cmoscoe

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by cmoscoe 4y ago
Hugged to death?
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by cmoscoe 5y ago
Here in Canada, when it gets below -15c or so, my iPhone will give me an error that it's out of it's operating temperature, and needs to "cool down". Californian developers, I guess.
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by cmoscoe 6y ago
On the 'repeated failures' piece, that's somewhat new for aerospace. Traditionally, things would be over-engineered, and losing a test vessel would be considered a bad thing. SpaceX seems very content to blow up a bunch of ro
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by cmoscoe 6y ago
Yes, but they only replaced the lowest-end 13 inch pro at this point, and are still selling the higher-end Intels. The performance versions will follow next year.
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by cmoscoe 6y ago
Watching this unfold as a resident of the next-neighbourhood-over was fascinating. At first everyone was excited that a big, American company would choose Toronto for this sort of project. The initial RFP from Waterfront Toronto had very c
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
My knee-jerk reaction to this was to a find a confounding variable. Maybe people get more violent when the weather is hot, which is also when we use the most energy? I know cops always complain about hot days.
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
I've had this thing happen twice now while visiting SF, where I'm following google maps, end up walking through the Tenderloin, and have a bunch of people try to sell me drugs. The second time I asked one of the guys trying to sel
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
Prices rise.
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
There have been a lot of news stories about microplastics being basically everywhere recently. Is there any good research on if it's a problem? What are the effects on humans of consuming them? What are the effects on aquatic ecosyste
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
There are probably also some age-cohort demographics at play. As millennials start to have families, the suburban (or small-urban) lifestyle becomes more appealing. It's a big generation, so they pull the demographics around. Who kno
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
This can work for travellers, but seems impractical for crew going back and forth many times each day.
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
By helping to diversify petro-state economies in the gulf, you can sort of make the case that they're helping?
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
One issue with this method is that the Fortune 500 has companies in it that are hundreds of years old. Only 26 of them were founded this century[1]. Alexander Hamilton founded one of them. The circumstances today could be somewhat differen
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
I've hear the Hoover Dam proposed, and theoretically any existing dam could be converted? Just need to pump some water back upstream when there's excess load in the system. Here in Canada a lot of our energy is hydroelectric and I
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
The author seems to, at several points, conflate political bias with truth. While there may be some correlation there, to me it would seem more valuable to point people towards factual, reputable, meaningful content regardless of whether it
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by cmoscoe 7y ago
This debate is happening in a lot of jurisdictions. Here in Ontario we're refurbishing our older reactors, at a massive expense, in order to get off of coal, and reduce dependance on gas. It's resulted in very high energy costs (e