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541.
by drran 5y ago
Yep, but if you want to have cheap energy, then it better to start with something cheaper, like LENR, which is still pain to reproduce, but give it $100bn and 20 years and then compare with ITER.
542.
by drran 5y ago
We should replace iron rebar with corrosion resistant fiberglass rebar.
543.
by drran 5y ago
It's easy to prove that ancients were unable to produce concrete. You just need to prove that they had no access to stone, fire, and water — the key ingredients required to make concrete.
544.
by drran 5y ago
My attempts on this: https://github.com/vlisivka/rust-arduino-blink - just minimal blink https://github.com/vlisivka/rust-arduino-hello-world - just print "Hello, world" to serial port.
545.
by drran 5y ago
See Arch[0] module for FreeCAD. [0]: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Arch_Workbench
546.
by drran 5y ago
Easier, but not safer. Pure carbon (mixed with something inert, to prevent burning) doesn't need armed guard for the next 500 years at least. IMHO, the easiest and cheapest way to store carbon is to grow algae to make hydrocarbons (oil
547.
by drran 5y ago
We can convert CO2 into coal and then store it underground, just like nuclear waste.
548.
by drran 5y ago
GPS is military technology designed that for that.
549.
by drran 5y ago
> It's perfectly fine if universal "you owe me"s cannot be held back indefinitely Loans are adjusted for inflation already.
550.
by drran 5y ago
Atheists are not communists, but communists are atheists: they're believing that God does not exist, so they can take his role.
551.
by drran 5y ago
In case of 3D printers, patents worked as expected. 3 different methods were invented, patented (opened to public with protection for 20 years), then patent are expired, and general public was able to fruit developed technology and advance
552.
by drran 5y ago
You can make your own medicine at home in many countries, but safety testing takes years and costs hundreds of millions. After years of testing, when the result is good and the inventor is lucky, the inventor will have just a few years of p
553.
by drran 5y ago
Communists (atheists) done a lot more harm than any religion, and they hate gay marriage too. Anything powerful can be used to do a good thing and a bad thing. Any institution can be used to do an evil thing, neglect, or be corrupt, e.g. po
554.
by drran 5y ago
How many Chornobyl`s we need to save wild nature?
555.
by drran 5y ago
Not electricity, but water. We should ban water for raining from the sky to save lives.
556.
by drran 5y ago
IMHO, Russia wants to make their Nord Stream 2 gas pipe "green" to circumvent sanctions. Gazprom must be worth €1 trillion at any cost.
557.
by drran 5y ago
Red Hat sells GPL'ed software for billions. Oracle tried to do the same. Amazon created a whole ecosystem (AWS) around GPL'ed code. Even M$ embraces GPL. Can you name the problem, please?
558.
by drran 5y ago
As user, permissive license means "no source for you", because vendor is not obligated to share source with end user by permissive license. For end user, there is no difference between permissive and proprietary licenses. The GPL
559.
by drran 5y ago
Daily average profits for free service are 0.
560.
by drran 5y ago
Why I need to use readline on a system without libc, e.g. a heavily optimized container?
561.
by drran 5y ago
> someone who just has a lot of domain knowledge ... is called product owner.
562.
by drran 5y ago
Team lead is known as "project manager". Tech lead is just the most experienced person on the project.
563.
by drran 5y ago
`notcurses-demo` works badly in `wezterm`. `mapscii.me` works fine. Nice terminal, but a bit hard to configure, because of Lua.
564.
by drran 5y ago
What happened with HACKER news?
565.
by drran 5y ago
x=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] min(x) < avg(x) true OMG!!!
566.
by drran 5y ago
LOL, virus escaped from "Vector" BSL4 lab in Novosibirsk, Russia, 16.09.2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7SAeNcXA8 . They were not played at home. They were not amateurs. But, as you can see at 1:04 (see so
567.
by drran 5y ago
> I think the keyword that, in my mind, justifies the censorship here is "on most major tech platforms". Nobody is banning the discussion of these ideas in academic journals or HN I was banned on HN after questioning of QM and
568.
by drran 5y ago
> It certainly won't stop prostitution. Why «certainly»? Why goal to «stop», not to «reduce by 99%»?
569.
by drran 5y ago
Remote worker is part of remote economic system, so yes.
570.
by drran 5y ago
Yep, their OVERALL productivity, as part of the system, has dropped by 25%. Isn't that obvious? They are not spherical workers in vacuum, they are part of economic system. If you open a store in the middle of a desert, your overall pro

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