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by Valgrim 5y ago
I agree nuclear could be part of the solution, but nuclear is a dead horse and we can't just continue to beat it. It won't be revived as long as people don't feel secure about it. Beside the obvious reasons for it's reje
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Then what is spinning the wheels?
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by Valgrim 5y ago
The requirement for booster shots may be for increasing immunity to variants, not the original virus. If you survived the original virus and got an immunity out of it you are just as vulnerable to variants as anyone who got the vaccine. Bas
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by Valgrim 5y ago
It is normal for antibodies to decline after an immune response, it doesn't mean the immunity is gone, the immune system remembers how to produce them when needed. The paper you link actually says that the memory B-cell populations app
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by Valgrim 5y ago
I could see them simulate a severely constrained internet access, with limited bandwidth and minutes-long ping.
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by Valgrim 5y ago
This is the part that annoys me: "Yes, you can rebuild Audacity with all networking features disabled. You don’t even need to use any build configure switches for that. On the contrary, you need to enable networking if you specifically
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Here's a reason I think humans will embrace space habitats and colonizing other planets: we can't let go of the idea of infinite growth, and we want to preserve life and nature(and biodiversity). Those two facts are incompatible w
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Montreal get heatwaves each year too, reaching 37 celcius last year. Not nearly as high as the current heat wave in the west but dangerous too.
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Interestingly in Quebec (unlike other provinces), truth does not constitute an absolute defense against libel and defaming. Truthfulness is only a defence if the information was published in the public interest and without malice. Here&#x27
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by Valgrim 5y ago
It's not just fear. Building a nuclear power plant is a complicated, decades-long, tremendously expensive engineering prowess. Due to the catastrophic failure modes of nuclear reactors compared to other power plants, it requires a huge
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Insulation should absolutely be kept outside the vapor barrier and well ventilated for better performance, but thermal mass is less important than building super-airtight walls, with lots of insulation, good quality windows and controlled v
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by Valgrim 5y ago
This chart also gives a great insight into (I'm hesitating on the word) "traditional" gender roles among young people by country. Great comment!
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by Valgrim 5y ago
In a way procedural generation can be tought of as extreme compression!
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by Valgrim 5y ago
What do you mean by can monogamy survive? Do you mean that in a world without STDs it would be abnormal for someone to expect an intimate relationship to be exclusive?
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by Valgrim 5y ago
It sounds like they are using this technology or something similar: https://lookingglassfactory.com/8k
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by Valgrim 5y ago
The issue is not scarcity, it's pollution.
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Given that this is a ransomware attack, the data is probably encrypted, so if they did find the person behind it, they would probably use "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" to extract encryption keys before... https://en.wikip
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by Valgrim 5y ago
My favorite carbon-capture solution is to breed whales: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/12/natures-s... Whales act as a nutrient pump in the ocean; beside the 30-tons of carbon
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Algae are generally autotrophic, meaning they don't need sugar or food, they create sugars from CO2 and light, and they need nutrients like phosphorus and nitrate and other minerals to do so. But if you provide too much nutrient, too m
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by Valgrim 5y ago
I wonder if this could be used to serve dynamic maps.
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Not sure if this is a joke, but I'll bite. Those are called ionocrafts. They work by ionizing air particles. They're basically low-tech ion drives. They don't work in vacuum.
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by Valgrim 5y ago
In this case the battery is not necessary. You don't need to store electricity to create water during off-peak hours, you just need to store excess water created during peak hours. Also the article is not about solar panels, but a nove
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by Valgrim 5y ago
What's the source of the noise? The turbine itself? the air flow around the blades?
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by Valgrim 5y ago
I'd like to see how these compare with other earth-based construction methods (still used in many parts of the world, including developed countries [1]). My guess is that the voids improve the insulation, but reduce the compressive and
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Or embrace the ephemereal nature of life and find meaning, joy and beauty in your experience of the here and now.
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by Valgrim 5y ago
Electrogravitics is pure pseudo-science, anti-gravity bullshit, not supported in any way by our current understanding of physics or any experiment. However, superconductivity (and using liquid hydrogen both as energy source and coolant) may
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by Valgrim 5y ago
So you recover the boiloff and use it to power a generator which powers a drivetrain cooled by the liquid hydrogen. This seems like a good idea.
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The way I see it, losing superconductivity instantly shuts down the motor by tripping the circuit breaker, and causes it to transfer it's momentum energy into the surrounding liquid hydrogen. Some hydrogen might boil off, but it's
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by Valgrim 5y ago
The whole concept of phage therapy is somehow based on this: Bacteriophages inject DNA into specific bacteria that makes them copy the phage inside them until they burst open. Basically use viruses against bacteria. https://www.y
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by Valgrim 6y ago
What was happening is that we didn't know if they do or do not prevent infection or the spreading of the virus. The phase 3 studies were designed to see if the vaccine prevented disease. Measuring infectiousness is more difficult, sinc

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