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by xondono 5y ago
Yes, because governments are trustworthy entities incapable of unethical behavior! /s
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by xondono 5y ago
> And they certainly show a commitment to artistry that CDs never quite had. To me that’s one of the ironies of the whole thing. Producing vinyl records is way harder for a starting up musician. I don’t know how hard is to get listed on
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> is there any hard, reliable evidence that these preferences are driven by upbringing and not something more innate? No, but it’s the default assumption for most people in the field. > haven't heard a compelling argument for why
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> I don't understand why people totally discount evolutionary biology. Because nowadays the “blank slate theory“ is pretty much dogma in most social science departments.
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Call me crazy, but if it’s called “hardware engineering problems”, I expect at least 1 of them to deal with AC..
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by xondono 5y ago
It would be more accurate to call it “Digital Electronics Academic Exercises”
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The “Apple Hater” market is as big as the “Apple fanboy” market, maybe even bigger!
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> We become better prepared to switch but the switch itself becomes harder. But that’s the trick, for instance, now that solar is under the cost of gas, improvements in solar have slowed down, but now everyone is trying to make batteries
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by xondono 5y ago
> I don't buy the "people don't care" argument. A lot of very informed people do really sincerely not care. A coworker of mine (IT professional) literally told me that the fact that his phone is constantly tracking
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by xondono 5y ago
> Why is there no money to be made? Because we don't really know how much hardware costs anymore. Most hardware you buy is subsidized in one way or another through data collection, from phones to TVs. Building stuff is very capital
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> that the cost of switching to renewables too early is negligible compared to the cost of switching too late. Smaller yes, but I wouldn't call it negligible. > the more the economy grows before the switch to renewables is comple
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> If you are arguing to stop subsidies for fossil fuels, sure! Let's do it. I'll be all in on that. That's not my point at all. > Without any subsidies and with externalities accounted for, fossil fuels would be even mo
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by xondono 5y ago
I'd love for the world to see that Option 4 would be great (I'd chose that one too!), but it's not a politically viable option. I was limiting the options to the "realistic" ones, given our current constraints.
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> Of course, the consequences of climate change are billions cast into abject poverty That may be true, but I was referring to the effects of switching to renewables too early . Since given our technology, the cost per MW is higher from
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by xondono 5y ago
> Sure, but aren't fossil fuels also subsidized? Yes, that has to do nothing with my point. > Haven't the costs been reduced due to the economies of scale and time? That's a sunken cost fallacy. What we have already spe
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by xondono 5y ago
If we are going to just made up magic pockets where infinite money lies, then we can justify whatever we please. The point of my comment is that it doesn't matter where the money is. Even if you were to pay it through massive taxes to
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by xondono 5y ago
You can explain or justify the costs however you like. That's not the issue. I'm not making any claims as to the suitability of spending more or less into renewables, just pointing the obvious but often forgotten consequence, that
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by xondono 5y ago
The problem with this type of study is that it can by definition only cover the known externalities, but most of the price of externalities is far into the future. This means that the real margin of error is huge (and unknowable at this tim
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by xondono 5y ago
My argument doesn’t care who’s pocket is funding the renewables. As a society, every extra dollar spent on pricier energy is an extra dollar that can’t go to social programs, or to new start up, or anywhere.
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by xondono 5y ago
It’s just simple arithmetic, however you want to subsidize or socialize the cost, the fact is that renewables have higher cost per MW. Every dollar spent on higher energy costs is a dollar not spent in other things. This will impact growth.
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by xondono 5y ago
Of course you can. The price of energy independence is the lowest total cost that can keep up with energy demand. The question is if fusion is really the cheapest way to do it, say vs alternatives.
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> If the negative externalities were priced in they would be at least twice as expensive Quotation needed
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by xondono 5y ago
What a great way to not answer what OP is asking. If you don’t like fracking, that’s alright, but sustaining ourselves without it it’s not really an option. Right now our options are: 1) Use coal, accept the consequences of the increased
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by xondono 5y ago
If you find yourself debugging the mysteries of hardware accelerated CRC (for instance in some poorly documented embedded device), this calculator saved me multiple times. It’s pure gold. https://ninja-calc.mbedded.ninja/cal
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by xondono 5y ago
This looks like some form of ad or payed content. 5G makes little if any sense for the factory floor.
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I guessed that much, but then aren’t you required as the filling party to prove: 1- that the removal did actually happen. 2- that you did not consent to the removal. (1) is probably doable in most cases, but I can’t see how could you prove
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How is this supposed to be enforced?
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> they made a mistake by leaving out exceptions > Just like the "type after identifier" thing > ossifying those fashion trends into immutable mediocrity. Can you explain what (in your opinion) was lost here? Because I don
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by xondono 5y ago
> And if you're still regurgitating the same FUD from 2016 you're in for a big surprise. I’ve just given up on crypto at this point. I’m a big proponent in “invest in things you can understand”, and crypto is a space where very
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by xondono 5y ago
> You can do it directly on FTX I’m no expert, but wouldn’t this be unrealizable? If tether were to fall it’s not crazy to think it would take with it most exchanges, given how most of them use USDT for maintaining operations.

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