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> If solar panels were as cheap, quick and available as coal, there'd be literally zero reason why people wouldn't use them over coal I'm not sure what you're talking about. Solar …

The Great Filter is only one possible answer to the Fermi Paradox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292341 and now outside Europe too

None of these reasons have anything to do with economics. They are personal preferences.

> And you wonder why Mississippi is richer than the UK Because Mississippi didn't have Brexit /s All jokes apart I don't see any real evidence that Mississippi is richer than the U…

Unless Fred Rogers is a candidate it's always going to be a choice between two evils. Do your best. Sitting out is a half vote for the greater evil.

Even if we agree that natural forest fires are good, Smokey the bear is entirely reasonable. Nobody needs to go starting more fires due to negligence.

> As a result energy prices in China are something like 7x cheaper than in Germany. Source?

If you can drill oil and gas without wrecking the ecosystem I'm all for it.

"There are holes in our ship" and "We're down to two tortillas a day" is more valuable intelligence than "My CO is an asshole". But I don't really know military culture or norms so…

> I don't need the money. I promise you, management doesn't think that way.

> most tech workers don't have bad pay or benefits anyway. But what if they could be even better? This is an industry with 75-80% gross margins, quite unlike any other industry in …

Loose lips and all that. "An unidentified father, who's also a Navy veteran, reportedly said his son described seeing holes that have worn through the ship's deck." If true, it's c…

> This concept has been nicely demonstrated In a real spacecraft? With humans?

The blogpost I linked makes a good case for why it's a problem. A Mars mission with current technology will require supporting humans for 600-1000 days with no resupply or rescue p…

Terrible awful slop writing.

> The problem in Canada and other developed countries is excessive taxation of salaries. That's an orthogonal to wealth problem. I'd argue it's part of the same problem. Salaries a…

The author is comparing the experience of being well-off in a developing country to middle-class in a wealthy country. Of course they're going to be different lifestyles.

Reading idlewords' blog (specifically https://idlewords.com/2025/02/the_shape_of_a_mars_mission.ht... ) has convinced me that human exploration of Mars is infeasible without drasti…

That might take a week. You're right much worse /s

> coal might be more expensive than new renewables/batteries, but it's significantly quicker to get up and running How so? I can have a crew out installing panels tomorrow.

> You're obliged to maximize [shareholder] earnings. One of the most pernicious and harmful lies of the past 50 years. Management is obliged to act in shareholders' interests. Exec…

Hollywood has unions and top stars and directors get points.

Understandable, I'd also hate to live in Dallas /s

Average German industrial electricity prices spiked in 2021, 2022, and 2023. 3 years. That's it. By 2024, they were back to the same level as 2017. https://www.dw.com/en/high-elect…