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by acqq 3y ago
> “I’m absolutely shocked we’re seriously discussing that a European state could have done this,” says Ivan Kolpakov, Meduza’s editor-in-chief. “I’m probably naive" Rather then naive, I think his main problem is that he hasn't
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by acqq 3y ago
Instead of speaking of own feeling based on a "section" the rational approach is to read the actual scientific paper dealing only with that topic: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158 "O
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by acqq 3y ago
> Maybe we can increase trees by a factor of 100 too. I don't agree: using a bird and an Apollo space mission in speed comparison is a completely invalid support for that proposition: the rocket which launched Apollo 10 had to burn
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by acqq 3y ago
Yes. The emissions numbers everybody should know: https://www.iea.org/reports/key-world-energy-statistics-2021 IEA Key World Energy Statistics 2021, pg 54: World CO2 emissions per year: 1973: 15 Gt of CO2
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by acqq 3y ago
The sources exist: The book, $13: https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Cinema-Government-H... The article about the book: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/27/nsec-f27.htm
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by acqq 3y ago
At least I am an actual computer engineer with a degree in computer science. I’m certainly not unique. What others do I care less.
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by acqq 3y ago
Book (PDF) Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet 2021 Murphy, Thomas W, Jr https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m https://doi.org/10.21221/S2978-0-578-86717-5
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by acqq 3y ago
Title: "Maryland stories: Inventor introduces self-charging generator" "Inventor Donald Ghogomu of Lexington Park gives a presentation on his Omni Electric Generator" That's it. And three pictures.
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by acqq 3y ago
> since it promotes the idea that the whole thing is just impossible and we should just live it up before we hit the Malthusian die-off. I haven't seen the author you criticize ever promoted either that or that he suggests that huma
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by acqq 3y ago
> This guy is a pretty doctrinaire "doomer" with anti-civilization tendencies. Calling him that name is IMO an attempt of a "character assassination" and not a valid critique. His blog is " Do the Math " and
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by acqq 3y ago
And checking the actual sources(1) the original authors correctly talk about the electric potential difference (voltage) over over the ~5 nm membrane, which is "equal to" the one "discharged by a bolt of lightning." It&#
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by acqq 3y ago
> Sadly this event showed there's a market for hyping up weak claims that people will be poor at evaluating I don't see it as in any way an unique event, and also not unique for the enthusiasm seen on this site. The "belie
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by acqq 3y ago
The actual sentence from the https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09486 (Mitochondria) "The electron and proton transfers of chemiosmotic energy coupling generate a transmembrane potential of 150–200 mV over the
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by acqq 3y ago
Maybe that comparison is wrong, i.e. different kinds of energy compared for humans and earthworms? For the later, if I understand correctly, the linked paper measures an equivalent of "how much energy one gets by burning the stuff fro
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by acqq 3y ago
I have an impression that is "avoided" in many companies by demanding from the newly hired programmers to have "cloud experience". My problem is that that usually ends up being "programmers have taken courses about
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by acqq 3y ago
Do you know, do all their drivers do this or only some? And how can this be seen?
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by acqq 3y ago
I never had a goal to reduce Intel to a single role in today's world. Instead: For a company Y, where Y produces GPU driver, I can't believe there's a plausible explanation for Y to globally collect information about the web
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by acqq 3y ago
IMO the "score" obtained this way would be completely useless as the "sites visited" don't correspond to the money one actually spends online. Somebody interested in money transactions can get much more information
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by acqq 3y ago
This is definitely not what I'd be ready to approve: "Intel provides a long list of the types of data it collects" ... "Those include the types of websites you visit , which Intel says are dumped into 30 categories and
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by acqq 3y ago
Exactly. And here is an example of that inability in the much clearer case: "How many years after 1945 ... would it take for the Soviet Union to get the bomb? Framed this way, it was a much easier question than forecasting the advent o
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by acqq 3y ago
I like to use these interactive pages: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1...
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by acqq 3y ago
I don't know what that is intended with that, but for simple line splits I'd use awk, which is typically everywhere, and its parameter -F (F there stands for field separator) that is, given the file L with the lines hello,wor
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by acqq 3y ago
The texts like this say sometimes more about the author than the object of the text: IMO the author completely missed the deeper levels about the individual living soaked in lies, but recognizing them and, in his case, literally sailing &qu
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by acqq 3y ago
"The experts wrote in their letter to Mr. Rush that they had “unanimous concern” about the way the Titan had been developed," "Mr. Kohnen said that Mr. Rush called him after reading the letter and told him that industry stand
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by acqq 3y ago
3:54 Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate: "so the pressure vessel is not MacGyver at all because that's where we work with Boeing and NASA and the University of Washington. Everything else can fail: your thrusters can go, your lights
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by acqq 3y ago
This is a transcribed version of the original, then saved as A4 PDF. The original was, for me, more readable, being formatted for the smaller pages but using them effectively. The original can also be found on the internet, but it's a
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by acqq 3y ago
And another: https://smmax.sourceforge.net/ Written in C: "The current "shrinking level" of this version is around 670 bytes." ... "Later on this version has been extended to allow playing with full
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by acqq 3y ago
> implements a turing machine Just searched for some details, it's amazing, all this inside of a JBIG2 image: "Using over 70,000 segment commands defining logical bit operations, they define a small computer architecture with
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by acqq 3y ago
I've tried to see __defaults__ and __kwdefaults__ here: i = 7 lambda_list = [lambda: i for i in range(3)] results = [x() for x in lambda_list] print( i ) for k in range( 3 ): print( lambda_list[k] )
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by acqq 3y ago
I like your explanation, it has more missing information and also demonstrates the use of "import inspect", it's definitely not to be ignored! Did I understand correctly, the fact that the variable is not belonging to the clo

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