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by 00N8 2y ago
No, I think the conjecture is more that people from the surrounding areas could be claiming residency in the affected area to receive the payouts, even though they normally live elsewhere.
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by 00N8 2y ago
Edison Motors is working on a system like this. They're looking to sell kits for retrofitting it onto pickup trucks, & a larger scale semi truck cab version for use with logging trucks. It looks great in their videos, although I&#x
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by 00N8 2y ago
IMO both usages are correct, although yours is probably more common. 'Dubious' here means something like questionable/uncertain & it can apply either way: The distinction can be 'questionable' in terms of whethe
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by 00N8 2y ago
Nice article, although I think this must be a typo: "Despite the fact that a supernova has 1045 times as much energy as our tin blasts, the same math describes the evolution of both types of explosions." Maybe they meant 10^45 tim
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by 00N8 2y ago
The carriers aren't sailing around alone - they're escorted by a whole fleet (plus air patrol) that will intercept the drone launching vehicle at multiple dozen nautical miles range. Smaller quadcopter drones won't even get c
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by 00N8 2y ago
Doesn't this vary for different cruising speed targets? I thought jets & ducted fans were more efficient above 400 kts or so, while (non ducted) propellers were more efficient below maybe 300 kts. But I'm mostly thinking in te
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by 00N8 2y ago
A lot depends on the actual reactor design. I was thinking more of large scale D-T fusion, e.g. the tokamak design, which requires breeding tritium & is expected to create a lot of neutron activated waste. The tritium is especially conc
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by 00N8 2y ago
Modern fission designs mitigate meltdown concerns well enough that I'm not sure the safety & security around a fusion plant would actually be any better/cheaper, although public sentiment may be enough of an advantage. Tritium
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by 00N8 2y ago
Annual CO2 emissions are around 37 Gt, so making 81 Gt of conventional explosives would be an absurdly large undertaking & somewhat counterproductive due to associated GHG emissions.
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by 00N8 2y ago
Wouldn't the "surrounding materials" we're worried about here be the rock itself? The Tsar Bomba was proportionately the cleanest nuke ever, but I thought that also relied on it being an air burst. The Sedan test (creati
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by 00N8 2y ago
I'm not convinced about their hand-waved explanation of radiation safety here: > The long-term effects of global radiation will impact humans and will cause loss of life, but this increased global radiation is “just a drop in the bu
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by 00N8 2y ago
Yes & two quail would be even easier
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by 00N8 2y ago
Trains don't need wings, so they're a lot easier to build tunnels for..
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by 00N8 2y ago
I was thinking we probably can't watch the whole sky in maximum detail all at once, so in practice we'll miss most possible detections.
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by 00N8 2y ago
It seems like they're calculating the farthest distances where it would be theoretically possible for aliens with Earth level tech to detect us, for various different ways of detection. I'm curious about a related question: At wha
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by 00N8 2y ago
I think LLMs are getting us closer to AGI in the same way that Madame Tussauds wax museum got us closer to human cloning
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by 00N8 2y ago
The "calories in" part is usually understood to mean "metabolically available calories from food (& drink) in a human or other animal's diet". Calories from heat, electricity, gasoline, etc., wouldn't count
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by 00N8 2y ago
Of course everyone should be allowed to use as large a truck with as bright of lights as they want[1] on their own land. Likewise, excessively bright or high-mounted lights should be illegal to use on public roads. High beams are fine if (&
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by 00N8 2y ago
I expect housing & behavioral adaptations would carry the most weight. E.g. you'd want to dig a basement in a moderate weather season, so you'll have somewhere survivable in the hot season. And of course have redundant backup
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by 00N8 2y ago
- no way to access it if we develop technology to get clean energy from material that's currently seen as waste - the sun is one of the most expensive destinations in the solar system, in terms of energy budget - underground, on the mo
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by 00N8 2y ago
I'm not surprised. I've read about similar behavior in deer & hippos. They're herbivores for the most part, but not always strict vegetarians. "CA squirrels _filmed_ showing carnivorous behavior for the first time&qu
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by 00N8 2y ago
If you have the technological proficiency to synthesize mirror chemistry cells from scratch, I'm hoping that implies you also have the ability to engineer e.g. bacteria that feed on reverse chirality molecules & turn them back into
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by 00N8 2y ago
The funny thing about this investigation is that I don't think you could actually recycle plastic cups with air tags stuck to them anyway. Plastic recycling is somewhat delicate & precise, so the electronics & non compatible pl
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by 00N8 2y ago
I don't think AGI is coming in 2025. I expect more incremental progress in AI/ML, but AGI is likely to remain vaporware & marketing hype for many years to come. I'm not a geologist, but I do think earthquake prediction is
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by 00N8 2y ago
They were describing the 1930s situation, when the dollar was backed by gold & it didn't go well
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by 00N8 2y ago
So when I mix whey protein isolate into pineapple juice with plain Greek yogurt, is that considered an ultra-processed food? It seems like it would be, but I doubt the criticisms of UPFs really apply here. My understanding is that these are
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by 00N8 2y ago
> the most inefficient mode of transport you could imagine Rockets, helicopters, trebuchet-and-parachute?
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by 00N8 2y ago
IMO the demon core incident resonates with people as kind of the ultimate case of "playing with fire". Humans have always played with fire, so we see the attraction, but also the dangers of it. It's a primitive behavior that&
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by 00N8 2y ago
There are devices that plug in to the OBD2 or cigarette lighter charging port & claim to boost power or MPG, but in reality only light up an LED. I think some people are fooled into thinking they work by wishful thinking, expected resul
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by 00N8 2y ago
Many of the landers we've already put on Mars are heavier & less tolerant of G forces than a human, so it's clearly not an insurmountable hard limit. They use a combination of parachutes, retro rockets & airbags usually. B

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