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by ejolto 9y ago
> For instance, look at the gun ownership/gun crime rates. Could you expand on this? Norway ranks at 6th place in number of guns per 100 inhabitants and 39th in number of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 population per year. The U
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by ejolto 9y ago
I looked at the github repo, and the readme has this sentence > I woke up one morning after seeing the traeish of Bojack Horseman and thought What does traeish mean? I tried to google but that didn't help much.
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by ejolto 9y ago
I was going to say maybe you mixed up the alpha and beta version, but turns out Minecraft was only in alpha for six months. Weird, felt much longer for me too.
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by ejolto 9y ago
That makes perfect sense, thanks for pointing it out to me.
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Sorry about that, I removed the spoiler to not ruin the story for anyone else.
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by ejolto 9y ago
> When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or as directed by some evildoer. In reality something, on
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by ejolto 9y ago
From the nature report[1]: > To annihilate tardigrades on Earth we require a mass over ∼1.7E18 kg. The largest observed asteroids in the Solar System are Vesta and Pallas, with masses of 2.7E20 kg and 2.2E20 kg respectively. That gives y
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by ejolto 9y ago
Falcon 9 is a new rocket without a lot of statistics about mission success rate. They had a few failed launches in 2015 and 2016. This makes launching your payload on a Falcon 9 more risky and you have to pay a higher insurance premium, tha
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by ejolto 9y ago
Some people think money has inherent value..
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by ejolto 9y ago
Just curious, what field did you go into? I'll be spending the next year at CERN, as an electronics engineer though not a physicist.
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by ejolto 9y ago
That's true! And the system has 4 Noctua fans and a Corsair H80i water cooler, which will all make more noise than the PSU anyway.
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by ejolto 9y ago
> The power supply is WAY too oversized The fan is off if the load is below 30% which is neat if you are into silent builds.
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by ejolto 10y ago
On NASAs website[1][2] [1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/... [2] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.htm...
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by ejolto 10y ago
It needs to be pointed out that the diode isn't converting over 100% of the electrical power into optical power. The extra optical power comes from Peltier heat drawn from the semiconductor lattice. The LEDs only had ">100% eff
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by ejolto 10y ago
The main contributor to green house gas emissions from electric cars is from their use, not production. If you want to reduce your carbon footprint electric cars is still a good choice [1]. The LCA literature shows the main contributor to
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by ejolto 11y ago
We went down the dark road of licensing restrictions on farmers almost 90 years ago.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930 . Actually the first patent on a living organism dates back to 1873 when Monsi
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by ejolto 11y ago
And who owns the money from the north sea oil?
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by ejolto 11y ago
By definition not in our lifetime then.
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by ejolto 11y ago
Thanks for the interesting link, I've been curious for a while about running my own email server. Do you encrypt the email on disk, or are they stored in plain text?
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by ejolto 11y ago
They are, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fission bombs.
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by ejolto 11y ago
Less than a fourth of a cent per kWh? So 4 kWh costs less than a cent? Where do you live?
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by ejolto 11y ago
Inconclusive experiment; poop DNA destroyed by solar and cosmic radiation.
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by ejolto 11y ago
Not really. One of the major parts of the OSX port is opengl support which he has been working on since at least March. http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/2015-03-14-porting-opengl...
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by ejolto 11y ago
There is this strange social pressure about writing email in a formal manner e.g. Dear, X Best regards, Y This in addition to emails forcing you to come up with subject header for every conversation makes writing emails in a cas
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by ejolto 11y ago
Why is this using the md5 hash of the password to generate the key for the aes function instead of something like PBKDF2? Yeah I know the hash isn't stored anywhere, but still, using md5 in a security setting feels wrong.
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by ejolto 11y ago
I think you misunderstood ender7's comment. The robots in the drawings of the article don't work automatically, while the robots of today cerntainly do.
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*Etter å ha lært litt norsk, plager det meg også.