Balero

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by Balero 2y ago
The global population may be growing, but for developed countries where we get most of our news (I assume, at least I do), they're just starting to tip over into the shrinkage and dealing with the bulge of elderly people. The narrative
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by Balero 3y ago
Thanks for the update. A quick look around I found this site: http://www.catchpenny.org/movebig.html that suggests ways it was moved. Quick TLDR. They don't lift it, they dig under it. Either constructing a canal, and
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by Balero 3y ago
Thanks for the additional info. > There are some granite blocks that weigh over 1000 tons. We’re told that these were transported from hundreds of miles away, across mountain and over a river. Historians are not engineers so they don’t u
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by Balero 3y ago
What rocks are you referencing? As far as I am aware, modern humanity is by far the most capable civilisation that has ever existed on earth as far as moving rocks is concerned. The only thing beating us right now is glaciers and tectonic a
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by Balero 3y ago
I've seen a very good take that it is the ideal renewable fuel for large machinery such as farming or construction equipment. Batteries wouldn't work due to the cost and charging time (when you're using them you need them f
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by Balero 3y ago
You make some good points. But the Houthis have been being bombed by Saudi Arabia for years and haven't been crippled by it. Getting them to poke and prod some shipping could be and easy way to cause an outsized impact. It could also b
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by Balero 3y ago
The majority of global shipping benefits people Iran don't like. Disrupting this therefore is to their benefit. It adds extra headache for 'the west'.
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by Balero 3y ago
> Given that the Houthis have said they are holding up ships they consider linked to Israel They're stopping ships that they can, and it is in their interest to stop. Iranian ships seem to be passing through no bother, but ships fl
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by Balero 3y ago
Why is the sibling comment to this flagged? It's very reasonable.
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by Balero 3y ago
You have to admit that is an extremely niche requirement.
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by Balero 3y ago
Compared to who? Modern day, of course they weren't. 1500's Britain was quite poor, but not more so than many other places. If you look at the general populace for basically anywhere before modern times, they all had bad hygiene n
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by Balero 3y ago
I do use drugs. I have never seen spirits in a plastic bottle, even own brand super market vodka. Boxed wine exists, and is a bit under half the market (by volume). Wine in glasses is still the majority of sales. Beer/cider/larger
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by Balero 3y ago
I agree in theory with you. But you can 'bank' labour for later on. Building infrastructure (that will last) when you have a population bulge, means that the generations after can take advantage of that infrastructure, and have to
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by Balero 3y ago
Yeah absolutely! A local service that works well alongside a high speed intercity one would be greta, though may be better to build after the main route (don't want some small stations slowing down the main route build). For the East&#
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by Balero 3y ago
That route at the top would make any high speed rail pointless. You would never get up to a speed to make it worth while. All to stop at places like Castle Rock population 2500. Going down to Eugene and Salem would make sense, but with the
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by Balero 3y ago
> I don’t see trains having a huge advantage over a clean grid and EV fleet. And the latter is much easier and faster to build. The latter requires building millions of individual cars, each with large expensive lithium batteries, plus t
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by Balero 3y ago
Not OP, but there are not enough resources for all of North America, Europe, China and India to live the lifestyle of the average US person. So I guess they are hopeful that India won't reach that level of consumption.
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by Balero 3y ago
> To each their own. They were giving another perspective, not forcing anyone to do anything.
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by Balero 3y ago
So people can fill in 5 mins, whilst the others work to do this. Elephants can't digest enough calorie rich food to be able to do this. They individually have to spend longer eating.
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by Balero 3y ago
The replacements for some of those poisons (large amounts of artificial fertilisers) are animal products. In a world without artificial fertiliser you need to have animals to produce fertiliser. The optimal for this would still be much less
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by Balero 3y ago
How much of this "less raw brainpower" is due to age, and how much is due to potentially having a less focused mind? I have massively noticed issues with my concentration, and I don't think it's due to age, so much as to
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by Balero 3y ago
> You can bet your life I was in my car and speeding down the street to get him out ASAP within 60 seconds of receiving the text. "Road traffic crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States for people ages 1–54"[0]
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by Balero 3y ago
The structure wouldn't be able to passively stay together. If it was to be destroyed then it would burn up in the atmosphere like anything else. It is not made of a magic non-existent material that is infinitely strong. Of course if yo
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by Balero 3y ago
Not everywhere has the space the the US has. Many places in Europe, especially Germany, the UK and the low countries simply have no space to grow into, the urban areas are basically touching as is. It is politically unfeasible to turn swath
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by Balero 3y ago
UK engineers are earning much over £20k a year, even outside of London. Amazons site says: SDE1 is on a low of £45,653 which is $56,344.02 SDE2 is on £70,703 which is $87,257.47 So somewhere between you both.
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by Balero 4y ago
Ok, so whilst I have some experience with US cities, this post is about the British regulation on autonomous driving. I can assure you that any substantial increase in local public transport (substantial being 25% or more, this is not a hug
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by Balero 4y ago
Many of these people would be better served by having better funded public transit, especially in densely populated areas. This would 1. help the elderly have more freedom. 3. help people who already use public transport. 4,5. It would make
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by Balero 4y ago
I think there is use in looking much further back. If we are looking only 30 years (or even 300) we are not looking back to where the decline started, only at that recent point of the decline. The issue with this to me is setting a bad &#x2
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by Balero 4y ago
> E.g. in Ancient Greece almost any free citizen could afford to buy the top weapon of the time (an iron or bronze sword) You have an historical mistake that supports your argument here. Bronze weapons were very expensive, due to needing
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by Balero 4y ago
Well, they couldn't afford/acquire a musket, which if they could on a wide scale, would probably have effected their freedom.

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