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"end up on regular business bullshit"? CRUD webapps?

Nobody cares where you graduate from school in engineering.

I have witnessed numerous times hiring managers that would request that HR only sends them resumes from 1-2 target schools, specified by name.

not at all uncommon with other highly specialized professions either.

MD's kids are 24x more likely to become MDs as well.

has been reflected in the student body as well in some ways? tia

it doesn't remove all minerals. Flouride isn't removed, unless the unit also has an alumina filter.

Didn’t he score first in a California-wide math contest?

How many people on this board can claim the same?

Why is a nuclear reactor in the sky "renewable", but a nuclear reactor in France isn't?

Why then Turkey lira isn't very valuable? Turkey demands the lira for taxes too.

How do you measure "cheaper than nuclear"? How much is a life of a dead 10 year old cobalt miner worth in accounting terms? Whatever the price of a coffin is in Africa? What about the ecosystem destruction such mining causes, who is going to put the dollar figure on that?

I don't think we even have enough proven mineral reserves to supply sufficient battery storage to supplement the renewable aka unreliable grid, and hydro dams aren't always right nearby to pump the storage. Long haul transmission eats up huge chunks of generated energy too.

I don't get this weird fetish with fields upon fields of solar panels and windmills, vs a relatively very tiny building that produces gigawatts constantly for several decades.

Why is it better to destroy ecosystems, to destroy fields and kill birds? Just to assuage some irrational phobia around the same thing that's literally heating the Earth's crust?

My comment was specifically about "Why bother with nuclear". I'm not getting into discussions about climate.

You may not like it, but the Earth is kept warm enough for life to exist by nuclear reactions deep inside its molten core.

Nuclear fission is literally what sustains your life.

Otherwise, the planet would be too cold, and it would lack tectonic movements, both are crucial for the emergence of complex life.

Please review The Science(tm): https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/nuclear-fi...

FYI: plate tectonics affect the carbon cycle, help regulate the atmosphere, and thus ultimately contribute to keeping our planet's surface at a comfortable not-too-hot and not-too-cold temperature.

Nuclear is good. Windmills are dumb.

Bigger platforms advertise on Google and have all kinds of partnerships.

Some podunk vBulletin? Might as well not exist, as far as Google is concerned. Makes zero difference to their bottom line.

I second systemvoltage's lived experience. I've seen the same across two continents.

Sure, it could be a bubble, just big enough of a bubble to envelope the entire West.

Why bother with nuclear:

1. fields belong to trees, grass, animals, not to some ugly panels that were produced with millions of tons of toxic waste that was then dumped into the ocean.

2. windmills are ugly, kill birds, ruin microclimate.

3. Additional expertise in fission will lead to more capital, talent, and mindshare available to develop fusion further.

How would a spacefaring civilization get off from this rock and survive without nukes?

Colonization of planets cannot happen without them. Renewables is just the Sun, rebadged, nothing "renewable" about it.

we can't get food, fuel or basic medicines

what developed countries cannot get basic medicines?

That would depend on the facts, and who made what decisions, and who had what control when.

at this point, all of that has been scrubbed for good, and nothing factual will ever come out.

Nigeria, just one country, has 34 million crypto users. mpesa has 30.

34 > 30

is that much adoption?

are you open to new information?

1. Nigeria has 30 MILLION people that use it. Most of the usage is for cross-border transactions. 2. transaction rate limitations only apply to the settlement layer. retail does not need to use it, only very large transactions that need high settlement guarantees.

Lightning network has essentially unlimited tps, currently has close to 1 million (!!) live nodes, and even sub-penny transactions are perfectly viable because fees are even tinier or can be even nil.

Live LN stats: https://1ml.com/

If you truly do care about lives of 4 billion people on the planet, you should at least internalize these basic facts, as you are simply repeating misinformation: tps are low, no traction. it is simply not true.

I asked what would happen when the underlying asset values went down

There are no underlying assets.

You are literally conflating one tokenomic example to the entire space.

An open and permission-less global monetary network that does not exclude anyone at all, is about as valuable to you as malformed viagra emails?

4 billion people today live under less than ideal circumstances.

Spending a fraction of a percent of global electricity is absolutely worth it. It provides those 4 billion people with access to the financial services that they would otherwise never get.

Nigeria alone has 34+ million users. Just one country.

What, they are all scammers to you?

Whether it's open or not is a matter of policy

If you have to rely on some policy - it’s not censorship free.

You propose we literally rely on a trusted third party to adjudicate things.

AKA a literal censor? To make things censor free?

So you are proposing we just mail some camcorders to North Korea to end their tyranny?

It’s very disturbing to read comments on an allegedly techie forum that insist the expansion of energy capacity is somehow bad.

What, we will be the first spacefaring, Kardashev Type 2 civilization that is powered solely by windmills?

Why is energy demonized so much?

There will be 100x, 1000x more energy use in the future in the entire economy.

You are worried some tiny fraction of a percent is an issue?

How do you create an “open and censorship resistant system” that blocks only a specific category of people?

First we start with scammers and crooks, then fast forward a little, and suddenly now we are doing civil forfeitures?

Either something is permissionless, or it isn’t.

Yes, the supply is capped by residency spots available.

They reason they became hyper-supportive is because admissions have become insanely brutal, most poor performers have been screened out before they even apply. The marginal benefits of making the program even harder likely amounts to nothing more than hazing.

It’s simply politically untenable to kick out students during the program, given the already artificially constrained supply of newly minted physicians and regional shortages of talent.

these days as in this decade, or right now?

Apparently VCs are clamping down on loose funding in the current climate, or thats not the case in biotech?

...but VC and private equity funding for biotech has been available in the 90s too?

what made you think it's fungi exposure?

dollar value is only one part of valuation.

a ranch somewhere vs a shoebox in the middle of manhattan quite likely will not be considered "equal" by prospective owners, even if the dollar valuation is exactly the same.

What's a "very high LVT"?

Estonia has an LVT of 0.1—2.5%.

https://www.emta.ee/en/private-client/taxes-and-payment/othe...

your equal share of land value

what's an equal share? land is not fungible.