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by blacksqr 2y ago
Geopolymers have a lot of promise, as the linked article illustrates. The chief practical problem with them is once the hardener solution is added to the cement powder, setting is almost instantaneous. So there's no opportunity to work
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by blacksqr 2y ago
I have a fantasy solution that I know will never be implemented, but in my mind resolves all objections to expanding the court. Promote all eleven judges in the DC circuit court of appeals to the Supreme Court and leave the appeals court em
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by blacksqr 2y ago
Article behind subscription paywall.
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by blacksqr 2y ago
> The Terraformer modules have three relevant sub-components: > 1. Hydrogen electrolyser: Splits water into its component hydrogen and oxygen Stop there. Store the hydrogen and oxygen and burn it for power rather than the natural gas.
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by blacksqr 2y ago
> Finnish is also oddly similar-sounding For a long time I ignorantly assumed that Marimekko was a Japanese brand.
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by blacksqr 2y ago
The worst thing about post-taste is how fast you have to do it.
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by blacksqr 2y ago
An almost forgotten TV movie that aired before "The Day After" was "Special Bulletin", about nuclear terrorism in the United States, presented as a series of live news reports, as "War of the Worlds" was by Ors
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Direct Reduction of Magnesium Carbonate to Methane (2021)(pubs.acs.org)
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by blacksqr 2y ago
Television destroyed high culture a lifetime ago, and every generation that's come of age since has persuaded themselves that they can recognize the lines between high and low culture, only to be shocked and dismayed when the illusory
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by blacksqr 2y ago
Medicine is magical and magical is art Think of the boy in the bubble And the baby with the baboon heart And I believe These are the days of lasers in the jungle Lasers in the jungle somewhere Staccato signals of constant information A loos
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by blacksqr 3y ago
The takeaway I got from this article is not that there's something so great about malls for redevelopment, but that restrictive zoning laws are the real problem. It seems to me that what this piece is describing is a hack that governme
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Highlighter: Tcl/Tk app for reading and annotating PDF documents(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
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Calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator(github.com)
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by blacksqr 3y ago
"Climate - the Movie: a hot mess of (c)old myths!" https://skepticalscience.com/climate-the-movie-a-hot-mess-of...
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by blacksqr 3y ago
So is this an early proposal of the Big Bang Theory?
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Ptlex: Lexer Generator Written in Tcl for Tcl, Python, Perl, R and Ruby(github.com)
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by blacksqr 3y ago
My wife, who is a real estate agent, was notified by her brokerage that the deal requires all buyer's agents to have a signed contract with their client, with pre-negotiated commissions (up to now it's usually been oral agreements
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by blacksqr 3y ago
The TCL maintainers switched their main URL to tcl-lang.org a while back because Freenom was so unreliable, although they've continued to serve tcl.tk as well with crossed fingers. I really hope Tokelau chooses a reputable registrar go
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Not saying you're wrong in anything you've stated, but if there are many independent MLS's and it's easy and cheap to set them up, that undermines the whole antitrust argument against the NAR, doesn't it? If alterna
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Fair enough, forgive my imprecision of terms. But the NAR established and enforces the MLS data and management standards among its member associations that make aggregation and dissemination viable. I will hazard a guess that the biggest an
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Each MLS is franchised by the NAR, which enforces standards and interoperability, and get funds to do it from real estate agent membership fees. That allows Zillow, Redfin etc. to offer listings free. If they had to carry the weight of all
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Zillow and Redfin get their listings from the MLS. Realtor.com is run by the NAR. The practical effect of the MLS has been to rationalize and normalize real estate information across the market. The downside is that people have gotten the i
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Where do you think Zillow gets its listings? They pay the MLS maintainers. If the MLS didn't exist and we relied on private corporate sources of information, then it's likely the experience would be like in France: many competing
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by blacksqr 3y ago
> more information is better Agree. > gatekeepers are bad Somebody has to pay to gather, store and present information in usable fashion in order for it to be of value. It doesn't just appear or self-assemble. The alternative we
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by blacksqr 3y ago
I did some searching to answer my own question about what happens in Europe, and found the following [0]: --------------------------------------- > Is there an MLS or other database of Paris apartments for sale? The short answer: No. The
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by blacksqr 3y ago
I suppose at this point most people don't remember that in the 20th century the Multiple Listing Service was a private database that only registered agents could access. So your average buyer had to hire an agent just to get a good ide
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MiniExpr: Parse and execute text math expressions in C for Tcl(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Seaweed! But the word "seaweed" alone is about as useful as the word "plastic"; there are are so many different kinds that the word alone is not very informative. I couldn't find any information on just what kind of
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A Perl script to generate static call graphs for multiple languages(github.com)
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by blacksqr 3y ago
People have been trying for over a hundred years to find ways to extract gold and other precious metals efficiently from seawater, where the supply is virtually unlimited but extremely dilute. When I saw this article my first thought was, m

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