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by ctdonath 6y ago
Yes. You’ve got a big hole in the wall/ceiling with a pressure differential blowing most of the heat up & out while sucking cold air in. Balanced improperly, you get a radiant heat area with rest subject to cold air.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
The next Apple Watch is rumored to have non-invasive glucose monitoring. Expect many without diabetes to get a reality check.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Reentry burn goes awry at about T+6:50.
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SpaceX booster lost(youtube.com)
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by ctdonath 6y ago
They weren’t, but did achieve something remarkable that’s still underappreciated by many.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
The Founding Fathers intended the elimination of slavery, and banned it to a meaningful degree during establishment of the new nation, but had to compromise lest the fragile Union break before it could form. Slavery eventually eliminated (b
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by ctdonath 6y ago
As the Founding Fathers of the USA intended: establish minimal governance to facilitate polite commerce, and otherwise stay the he11 out of each others' business.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Hence the American Revolution and subsequent Constitution: enough government to keep the basics together, otherwise do whatever you want. ...and occasional civil wars (small and large) reminding leaders to keep it that way.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Blasting audio in a noisy environment for hours can cause tinnitus, AirPods included and not exclusive. Trust me. Another case of “OMG Apple!” click bait.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
UBI is literally government funding. The point of it is to provide all with means to buy staple goods/services, and as with all government funded goods/services the price will go up.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
That’s the only reason I even entertain the notion of UBI: if you’re going to have a massive welfare state, then the only sensible way is hand everyone $PovertyLine income no strings attached. Otherwise you get a massive costly self-serving
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Market cap is an estimated resale value under current/predictable conditions. GDP is a total of cumulative annual transactions. We can measure Bitcoin both ways, and each is remarkable.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Don’t move the goalposts. Bitcoin has little economic impact relative to its energy use you wrote. Oh, but it does. Miners created something of value, others bought with real money substantially greater than the cost of creation - and dur
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by ctdonath 6y ago
The money spent by interested parties indicates otherwise.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Scale does not inherently excuse. Energy for gaming could be routed to feeding/warming the poor; should 100 die of starvation/hypothermia so that 1,000,000 can play Fortnite? do you really want to continue such reasoning?
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by ctdonath 6y ago
That’s...what money does: evaluate supply vs demand, identifying the relationship of value between options, decided by those with a vested interest. Such a system inherently evaluates cost vs benefits in a holistic networked manner (vs wish
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Excellent questions with interesting answers. OP’s observation begins a fascinating discussion. I’ve been roughing out minimal cost of living, finding baseline around 5¢/hr; need to re-cast to kWh units.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Of course there is: physics. I hand you a pile of coins/bills, you have it and I don’t. “Bearer” is sufficient information.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
You know what would be revolutionary? Getting rid of currency altogether. So long as we still exist in a scarcity reality (not the utopian post-scarcity vision), there must a way to abstractly represent the value one possesses and may tra
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Somehow it's hailed as revolutionising the economy, by replacing currency with a worse kind of currency. “Bad money drives out good.” Best money is a compact, moderate/high value, easily verified, inherently useful/desirabl
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by ctdonath 6y ago
The great tragedy of AI: a promise of creating synthetic sentience, a reality of mundane number crunching.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Article needlessly spends paragraphs bashing political conservatives for no purpose related to the point.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Pain felt. Took me a month to find what turned out to be an obscure bug in an early USB 2 chip, while implementing it on a printer for Kodak as a proof of concept.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
“the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.” ― Anton Ego, 'Ratatouille'
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by ctdonath 6y ago
50 years ago people were busy staring at slices of dead trees while experiencing detailed hallucinations.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Having dealt with font legalities (IANAL) while writing a bare-metal printer driver: rendered characters are not copyrightable. Method of rendering may be, but not final output.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Pedantic trolling noted; I’ll engage just to hone my thoughts. Every production rocket is fully expendable. Launch, expect discard of 100%* of launch system. Starship is designed for 100% reusable, with same-day fly/land/refuel&#x
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by ctdonath 6y ago
SpaceX Starship is way outside established industry specifications.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
(Reference to a Terry Gilliam movie about normal life occurring over a surreal government-vs-revolutionaries backdrop.)
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Brazil 2: Myanmar

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