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by alpos 4y ago
As a war veteran I can confidently say most veterans would probably not be traumatized by work like this. We've all seen much worse and the things that became problematic memories for me had little to do with reading/hearing/
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by alpos 4y ago
Up in the northeast power goes out every winter. It also gets restored a lot faster than the midwest, personal experience, but the reliability of it going out at some point during the winter means that everyone has a wood stove and a backup
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by alpos 4y ago
There is, an inverter sized for the load with an auto transfer switch attached to a set of 100ah batteries will do what you're looking for. And that is what a UPS is on the inside. They just tend to use terribly small batteries. Such s
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by alpos 4y ago
Collection of data is not equivalent to a judgement on the value of the results. For example, when considering questions of crime and punishment / deterrence we probably wouldn't value the preferences of say, psychopathic murderer
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by alpos 4y ago
In case you were looking for the literal answer, it is because a society is the aggregate of every individual in it. It follows that a society's preferences are defined by the aggregate of the preferences of each individual in it. Ther
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by alpos 4y ago
No argument there, after all, you showed up.
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by alpos 4y ago
Now re-read the post you're actually replying to and notice that I didn't say anything like what you appear to be responding to. I've never been worried about blue light. I sleep fine. And stayed away from social media becaus
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by alpos 4y ago
Something I'd like to point out that seems to be consistently missing from the present studies and the discussions that come up every time this topic gets posted again. Not only are the "decide if this string of characters is a wo
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by alpos 4y ago
Your tone and overconfidence is the only techbro thing going on here. You really think you've read enough on this or that there's even been enough study of the topic for you to know with any certainty at all how someone else'
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by alpos 4y ago
Or you have to use a highly reflective monitor. Or you have a blessed matte monitor but you have whiteboards, stainless steel appliances, glass, bright colored walls, and other stuff at various angles in the environment behind you. In which
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by alpos 4y ago
This post seems to boil down to, "I read a summary of one study, so I am confident in telling you all how wrong you are". Thanks but I'll let the scientific process play itself out over time. In the mean time, I appreciate th
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by alpos 4y ago
The first mover advantage also means that, as a matter of everyday experience for most people, the internet is not an open and free place, it is a highly structured and controlled place. Most people can only do stuff on the internet if a co
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by alpos 4y ago
Btw, MSG is found naturally in a bunch of stuff, like the seaweed used in various parts of Chinese and Japanese cuisine. So it's not something a well funded industry invented like artificial sweeteners. (for which it seems no amount of
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by alpos 4y ago
I think what you are asking for is generally the status quo actually. Industry does not generally choose ingredients so casually without any study at all. And regulators generally require prospective studies on possible harmful effects to p
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by alpos 4y ago
Lifting an enclosed space is not free. Gravity is still in play so "huge rooms" means more floor space. Floor space is surface area and material costs by the square foot or meter both in terms of construction costs and in terms of
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by alpos 4y ago
If you're set up to replace the hydrogen as it escapes then your lifting gas is a fuel you have to buy for every flight in addition to the fuel for your engines and now you're paying an energy tax to haul fuel and lifting gas in a
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by alpos 4y ago
I've thought about that one off and on for a while too. Maybe something like an thin wire electromagnetic mesh as the inner layer of the envelope but I'm guessing no one has tried that at scale because the math says no. Most likel
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by alpos 4y ago
None of those things are N years in the future. That's a bad meme. We have had fusion that works, flying cars that work, and airships that work for 50ish years. A thermonuclear bomb set off in a giant underground tank of water would ma
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by alpos 4y ago
Thing is you're never going to beat the lift/drag ratio of a cargo ship doing that. Cargo ships already play the slow but chonky game. The only limits to their size is space at the ports and the number containers that can be loade
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by alpos 4y ago
The bigger problem with hydrogen is making a container it doesn't escape so much faster than Helium as to negate the extra lift advantage. You can let it leak out, but then you need to carry extra compressed gas above what is already n
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by alpos 4y ago
Still not seeing anything that addresses the counter-points made here the last time the tech was supposedly good enough to win: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/helium-hokum... Airships occupy an unfortu
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by alpos 4y ago
Given that most of Jeff's pieces seem to be painted knock offs of other artist's photographic works, it seems to me that one could set up a cnc painting bot to copy nearly all of Jeff's work with minor variations at best and
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by alpos 4y ago
That leads to the second issue which is that it is now impossible to determine if the painting is a derived work off her photo, or if it is a derived work off one of the countless other images on the web that look pretty similar. I did so
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by alpos 4y ago
Flipping the question around exposes the court's bias towards their own. In this case the court claims this is an ordinary photo, not an artistic work; okay, that means one should easily be able to find hundreds to thousands of similar
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by alpos 4y ago
What are you going to do if people start to trust this and then someone edits the wiki sources to redirect people to phishing sites mocked up to look real?
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by alpos 4y ago
I agree, caution still seems justified, whenever we find toxic effects of materials we might contact daily it's worth considering whether the risk that this is a real and present threat is worth the benefits of having those things arou
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by alpos 4y ago
The news around this, this thread, and similar on Reddit seem to be assuming a jump that isn't supported in this paper. "The residue remaining after the rinse cycle varies between 1:250 to 1:667 for the dishwasher detergent an
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by alpos 4y ago
As others alluded to, DDOS is basically just an unplanned load test. So you can simulate one with load testing tools. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/load-testing/#ove... https://aws.ama
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by alpos 8y ago
>If you are too late, you might not get your projects off without paying fees. This thinking belies a misunderstanding of how Git works. There is no way they can prevent a person from pushing to another repo and recreating whatever workf
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by alpos 8y ago
/me moves to gitlab

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