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What is specifically stopping Uber from providing an autonomous driver service so hard to warrant being classified as a pipedream event?

Yes, exactly like that, but instead of using a sarcastic tone, use a matter of fact tone. "You want A game or you want THE game?" Maybe add a slide showing how much concentrated to…

Yeah, the missing key is seeing power and energy as money, because that's essentially how our economy works. We can convert one in the other, at different conversion rates granted,…

Oxidizing carbon fuels is a irreversible process, meaning an increase in entropy. Dispersion of CO2 in the atmosphere also increases entropy. We will always, 100% of the times, exp…

By benefit I mean the energy effectively extracted from the oxidation of carbon.

It would. By simple thermodynamics we can be 100%, not 99%, 100% sure, that the energetic cost of removing CO2 from the freaking atmosphere is higher than the benefit of putting it…

LNG =/= LPG Totally different logistics requirements

The challenge of using synthesized chemicals for energy storage exists for quite some time indeed. For aviation and marine there may be no other option outside of synthetic fuels, …

Let's be reasonable here, mantle and nucleus iron don't matter to this analysis. Crust iron is all oxide. Fe at 5% average. In some locations obviously more concentrated up to 90% …

If using Fe why not iron batteries? Keep the redox, remove the energy from the system via eletrical current instead of low efficiency heat, boiler and steam engine combo.

>Earth is a big ball of iron. No it's not. Inside the crust both Si and Al are more common. There is plenty of Fe, which is all in oxide form. Mining and processing required.

To illustrate the problem of accelerating any relevant piece of mass at relativistic speeds, observe how the kinetic energy increases towards infinity as the object approaches the …

Hard disagree - to me it made a lot of sense.

I will never condemn caution, even more so for financial systems. International institutions such as the Bank of International Settlements have recognized PIX as a successful case:…

Now THAT's going cashless, like, literally.

A central payment system is absolutely not a tool of oppression. Case in point: don't like it? Don't use it. People are still free to not use it just like it even didn't exist. For…

What's stopping someone to doing exactly that in the current system?

Important comment: PIX is not a bank killer and isn't designed this way. Banks still exist in Brazil and they rake in pornographic profits just like everywhere else. The absolute m…

Brother fckn nazis taking the government is a much bigger systemic problem that no financial system can protect against. The system works if democracy works. If we lose democracy, …

From https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/about/faq BCB is a governmental institution, composed mainly of career civil servants hired rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional ten…

There is an option: a direct payment system provided by the Central Bank to the general public. In Brazil it is called PIX, and was implemented in 2020. Last month it has processed…

Venus any% glitchless speedrun.

If a $3 bi product relies on not allowing people to make mistakes then their owner isn't allowed to complain when it inevitably fails.

The way I see this, the real problem isn't millionaires being posh, but rather products and services not scaling proportionally to the carbon bill. It's cheaper to be dirty yet we …