Dr Neil T Stacey

PhD in Chem Eng, grudgingly preventing our extinction. M&G 200 Young South Africans 2018. Pseudoscientologist.

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@Fraankkhanart @skerplaz There are ~10 million people at this house party, but only 50 000 hot dogs.

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People in the comments here all seem to think that groundwater is a magical infinite resource. If everyone drills boreholes then after a month those boreholes will all run dry and they'll be no better off except for the sinkholes their houses fall into.

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South Africa’s government is preparing to crack down on households with boreholes. https://t.co/bGUm29QUX5

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@atkinsmike1 @atmoio It is basically guaranteed that AI use will decline quite sizably from current levels at some point; anything otherwise would require a miracle. The debate is, when will it eventually bounce back?

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@atkinsmike1 @atmoio 'Frozen at today's state' isn't the worst-case scenario, though; LLMs are currently operating with some of the largest financial losses ever recorded. If the tech doesn't improve hugely, the default state will be VASTLY worse performance.

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@shawnjooste @CiroDeSiena You can't go factoring in the compounding of interest and not also apply the same compounding to payments which could otherwise accumulate interest.

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@shawnjooste @CiroDeSiena No. Each interest payment made on the loan is also forward compounded, at the net rate of return because that's the effective opportunity cost.

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@julianrademeyer The article doesn't say 66% of irrigation water is from groundwater, it says that irrigation is 66% of groundwater usage.

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@AvainAfrica @CinemaShogun The correct emphasis is more on the first 'a' than the second, and the final syllable should be truncated.

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@AvainAfrica @CinemaShogun His pronunciation isn't correct, but it is more correct than Kataaahr

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@MaxduPreez @RediTlhabi The piece is premised on the assumption that granting an ECNS license constitutes 'handing over' critical infrastructure - which it doesn't. Starlink would rent bandwidth on the existing terrestrial backbone. 'Conclusions that you like' is not the same thing as 'strong arguments'

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@MMashilo28 @atkinsmike1 @RediTlhabi If he did comply, however, he would have received the license, and this is still the case - that compliance is the sole basis on which Starlink is proscribed, so thinkpieces about his personality are, at best, tangential to the matter.

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@atkinsmike1 @RediTlhabi Other questions to ask include why the implicit assumption that if Musk complied with the 30% requirement, in which case the ECNS license would be granted, those sovereignty issues would magically disappear?

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@paulyberk @Oliver_Speaking I suspect the real issue is confusing ridiculous unverifiable numbers with data.

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@DeanOelsch Not to mention the ANC-run government's ~R450 billion in bailouts to Eskom

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@JLerubako40 So not everything you don't understand is infinite, some of it is salad. The variety is nice 👍

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@theBackSheep351 If water quality is a concern, then there's some bad news about Johannesburg groundwater.

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@JLerubako40 Groundwater over-extraction isn't some imaginary idea, it's something that has happened, and continues to happen, all over the world. There is solid basic math behind abstraction limits. Assuming everything you don't understand is infinite isn't a replacement for that math.

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@JLerubako40 The rate of groundwater recharge is a tiny fraction of the city's rate of water usage. Water isn't pumped up from KZN (600 million m^3/year capacity) and imported from Lesotho (800 million m^3/year) just for vibes.