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A physics based explanation of why life exists in the universe medium.com/p/1131c68fc784
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David Galbraith
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David Galbraith
@daveg
Technologist and VC, former architect. Invented these (i.e. link in bios: https://t.co/5p8DVMxINg ), among other things.
London and Geneva Katılım Temmuz 2006
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80 mins gone and France haven’t yet created a clear chance. Remarkable.
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🧵1/ Before refrigeration, the smallpox vaccine was a live virus with no shelf life. So how did the British move it across 19th-century India? They chained it through the arms of children. Vaccinate one, wait a week, harvest the lymph from the blister, use it on the next.
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@daveg Yes but these guys will go the other way and insisting in using pre-AI computers because it’s not ethical or some idiotic stuff like that
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There is an entire group of people that refuse to accept that solutions always come from technology.
Because if we accept that to be true, then what is even the value of a political science or theatre degree? Slippery slope there.
Alexander@alexanderrX_
we’re on national television debating whether to cool buildings with rocks and clever shading instead of the machine invented in 1902 that does it perfectly. only in britain is the proven solution controversial and the medieval one progressive. just use ac people
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@bowbrick Yes, the default new building regs (without a custom thermal study) specify window areas to control overheating (e.g. 13% max of facade if West facing) that often wouldn't be legal in the South of France (1/6 floor area minimum).
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@daveg Do we know for certain that the small windows thing is to do with over-heating? New build housing in the UK has had small windows for decades. I was brought up in a new town called Stevenage in the 1970s - TINY windows everywhere. Pretty sure that wasn't A/C aversion.
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The UK is one of the world's least sunny places, but current default domestic architecture regulations limit the area of windows to levels that wouldn't comply with regulations in the South of France.
@levelsio@levelsio
🇪🇺 The new trend in Europe now is building new houses with tiny windows, so that they stay cool and don't need to install or use AC to cool them "Less sunlight = less heat = less cooling = less energy use" is their thinking But there's a reason people buy modern design villas that are floor to ceiling glass (I did) You want as much sunlight as possible coming in for your health, because your circadian rhythm depends on it, improving your sleep quality so you produce melatonin at the right time and fall asleep easily and stay asleep all night Sunlight also affects your mood of course, it heavily boosts serotonin and decreases symptoms of depression Having wide views of the sky, nature or ocean also have a measurable effect on lowering your stress So Europe is now building houses with tiny windows all so they don't need to install AC, while the new home owner inside will slowly become miserable, stressed, depressed, start sleeping bad and as a second order effects of that become sick (but of course then you can sell them pills) The conclusion is the same I had during the ongoing heatwave in Europe where tens of thousands of people are still dying every month because they're not allowed to install AC: Europe now cares more about energy use than people's lives Degrowth is a completely delusional cult affecting all of Europeans lives now!
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Execution is worth nothing.
Jon Lai@Tocelot
amazing to see the revenge of the “idea guy” today what used to be silicon valley's most maligned crowd - nontechnical MBAs, consultants, salespeople, growth hackers etc - are now shipping, building companies, & making millions good taste and distribution is all you need
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Here are the steps: interactive.davidgalbraith.org/toolgenealogy/
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In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins suggested that selection operated on the genes not the organism, (the phenotype). When we analyse human progress we often look at the products of tools rather than the tools themselves, where tools are the true genotype of culture.
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What if you traced the tools that made the tools that made the tools from a stone age flint axe to ASML's photolithography machines. You can do it in just over a dozen steps.
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@tomfgoodwin In my mind the MacLaren was always a McLaren maclaren-stroller.com
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Why don't car brands make push chairs / strollers.
I feel like all manner of suckers would buy a Jeep / Porsche , Aston Martin, one. You could get anything from every day robustness, to elite.
The amount of money in baby stuff is mad.
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@daveg @gavmarten @robertdolci I have an app in Revit that does a thermal study in all of 40 seconds.
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@bookmarkerbot1 It's not Passivhaus but likely the default building regs without a thermal study.
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One of the great lessons I learned late in life, and really don't remember who first talked about it, is that above a certain level of competitiveness it doesn't matter whether you are in love with what you do. You need to love winning.
Evis Drenova@evisdrenova
*20yo filling out the YC application* "yes, building agentic receptionists for shrimp farming plants is my life's work and I'm ready to drop out of Stanford for it"
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@daveg @robertdolci Architect title in the UK is protected there is no such thing as "technically" qualified, u r or u r not.
U r not an Architect judging by the fact u do not understand the difference between building control and design.
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