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110,949karma·51,753submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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It gives the land time to recover and requires nothing from it, nor human labor. All racking and conductors can be removed from the land in the future to return it to its original condition. All compo…
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It’s unlikely strip malls and data centers will be built on the land, but utility solar PV is an acceptable use that requires no water, is beneficial to the local environment, and gives the land 20-30…
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The land is conserved by not being farmed. https://www.tuletrust.org/land-fallowing-program …
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I think it’s somewhat fortunate when these aquifers permanently compress, it takes the land out of agriculture production as a sort of forced conservation, because in many ways, humans cannot be trust…
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US alcohol consumption is at record lows, driven by Gen Z. There is a downward trend globally. > For the first time in Gallup’s trend, a majority of Americans, 53%, say drinking in moderation, or “…
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https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/china-oil-price-iran-power https://youtu.be/BkA0bkb6ZO0 …
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Potentially related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068179
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce
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https://github.com/bashalarmistalt/decimen-optical-transfer/
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Canada and Mexico are both allowing Chinese EVs in. US automaker export TAM will only decrease over time, and eventually, they will be boutique automakers serving only the US market. BYD intends to be…
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Additional citation: Delivery workers made $104 million more in tips after NYC began enforcing new law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112613 - July 2026…
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https://archive.today/3Wn7y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Aschenbrenner https://web.archive.org/web/https://situational-aw…
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I disagree, but I'm not the decision maker so it's irrelevant. Nuclear is throwing good money after bad imho (based on current and projected levelized cost of energy [LCOE]), I think the nex…
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~110GW of nuclear capacity targeted by 2030. I respect their attempt to diversify, iterate, and drive down the cost of nuclear, but it pales in comparison to renewables (~90-100GW of solar installed p…
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China is the top user of energy globally, and they are electrifying everything while moving rapidly to renewables for generation. This is the blueprint the rest of the world will eventually follow. Ch…
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Enough sunlight falls on the Earth in 30 minutes to power humanity for a year. We have solved fusion at a distance with solar and batteries. We're arguing speed and cost of deployment for the col…
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You're free to doubt, healthy skepticism is a good thing imho, there is no will to spend what nuclear would cost and renewables and batteries keep getting cheaper. We're locked on a hockey s…
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While I would agree that it is regrettable Germany sunset their nuclear early when they should've extended the runtime for another 5-10 years to avoid excess carbon emissions since shutdown, but …
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https://www.jameslovelock.org/the-earth-is-about-to-catch-a-... https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scienceo... https://…
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https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory... (last snapshot 07 May 2026, 22:16:47 UTC)…
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https://archive.today/E0ooC Related: Ember Energy: From scale to system: navigating the next phase of China’s battery storage - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insig…