alphydan

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by alphydan 9y ago
> pretty low on the list of countries that take great care with environmental concerns The truth is not as simple as the western media makes it out to be. Between the US and China there are more than 40 countries in CO2 emissions per ca
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by alphydan 9y ago
This explains the approach in more detail: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/man/theory
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by alphydan 9y ago
Not any Lagrangian point will do. L1, L2, L3 are unstable so a small perturbation will send your satellite away. Only L4, L5 will do under certain conditions for the mass of the satellite [0] [0] https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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by alphydan 10y ago
I need to access 3 pages and 7 google drive folders almost every day for work. Those are the only browser bookmarks I have because they save me 20 - 30 clicks/day.
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by alphydan 10y ago
(Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) / Ubuntu )
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by alphydan 10y ago
Not a city, but close to Barcelona there is an old factory which has been occupied and had a strong cyberpunk vibe when I visited https://greenhousingwelfare.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/ca-la-f... (they self d
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by alphydan 10y ago
I find the font colour/weight of "Available for free on Mac, Windows, and Linux" almost impossible to read. http://imgur.com/a/AUVxr
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by alphydan 10y ago
Easy! The little _from now on_ mandatory humidity sensor reports from the apartment! A JSON with humidity/mold data from the past 4 years is sent to the blockchain. The contract does some averages and statistics and determines that t
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by alphydan 10y ago
Feynman died almost 30 years ago ... I think it's pretty safe to assume it's not recent news, even without the (1989)
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by alphydan 10y ago
What about the kids who won't put on the VR headset because they prefer to snap-chat, chat, youtube, waste time, do social posturing? I think, for middle school, it's easy to underestimate how much of education is not actual conte
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by alphydan 10y ago
In a time where bots and AI are all the rage, it begs the question: Are some bots on twitter more useful and insightful than actual people? I remember a twitter bot (name escames me now) which would crawl pastebin and tweet updates when pas
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by alphydan 10y ago
Electricity is practically free, and I imagine they didn't move there to mine but rather were born in Venezuela.
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by alphydan 10y ago
Unlike futures (say a 2 year crude oil contract), you can only short bitcoin for day-trading. The trick is that in most exchanges you pay a huge fee everyday to hold your position. So you can't say, "I think Bitcoin will crash i
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by alphydan 10y ago
> I'm curious, how can you be a "big believer" in something that is entirely made up with absolutely no evidence of any sort to back it up? 7,100,000,000 people seem to find it quite easy [0] (although I'm not one of
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by alphydan 10y ago
That is not an answer to his objection. If you follow the equations of the wave packet of the particle arriving to the wall (or CCD) detector, you then need to solve the equation of the interaction of the particle + all the particles in the
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Why are there still so many jobs?(aeaweb.org)
1 points by alphydan 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HK: Fun example of browser console script to teach coding?
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by alphydan 10y ago
You will agree then that a 10kW residential solar installation on a roof is "experimental" and "not in full-scale production". What about the 1 million residential solar installations done in 2016? Is that "experim
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Speculative Bitcoin Adoption/Price Theory(medium.com)
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by alphydan 10y ago
I studied in a lot of detail the waste generated by dismantling wind turbine blades while working for a wind manufacturer. If we were to recycle today all the blades of all the turbines in the world reaching 20 years of age, the weight woul
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by alphydan 10y ago
You need to revisit your facts. Solar plants with storage are currently in operation [1] [2]. They have been producing 370GWh per year. This is tiny compared to a mid-sized nuclear power plant, but the technology is there and is easy to
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by alphydan 10y ago
Following that argument then simple-minded businessmen or people with a Manichean world-view should be great at taking care of babies, since they make quick judgement calls? It sounds a little too simplistic, doesn't it?
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by alphydan 10y ago
A quick read of the high scoring answers from past years shows that there were many crackpots. So I would say it can't hurt to apply (source: I have a PhD in quantum physics, and many top essays made no sense)
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by alphydan 10y ago
> we have too many teachers Are you really saying that doubling the number of teachers and reducing the number of students per class would not improve education? Would it not help with differentiated learning?
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by alphydan 10y ago
A domestic robot to clean/tidy the house (dishes, laundry, dust, vacuum) + cook at home.
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by alphydan 10y ago
To put this in perspective, let's assume that there are indeed 75x10^9 barrels of oil. Fracking typically can only extract around 10% of the oil-in-place (the rest is too expensive to recover once the reservoir pressure drops, even at
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by alphydan 10y ago
When you say "Google and Facebook", you are talking about their employees. But how many new companies / jobs have been created using their ecosystem (How much additional sales and jobs are created with those platforms?).
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by alphydan 10y ago
Let me have a go: When I was at university google had 8 employees :) ... who would have imagined then jobs like SEO/SEM Consultant, blogger, online life-coach, android indie game designer, stay-at-home person selling junk on ebay, etc,
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by alphydan 10y ago
He's been reading Kurt Goedel's writings on the constitution, ... so he found there are none ;)
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by alphydan 10y ago
If you are willing to teach and relocate a few years there are international schools which pay 80k - $90k (Asia, Middle East, certain rich islands). Don't underestimate how demanding it is though. I've done both and coding is a

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