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by azernik 6y ago
The composition of that radiation is important - Earth's atmosphere preferentially filters out a lot of the higher-energy particles that are likely to permanently damage electronics. The sievert as a unit is weighted based on damage to
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by azernik 6y ago
Looking this up - apparently in most jurisdictions animal welfare/ethics standards only apply to vertebrates and cephalopods. If it's an invertebrate and isn't in the smarter category of squids and octopodes and the like, it&
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by azernik 6y ago
You know it's an exciting field when something 1.5-2 years old needs a date on it.
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by azernik 6y ago
This is part of a broader program that involves captive breeding, habitat restoration, and reintroduction into the wild. From being extinct in the wild in the '80s with a captive population of 18, they've been brought back to seve
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by azernik 6y ago
Yeah, as a TV show it would almost be an anthology series. Lots of little vignettes told in the same continuity with totally different casts.
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by azernik 6y ago
That one's a bit more understandable in that it's actually referencing a master/slave relationship. "Master" as in "master copy" is... not that.
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by azernik 6y ago
One way to avoid this might be to create an internal 3D model by rotating the drawing about the y-axis.
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by azernik 6y ago
Depends if winterization keeps you at 100% output during cold weather. It might, but I don't know enough about the subject to say for sure.
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by azernik 6y ago
1. This specific effort is for psychedelics like LSD and ketamine; the overdose problem is with opioids. 2. For opioid and cocaine decriminalization efforts, the mentality isn't that policymakers want more drugs in society; it's t
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by azernik 6y ago
We were doing that at Meraki back in the early 2010s (it turned out they were also useful as a heat sink and, because the metal was exposed to air, a radiator). Pretty sure Meraki got the idea from some Apple product or other.
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by azernik 6y ago
There's an EU mandatory standard (which Tesla follows), and in the US an optional one that everyone but Tesla follows (that is, everyone but the gorilla with 80% market share :-P). Note that there are other standards in the rest of the
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by azernik 6y ago
In the US, they use a proprietary mechanical connector - but the electrical interface is the same. So with a mechanical adapter you get graceful degradation to the CCS standard, just without fancy Tesla charger/vehicle communication.
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by azernik 6y ago
Not just in Europe - even in the US, Tesla is the only company that doesn't use a standardized charger. Even the Tesla charger is electrically compatible with the standard one; you just need a mechanical adapter to plug in, and won&#x2
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by azernik 6y ago
We already have those (with a gasoline back-up) - they're called plug-in hybrids.
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I think the more important market will be aviation and military applications, where mass and volume are more constrained. e.g. the US military has been plowing money into synthetic fuel for decades, and EU countries are targeting 30% of air
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by azernik 6y ago
Reduction of price isn't predicated only on massive drops in renewable energy prices - a lot of the projected drops also come from drops in the non-electricity cost. (That EU paper gives an energy efficiency of 40% for the electricity
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by azernik 6y ago
We know what "existing combustion-engined Porsche models" look like: they run off of standardized gasoline. If their synthetic substitutes will power a Porsche car, they will also power similar engines from other makers.
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by azernik 6y ago
They make weather extremes more common, but those weather extremes have always existed.
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by azernik 6y ago
Huh. Hadn't thought of the snow-reflection boost. But yeah, cleaning off solar panels is a totally doable bit of maintenance in snowy conditions, or even just tilting and coating them so snow falls off. A human with a broom could make
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by azernik 6y ago
The OP that all this is in response to is not advocating that, which you can tell by the fact that they don't use the word "abolish": > We need to disband all of the police forces and start again with a new culture based a
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by azernik 6y ago
Generally, the kinds of cops that become whistleblowers, or are fired for insufficient brutality, are veterans. The archetypical "warrior cop" is a non-veteran who likes military imagery but has no experience with military discipl
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by azernik 6y ago
Depends who's suggesting a replacement. Camden literally just created a new police force from the ground up to replace the deeply abusive one they disbanded. It's hard to disentangle the union-busting function from the culture-cha
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by azernik 6y ago
BTC is particularly egregious because it produces a lot less social value in exchange for its energy usage than A/C
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by azernik 6y ago
1) 1/30 of total electricity consumption is a hell of a lot! 2) Yes, developing-economy per capita energy usage is going to go up while they catch up to developed-economy standards of living; that's happening in all categories. De
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by azernik 6y ago
From what I've seen of the Toyota case, the thing that Toyota actually got slammed on had nothing to do with control software, but was about the mechanical design of the pedals and the floor mats.
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by azernik 6y ago
Cutting down A/C usage is , in fact, an important climate change mitigation.
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The iron was an actual golf iron head, attached to the collapsible rod/handle of a sampling scoop.
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by azernik 6y ago
Fatalities have gone down even for wars of similar intensities. More important is the improvement in battlefield medicine and body armor - the KIA/WIA ratio for the US military has plummeted, from around 1:1.5 during WW2, to around 1:3
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by azernik 6y ago
The issue wasn't so much the emphasis on the Maginot Line; it was diplomatic failure of appeasement. tl;dr French security strategy relied heavily on a strong alliance with Belgium, and they threw that away in 1936-8 Since the First Wo
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by azernik 6y ago
The fingerprint is part of the TLS/SSL-specific transport, and is needed for crypto purposes. If you want to communicate in the clear and roll your own security go ahead, but compared to the media you're going to be pushing down t

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