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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I can't find information on likely Republican candidates for the TX-21 seat, but the Austin Chronicle has an article on Democratic candidates [0], one of whom is a 'tech entrepreneur': Joseph Kopser (www.kopserforcongress.co
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Funderbeam raises $5.8M for early-stage startups through its blockchain(venturebeat.com)
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Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero(newyorker.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness w
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Someone was willing to take the risk of leaking it to NPR to start with. You're right, but when you say that one "should be willing to take risks" do you mean that the journalist should make that decision? If so I disagree;
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I think your idea just creates capital flight and wouldn't work in practice... which is too bad because I wish it would work. How lovely it'd be if we could say "make your capital productive or surrender it to someone who wil
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Plantation forestry grows about 20 cubic meters per hectare-year [0]. Doug Fir weighs ~600 kg-m3 [1]. 3B US tons / (20x600 kg) per hectare-year = 6,796,166 hectares. Plantation lumber is harvested in 7, 14, and 21 year cuts [0], so to
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
What if you can't be sure what level of redaction is safe? What if your source is compromised by some watermark or steganographic content you missed? The Intercept had contacted the NSA on May 30 and sent copies of the documents to th
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Quantifying Release of Climate-Active Gases by Large Meteorite Impacts(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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NASA looking for private organizations to take over Spitzer mission(spacenews.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
My opinion is that you can't stop it because it is a byproduct of other things that are desirable (the difference between CRISPR'ing pigs to be less fatty and CRISPR'ing humans to be less fatty will become increasingly less o
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
These subsidies were almost on the way out for GM & Tesla anyway. The qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle credit phases out for a manufacturer’s vehicles over the one-year period beginning with the second calendar quarter af
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Amazon Just Bought 3 Cryptocurrency Web Addresses and Nobody Knows Why(fortune.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
For what it is worth, this article is from 2012 and this is the 5th time it has been posted on HN.
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Rise of the machines must be monitored, say global finance regulators(reuters.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I took the quiz [0], and got 'Opportunity Democrat'. If I'm reading the results-by-question correctly, 99% of Opportunity Democrats aver that: Immigrants today strengthen our country because of their hard work and talents I
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BlackBerry CEO Promises to Try to Break Encryption If the US Gov't Asks Him To(techdirt.com)
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Facebook to testify 29M users delivered content from Russian troll farm(cbsnews.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
TFA: the majority of [phosphorous] reserves are in Morocco/Western Sahara, China, the U.S and South Africa. These four/five countries hold 83 percent of the world’s phosphate reserves according to scientist David Vaccari [0] &qu
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Is phosphorus running out and why does it matter?(beta.wikitribune.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I don't know, cost of disaster recovery isn't in the analyses I've read. For nuclear power the failure modes for different fuels and generations is different, so any analysis would need to take that into account. If you find
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, the "world’s largest battery site: a 200-megawatt, 800-megawatt-hour storage station in China’s Liaoning province" has enough capacity to power 10% of Portland, Oregon's residential use for
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
1.) In the US, all energy is subsidized by the federal government, including nuclear. Oil is the most highly subsidized, nuclear is one of the lowest, but solar, wind, and geothermal are even lower. The number quoted for 'renewable ene
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Further, 150 million tons of plastic isn't an insignificant amount - apparently it took us 60 years to put that much in the oceans. " 'In a little more than 60 years, we know we've littered more than 150 million tons of
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
This seems amazing to me - take trash plastic, grind it up, irradiate it with a food-grade tool, then mix it with Portland cement 98.5/1.5 and it makes the resulting concrete 15% stronger - and the resulting concrete can still be reinf
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I think a William Gibson-ish take-away from that report is that there is an inverse relationship between how someone's death is covered and how difficult it is to find data about that person. Famous TV star from the 70s who hasn't
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
the President himself is a known racist who barred blacks from his properties "“Trump promises to end race bias,”" http://time.com/4508889/presidential-debate-1970s-bias-donal... people are using violence
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
“We found in China users who like a very, um, demure type of individual.” This he mentions in a tone which seems to imply a stereotype I’m unaware of. I'm too naive to get this joke - can anyone explain it to me?
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Verizon will stop throttling video on unlimited plans for an extra $10 per month(theverge.com)
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
MIT astronautics faculty did a study which compares 13 different power generation methods for use on Mars [0]. They determined that: "For latitudes close to this optimum latitude (31" north), photo- voltaic power systems exhibit m

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