, spend more energy on retrieving the oil, than the oil actually contains. Oil can be profitable, without being a net energy gain, meaning it's true value is in it's ability to store energy.
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Happens all the time. Kind of how smartphones drove down the prices of components useful for VR goggles, and made them a feasible product.
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Weight is not the primary concern of being in good shape. Being thin, but in bad shape, is almost as detrimental to your health as being over weight and in bad-shape.
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
I think Musk will keep them separate for now. This pure speculation, but I have the feeling that Tesla is a company Musk will feel comfortable relinquishing control over as it grows, while SpaceX is his baby.
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It is much more difficult, as interactions between all of the players usually have to be modeled.
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SpaceX's cubesat project might get it done.
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I don't think the challenge of BI is equal to all societies. In a place like Denmark, which has quite the extensive welfare-system, a large part of the BI could be funded simply by cutting out the bureaucracy of the welfare system.
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
How so?
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Out of curiosity, are there any areas with a fat rich diet, which has good access to quality health care? It seems most cultures, which aren't based around hunting and gathering, have a carb based diet, as it's simply the most fea
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
In the talk, Musk says that he plans on selling the ticket, not building the colony. The colony will be a product of the different interests paying to send people to the planet. Who those interests will be is anyone's guess.
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
I don't think growing food in space is all that important, as long as you can grow it on Mars. You can pack supplies for 80 days, especially if you have an effective water re-usage system like the one on the ISS. Once on Mars, we could
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
The idea of ruining or polluting space is ridiculous. Space is already one of the least hospitable places imaginable, in most of it's forms. What's wrong with exploiting dead space rocks for the sake of all life?
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Doesn't some gen-IV designs boil water too?
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
Luckily, there are other pursuits in life than those who generate wealth. I don't think it's reasonable to think, that if humans didn't have to work, they'd all spend their time idly in front of the television.
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by whiskers08xmt 10y ago
We should always look at how laws and institutions may abuse their power, and establish the proper safeguards.
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by whiskers08xmt 11y ago
The benefits of human population control through disease, isn't much of a benefit at all, as child mortality and fertility tends to be correlated. The less chance of your kids dying, the less kids you'll have, in general. This pro
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by whiskers08xmt 11y ago
I don't think it's a big problem, as earth mass is already increasing my quite a few tons per day, from comets burning up in the atmosphere. If the asteroids are refined and processed in space, which makes more sense than trying t