kalkulat

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" ... as soon as vehicles come in the right price range next year … people will flock to buy them.”

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'll give Chap1 a shot. PKD can be a headscratcher.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Either greed or religion has killed the most people before their time. One of them has to go.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Similar to my path, sounds like. Started when I noticed how much the acceptance of physics theories depended on POV. Already questioning Western religion/philosophy wholesale, Watts got me started looking at multiple Asian POVs, that brought me back to Jung, Gurdjieff, Polanyi and Bohm. There was no cure for any of that, so back to restart with slightly less naive realism. I am, whether or not I think, therefore.

"Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well. " — Philip K. Dick

 

"Geothermal does currently cost more per megawatt hour than wind or solar, but those more-established renewables require big batteries to keep power flowing around the clock."

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I'd bet that 'lemmings' wouldn't work.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago

I specially liked the part where he collected $50k by clueing the affected companies.

 

Meanwhile in North America, Canada's VIA is operating on a shoestring and being further threatened ... and in the last 50 years the US has pulled up most of the rails that were installed in the previous century. We're stuck with airplanes, hybrid metro-transit, and what's left of Greyhound. But, hey, we've got a world to police!

 

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sabine is a very competent physicist. That's why her viewpoint - right or wrong - is well worth hearing. The fact that the Nobel went to a computer scientist instead says a lot about the state-of-the-art.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sabine knows her shit. May she coax some physicists into getting back into experimenting... and away from Big Science funding.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Leave the poor things alone. They already don't kill each other all of the time.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"The change would force the companies to prioritize the government’s social and economic objectives over corporate profits."

That starts to sound good. What are those objectives?

 

Shit in one hand, wish in the other ....

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I noticed in that video how Al Gore looked as he listened. Sagan died in 1996. Gore released his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth', 18 years ago in 2006. I believe Sagan would not have been surprised at the film's reception, nor surprised by how little impact it has had on effective response to the threats it outlined. You can lead a horse to water....

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If we are realistic enough to put the fight against further global warming on a wartime basis, then we can operate things on a wartime basis. Which means planning things so that everything is focussed on winning the war. For example gasoline rationing would encourage people to plan their use of gasoline for maximum efficiency. It means people can get only as much as they can justify.

Rationing was used in the US during WW2. To see what that meant, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States

 

"Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”

 

A society has been formed to share the ideas of quantum physicist, philosopher David Bohm (1917-1992).

"I can tell you one thing. David Bohm knows a lot more than just a little about physics." - Richard Feynman

 

"Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue. "

“I called [the company] thinking it was no big deal, yet I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,”

 

What a sweet opportunity!

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/climate
 

(Added as a matter of curiousity, not to divert or disavow the our very real AGW.) This occurence is usually blamed on the 'Little Ice Age' ... cause still uncertain. The LIA is implicated in 500 years of misery for many Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

 

Related, relevant advice on SSD reliability (dated 2015, still relevant? inquiring minds want to know): https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention

 

Turning gas-fueled cars into electric ones can be four times cheaper than buying a new EV.

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