IntrepidWorm

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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Mirrors and lenses, too! Using a dormant black hole as a telescope could be a really interesting way of gettong a good look at some really distant objects. Getting in position to use it as such would be challenging, to put it mildly.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Yup. Henry Kissinger was a big part of that nonsense, along with a whole bunch of equally sinister stuff. The cluster bombings of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Korea were in many ways directly the result of his machinations.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Right- I feel a Raspberry Pi and a bluetooth module (or a handful of them) would be a lot cheaper. Set it up to repeatedly ping everything in range, stick it to a battery pack, and just go about your business. It would certainly illustrate
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
IANAM (not a microbiologist): I believe that it is achieved through CRISPR edited yeast, or possibly another easily cultured bacterial species (E. Coli perhaps?). The cells replicate and are then portioned and lysed, the solution is spun do
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
The russian people are an economic casualty in this sense. In many ways they did not choose Putin as their leader, but they still serve to support him (intentionally or otherwise) as citizens of the country he sits atop of. The state appara
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Dangerous can be necessary, unfortunately. The US healthcare system for instance routinely fails large demographics of people, leaving them to foot the bill for excessively expensive medication that increases in price year after year (despi
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
I have used the waypoints feature on numerous occasions when trekking and have found it incredibly helpful for determining my location relative to various points of interest. It really is a fantastic app. The barometer has actually notified
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Thats not quite accurate- it is true that high amp current is deadly in many scenarios, but it takes both amps and volts to kill. High amp, high voltage current is a killer for sure, but high current at sufficiently tiny voltages is not nec
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Police will often overcharge, with the intent that the DA can use the more severe charges to secure a plea deal for lesser charges. It makes for less paperwork and fewer cases to process through jury trials.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Indeed. It goes: " ... "
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
"Burner" seems to perfectly describe the use case: the phones are acquired for a particular situation (presentation to privacy-hostile government), used to minimal effect for the duration, and then discarded (burned). Just because
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
That sort of dark pattern could ostensibly be audited and statistically analyzed by researchers in the wild. To be fair, much of what we knew before the whistleblowers and leaks was due to this sort of analysis.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
That doesn't stop management from trying, though.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
I have to say, I was a bit crestfallen when this wasn't in fact an article about tiny rodent suits.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
I ended up following this process when I upgraded to 10 some years ago. It's worth mentioning that Windows will continually prompt me to link an account to my machine at sign in. It's only a single box to click through, and my boo
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
You can't remove it regardless. You gave Facebook rights to the data the minute it was uploaded.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
That's fair, imo still a technicality. A better phrasing would be "she was given discretion which she used for her own personal gain."
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Things don't just sort out though. Where does that money go? If it goes back into a project that is equally as environmentally destructive, you've just laundered the carbon. Given that the institutions responsible for implementing
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
I completely agree with you there. Capitalism got us into this mess- it's naive to think it will get us out of it. I was just pointing out that population control is a bit of a "knife's edge" discussion: there are ways
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
> As an example we have it on top of Camping Gas - burner and it produces more LED-light than those creepy and dangerous gas lanterns. They were definitely dangerous, but creepy? I have fond memories camping in the light of those little
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Not on a busy streetcorner. A fistfight tends to attract much more attention than a passing greeting. Facebook is a very busy streetcorner.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
To that effect, its worth pointing out that in many developing nations, facebook IS the internet. To say that this compounds all of the issues already discussed in this thread is a fairly drastic understatement.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Probably because population control threads so often devolve into eugenics.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Carbon tax gets proposed often, but it does not work on its own as a singular policy. Existing implementations of this see the money raised by the carbon tax diverted to equally environmentally costly ventures. There really is no easy way t
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
See Baader Meinhof illusion, or Frequency Illusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Sourcing?
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Maybe- theres certainly a lot of frozen CO2 in comets available for harvesting. Where would the CO go, however? It's not the sort of thing you just want piling up next to your habitation zones.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Ahhh... Don't tell the health department. :)
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Diffusion works both ways, too. Oxygen outside of the membrane will also slowly diffuse into the hydrogen and helium mix, further complicating any attmpts to remain non-combustible.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
High altitude and quick hands, I imagine.

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