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by Valgrim 6y ago
I think this could allow smaller receivers at each end.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Isn't this kind of tool doomed to suffer the "AI Effect"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect I feel like I use a ton of tools everyday that would have been considered "AI" 10 years ago, li
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by Valgrim 6y ago
For those who don't speak warspeech: EW: Electronic Warfare; any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults CIWS: Close-i
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Maybe fusion power: https://www.psfc.mit.edu/research/topics/high-field-pathway-...
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Is there any way this could be used against HR departments by flooding them with thousands of fake applications?
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by Valgrim 6y ago
> The number of people that could justify the expense (or opportunity cost) to just learn something for pleasure, is miniscule I disagree with that. Most people who enter college in "soft sciences" or "humanities" the
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Don't get confused: sea ice and ice shelves are different things. Sea ice is formed year after year from the freezing ocean water. Ice shelves are the glaciers (formed from precipitations) that cover the continental plate and extend in
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Question: How many americans have reached 18 since february? Census says 4,021,726 americans were born in 2002, so 7 months since february: (7/12*4,021,726=2,346,006) + immigration... I'm not so sure this is how we should read tho
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by Valgrim 6y ago
It's a safety issue: "These types of PPE are safety concerns, especially tents / pods which can slow access to critical safety procedures, including emergency evacuations and use of oxygen masks" If there is a loss of ox
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by Valgrim 6y ago
At my work, almost everybody got to work from home since the beginning of the pandemic. I was one of the few who had to stay behind, due to the nature of my job. Here's what I have observed: - The office is much quieter, and it's
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by Valgrim 6y ago
If you have the tools to produce enriched uranium for space applications, you can also use them to produce weapons, in secret.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
For some people, the sandbox mode is where the fun is. They ditch entirely the survival part of the game and simply like to build things in creative mode. Some people build houses and voxel art, others create complex mechanisms up to functi
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by Valgrim 6y ago
For this reason, in northern latitudes, weight limits for trucks drop significantly during the spring season. Shipping water bottles, ice salt and windshield washer in stores becomes a real pain in the ass.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
The paper indicates that the test were done in vivo, in mice models. They also used a synthetic version of a particular compound (melittin), as an adjuvant with an existing cancer drug. They also determined how the compound affected those c
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by Valgrim 6y ago
It seems that the compound target specifically cancer cells: "The research showed a specific concentration of the venom killed 100 per cent of triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer cells within 60 minutes, while
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by Valgrim 6y ago
It seems that's exactly what the researcher has done: "She said a component of the venom called melittin is what had the killing effect. The researchers reproduced the melittin synthetically and found it mirrored the majority of t
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by Valgrim 6y ago
The crime here is called libel, and the victim is the person being faked, who could sue to recover damages caused by a loss of reputation.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
All frequencies of light will transfer heat. UV light can cause damage to DNA because it's energetic enough to be ionizing (it can detach electrons). IR light is not ionizing, but we associate it with heat because the black-body radiat
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by Valgrim 6y ago
So sticking a thermometer on an umbrella would do the trick?
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by Valgrim 6y ago
It's not that much considering that it's more or less evenly spread over a "surface" bigger than the whole planet. A Kessler syndrome with that many satellites would ground us for some time, though. (but it would be some
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Is there any salt mine or saltwater body nearby? The only places I've seen that kind of erosion is in places near the sea.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Heat waves, for starters. In 2003, a heat wave in Europe had a death toll over 70000. In 2010, more than 50000 people died in Russia during a heat wave. Those will become more common and worse. Then you have crop failures, due to drought an
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by Valgrim 6y ago
"...which brings a whole other set of problems" Please expand on this point. My understanding is that Supervised injection sites already exist, are proven to be effective and are endorsed by public health services in some cities.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Could they still use this to train an AI model, legally speaking?
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Furthermore, how many times an accident was averted by a driver taking control of the vehicle at the last moment?
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Again, this is redirection. Mentally ill people squatting in tents is not a problem everywhere, only in places where nothing was done to replace the asylums, and where people were just abandoned in the streets. Better social programs were c
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Most high speed trains are actually powered by electricity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_trains First-and-last mile delivery need the flexibility of trucks, there's no way around it. So an expa
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by Valgrim 6y ago
This is fallacious. The push against forced deinstitutionalization was made because of the systematic abuse within that system. The role of any modern society is to offer people who need it treatment and basic support (and that should inclu
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Nope. The whole point of developing the Raptor Engine was (A) to be able to reuse it and (B) to refuel on mars (using the Sabatier reaction with atmospheric CO2) for a return mission.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Hacking has two meaning: one is to commit a computer crime, the other is to use technical knowledge to overcome a problem. This website name refers to the latter.

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