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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Products becoming commoditized won't take Apple by surprise. Think of how they survived commoditization of mp3 players, "disrupting" the iPod themselves. They pay attention to logistics curves and can predict with great certa
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I suppose the problem is the other contaminants, because tritium removal isn't too difficult. Cost must be the real problem. Nothing cheaper than dumping it in the ocean. https://www.nuclearsolutions.veolia.com/en/
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
The stories that make me cringe are when some loyal user's account is frozen and there's no recourse to learn why it happened. Can't reach a person to ask why, email queries go unanswered. It happens every day. Or, say, gmail
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Fast Company has more details: They aim to start field-testing this summer, hopefully in China, and to finalize a commercially viable process within two years. Wang hopes to remove about nine grams of plastic per liter of bacteria. She est
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Maybe you missed this line: old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound rock at Godi's prostrate body
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I'm having trouble believing that American Tycoons created the dinosaur on the basis of this article. Except for the Carnegie Natural History Museum, no tycoons are named. But we're supposed to believe that tycoons felt the dinosa
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Do you mean "Society of the Spectacle"? That groups are dehumanizing, the product becomes the relationship? I think it's more as if they've rediscovered AOL chatrooms, with AOL style aliases and rooms. People naturally e
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
As stated in the initial bug report by Zerons, an unauthenticated remote attacker could send a malicious SNI ending in a backslash-null sequence during the initial TLS handshake, which causes a buffer overflow in the SMTP delivery process.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I wonder if the MOFs self assemble. I just started searching, but if any experts here know how they're made, please explain. I found an article that says the organic linkers are "ditopic or polytopic organic carboxylates (and othe
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
That is how I felt about mastering Photoshop. "Muscle memory," exactly. And patience, yes, it took time and a lot of practice. I learned to accept intermediate stages as paths to mastery, knowing I'd get better if I just kept
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
The great Pacific garbage patch is still out there. I like this passive solution ( https://theoceancleanup.com/technology/ ). Maybe plastic taken from the ocean could be processed and incorporated into the plastic-remova
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
A graphic illustration of the molecule is here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1185-4/figures/8
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I wonder to what extent the loss of the American Chestnut affected the squirrel population.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
The wikipedia entry on "vacuum airships, as they're called," is nicely detailed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Why did he write it up so badly? He could make his arguments so much clearer if he just stated them fully. Maybe this piece was meant for math PhDs, not a general audience. To me, it comes across as an attempt to impress the reader with the
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
So what does your user name mean? Was it still a lottery and not the result of going all out?
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ktkR-xSoM
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
They reported seeing the Tic Tac descend from 20,000 feet in just an instant, stopping at the surface of the ocean. This and other reports suggest a propulsion system that alters spacetime and mass, so that there's no inertia. We Earth
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
A similar case involving Kraftwerk was decided recently. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8524267/kraftwer... "European Court Rules In Favor Of Kraftwerk In 20 Year-Long Copyright Dispute&quot
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Cornell offers success stories: https://biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/success.php
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I did a Knuth research binge just last week, carried along by a wave of awe and admiration, so it was good to read your comment. I knew he stuck with TeX but would have missed that .dvi filetype you mentioned.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
When I researched electric cars in the 80s, before lithium batteries were around, a company was selling kits that transformed a VW Beetle into a lead-acid electric car. The ICE engine could be removed and the electric engine simply bolted i
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
I highly recommend the documentary, Century of the Self, which details how Bernays' theories about advertising were put to use by Nazis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 https://en.wikip
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
This is what Jef Raskin imagined for the Apple Macintosh, before the 68000 processor was adopted instead. It was supposed to be a low cost computer for the masses. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
The Library of Congress print is even larger than reported in this article, a 146.1 MB TIFF https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661021/
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
That passage made me think of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The author can have anything his heart desires, but in the end finds it empty ("vanity"). It's an old problem. The French Existentialists didn't invent
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Bell Labs, where the transistor was discovered, did exactly what you suggest, so maybe the transistor did actually appear 10 years early. It's famous for letting its scientists concentrate on research without concern for commercial use
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Works for me with Firefox, but not Safari.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
Woz says the article you linked in Byte is a followup to the OP. Good find.
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by beautifulfreak 7y ago
A recent experiment seems to confirm that different observers see conflicting realities: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613092/a-quantum-experime...

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