joostjakob
@joostjakob@lemmy.world
- Comment on Outliers 4 weeks ago:
How would making states, towns or neighborhoods look richer cause outrage? For income statistics, median us a much better measure in most cases, because it reflects “the average experience” much better. If you want to highlight income inequality, there’s plenty of other stats you can use, e.g. the percentage of all income going to the top 1%.
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 2 months ago:
Oh I thought you were worried about the hill. I do 40 minutes myself and prefer it over any other option
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 2 months ago:
Ebike is your friend
- Comment on Before times. 2 months ago:
Made me wonder: how likely would it be that a modern ginkgo could not reproduce with an ancient one?
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 4 months ago:
Electric cars do charge when braking. Obviously the energy recuperated is less then waht was needed to drive that fast in the first place. Using driving wind would just increase the energy needed to drive that speed and would be net negative.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 5 months ago:
Preventable, but they still happened, even with the crazy security at plants. But what you’re saying is like “we’ve only had small earthquakes so far, so there are likely to be no big ones”. When it’s really absolutely the other way around.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 5 months ago:
The danger of nuclear isn’t so much on the daily stats of what actually went wrong, but in the tiny risk of having huge problems. The worst case scenario for a Chernobyl style disaster is actually losing huge parts of Europe. Even in well run plants, if enough things go wrong at the same time, it could still mean losing the nearest city. These “black swan” events are hard for humans to think clearly about, as we are not used to working with incredibly small chances (like deciding to plan for a 1000 year storm or not).
- Comment on bugs 5 months ago:
I did, and enjoyed them!
- Comment on bugs 5 months ago:
Popped to mind immediately upon seeing the word Portia
- Comment on Lightning bugs 5 months ago:
While we should absolutely use our backyards to make some space for nature, there’s going on more than this. Even in nature reserves, insect counts seem to be going down. Last I heard, it’s still not entirely clear what’s going on, but probably related to certain types of pesticides.
- Comment on Petroglyphs 5 months ago:
Ancient AI proven
- Comment on Anon thinks about human history 9 months ago:
Heh, I get it. I don’t really want flying cars. I want walkable cities and cycling highways. But I do feel a bit nostalgic for a future we didn’t have where at the very least we would have some serious exploration of Europa by now (and some other likely candidates for alien life).
- Comment on Anon thinks about human history 9 months ago:
Don’t judge me for wanting a nuclear flying car!
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 9 months ago:
Depends on the molecule. The ones used in vaccines are nit dangerous. See for example www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202100244467/
- Comment on Anon thinks about human history 9 months ago:
Oh come on, projections from the sixties had us having huge space colonies by now. Growth in the exploration sector has been anything but exponential.
- Comment on Anon thinks about human history 9 months ago:
Switching to agriculture was the opposite of lazy. It was much harder work for a poorer standard of living. The issue was population pressure simply did not allow the old way of life anymore.