drjesusphd

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by drjesusphd 5y ago
The land requirement for solar should not be so casually dismissed. To power the US energy needs, you need an area about the size of New Jersey. Also roughly equivalent to the area taken up by roads . The interstate highway system alone ha
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by drjesusphd 5y ago
To be fair, the main reason instabilities are less of a concern is wrapped up in that B^4 scaling.
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by drjesusphd 6y ago
"But do the media..." Media is a plural noun. To use it incorrectly this way gives credence to conspiratorial thinking about the press.
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by drjesusphd 6y ago
I would think (and hope) that, when it comes to the possibility of millions of deaths, ideology would be sacrificed to some extent.
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by drjesusphd 6y ago
What if one pays $200/mo for the HIPAA-compliant plans?
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by drjesusphd 6y ago
So what? If AirBnB or the property owners are not held accountable, the law doesn't matter.
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by drjesusphd 6y ago
"Well, it's not a problem for me..."
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by drjesusphd 6y ago
It's far more petty than that. No one actually has to be inconvenienced. The average American is just plain resentful of unionized public employees.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
It's been like that for at least 15 years.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
The government has been in the business of basic research since science was a thing. Funding from taxes is a more fundamental component of the scientific process than peer review (a more recent development).
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
I've always had an odd pleasure at standing at the edge of cliffs. Something meditative about trying to overcome the feeling of unbalance. Think about it, you can be perfectly balanced standing on a cubic foot of rock. But if it's
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
"Call of the void". I seem to remember Sartre saying interesting things about this idea. Something about exercising your absolute freedom or something. As far as I know, it's perfectly normal.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Isaac Newton was my favorite imaginary person to give "tours" to.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
About 7000 m/s on the surface.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
> (no single cell in your body will live as long as you) Unless you're a woman who dies before menopause...
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
And what protest movement since has had significant success? (I include Vietnam War protests as meeting the threshold).
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Care to provide references that support this?
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
One can read that as "The minimum wage isn't doing its job anymore and needs to be increased."
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Institutions can adapt, and I'm fairly confident they can handle this okay. I'm more worried about the damage that will be done to democracy from a political perspective and the criminal justice system. If you think large chunks o
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
"Travelling much slower" isn't really an option either. By the time a craft encounters Pluto, the problem is that it's going too slow. It then has to match the (higher) orbital speed, and Pluto's gravity is not he
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Some views, yes. We're talking about concentration camps for children, not monetary policy.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
> There is no inherent morality. Not inherent; we have to make it so. Capitalism dominates, what, 80% of our waking lives? The idea that morality should only be relegated to the other 20% is madness.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
If that's the case then there's no room whatsoever for capitalism to be anything other than an amoral system we should be ashamed of. Vote with your dollar. You're allowed to make your own moral choices and refuse to contribu
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
> But people you utterly hate have friends too, and they see something different than you do, and we do not have a singular moral world-view. So because shitty people have friends, we should throw in the towel and refrain from enforcing
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Using ISS parameters, it's more like 8:1, with it taking much more energy to get to speed than altitude. "Low earth orbit is halfway to anywhere in the solar system."
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
> lots of tritium I think (combined with the statement about hot things next to cold things) you're overestimating how much fuel there is in the plasma. It's density is about a million times less than air. In most other context
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
So this is how systemd takes over the Linux file system?
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
This is nonsense. Predicted is not the same thing as wanting. If the economy runs on everyone clapping for Tinkerbell, we have more problems.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
> Is it so crazy to believe there are ways to make healthcare better through the free market? Yes, it is. Any market you're forced to participate in, lest you die, is not and cannot ever be a "free market".

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