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by jbotz 4y ago
It's not just about a different way to drill. It's about a) going much deeper than existing geothermal ad thus having supercritical steam as a heat source which can directly replace fossil fuels, and b) using existing infrastruct
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Brains Use Quantum Computation(tcd.ie)
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This is a problem only with fish that are relatively high on the food chain (such as tuna), as each rung on the ladder effectively acts as a multiplier for heavy metals accumulation. Also fish that are high on the food chain are usually ca
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by jbotz 4y ago
The "meat" of the thing was right in the middle, so you may have missed it... it's simply that according to her research the best way of figuring out what someone is thinking or feeling is to ask them. Doh.
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No matter what you think about regulating this kind of thing in general, in this case I think it's not a big deal and definitely a positive. No matter whether it's a lightning, usb c, or other kind of connector, these connectors
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I think you're missing the point... agriculture allows for greater population density and specialization, which makes armies possible (not to mention technology leading to superior armaments), which in turn means that when the two ente
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Except that's not precisely what the bible says, at least not exclusively. The bible is a big, heterogeneous book, you can find a bit of everything in it, and there are passages that specifically say that it's our responsibility
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Lout[1], Patoline[2], Sile[3], Pollen[4], and Ant[5]. Taken from the Wikipedia page on "Typesetting"[6]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software) [2] http://patoline.org/ (seems to
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by jbotz 4y ago
Humph. My home IP address which is shared by thousands of random people behind two layers of NAT, in Brazil, gets a score of "63, low risk". My mail server, on Linode in the US, which has had the same IP# for about 20 years and
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> the same fixed length 16 byte file in the same location On the SSDs you weren't writing to the same location. The firmware keeps mapping your writes to different locations for wear leveling. So if those 16 bytes are the only thi
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Right, and all digital computers are Turing Machines. See also Stephen Wolfram's Principle of Computational Equivalence[1]. There can be, and are theories that no one human brain can ever fully understand (like Quantum Mechanics) and
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Sabine tries to clarify the various meanings of "Big Bang" here, but one thing confused me more in her explanation... she says, that Einstein's theory "breaks down 10^-43 seconds before the mathematical singularity&quo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_British_thro...
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Symbols are important, even to history. As for how major a historical event Elizabeth II's passing is, only history can tell and history tells it's stories with a delay, so we'll have to see. It could mark the beginning of t
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by jbotz 4y ago
Well, first off this energy would be initially replacing energy that was previously coming from fossil fuels, so on account of that not much. But, as Stross points out there is a 70% loss in transmission, and presumably most of that ends up
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by jbotz 4y ago
They'll probably aim for competing with the likes of Okta in delegated authentication and identity management, which is a huge market which need some more competition. I'm in favor, and it really doesn't need to have any neg
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Keybase was an entirely different case... first of all, they didn't just take VC funding, they were bought outright ("acqui-hired" by Zoom for their skillset). Secondly, they didn't have any significant income, whereas
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Saturated fat: villain and bogeyman of cardiovascular disease?(academic.oup.com)
32 points by jbotz 4y ago|24 comments
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A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness(frontiersin.org)
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Advertisers Plan to Use ‘Dream-Hacking’ to Implant Branding into Your Dreams(contxmedia.com)
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by jbotz 4y ago
Are you sure? The man page for Vixie cron at least doesn't imply that and it's not what I remember, and the web page this links to also doesn't think that's true. So "First Friday of the month at midnight" gi
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by jbotz 4y ago
Story-driven learning doesn't work for everybody... there are different "learning styles". There is no single accepted theory of what those are, but that there are differences can hardly be doubted. Some people actually pref
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That's what I said. I said "the Romans did not use fossil fuels but they used charcoal (which has it's own problems).
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Coal is a fossil fuel and was critical for the UK's industrialization quite a bit earlier than that. As for earlier civilizations... the Romans didn't use any fossil fuels, but their large construction projects used mind-boggling
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by jbotz 4y ago
> if this is correct... It isn't. We've known that H2O is what most absorbs infrared in the atmosphere for 150 years; the thing is that how much H2O exists in the atmosphere is a function of temperature, and with the exception
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by jbotz 4y ago
Yeah, they should be nominated for an Ig Nobel. So I've sent in a Nomination! For a work straddling the boundary between advanced science/engineering and Lovecraftian horror and for coining the world "Necrobotics". A
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Because of global warming? Then I'd like to point out that the biggest changes in climate have been in the arctic and temperate regions so far, and that's likely to continue for some time. Yes, of course places that are already
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by jbotz 4y ago
OK, I checked. Calibre did almost nothing to the epubs I downloaded and added to the Calibre library and then sent to my device from there (a KOBO Libra H2O). The only thing it did was to add a file `./META-INF/calibre_bookmar
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by jbotz 4y ago
DwarFS may be good, but it's not in the Linux kernel (depends on FUSE). That makes it less universal, potentially significantly slower for some uses cases, and also less thoroughly tested. SquashFS is used by a lot of embedded Linux
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Funny, Apple pretty much invented the scrollbar. Well, they copied a lot of the GUI ideas from the Xerox Star which had a scrollbar, but it was quite different. The currently almost universal one with a handle that indicates relative posi

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