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by Blammar 5y ago
Both are terrible things to do. However, doing the second may be more of a deterrence in the long run. On the gripping hand, holding a laser potentially makes you more of a target than if you use a flash-suppressing sniper rifle. It's
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by Blammar 5y ago
That's marketing hype. From the CREE datasheet at https://cree-led.com/media/documents/ds-XHP702.pdf , each LED runs between 1500 to 2000 lumens. That flashlight has 18 LEDs, so 36k lumens at the most. Also, f
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by Blammar 5y ago
LED flashlights don't go up to 100k lumens to my knowledge. If you need extreme intensity, you'll have to use a solid state laser. A 10w handheld laser would be an effective defense, but you should wear bandstop glasses at the las
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by Blammar 5y ago
This is arguably within the context of "how to write books" -- what did you do to draw illustrations and figures? (I've taken a look at Inkscape. What I want to do is have line drawings of crystallographic shapes, so a constr
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by Blammar 5y ago
Yes, exactly! Or any other hydrocarbon. This is a carbon-neutral process also, as the carbon will come from CO2 in the atmosphere. And we get the bonus of extra oxygen in the air...
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by Blammar 5y ago
This reminds me so much of how Radio Shack used to operate. I'd go there to buy some capacitors or solder, and the cashier would demand my full name, address, phone number every single time. I just said, nope, here's the cash, giv
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by Blammar 5y ago
I'm not claiming I agree, but for me (a) gasoline went from $4 a gallon to $5 today (b) ground beef went from about $6 to $8 a pound last market trip. I wouldn't be surprised if supply chain issues (e.g., with trucking companies)
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by Blammar 5y ago
Not all possible English words are found in dictionaries. It's a real word formed from adding the suffix "-ial" (meaning "of the form or character") to susurrant. (The writer did misspell it though.) I'm not su
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by Blammar 5y ago
I love the vocabulary here, especially "sussurential." It's great to see a word used that has a clearly-understandable meaning, and yet does not appear to be present in the OED.
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by Blammar 5y ago
Wouldn't the moats, scalability, reliable revenues all contribute to increased earnings and thus (perhaps) lower PE ratios? Anecdotally, many companies have grown their earnings per share by buying back their stock. That causes an inte
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by Blammar 5y ago
Rich Shupak, huh? I used to work with his brother Paul, who had many stories about Rich. The only ones I remember, sadly, were: 1. Rich filed some large percentage of the bug reports on Excel (and possibly other Microsoft executables), alon
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by Blammar 5y ago
Perhaps you meant the fool's gold standard?
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by Blammar 5y ago
Don't you think, though, that each boom and bust cycle leaves us closer to real accomplishments? We now have protein folders and superhuman Go players -- that's new. I agree that ML ("AI") is currently at the alchemy sta
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by Blammar 5y ago
Does anyone have a mental model for why an airburst generates so much energy? For the Chelyabinsk meteor, quick math shows the kinetic energy was about 2e15 joules or .5 megatons. Apparently, ALL of the kinetic energy was converted to radia
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by Blammar 5y ago
Don't you mean sqrt(2) increase in speed? (1.41+)
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by Blammar 5y ago
You should not be. Which is why you need to be involved. You alone will make little difference, but many of you together can change our course. And, who knows? Maybe you'll be the spark that starts the (non CO2-emitting) flame.
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by Blammar 5y ago
Write an iCloud photo frontend that uploads only encrypted images to iCloud and decrypts on your phone only?
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by Blammar 5y ago
Indeed. As a high school and college student, I was very good at "hacking" multiple choice tests. I did manage to crush my SATs (800's in the achievement tests), win local and state chemistry competitions, and came in second
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by Blammar 5y ago
That's an interesting comment that might explain why we are using lithium instead of some other metal. Do you have a reference that discusses this?
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by Blammar 5y ago
This is from memory, so could be wrong. The goal is to starve the streptococcus mutans bacteria in your mouth. Since that lives off sugar and starch, you both (a) rinse your mouth with a bactericidal (b) brush teeth, tongue, and gums after
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by Blammar 5y ago
The OP presentation is saying that dark matter matches some things and MOND matches other things. Both together seem to explain everything.
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by Blammar 5y ago
Ex-Sun employee here. I'd be interested in your reasons for that statement.
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by Blammar 5y ago
I would assume that some points are worth more than others. As I believe Orwell said, we're all equal here, but some of us are more equal than others.
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by Blammar 6y ago
Pigeons, dogs, and small robots moving around 1 TB SD cards from place to place.
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by Blammar 6y ago
I might have heard that in Godel's library there was a book with the note: "I have a truly marvelous proof that the U.S. Constitution is unstable, but the margin of this book is too small to write it out." More seriously, thi
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by Blammar 6y ago
Maybe not. See https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/22/m1-mac-windows-parallel... .
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by Blammar 6y ago
All we need to wait for now is the shoeshine boy's tip and it'll be time to get out! See https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/661124-brijwanth/73895-hi... for a humorous variation on that classic theme.
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by Blammar 6y ago
I'm thinking the same thing that happened with the Navy sonar and the beached beaked whales... (see https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2018... )
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by Blammar 6y ago
I could not convince myself to use any password manager as they represent a single point of failure that would cause me significant problems if they were compromised or unavailable.
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by Blammar 6y ago
I just wanted to point out that stocks have had price to book multiples less than one, per various comments by Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Also, for another example, there are funds that sell at a discount to the total value of shares held

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