cowardlydragon

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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Here's more detail from my googling: http://extensiblefuture.blogspot.com/2016/10/co2-in-atmosphe...
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One quadrillion dollars: cost to remove CO2
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Well, everything is negotiable. If he's bringing in money, negotiate with the university about a good salary. It's no more job security than in corporate america.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Just help fund SpaceX's plan OR Set up a moon base to help the plan OR Help nuclear pulse drives for the interplanetary trips.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
In the interests of neutrality, isn't this basically what the Bush administration did as well?
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
ummm, href?
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
It's been shown that psychologically people don't care about how much absolute wealth / possessions they have. All they care about is their relative position.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
What's even worse? A mountain of bureaucracy that slows down everything as much as if you had strong defenses, but is effectively as weak as bad security.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
If we don't have to move the battery around, why not use cheaper but less compact techs for storage?
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
What kind of solar were these? I read the first couple pages and my skim didn't find them. If they aren't perovskite (and probably can't be since those are oh-so-close but not being manufactured), that raises two exciting pos
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
If ebikes aren't of the same mass / kinetic energy as a moped, they shouldn't be classified the same. Ebikes have the potential to revolutionize transportation in a positive way. Less infrastructure, more dense movement, open
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
It's called a bribe, folks.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
That is a stupid approach. Cars have always been coevolutionary with infrastructure and, hell, society as a whole. Why solve a problem for a point in time and its assumptions... the hard way? By adopting adaptive and coevolutionary timelin
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
I find the range improvement more significant. Anyone have info as to if the power density was increased, or they just crammed in more cells into the battery? I'm hoping for a 400 mile range car in two years... for half the price. Also
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Americans buy horsepower and drive torque.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
As I understood it in the Big Short: Christian Bale's character's hedge fund wanted to make a big bet that mortgage backed securities would fail. So he shopped the banks for those that would take that bet. The ones that agreed to
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
The Christian Bale character closed his fund to withdrawals from investors as the shit was hitting the fan but the big banks were trying to keep it under control, thus preventing his default swaps from paying off. He was losing money as the
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Batteries improve or get cheaper... Teslas are designed for quick swap service of the battery allegedly... Tesla has treated previous generation owners, such as the sport coupe, to free battery upgrades... If there are enough used teslas on
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
from wiki: Perovskite materials such as methylammonium lead halides are cheap to produce and simple to manufacture. Solar cell efficiencies of devices using these materials have increased from 3.8% in 2009 to 22.1% in early 2016,[3] making
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Strip mining planets once you're in space is pretty wasteful given gravity well overhead. Just harvest Asteroids, Moons, and comets, and planets are mostly for tourism.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
"Succession" in Louisiana I don't care if the methodology is suspect, I WANT TO BELIEVE...
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Almost like you need a faraday cage for the phone, with an internal antenna, a "router" through the faraday cage that you have hardware/software control, and then an antenna to rebroadcast outside the cage. Basically, a radio
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
This is of course getting a ton of press in Commie hating USA, but how much worse is this than narcostates or right-wing deathsquad-enforced regimes set up by the US? And of course since the US/CIA loved to plot overthrows and juntas,
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
The navy is largely pork. The modern navy is defenseless against any modern state's antiship ballistic missiles.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
These smaller modules would be ideal for that. As the plumbing wears out, replace the module, and recycle the old module, make another one. Smooths the scaling, production process outlays, gives opportunity for continuous improvement in the
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
LFTR should be implemented like this: modules that can be decommissioned on a scheduled basis so that the transmuted parts of the container can be recycled/extracted.
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
I'd be really interested to know what the team size of the original OSX people was. Granted they were probably all NextSTEPpers that really knew the OSX core inside and out to begin with. But still, Apple at the time had 1/100 the
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Article gone? Well, I'd guess fundamentally it was about tying yourself to the Microsoft sociopath mothership. Intel could have taken Linux by the reigns and made an OSX-equivalent and certainly windows-beating decades ago. But they di
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
- voice recognition on the computer - better search (apple's OSX is impressive... PC... nosomuch) - AI-based autocorrect of entered commands that learns who you are - better data visualization - better web visualization - gesture recog
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by cowardlydragon 10y ago
Once you have ossified middle management machiavelli banally evil sociopaths that only care about maintaining their miniempire, all the big companies can do is leverage monopoly power, startup gap, and government largess to persist.

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