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by cossatot 10y ago
This is unfortunate for infrastructure but is why we're able to use GPS to measure plate tectonic motions. The geologic consequences of (relative) plate motions are also unfortunate for infrastructure, as well... Out of curiosity, I ju
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by cossatot 10y ago
You're right. The Hayward fault is a right-lateral fault, striking northwest (parallel to the San Andreas) and the west side moves north relative to North America. The reporter made a booboo.
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by cossatot 10y ago
I've got a 3rd-hand Halliburton case from the 60s(?) and love it. The main issue is that it really freaks out flight attendants on international flights, because everyone knows that you put bombs in aluminum briefcases.
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by cossatot 10y ago
Toughbooks are awesome. I've used several CF-19s over the years for geologic mapping, and they're excellent though a little heavy. The rubberized keyboard kind of sucks and the one I have now has a backlit keyboard which is great
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by cossatot 10y ago
Milankovitch cycles are thought to be a major factor, by everyone from climate scientists to oil companies (who have refined the history of these cycles exquisitely to help identify petroleum in particular rock units deposited during rising
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by cossatot 10y ago
From the journal article, re: energy extraction from coal: "The thermodynamic enthalpy available per CO2 emitted from carbon combustion (−394 kJ/mole) is less than that from methane (−890 kJ/mole) combustion. Coal, compared t
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by cossatot 10y ago
The various layers of scamming are exactly what makes this article worth reading. I couldn't care less about Satoshi or Bitcoin. However, so many people and institutions suspending their own disbelief and putting their time, money and
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Well you've got a lot of respect from this community, as well as a good bit of understanding of the limitations inherent in academia. Best of luck!
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Math support would be very nice for me.
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That's an interesting point. How would you make a map from it?
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by cossatot 10y ago
Spend some time in some of these communities and figure out how to help? I don't think technology or software should be taken only to mean automation. A lot of fertile ground is opened up by easier communication, and many enterprises
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by cossatot 10y ago
The biggest thing for me, apart from emissions reduction, is habitat preservation. The climate is always shifting of course, and humans will be OK (some populations will suffer, some will benefit but probably fewer, but we won't go ext
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How is this startup bootstrapping solar and water solutions?(wamda.com)
1 points by cossatot 10y ago|0 comments
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by cossatot 10y ago
I've spent a good amount of my research career working on (and sometimes in) China, with and without Chinese collaborators, depending on the project, and I have reviewed a lot of research by Chinese scientists. It is excellent and rema
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by cossatot 10y ago
I like the idea of a word processor with many of the features we expect in text editors. I've figured out how to make Vim (+pandoc) do what I want, mostly, but I don't expect non-programmers to do that. Word completion, version
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by cossatot 10y ago
There might be aquifers below the surface of rocky bodies, provided sufficient heat and pressure exist to keep the water liquid. But this would be water in cracks on the rock, or in between grains of sand if sedimentary rocks exist. Howeve
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How Trump’s troll army is cashing in on his campaign(fusion.net)
1 points by cossatot 10y ago|1 comments
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by cossatot 10y ago
I think the most important thing is to not conflate weather and climate. Weather is a local, relatively instantaneous, open system whereas climate is global, long-term and less open. Weather is chaotic in part because energy can be rapidly
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by cossatot 10y ago
> Insofar as the issue of his tone or arrogance is concerned, I don't get that. Is it possible that when we complain about an adversary or messenger with bad "tone" or "arrogance" that there is something in the m
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by cossatot 10y ago
I learned from Black Swan about how pervasive power laws and fractals were in social/financial phenomena, and how the important the framing (i.e. the prior expectations) of 'black swan' events are (black swan event for the tu
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by cossatot 10y ago
Ideally there would be profits...
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by cossatot 10y ago
Nice! I learned Matlab to do nonlinear optimization of GPS data to solve for fault locking depths and slip rates, and then a year or two later learned Python to do run FEMs of thermochronology data (also to get fault slip rates) on Amazon&
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by cossatot 10y ago
For people interested in science (finance would also work) there is an infinite number of things to be done to be useful (or simply interesting) at various levels. Doing calculations by writing functions, reading files, etc. is a great way
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by cossatot 10y ago
Cascadia subduction zone events don't seem to trigger large earthquakes in the faults above the subduction zone: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013JB010635/epdf And the 1857 and 1906 M7+ eve
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by cossatot 10y ago
For what it's worth, the 2001 Nisqually earthquake was not on any of the faults in the Puget Lowland, it was in the subducting Juan de Fuca slab, and was quite deep (57 km) which reduced the ground shaking considerably. That said there
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by cossatot 11y ago
I can't find any published research by Dr. Kent on this (and the abstracts from the referenced conference aren't on the website yet) but there are some important things to keep in mind when considering this type of thing: 1) Earth
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by cossatot 11y ago
Navel analytics
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I don't know a whole lot about the general outcomes of those slowly and progressively displaced by gentrification but in sufficiently small catastrophies (i.e. not Syria) the displaced lower classes often do better economically. For e
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by cossatot 11y ago
It might have to do with increasing state subsidies for and regulations requiring renewable energy[1] as well as major, image-sensitive investors like CalPERS wanting to get rid of their fossil fuel holdings. These could both increase the
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Identifies Tweets Sent Under the Influence of Alcohol(technologyreview.com)
1 points by cossatot 11y ago|0 comments

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