DabAsteroid

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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Those references don't seem to address my question about effort having an effect on intelligence. To paraphrase Captain Malcolm Reynolds of the Firefly class ship Serenity: "Well -- they do." Try checking the subject index of The g Factor
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
"manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count". Don't count cores out. Intel isn't. http://www.ciol.com/Intel/CP-Intel-CIO-Update/Future-Intel-d
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
the world average life expectancy [has doubled] over the last century. Are you referring to the life expectancy for 20-year-olds? [Edit: I found some data here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifexpec.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
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Perverted Justice marks its 300th sex-predator conviction(perverted-justice.com)
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315938
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I was addressing your response to Netcan's suggestion. Social networking is not an area I am interested in, but I happen to have previously listened to the eGuardian episode of the Frank Peters Show, and it popped into my head when you ment
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear+desalination
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
The only problem with this idea is that it's dangerous. The reputation of the Internet is that of a haven for pedo predators...you make a dating site for 14 year olds Hence the market opportunity: a social site for kids/adolescents -- or
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
[nuclear] decommissioning is hideously expensive. How expensive is it? http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf02.html Nuclear energy ... internalise[s] all waste disposal and decommissioning costs. ... For nuclear power plants any cost f
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
A simplified version of the essay, created by translating a very few words: . When you are bigoted People and brands and organizations that are bigoted benefit as a result. Bigotry helps you build trust, makes it easier to manage ex
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Here is the original article: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21442 Caption: Piston power: In an unconventional engine design, a rod with a piston at either end shuttles between two combustion chambers. Magnets at the center of th
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
The original source is here: http://www.esquire.com/features/75-most-influential/elon-mus... Excerpt: The next big moment will be life becoming multiplanetary, an unprecedented adventure that would dramatically enhance the richness and d
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I got two dells ... now ... falling apart. What kind? Precision?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Great comment! Thank you. Can persistent effort increase intelligence? No. Why do you ask?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I think most people would assume a man of his accomplishments would certainly be more than "not much smarter" than alot of people today are. Einstein is commonly claimed to have had a +4 sigma g-strength (IQ of 160, on typical scales). Ev
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
This should not violate security rules as she's not selling you securities ;). This clause might be a problem: the top 100 donations will receive a lifetime premium membership. If I donate X amount of money, I do not know if I will rece
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Did you have watch in high quality selected?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
More of Karl Marx's class warfare. Excerpt: "[Universal Hub] doesn't use nofollow," Gaffin explains. "... word was getting out among the pagerank queens and I was getting tired of dealing with those morons." Gaffin reports that forcing com
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
That adds up to 125%. Maybe you meant that IE7 is 49%.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Thanks for clearing that up for me, Wil. (And welcome to HN, though I am new here, also.) Do I understand correctly that the 1.5 drivetrain tends to get hot at high speeds and is automatically throttled to prevent overheating (thermal throt
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
it would take more energy to mine [granite] than you would get from it. There are only 3-10 part per million of uranium in granite. Have you read this?: http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclearpower/UraniuamDistribution The Rossing mine in Nambi
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
You're using a link that claims the resource limit to be 1000 years (the first one). It's your link. I was quoting you and commenting on it.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
It's good to know that there are other people who are great promoters of nuclear power (I am a huge fan) Please keep your bigotries to yourself, and don't speak for what mine might be. . you're not reading your sources very well (
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
It is currently an UNECONOMICAL way to get Uranium. The word "currently" is important here. It means that the statement containing the word is irrelevant in the long-term. Resource supply-size increases exponentially to linear increase in
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
For resources to be counted as reserves, they have to be found. If no one bothers finding more resources, the resources that lie in wait are not counted as reserves. Here is some finding-cost data: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.h
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Thorium required a breeder reactor in order to produce the U-233 necessary for fission, and as stated in another comment, these reactors are still in experimental stages and have a much lower level of operational safety record. A thorium
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Reserves, in mining means the amount of ore that can be economically removed from the earth. No, it doesn't. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ajuliansimon.com%2Fwrit...
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ENF_Exploration_drives_ura... Those are "identified resources", which means that they are irrelevant. There are 2 trillion tons (5 billion years' worth) of economically-recoverable uranium in granite, alo
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
U-235, the fissile isotope of natural uranium, occurs in only 0.711% of uranium If I had disregarded that, how do you figure I got a 60x energy boost by applying fuel-breeding?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Only a tiny fraction of the uranium is in concentrated enough deposits to allow for economic recovery of the mineral. Given that that very point was addressed at the link I provided, one might suspect that you did not visit it before answ

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