Mizza

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by Mizza 4y ago
Why is sugarcane in Brazil any better than corn in the US? If they use petrochemical fertilizer, the problem is the same. You cannot sequester a ton of CO2 for $30/tn anywhere in the world right now. You can't even do it for five
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by Mizza 4y ago
I would be very curious to see that math that you solved the problem with, given that all of the scientists in the world working on this missed your solution.
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by Mizza 4y ago
One adult tree captures 25kg per year. One transatlantic flight releases 500kg per passenger. Twenty trees, per person, per flight. Get serious. IPCC projections for a "good" scenario still depend on magical BECCS processes that d
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by Mizza 4y ago
Always flue gas, never atmospheric concentrations. We have loads of good ideas for scrubbing flue. We have no good ideas for atmospheric CO2. 420/1000000 isn't a lot of particles per million. Moving and concentrating those particl
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by Mizza 4y ago
I love bass. I have build a very large, "dub" soundsystem, which uses a 6,000 amplifier, 18" speakers and folded-horn cabinets which way literally half of a ton. It can literally shake the paint off of walls. I also have tinn
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by Mizza 4y ago
No atmosphere, no land to purchase, and most importantly, no night. I don't think it will be cost-competitive against alternatives, but it's sci-fi so I like it on that front.
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by Mizza 4y ago
Seen this a lot in Philadelphia lately. Part of one outer wall remains standing, everything else is totally destroyed and built new around it. Creates some interesting looking collage-buildings.
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by Mizza 4y ago
I am very familiar with bipolar people and how they act when they are manic - unable to answer questions directly, rambling thought, believe entities are speaking to them, they are "chosen", infectious energy, not taking care of t
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by Mizza 4y ago
Scroll a page. Click a link. Go back. You're back at the top of the thing you were scrolling.
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by Mizza 4y ago
Even though I've enjoyed a lot of the Lex interviews in the past, I think this is really exploitative. A man with bipolar disorder is having a major manic episode and everybody is shoving microphones in front of him and getting upset w
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by Mizza 4y ago
The name of the gene, not the protein, but yeah you're right that butterflyStripeWidth is far too abstract. But something like, I don't know, decarboxylizeOrnithine would make a genome more "readable".
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by Mizza 4y ago
I mean, we do almost the exact same thing with most celestial objects (ex., HUDF-JD2 aka UDF 033238.7 -274839.8 aka BBG 3179) - but the difference is they don't _do_ anything. I'm never going to write a "program" with pl
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by Mizza 4y ago
A fair point, but I think that really just lends credence to what I'm suggesting, that we expand upon that, since it isn't standardized or all that useful. If you were encountering it for the first time, what would you think WntA
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by Mizza 4y ago
Sure, you'd expect that to happen. There are lots of interesting things you could do there, all of which are better than random letters and numbers that never change. Committees and proposals, objects and references. Things change thei
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by Mizza 4y ago
But I can't get anything at all from the name now. BRCA1 isn't descriptive at all, but suppressBreastTumor is more helpful even it's not 100% accurate. I'd rather it be our best guess description than some random letters
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by Mizza 4y ago
Why don't we give genes names like functions? Seems like the whole thing might be easier to understand if we called a gene "butterflyStripeWidth" rathern than "WntA". It's like we're writing a new core lib
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by Mizza 4y ago
The best is "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold". It's a short read but a wallop of an ending.
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by Mizza 4y ago
Only two months into the Adderall shortage and the Economist is taking the mask off!
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by Mizza 4y ago
That would be handy, but that's not the case here since it only deforms under high heat/pressure, not in normal room temperature conditions.
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by Mizza 4y ago
I can see why that would be useful in some circumstances, but not the more common ones they describe. Why is it necessary that a ceramic heatsink for a phone be re-formed, rather than just cast in the correct shape to begin with?
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by Mizza 4y ago
This sounds cool, but am I stupid for thinking that the whole point of ceramics is that they're already malleable? That's why we have ceramic crockery, etc..
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by Mizza 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
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by Mizza 4y ago
So worried about the Neo Nazis, they forgot to watch out for the Neo Statsis.
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by Mizza 4y ago
Sacrificing public health systems and educational programs in order to enforce the largest military empire in human history might also have something to do with it.
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by Mizza 4y ago
I wanted to look up some context for this record. The record for a man-made stable (not explosive) magnetic fields is 45T. The record for detected cosmic magnetic fields is 1,600,000,000T.
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by Mizza 4y ago
There are only 131 comments on this issue so far, but this is essentially going to be the basis for the US's GDPR-lite. I think that the HN community could have a lot of interesting perspectives to contribute to this important rule mak
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by Mizza 4y ago
Thanks for that. What a pain.
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Tell HN: Dupe detection is broken for federialregister.gov
1 points by Mizza 4y ago|3 comments
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FTC Request for Comments on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security(federalregister.gov)
3 points by Mizza 4y ago|1 comments
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by Mizza 4y ago
Dang, you're right. Methane is much more potent as GHG than CO2, lasts longer than I thought, and does degrade into CO2 anyway.

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