Valgrim

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by Valgrim 7y ago
Not just humans, bit even the tiniest of insects are capable of navigating with ease in complex environments at a speed and adaptability we are not even close to match. I'm pretty sure that having the raw intelligence of an ant brain i
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by Valgrim 7y ago
I'd like to add another thing to consider: good urbanism, specifically mixed-use development, which reduce the distances immensely. I live in Montreal and I use my old used "mini-boat on wheels" maybe twice a month to see my
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Massive? That's a pretty weak negative here. Cycling and walking feels good when there's no car around, public transport is a great time to relax, read a book or meet people. And it's only one street, people can still drive c
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by Valgrim 7y ago
The right answer is zero time, of course. A renewable smart grid includes long distance transmission lines, short term storage (batteries) and long term storage (pumped hydro). It's never been just about the panels and wind turbines.
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Mind uploading. This opens up a load of other possibilities, like functional teleportation, living in dangerous environments, etc.
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by Valgrim 7y ago
I prefer this much intimate/disgusting/sexier explanation: "Kissing in humans is postulated to have evolved from the direct mouth-to-mouth regurgitation of food (kiss-feeding) from parent to offspring or male to female (court
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by Valgrim 7y ago
The article talks specifically about immigrant tech workers and the impact of different immigration rules between both countries on the tech job market. Salaries in some parts of the US is much larger than in Canada, nobody is arguing about
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Cement releases CO2 as part of it's chemical curing process. It contributes to about 8% of worldwide emissions. Another industry where CO2 as a chemical byproduct is vented at a massive scale in the atmosphere is with the steel industr
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by Valgrim 7y ago
This "admission" isn't worth anything. Suspended by the wrists tiptoeing into my own shit for days? Sure I would tell them I was operating an al-quaeda safe house, that I was a driver/messenger and that my mother was the
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Except the GMO data definitely can't be applied to glyphosate. There is no reason GMOs should have the same metabolic effects as glyphosate.
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by Valgrim 7y ago
This is advertising, not news. So, they put a supercapacitor between the rectifier and the output to stabilize the voltage. This is old technology. The reason why so few cyclists use a dynamo nowadays is not because of the voltage instabili
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by Valgrim 7y ago
The majority of the population lives in urban and suburban areas, and a minority lives in rural areas. These are very different environments and public transport should be expected to be very different between them. In cities, we should exp
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Even french white immigrants are rejected for no good reason. https://nationalpost.com/news/french-national-denied-quebec-... The CAQ is very anti-immigration on all fronts.
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by Valgrim 7y ago
I think you're mistaken. The Montreal metro is not automated and has never been. The train controls are mostly automated, but they are still operated by a driver.
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by Valgrim 7y ago
We should just bury the idea of replacing ground cars with their flying counterparts. Not that it is a bad idea to develop electric VTOL vehicle, on the contrary, but ultimately they are going to replace the existing flying fleet: helicopte
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Anything in orbit can (and is) actively tracked by amateur and professionnal astronomers around the world. The secret aspect of the X37B plane is it's mission. Nobody knows what it was doing up there. Hypotheses range from carrying wea
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Bread 500g flour 300g lukewarm water 10g salt 7g yeast Put into large bowl. Mix. Cover. Wait 30 minutes. Knead. Cover. Wait 60-120 minutes. Knead. Shape. Wait 60-120 minutes. Preheat to 250C. Bake for 20 minutes. Let cool. Total working tim
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Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable?(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
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by Valgrim 7y ago
Long term, large scale containment of radioactive waste is an unsolved problem. Nuclear advocates have two answers to this problem: A) We'll solve it later (we should research fuel reprocessing, we have an urgency to act, etc.) B) It&