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Would you be willing to show a reference or back-of-the-envelope calculation for this?
The last time I checked, the manufacture of large photovoltaic panels was energy-intensive and low-yield (their current price suggests that these problem persist.) They were also rated for a useful life of around two decades.
I do not believe that these problems have been corrected in any panel currently on the market. There is no shortage of vaporware.
solar panels take more energy to manufacture than they'll produce in their lifetime
Do you mean to say that this is false?
Is there any other way to become literate?
What are your thoughts on the recent "Etsy considered harmful" article?
This comes to mind. The author claims that "the winner was accurate to six decimal places."
Could you give more examples about things you like about Mathematica?
1) Mathematica's programming language does not confine you to a particular style of thinking. If you are a Lisp fancier, you can write entirely Lispy code. Likewise Haskell. There is even a capability for relatively painless dataflow programming.
2) Wolfram Inc. took great pains to make interfacing with the outside world from within the app as seamless as possible. For example, you can suck in a spreadsheet file directly into a multidimensional array. There is import and export capability for hundreds of formats, including obscure scientific and engineering ones. In case the built-in formats do not suffice, defining custom ones is surprisingly... (read more)
intelligence doesn't necessarily have anything to do with our capacity to detect lies
Do you actually believe this?
Regardless of exactly what the new fact was?
I do not know of a working society-wide solution. Establishing research institutes in the tradition of Bell Labs would be a good start, though.
We can temporarily disrupt language processing through magnetically-induced electric currents in the brain. As far as anyone can tell, the study subjects suffer no permanent impairment of any kind. Would you be willing to try an anosognosia version of the experiment?