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No thank you: I don't care for content that's searching for evidence to support a preconcieved position. There is too much dogma and not enough pragmatism in this space. I already …

> That being said, _requiring_ cars and _allowing_ them are very different things. Being anti-bulldozing city blocks to put in 6-lane highways isn't anti-car, it's pro people! That…

You can't conduct commerce on a bike. Anti-car policies are also closely coupled with inflated housing prices, since they effectively reduce the available housing supply by requiri…

Does the California power grid still need to perform load shedding during peak usage, or have they added additional capacity?

So is the argument that the article is trying to make that there's nothing wrong with the current state of affairs?

Are you able to achieve a 10000x efficiency improvement vs natural photosynthesis by using those technologies? If not, the idea is still completely unfeasible.

US farmland occupies 895 million acres (3.6M km^2) [1]. Average solar irradiance on most US farmland is about 200 W/m^2 [2]. By being generous and assuming vertical farming is 100x…

Yeah, just burn terawatts of fossil fuels to generate light for growing your crops instead of using solar energy and natural photosynthesis.

If you choose to ignore the example I just gave, that's on you, but luckily I can provide additional examples from the last few years: - bans on legal ownership of certain types of…

Punishment is in the eye of the beholder: the left and right don't care about the same issues, and that's the principle that makes it possible to hurt your opponent through lawfare…

The premise of lawfare is that you enact laws and legal precedents primarily with intent of undermining your opponent, rather than to benefit anyone in particular. The American rig…

Or perhaps the takeaway should be that lawfare can invite more lawfare.

Those legally gray firearms databases were not a good precedent.

Energy input in the form of compressor work. It's not even remotely similar to Maxwell's Demon.

You know, somehow I just have a hard time getting behind the most numerically murderous ideology in the history of the planet. Communist periodicals have just as much business bein…

Don't be so dismissive: it's a legitimate concern. These are the same western governments that are already trying to clamp down on internet content they don't like: e.g. pornograph…

> learn a voxel grid representation But isn't that what photogrammetry does?

What's the difference from regular photogrammetry?

> they wield immense power to set the narrative that essentially drives democracy What you're describing has a name and it isn't democracy: it's oligarchy.

Look at how inefficient and harmful for the environment software has become. Devs and corporations are throwing away CPU cycles like it's no big deal when they use large, overly ab…

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-h... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/business/energy-environme... https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/air-travel-clim…

Airliners account for 2.5% of global CO2 emissions [1], yet we are working to ban passenger air travel to protect the climate. 5-9% is huge in comparison, and we should legislate r…