Steel_Phoenix

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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Thanks for the hint. The thought that the health effects of a waste product from the most profitable of industries may have gone under-reported is indeed preposterous. Here's a study showing reduced cognitive performance at various CO2
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I have a CO2 monitor, and I can confirm that it goes up at least that fast in my home. I can't speak for submarines or healthy levels. I've been wondering for a while why environmental rhetoric only talks about the global rise in
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I'd be interested to see how that would go. It's my theory that one of the biggest influences on political opinions is the population density you live in. I wouldn't be surprised to see the tipping point cause a conversion, o
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
This could be the point. Hopefully, they will be denied and we can all rest easy. The best defensive patent is something being declared unpatentable.
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I'm assuming that an embassy or consulate will have some pretty solid shielding to prevent espionage. Could these injuries be a side effect of someone either trying to power through such a shield to get information out, or a satellite
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
This is a big incentive for him to improve safety. If he can provide his own insurance, and reduce the cost of accidents, he can undercut the industry in another way. It also prevents an industry that would potentially suffer in a world of
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I have a wife and kids an a beautiful house out in the redwoods. We both work from home. I put on shoes and leave home weekly. Previously, I lived in a city and worked in a production line. I'm not sure I had many social skills in the
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I also like to take prevailing wind into account. Even if it's a small breeze, fighting it can really drop effectiveness.
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I would add: 3) Rising medical prices make it harder for people to justify going under-insured.
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I've tried a few, and I've found the ones with the three motion sensors haven't been giving me so many false positives in the wind. They supposedly wake up when something triggers a side sensor, and then snap the picture if i
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
That makes it seem like gravitationally, the anchor star would just be expanding. My intuition thinks the remaining star gets slammed by debris before the direction and strength of the anchor dissipates enough to launch it away, though my c
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
This makes me wonder about the nature of gravity. How much of the gravitational pull from the companion would disappear? How fast? It seems like a reduction in gravity would be immediately followed by a massive energy release. It's imp
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Does anyone have an educated guess on what the exhaust from this thing would consist of? Would it be spewing radiation, or mostly contained? Could it be safely stopped or cleanly destroyed after launch? Could the propulsion double as the pa
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Part of the reason countries just keep making weapons beyond what they need is in order to maintain their manufacturing base. It takes a lot of special tooling, materials, and training to make a particular weapon. If you let it lapse, getti
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I see what you're saying, and sometimes it happens that way, like Roberts overlooking the discrepancy between tax and penalty in the Affordable Care Act. Writing sloppy laws is like writing sloppy code, it catches up with you, and is t
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
And what then? We can't have them rewriting, or even reinterpreting it, that would be a huge increase to their power. We can't have them just saying it's fine because if it were different it would be fine. It does matter how
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
That's the way it's supposed to work. The Supreme Court isn't interested in whether a law is effective, just whether it exceeds Constitutional restrictions on power. It's up to Congress to make sure things work, and if t
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I agree completely, though I'd be happy for both styles to exist. For semi-random news from a wide variety of sources, I like https://www.memeorandum.com/
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
They don't need to purchase homes to drive up demand. If they are living in homes then they are driving down supply.
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Is the timing of the crystal influenced by its size, shape, or composition? Does it just double whatever the input signal is, or do you have to find a particular resonant frequency? If you brought a ticking crystal into contact with one tha
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I think in this case, where you stand depends on where you sit. There will be winners and losers. It's hard to determine good or bad at a philosophical or global level, but I can see why locals could be concerned. Decisions, once under
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I agree with your assessment of the failings of google, but I wonder if this kind of growing pains are a requisite of moving to AI for search? Some issues are caused by profit motive, but it seems like AI search has a higher ceiling of exce
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
The supplement and drug industries are constantly finding ways to provide chemistry that will be most specific and bio-available. While this certainly has benefits, I worry that by bypassing precursors, we also often bypass important regula
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
The minimum wage seems like an issue that is kept alive so that politicians have something convenient to run on. The rhetoric is already written, the battle lines drawn. If they actually cared more about the wage than the convenient wedge,
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by Steel_Phoenix 9y ago
I also played pHANTAZM quite a lot, and Rifts for a while. I think of them often. It's strange how sometimes progress leaves a bit of a hole in the soul. I've lost track of my old friends from there, but they seem more real than a
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by Steel_Phoenix 9y ago
I just spent two years experimenting with laser ablation of various metals with a high powered fiber laser that can concentrate its output into picosecond pulses (MOPA). I do think that something like silver plating would make a target vast
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by Steel_Phoenix 9y ago
The most recent one is thought to have occurred more on the timescale of a human lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunhes%E2%80%93Matuyama_rever...
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by Steel_Phoenix 9y ago
What do you think freedom of the press refers to? It's the printing press. Literally designed for the sole purpose of mass redistribution.
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by Steel_Phoenix 9y ago
Projection mapping. It seems like a natural step between standard interfaces and AR. We've had the tech for a while. I want devices that use projected touchscreens. I loved the idea of Augmented Reality Sandbox as a type of toy for my
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by Steel_Phoenix 10y ago
Right now, the only thing stopping me from buying the Kindle Oasis is that it has auto rotate that can't be turned off. I read in all sorts of odd positions and have the odd habit of turning books 90 degrees and reading bottom to top.

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