njarboe

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by njarboe 17d ago
Those things and also everyone always having a video recorder in their pocket and a culture of posting them online where they can go viral, is likely a huge factor.
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by njarboe 1mo ago
This is definitely not for people who think there is one to many of themselves.
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by njarboe 2mo ago
The same was probably said when machines started making furniture, cloth, harvesting wheat, etc. A desk made custom by a human to your specs is cool, beautiful, and life giving for both involved. And will cost $10-$50k. Maybe with the AIs a
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by njarboe 3mo ago
A printed list in her purse has certain beneficial properties that a password manager does not.
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by njarboe 3mo ago
A big problem is bright screens and displays inside of cars at night. Your night vision never kicks in so you need extra bright lights to see, thus these bright lights that only light up a small section of the road. The more dispersed and e
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by njarboe 3mo ago
Blame the chicken tax.
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by njarboe 4mo ago
"The economy has absorbed automation before; agricultural employment collapsed from ninety percent of the American workforce to two percent and civilization continued." This automation happened between around 1910 and 1930. With W
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by njarboe 5mo ago
Dark Unknown Matter would be a better name for lay people to understand what's going on. I'm no cosmologist but isn't it just a placeholder for something that gravity interacts with (and not much else) and we don't know
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by njarboe 5mo ago
Agreed. My brother is a painter and has commented, "At least in the past cheap tools were one-time-use, now they are usually zero-time-use. Built so poorly they don't even work out of the box."
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by njarboe 5mo ago
German General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (a high-ranking army officer in the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht era): “I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are co
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by njarboe 5mo ago
Would like to see such a system in action. Have any examples? Most go horribly wrong. Early United States was pretty good but having a western frontier with "free" land was probably the enabling factor that no longer exists.
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by njarboe 6mo ago
It would be great if everyone felt and was in a major way in control of their life. Equal before the law and not much law. The people who want to create "equality" by preventing people from accumulating wealth also want to accumul
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by njarboe 6mo ago
What does inequality even mean? Everyone must be identical? The idea of removing inequality is dystopian.
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by njarboe 6mo ago
"deeper shared community goals and aspirations" When one communities deeply shared goals and aspirations conflict with another's (or subgroups) is when you get war and violence. The eras of relative peace is when you have one
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by njarboe 6mo ago
I think these space projects are great, can create much good will, and give people dangerous things to do that are worth risking the danger for. But war, inequality, and climate mismanagement are political problems that are not going to be
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by njarboe 6mo ago
Any scientific paper that does not document how things were done (methodologies) is basically worthless in the search for truth.
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by njarboe 6mo ago
Wow. Electricity prices went up 8x in Britain since 2005. How can industry there compete internationally?
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by njarboe 6mo ago
Lots of tech gets discovered, is heavily patented, and then 20 years late,r when that large first round of patents expire, people start working on and developing the tech.
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by njarboe 7mo ago
Yes. If you send an email from a protonmail account to a gmail account that email is in google's system. Same if in the other direction. Would anyone using protonmail not know this. I would guess at least 99.9% of proton users understa
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by njarboe 7mo ago
I would like to read this website but the font and colors are so poorly selected (read and grey for most of the text) that I'm not willing to struggle to do so. I guess my eyes are just old.
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by njarboe 7mo ago
It probably could have been true if regulations were not written that said if your nuclear power is going to be cheaper than other sources you have to spend on safety features until it's not cheaper. Like the internet today, electricit
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by njarboe 7mo ago
Self driving cars for hire (Waymo, Tesla, others) can be that point-to-point system that is affordable. We will just have to build tunnels to deal with the increase in traffic. Hopefully the Boring Company or someone else can get tunneling
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by njarboe 7mo ago
"in people who don't need it from a marginal consumption standpoint". We need the rich to spend more money. There are plenty of cool ways to do this. Build a mile high pyramid on a Nevadan playa, a canal to the Sea of Cortez
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by njarboe 7mo ago
Agreed. This would get rid of borrow against gains to spend tax free. But also just get rid of the income tax, it is the worst way to tax, and do a land value tax.
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by njarboe 8mo ago
Over the last five years Tesla has made a profit of about $41 billion while BYD has had a loss of about $13 Billion. Would rather be the Apple of electric cars than always selling them at a loss.
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by njarboe 8mo ago
Tesla's biggest factory is in China.
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by njarboe 8mo ago
“Venice built a maritime empire from a city that couldn’t feed itself; so who fed it—and why didn’t its enemies simply starve it out?” I love ancient history and would read a good book about the Venetian empire, but the sentence answers the
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by njarboe 8mo ago
Happened constantly till around 1970. One horse power used to take a horse. Now a very small electric motor for cents per day.
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by njarboe 8mo ago
Yes if we could only build them. I recently learned there was one built from the Columbia river hydro projects to southern California in the early 1970's Has one been built since?
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by njarboe 8mo ago
One could hope with improving tech and decreasing regulations we could have decreasing (nominal) energy prices in the future. That would be progress.

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