SirLuxuryYacht

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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
Sure, if you forget the fact that it used to be much much more "sequestered" before we spent energy extracting those hydrocarbons. Not to mention that the plastic will eventually erode into the oceans since it isn't buried de
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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
How do you quantify rigor?
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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
Maybe it takes more energy because of the diversity of materials? If we used an order of magnitude less types of plastic than we currently do, it might become more economical because it wouldnt require as much mechanical labor to sort and p
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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
I have never been to the Getty, but from my experience going to plenty of other museums it has always seemed like getting "lost" was the whole point. You can remove yourself from the real world for a bit and have total focus on th
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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
No "timeline", which I assume you mean some kind of sliding window, but if you know how to use the search function, this site is the gold standard. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
I'll echo a lot of the praise about the format of this post. It was fun clicking and watching the figures animate as I changed parameters. I was sad that the author missed a number of chances to get into more detail about the classic r
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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
You might have seen his table analogy for abstractions, where the concept of a table was an abstraction defined by a set of nouns and adjectives. Yes, "make everything computational" because we all have not yet come to understand
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by SirLuxuryYacht 7y ago
> histogram of death Not something you read everyday! How does your "wrinkle" make things necessarily worse? All [men] must die (sorry) at some point so succeeding at removing the biggest killers would give more people a second
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
IMO, probably when the counterexamples outnumber the examples by which the heuristic is defined.
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
A very big tech company releases software updates that contain bugs for their devices with fruit on them. One would think that they could produce software without major problems, but it happens. One would also think that a very big aerospac
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
Just curious as to why you say bread with 'minimal yeast', particularly after listing sourdough?
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
Yes, the drive to kill something before it kills you is a very strong driver of innovation. All of these breakthroughs cater to precisely the opposite target: promoting human health either directly, or by improving our environment. This mak
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
It seems the difference is that developing a new toilet doesn't require the manpower that developing nuclear power or spaceflight does. This is just the list for 2019, not the 20th century.
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
>> In China, consumers are getting used to Alibaba’s AliMe, which coordinates package deliveries over the phone and haggles about the price of goods over chat. I'm surprised by this. Seems like there is a lot going on in real bra
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
How do you mean? Electric vehicles just means that emissions don't come from the vehicle itself. I'm guessing you are assuming that the electricity used by the vehicle is coming from an energy source that is partially renewable&#x
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
Local geology can play a pretty big role in observed velocities, but I agree these are pretty quick. The velocity changes in the figures are really interesting, and I agree much faster than plate motions. I'd wager that there is some k
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
Earthquake "prediction" is an attractive prospect though widely accepted to be impossible (barring some neutrino/quantum/more-advanced/$ geophysics). "Forecasting" is the more apt term. At any rate, this a
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by SirLuxuryYacht 8y ago
Seismometers have precision on the order of ppb. Considering that there is no acoustic energy released prior to an earthquake, an infrasound precursor is extremely unlikely and something that seismologists would have already characterized.
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by SirLuxuryYacht 9y ago
[citation needed]
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Are we living in a covert totalitarian society?(philosophizethis.org)
4 points by SirLuxuryYacht 9y ago|1 comments
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by SirLuxuryYacht 9y ago
Its a bit of both. NSF's budget was cut by ~11%, so it makes sense to pull out of money pits to free up extra funds.
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by SirLuxuryYacht 9y ago
>The only activity that might be detected today would be due to trace quantities of Ag-108m, but it would require long counts and relatively sophisticated equipment. I could not detect any in the three coins in the collection.