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You could even power it, too: https://powerlighttech.com/autonomous-vehicles/

And now they're dead, and every single person involved in in the execution of that process is a murderer.

Hrm, what about a thin film supercapacitor that's charged by a piezoelectric component fueled by the regular flexing?

That you know of -- it's possible he was secretly married, and his secret wife was sleeping with the likely first winner of a Nobel prize in mathematics.

Unlikely, yes, but the tale is not certainly apocryphal ;)

An impulse sealer bar, like you'd use to seal the vacuum bag originally.

This is not higher-order thinking (insofar as such exists). The search tree is first-order -- in a sufficiently complex game that the search tree cannot be fully examined, the heuristics necessary to perform at a high level without the need to explore the search tree are the second order. The third order is left as an exercise to the reader.

How long do you think that humans have existed?

I hear this from time to time but it doesn’t pass the sniff test. If we assume the vehicles are points...

Ah yes, the "sniff test", in which things which are untrue are assumed, which make the interlocutor sufficiently confident to pontificate. "Sniff test", as a concept, doesn't pass itself, rhetorically (-- or maybe it's a "code smell").

We have no evidence that we will ever be able to build sufficiently adaptable systems to engage with unfamiliar environments without constant direct human intervention, which is not possible at light-year (or even light-second) ranges.

And yet, the chestnut is one of the very few commonly eaten botanical nuts (along with the hazelnut and some acorns) -- nearly all other culinary nuts are otherwise (drupes, seeds, legumes, etc).

As the post you're responding to notes, Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians -- the song is about the fleeting nature of inspiration, not a literal description of a interpersonal relationship.

Even if forests are planted, climate change will burn them to the ground regardless. It already is: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/wildfires-rage-carb...

I doubt that's possible at this point, honestly -- this is our great filter. We had a chance, in the 70s and 80s (when the risk was frankly already fairly well-understood), but perhaps being the evolutionary top dog / intelligence comes with a greedy optimizer that prevents long-term societal thinking.

It's a shame you're getting downvoted, because you're probably not wrong. Even if the increase in extreme weather events/drought/heat waves is less impactful on non-tropical regions, we're still going to be dealing with a multi-billion-person climate refugee crisis in the next few decades.

I think we only have to look at society's response to the pandemic, a worldwide crisis with immediate (rather than delayed) effects directly on individuals with honestly simple, straightfoward solutions (mask up, pay people to stay home and industries to maintain capacity, vaccinate everyone), to realize that humanity is not going to be able to tackle climate change as an existential issue. We just slide into an endless resource war while a few billionaires who could have meaningfully changed the course of human history hide out in New Zealand, or try to leave the planet and die.

Huh, sounds like you might have been better off if "[your] emergency room doctor [looked it up] on the internet".

Read their comment history -- they're a climate change denier. Some people just want to watch the world burn, I guess.

Good ongoing thread here regarding the environmental impact of dams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27348870

I would very much recommend tracking down some cubeb (tailed) pepper if you haven't already tried it -- I feel like it's what I wanted long pepper to be. It's got a wonderfully allspice-y note and is particularly great in a Bloody Mary.

They break down into microplastics.

I don't disagree with you in principle, but the TFL menu specifically is kind of... a thing. It's explicitly stylized after an Escoffier-style menu (see e.g. http://ciadigitalcollections.culinary.edu/digital/collection... ), is instantly recognizable in the world of fine dining, and is actually often not given to the diner until after the meal (the menu is not what's getting anyone to eat at TFL -- you're making a reservation months in advance).

Smaller towns here in the northwest that have developed suburbs over the last decade or two are overrun with deer, because coyotes have been displaced. It's a real problem.

It's not the most visually impressive, but seeing King Clone (a ~12kiloyear creosote bush -- none of the original plant still exists, but the ring is a clonal descendent thereof) is a pretty easy side trip from Joshua Tree or on the way back from Death Valley: https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/king-clone-creosot...

A 94% male cohort is so wildly disproportionate to the actual population of physicians (60% female) that it beggars belief. There are a number of potential confounding factors that could explain this ("natural" death being disproportionately represented and skewing the age of the cohort being, imho, the most likely), but with this skew against the total physician population... best taken with a whole lick of salt.

The reason for the enactment of the nationwide 55mph speed limit in 1974 wasn't safety, it was oil prices.

https://anildash.com/2011/07/20/if_your_websites_full_of_ass...

Bicycles are dangerous...

It's an interesting statement, given that every example you gave is about a driver of a car about to kill a cyclist. It seems that it's the cars, or rather, the drivers, that are dangerous.

Your entire comment history is a giant expert fallacy. Maybe try and do better.

As the sibling comment notes, there have been, but one major reason they are not more common is the mysterious extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust in the late 19th century, leaving North America as the only continent (other than Antarctica) without an extant locust species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust

I would very much recommend reading this essay, where a reporter goes to Miami, looks at property, and talks about this issue with real estate agents: https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/

This is a simple untruth. Vegetarianism is possible in specific ecological conditions (e.g. the Ganges Delta) and in those conditions it wins, economically, because as you note it is notionally ideal. In a non-tropic or desert environment, vegetarianism is a wasteful use of resources that typically involves transport of goods from remote locations in the service of performative consumption.