M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
For me, the issue is all of what he's done (or not done) leading up to this. The time for a fireside chat has long since passed, and it's only happening now because it's literally the least that can be done .
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Given Choice, Patients Will Choose Cannabis Over Prescribed Opioids(news.ok.ubc.ca)
412 points by M_Grey 10y ago|214 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's not really "taking responsibility" when it's virtually at gunpoint. Getting caught and subsequent flailing is not the same as "taking responsibility".
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Nothing like a mea culpa dragged from you by the threat of impending lawsuits and a truly vicious turn of public opinion. I'm sure that he's utterly sincere, and this is in no way just an empty reaction to external and internal pr
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Samsung's acting head indicted on bribery charges as scandal grows(theguardian.com)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Good point about the acid rain, the washout. I wonder if there's some way to dope solid rocket booster fuel to produce SOX at higher altitudes? As we launch more and more, maybe we could harness that to ease the burden on something lik
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The Jet Engines with 'Digital Twins'(bbc.com)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I wonder if a slower, but maybe safer alternative is just to increase the burning of SOX producing fuels. If we could scrub the carbon, we'd have a net-cooling effect. That or we have to seriously consider induced volcanism.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Nailed it, except that "tens of millions" could easily climb into, "Over a billion" depending on a number of factors. Then you add in advanced countries panicking and turning to geoengineering and the end accelerates.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Profits don't just fall, the fortunes of some rise while others fall. In the worst case, the fortunes of warlords and tyrants rise. Until the absolute end, there is always someone profiting from human misery.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
This is why I still go to the trouble of PGP encrypting a file with my passwords, rather than relying on a password manager. I keep wanting to switch, but damn it, I just can't bring myself to have that much trust in them. Edit: Thanks
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I really doubt that. I can't imagine that the US and the UK for example, don't have sonar networks and other means to detect subs. It might be nearly impossible to track a boomer in open ocean, but they're not designed for li
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The problem is that you're still going to end up with plenty of fallout from "unburned" Uranium and various byproducts. That pollution won't be especially associated with the S you want, but it's going to produced a
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Bhutan's Dark Sense of Humor(bbc.com)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Most of the world's major cities are not under water AFAIK.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You're being sarcastic, but that just shows how much history you still have to learn. Start with Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq; you don't even have to go back 100 years.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The sad fact is that they kind of are the exception to that rule. Kind of. They actually need to test to develop their weapons, and they want the weapons to ensure continuity of their regime, but also to sell the tech (probably). It's
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Look at North Africa and the Middle East... so much of the conflict now is driven at least in part by climate change. Where there's desperation for water and food, troubles that might have been just below the surface explode. Climate c
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"Why is this being modded down? It's the truth." Since when has the truth been popular, or well received when it wasn't also what people wanted to hear?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Actually you get 32-Phosporous from that. If you want 36-Cl you need cosmic rays interacting with 36-Ar, 39-K, 40-Ca, or neutron activation of 35-Cl.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
In a society that would function to minimize waste rather than maximize it as a route to increased consumption, that would be a brilliant way to enforce sanity.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I suspect that you're right, although I hope that sanity might have prevailed. It's hard to imagine the damage the uranium liner + 50 megatons would have done to that ecosystem. Of course if the US hadn't been experiencing so
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You're right of course, but interesting sidenote: in the murder case I mentioned the police ended up looking at the suspect's smart water meter logs... which showed the use of about 140 gallons of water in the middle of the night.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Oh of course, but I wonder if by the time you'd created that system, you'd feel the result was worth it? Is what Echo offers really so valuable you'd go through the trouble? I wouldn't.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Probably, yes. It's looking more and more like 'The Great Filter' hypothesis is valid, and the filter is in our relatively near future. That said, I'm sure tardigrades, bacteria, plenty of fungi and the like won't e
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Chlorine. Just Chlorine.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Or you know, polluting with vast quantities of SOX. You're dreaming too big, and not dirty or dumb enough.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
No, idiots are still impressed by big explosions. There's a reason it was scaled down from 100 MT, and even then it was known to be a waste, it used no new tech, was not practically deliverable, and oh yes... much of the blast energy j
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by M_Grey 10y ago
At which point you have a brick with a microphone, and a pretty blue light, right?

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