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Yes. We can easily generate more than enough renewable energy, just not when and where we need it. Being able to transmit energy over vast distances would greatly improve the econo…

Yep - Classic homeless person, telling everyone to thank capitalism.

The reason behind "Basis Points" is that saying something has increased by a percentage is ambiguous. If interest rates are 5% and they are "increased by 0.25%", does that make the…

Couldn't it also translate into a falling standard of living in developed countries as large populations of increasingly affluent people compete for the same limited resources? It …

> when the developing world is developed, I suspect they also will see declining population I suspect you are right. What is less clear is whether earth has the resources to sustai…

Which parts of the site do you interpret as describing "degrowth" narrative? I had a look at the solutions listed and the general theme seemed to be smarter use of existing resourc…

You're right to use "indices". The example is just provided to show how inconsistent plurals are in English. 90% of the time you just slap an "s" on the end of a word, but there's …

Except Bitcont isn't a security, so there are no laws against "Pump and Dump" in the unregulated market. Some would argue that Bitcoin is fundamentally a giant "Pump and Dump" anyw…

It's trivial to do that in Australia. Is this still a significant challenge in the US?

What would you like people to pitch as an alternative effective action? It's something that most people can look at immediately. You eat every day so what you eat does have a relat…

How would you propose authorities stop people from using their phones while driving without: 1. Detecting when people are using their phone while driving? 2. Imposing a penalty whe…

A well written guide for introducing some of the power of Vim to a new user. One thing I'd suggest for the author, based on a quote from the article - "Invest your time to learn ne…

Oh - I thought that had already happened.

No - An articulating cordless drill can't carry out a "complex series of actions" and it can't do anything automatically. It stated in the article that the device's operation could…

It comes down to semantics, but based off the opening paragraph on "Robot" it seems that it would fit the definition: "A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a compute…

They don't? I've been using Atlas for over a year now and I don't have any complaints. It was super quick to set up and I've never had a single issue in terms of performance or ava…

I'd imagine that the majority of people who want to run a terminal on iOS would have access to a Mac and Xcode, so even if this can't be released on the App Store, it could still b…