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by jimworm 5y ago
> I don't think the CCP would be so petty to come after you abroad for something like this. Maybe you don't know about LIHKG posters being attacked in the UK [1]. The CCP has teams of operatives working overseas specifically f
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by jimworm 5y ago
Short term weaknesses can make long term advantages irrelevant. Actually it's the primary force that shapes history.
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by jimworm 5y ago
But in that case they would eventually be caught red-handed and won't get to do the "for the children" spiel and get it swept under the rug like it's about to be.
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by jimworm 5y ago
This looks a lot like what I was thinking of. They don't provide much information about their extracting filter, but after the CO2 is extracted it is compressed into water creating carbonic acid, then injected it into a suitable basalt
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by jimworm 5y ago
Trees with their own conversion capacity are indeed a good interim solution, but in the long term this form of carbon storage isn't as permanent as rocks, especially given how prone trees are to dying and decaying in the biosphere of t
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by jimworm 5y ago
For all the carbon capture that the Devonian/Carboniferous period did over 100 million years, humanity undid a large part of it in 150 or so years. And now to preserve human civilisation in some form, the most direct way is probably to
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by jimworm 6y ago
The whole point of "not splitting" is a lesson learned in 2014, to continue showing support for the goals no matter the methods seen in protest. Nobody knew whether another in the group is an agent provocateur or a genuine radical
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by jimworm 6y ago
As a layman, it looks like failures to deliver have very little consequence, so I'll ask some stupid questions here. If one of these activist investors happened to have lent a stock out, which then failed to deliver, what is the worst
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by jimworm 6y ago
They have to be happy on average. It's like being in a race where all the competitors started running in different directions, but eventually finding that the others have turned around to follow your target, effectively giving you a he
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by jimworm 6y ago
The iceberg is very large, so even if it doesn't envelop the island it could create a detour of up to 140km between a penguin and its feeding waters, a 280km addition to every trip - and that's only if it has access to satellite i
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by jimworm 6y ago
My view is rather different. Written Chinese does not "belong" to Mandarin or any other spoken Chinese language, but is its own entity. While the mainland-China version of simplified Chinese is based around Mandarin, written Chine
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by jimworm 6y ago
If you weren't doing this already, try holding your breath after exhaling to reduce the amount of oxygen stored in your lungs, then the wait wouldn't be as long - 2-3 minutes is a good breath hold!
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by jimworm 6y ago
In a video now removed by the WHO, they were still advocating for travel in the middle of February. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBvReECRrI
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by jimworm 7y ago
Depends whether the targeted antigen has changed. Best case (for humans) is if it couldn't escape the targeting without deactivating the virus. RNA viruses do change quickly, but influenza's probably on a different level with its
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by jimworm 7y ago
That is the correct movie. Here are the relevant parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze2gFeHtTUU
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by jimworm 7y ago
Attempted to enter the dorms to arrest nobody in particular, without a warrant. After seeing the past few months' video evidence of police brutality, fear and resistance seem somewhat justified. Personally I haven't yet imagined a
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by jimworm 7y ago
What are those "big brands" willing to accept? If their ads appear on a different sub to those they consider objectionable content, would that be considered sufficiently "clean"? Is there a value placed on moderation, an
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by jimworm 7y ago
Li Ka-shing is well aware. His job ad for a Chinese PA was featured in the news for its salary (HK$1Mpa) and very high requirements (expert level in modern and classical Chinese and Chinese history, 20+ years experience). https:/&#x2F
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by jimworm 7y ago
I was justifying my preference for the gene drive compared with the fungus. The fungus has potential to evolve independently to do different things, the gene drive does not. QED.
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by jimworm 7y ago
I'd much prefer the (theoretical) gene drive. Bad outcomes for gene drive are either that it doesn't work, or the mosquitoes go extinct in nature and cause more ecological issues by their absence. The worst problem is fixable by k
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by jimworm 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCMaglev#Australia
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by jimworm 7y ago
No it's not. It could be DRM for the biotech industry though.
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by jimworm 8y ago
The two times a year when you find out which new tests were written to use local time instead of UTC.
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by jimworm 8y ago
Google Hangouts failed in Firefox for me last week. Had to break the Chromium out.
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by jimworm 8y ago
For me, the more shocking discovery in that article is that there are actually organisations that consider genetic screening for Down's Syndrome to be eugenic discrimination. Although people with Down's syndrome have a high likeli
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by jimworm 8y ago
The NIST explanation of Kibble balance calibration includes this: > Everything on the right side of that equation can be determined to extraordinary precision: The current and voltage by using quantum-electrical effects that are measurab
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by jimworm 8y ago
A PSA on biometric security's weakness against coercion - including law enforcement, but likely more often abusive spouses or employers.
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by jimworm 8y ago
The grown-ups are the voters where they could vote, and the angry mobs where they could not. It seems increasingly evident that the Nash equilibrium of that game might not be a place comfortable to philosophers.
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by jimworm 8y ago
Pockets cost money to make, and therefore could be removed to cut costs if buyers do not value them. Do men value pockets more than women? Speaking as an owner of very few items of clothing, just one item with inadequate pockets causes a lo
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by jimworm 9y ago
Counting on that for my next startup, artisanal electricity.

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