FastMonkey

I never thought of it like that before. I absolutely agree!

I'm glad to see this. I don't want to live in the mental straight jacket that these "activists" want to create.

What's the round trip efficiency of something like this, and what's the rate of loss to the environment? There's been a couple of these posted in the last few days and I have no feel for these numbers.

This is an article by ourworldindata, who aggregate a bunch of (mostly economic) metrics from countries around the world. It is common for energy use to be reported in that way on a country level. This looks like an explainer for the users of their website on what the terminology means.

It makes perfect sense when you think about who the audience for this data is, economists, planners etc. In those roles, the primary concern is the actual quantity of heat and electricity that the population needs in their homes and workplaces, and you need to be able to back that out to how much raw fuel that requires, or how much transmission capacity you need. You need to know this summary info so you know where the focus needs to be. At moment for instance, they need to know how much gas they need in storage tanks in Europe for this winter, and it's information like this that helps them figure that out.

It looks like they're venture capitalists, so I won't hold it against them!

Ha, aren't you describing wall street right now? We're already living this!

This looks extremely cool. I'm doing a masters right now and would definitely use it!

My one question though would be how are the notes stored? Is it possible to download them as latex or a markdown file or something? If I have to keep up a membership to return to them that would be unfortunate.

Cool project though, there's definitely a need for something more fluidly interactive in the university notetaking space. Best of luck!

Cool Infographics

You can get watering timers in home depot, you could try hacking one of those? The hard piece to get is probably the electronic valve.

Layoffs seem to be up, but that's a questionable chart if ever I saw one. I doubt they have had representative coverage of the market for that whole period. With those numbers, looks like it's as much a chart of the increase in their data collection on layoffs as it is a chart on layoffs.

Oh man, that's literally the only thing holding me back from thunderbird. I used it years ago and would love to go back!

That's kind of funny, our problem with Google calendar is that it keeps adding that when we don't want it!

Without megaprojects, we'd all probably still be living a subsistance agrarian lifestyle. It's hard to tag specific dollars to a specific public project, they often work as multipliers across the economy.

Suing contractors for the bureaucratic nightmare you create means that every future bid will now have a buffer to cover the expense of that.

I think you can technically mitigate some concerns for the people who understand that, but practically it's going to be a very different story. People will believe who/what they believe, and an expert opinion on trustworthiness is unlikely to change that.

I think being in the real world and meeting real people is the only way to create a real, functional society. Allowing people to drift away into their own AI supported worlds would eventually make cooperation very difficult. I think it would just accelerate the tendency we've seen with social media, creating ever more extreme positions and ideologies.