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Modern crisis research [1] shows that a sudden loss of just 10% of a population (that is, essentially over night) would have devastating consequences. Basically, breakdown of socie…

I appreciate that you elaborated your thoughts. That makes for a much nicer discussion! I'd turn your argument around. We seem to not care about any of the N-1 species. Why treat t…

That academia job is less stable. Bring in grants or go home. Compete with others to climb a pyramid that gets more and more narrow at the top. Even if you are laid off at Google o…

> IMHO, right now, tenure is the only edge Academia has in many areas of STEM compared to industrial labs. This. Even with tenure in place, I'd never go to academia. So much politi…

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...

> but it is one of the fields that was necessary and instrumental in the development of the of the universal Turing machine. You'd be shocked how many people in the software indust…

> I honestly believe that most of the carbon calculations come from the pro-renewable folks to promote whatever pet project they’re on about. Sounds like reflection to me, if anyth…

Again measuring with different standards. Depending on the design of a typical wind turbine, you can recycle 90-95% of those as well. And that's without a prime design criterion of…

Isn't Siemens in the wind power business as well?

> At peak, we had about 80k nukes (way less now). That’s nowhere near enough to kill all 8bn people (as spread out as we are). Directly? Probably not. But the contamination from fa…

> a FUD spreader like you Eh, what? That's not a very nice thing to say. > So tell me No, I don't need to. I refuted a claim. You can move the goal posts, but I won't participate i…

Geez, I'm really worried about discussion styles here. Nobody claimed that other species do. That has little to do with the question of why I should care about our's surviving.

> The truth is that the once the power plant is built it generates clean power for decades. That is not the truth. The typical fuel cycle in fission plants is 3-6 years.

"X is the only foo that doesn't suffer from Y!" "But it does!" "Well so does every other foo!" You see that this is not a good argument, don't you?

So, AI prompt is the new language/stack/API that you refuse to learn?

Would you like to elaborate your reasons?

> what to do about it? Celebrate.

No? How many ovens, washing machines and dryers usually run at 2am when it's dark? Sure people don't charge their Tesla at noon when solar production peaks, but saving that until t…

Good example with Ukraines power station that's actively targeted. What type is that one? It's a nuclear plant as I'm sure you know. Which basically the whole country depends on. I…

Even if that's true, it's hard to criticize while doing the same thing.

I did address your first remark in the end of my comment: > All those factors are usually brought up in detail for things like solar and wind plants. It's just disingenuous not to …

Well, you didn't actually address my comment, which had nothing to do with solar working at night or similar. It's useful to keep separate arguments separate since jumping around i…

If you have solar on every domestic rooftop, you can't bomb all of them. I mean, you can try, but then energy shortage is not on top of the list of problems that the population has…

> Soon you're going to run out of land for your renewables. Ramping up from 40% to 100% increases land use by orders of magnitude? Did I miss something?

Storage can provide base load and for anything non-critical you have flexible pricing that automatically lets people stop doing things that can be done later the week, like chargin…