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901.
by ajuc 3y ago
Beaver dams are different. They leak, let fish through, and disappear every few years. Details matter.
902.
by ajuc 3y ago
Putin couldn't even force his army to stop 500 people going on Moscow. Had to negotiate, losing face in his own empire. But he will surely have enough influence to force the same army to commit nuclear suicide on his dying whim :) It&#
903.
by ajuc 3y ago
I know. It's not a threat, just posturing. Russia entering any new war right now will just lose both. And Belarus is trying very hard not to forced to actually fight.
904.
by ajuc 3y ago
Meh. Łukaszenko and Putin were waving their nuclear dicks around over here for decades at this point. The only reason they do it is to scare away the more naive westerners. Nobody here takes it seriously.
905.
by ajuc 3y ago
It's one thing to use toxic materials in water pipes, fuel or painting your walls with it. It's completely different thing to use them in devices that are enclosed and that you never interact with directly, like motors, batteries,
906.
by ajuc 3y ago
Access to global markets. I.e. oceans.
907.
by ajuc 3y ago
That just means China has it harder and is more likely to fail. Access to global markets is a critical factor in growth of Japan, South Korea and China. USA controls that.
908.
by ajuc 3y ago
You would probably put the superconductor in the barrel and magnets in the ammunition :)
909.
by ajuc 3y ago
They were underachieving for 2 centuries, ceasing to kill their own citizens by millions and imprisoning anybody who tried to think for themselves is enough to grow if you did so for a long time. But it does not make you a new hegemon. I hi
910.
by ajuc 3y ago
Japanese and South Korean increasing technical prowess didn't, why would Chinese be any different? China has serious fundamental problems and if you account for its gigantic population - it's seriously underachieving not only comp
911.
by ajuc 3y ago
Computer components already have gold in them, and they are already recycled for gold.
912.
by ajuc 3y ago
I.e. natural language injection when somebody from a capable lab uses ChatGPT to write an e-mail :)
913.
by ajuc 3y ago
It's not that. How do I know? Because in many countries all over the world people are generally getting richer with each generation (including my own country), and yet they have fewer and fewer kids.
914.
by ajuc 3y ago
Aren't all capacitors energy-storing?
915.
by ajuc 3y ago
Whatever suits your fancy. > Why not spend the rest of his life checking different properties of the one sample? The material in question is called LK-99 because it was first produced in 1999. Why not, indeed :) ?
916.
by ajuc 3y ago
We discovered first "crystal diodes" in 1870s. There was a whole idustry doing "magic needle+crystal diodes" without understanding why they work. They just knew you had to touch a special spot on the crystal with a needl
917.
by ajuc 3y ago
Because he already has a sample and it doesn't hurt to check other properties of it.
918.
by ajuc 3y ago
> But somehow the narrative is markets are “bad” The mainstream opinion is "markets are ok as long as they are well regulated". The only narrative that is trying to compete with that with any success is "markets are perfec
919.
by ajuc 3y ago
So did markets.
920.
by ajuc 3y ago
Child labor. Slave trade. Sweatshops. 1000 different environmental catastrophes. You know, the reasons we have regulation. We had markets FIRST, then we got regulation on top of that, and we never looked back.
921.
by ajuc 3y ago
Iterate over 1000 objects doing ifs and draw let's say 50 of them vs dump them in VBO and call glDrawArrays every frame drawing all 1000 of them? I'm willing to bet :) The difference in time spent by GPU between drawing 1000 and 5
922.
by ajuc 3y ago
With modern gpu pipeline and cost of cache misses compared to CPU cycle being what they are - it's almost certainly faster to redraw a few thousand sprites no matter what than to check what changed and redraw only a subset of them. Ene
923.
by ajuc 3y ago
Lead-acid batteries are mostly lead and legal. I'm sure they will make this legal too.
924.
by ajuc 3y ago
That's not even the main risk reduced. Feudalism was invented to reduce risk of dying of starvation. Peasants were always 1 bad harvest away from starvation, they couldn't store wealth for more than a few years (as grain which goe
925.
by ajuc 3y ago
feudalism vs capitalism is risk-minimization vs profit-maximalisation
926.
by ajuc 3y ago
Perovskite panels have been available for several years https://columbusenergy.com/ EDIT: wrong company - this is correct https://sauletech.com/technology/
927.
by ajuc 3y ago
There's "jagoda", "borówka" and "łochinia" and the mapping from names to fruits switch in every region :). My grandma called bog billberies - "borówka", and "łochinie" were smaller, elo
928.
by ajuc 3y ago
In rural Poland it's a common seasonal activity to gather them in forests in July, you get whole family go to the forest for a few hours and gather enough to make 1 or 2 meals for the whole family (some people freeze them but it's
929.
by ajuc 3y ago
I don't know, they aren't even sold in Europe in markets AFAIK (we only get "American blueberries" here). They can't be domesticated, people gather them in forests.
930.
by ajuc 3y ago
There's nothing to change, it's obvious once you try both. The only advantage is that the American ones are easier to grow in your garden and easier to gather.

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