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by apo 7y ago
I'm skeptical, but fascinated by what you're doing. It sounds like all of the steps of your process are known, except: 1. CO2 fixation uses only electricity - no natural gas or other fossil fuels. It works at room temperature. 2.
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Gondwana(en.wikipedia.org)
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Lys, a language that compiles to WebAssembly(github.com)
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Some of the opinions on debuggers are more nuanced than the author is letting on. Take Bob Martin, for example: > I consider debuggers to be a drug -- an addiction. Programmers can get into the horrible habbit of depending on the debugge
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by apo 7y ago
And I have patiently explained to multiple teens in great detail how to turn a simple design into a drawing and that into a 3D artifact. 95% of them can't do it. If this kid figured it all out from YouTube, he's still way ahead of
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The boy himself says: "When people see me on the street operating my excavator and tipper, they are usually surprised." I don't imagine he's flying to Beverly Hills to demo his projects and then flying back to Nigeria, b
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> Fallacy: Dynamically typed languages provide no way to find bugs > >A common argument leveled at dynamically typed languages is that failures will occur for the customer, rather than the developer. The problem with this argument
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by apo 7y ago
Spam countermeasures have led to some fascinating new technologies. In addition to the one cited in the article was Hashcash, which was developed a few years earlier: http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf Hashcas
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The Japanese Art of Synchronized Walking(messynessychic.com)
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A Scientology Cruise Ship Has Been Quarantined for Measles(time.com)
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An unfortunately representative sample of the utter nonsense "blockchain consultants" produce. 1. "Blockchain for X" where X is something the client cares about. 2. Blockchain is revolutionary, but blockchain is also com
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It's bizarre to talk with someone who views a house as a good "investment" and who doesn't see the danger of 4:1 leverage that a "standard" mortgage involves. These are the kinds of people who get wiped out in
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by apo 7y ago
> One idea is that intestinal worms - which dampen immune reactions - could be more common and this may help protect the heart. That worm infects most of the population: > And about 70% of the population has a parasitic worm infection
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We Used WebAssembly to Speed Up Our Web App by 20X (Case Study)(smashingmagazine.com)
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Beautiful illustration of what keeps bad ideas going, and what it takes to break them. > Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random s
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by apo 7y ago
In that case, carbon capture to produce organic chemical feedstocks makes a lot more sense than burning for fuel. Given that there's no information about what the process entails, it's hard to draw many conclusions.
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by apo 7y ago
Converting carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons consumes energy. If the product is simply burned for fuel, I can see no benefit to this effort at all. Energy will have been consumed and carbon will be re-released. What am I missing here? All I
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by apo 7y ago
> “In reviewing Open Media’s request to place advertising at the airport, we determined that it did not serve all of our stakeholders as we felt it pitted two groups against each other and it also has potential to add undue stress to the
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> While many people assumed that television networks held on to everything they aired, that wasn’t the case. Studios were constantly erasing and recycling broadcast tapes in order to save money and free up storage space. I've heard
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by apo 7y ago
It's not clear how police are taking this information. Do they have physical possession of a device? If so, how do they break in? If not, how is the information extracted?
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Jesus' death as a suicide... Interesting idea. By that measure, anyone considered a martyr could also be considered to have committed suicide. Jesus presumably knew the outcome of his time on earth ahead of time. He was well aware of t
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The Biography of a Plant-Based Burger (2016)(psmag.com)
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> E*Trade would be one of the largest securities brokerages to allow crypto trading. It will enter into a competitive market with startups like Coinbase Inc., which have made names for themselves as go-to places for such transactions. Cl
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by apo 7y ago
> Closely related to speaking poorly is sounding disinterested. It's an absolute turn-off to hear somebody who's dead inside and their job is like a prison. It can also be taken as disrespectful. I'm taking the time to int
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by apo 7y ago
> A Clockwork Orange was, however, a box office success in the US and was nominated for the Oscar for best picture in 1972 (losing to The French Connection). The original release in the US in 1972 was rated X. It's one of only two X
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by apo 7y ago
It may be baffling that Tether hasn't collapsed yet. But consider the drawn-out drama of the Mt Gox collapse. It took weeks for Mt Gox to unwind. In the time leading up to the finale, many people (who should have known better) insisted
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by apo 7y ago
Here's the filing: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
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My own pet peeve in non-fiction, particularly the kind that appears on blogs: the excruciating warmup before the author finally gets to the point of the post. I know why this happens. When you sit down to write, you don't know what exa
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by apo 7y ago
> He predicts a multimillion-dollar campaign through both traditional and social media. I predict that the campaign will spook the bejesus out of the consumer. Nothing says "beware" like a big corporation insisting, repeatedly
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by apo 7y ago
Tulip Mania lasted a few months during 1636/1637: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania Yet this episode continues to be trotted out whenever the Bitcoin exchange rate does something... unusual. It's been

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