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by jnurmine 5y ago
During the 1970s the Club of Rome made "The Limits to Growth" with the World3 model and, whatever it predicts, some scenarios like the Business As Usual (BAU) seems to have tracked quite well for ca. 50 years already. The latest c
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by jnurmine 5y ago
I have to admit I still fail to understand why the laser would somehow travel to the past. > That laser beam will appear at the location you pointed it however many light years in the past it would have taken for light to travel to its d
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by jnurmine 5y ago
But why, why would this change the past? Let's say you've a magical superluminal laser. The laser is turned on 20 lightyears away now, you see the dot appear immediately, instead of 20 years later (because it was magically superlu
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Indeed... but superluminal travel seems to be a fountain of so many illogicalities that I wonder how it could be possible at all. For example, the atoms A and B would at some point interact with a past C (once catching up to this "wave
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Seems to be a framework to combine graphics and music etc. for whatever purpose. What caught my eye was Habitat by Heleen Blanken, that really is something I'd like to see in real life: https://nxtmuseum.com/artist&#x2F
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by jnurmine 5y ago
I don't understand why backwards time travel is even a thing. This is how I've thought of it: Assume you have a clock with two atoms A and B some distance apart which interact somehow with mechanism C using waves, fields or whatev
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Would love to see other things like physics, chemistry, etc. done with this kind of representation. Visualized, concise descriptions.
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by jnurmine 5y ago
An interesting article, it made me think. I doubt there is one global model or form of a collapse scenario which would happen everywhere. It's likely that some places, already hanging on the edge of chaos, would enter this state in a v
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by jnurmine 5y ago
With work from home this kind of setup can become a viable option for many. Living in the city feels really more and more repulsive to me, so hearing about people who have moved off-grid or to a rural location sounds super interesting. I ha
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Yes and no :) Yeah, they got vented into space et cetera, but I'd say in the first 2 movies humans actually failed to kill the xenomorphs (eggs on LV-426 and aboard Sulaco). At the end of the third movie the newly born xenomorph queen
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by jnurmine 5y ago
One thing I've found fascinating is how the outside appearance of a human body repeats the number 5; there are 5 things sticking out from a center mass (2 legs, 2 arms and the head). Each foot has 5 toes, each hand has 5 fingers. And i
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Perhaps it evolved on a planet with an Earth-like, but much harsher, environment. To draw an analogy from fiction, what would happen if one sent Giger's Alien in all its glory, razor tail and all, to compete in an entry-level boxing ma
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Looks nice and it's probably useful for many people, but personally I want things like my notes to stay 100% local. When it comes to my notes, what I read, or when I read it, any kind of cloud component or connection to the internet is
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Yes, exactly, visual things drawn on top of the PDF. I mean things like Okular has: highlighting text (like with a yellow highlighter on paper books), freeform draw tool (like scribbling with a pen), adding short text comments and longer no
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Annotations are super useful. Please consider storing the annotations external to the PDF. For example, Okular wants to save these to the PDF itself. This doesn't work very well with a read-only network drive (read: corporate environme
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by jnurmine 5y ago
There's also Scandinavian Real Heart ( https://realheart.se ) from Sweden. They are developing a "total artificial heart" with two chambers and two pumps for a natural blood flow (and pulse). Longterm animal tests a
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm no Jackson Galaxy. But pets, both cats and dogs, communicate with their owners in their own way. Cats are a lot about body language. For your question I just look at the ears and the tail. When the ears go lower and&#x2
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by jnurmine 5y ago
That sounds superb and I wish you good luck and lots of trail magic. The AT looks beautiful (I've only seen pictures of it in blogs). Forests are wonderful. I grew up around forests, playing in them as a child. A few years ago while da
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by jnurmine 5y ago
I thought of people who have deep frozen themselves because of medical reasons. That's kind of forward time-travel, no? (Assuming they ever can be successfully resuscitated)
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Thank you. I'm only a layman who likes to do the occasional thought experiment, but does time really have to be an objective (concrete and elastic and traversable) dimension to explain time dilation? Isn't there any alternative ex
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by jnurmine 5y ago
The concept of "travelling backwards in time" is very odd. To "travel in time" I guess first one would have to define what exactly is this "time" one is about to travel backwards in. So... what exactly is &quot
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Maybe not all plants are alike? According to VafabMiljö [1], who runs the local biogas facility, in the year 2020 they processed 16157 tons of household biowaste, i.e. 66% of entire processing that year. The other stuff was sewage sludge an
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by jnurmine 6y ago
And the gas comes from biowaste, which is actually nice, because municipalities which have the most effective ways of collecting and processing biowaste can export the resulting biogas to e.g. surrounding municipalities and in this way gene
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Probably this: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_...
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Staying on the topic of turtles... I wonder what the box-like things with rectangular squiggles really depicts? The left side of the first picture. They somehow remind me of the pattern on the back of a turtle.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I did, man. Table 1. Wi-Le Energy/packet: 84 uJ Wi-Le Idle current: 2.5 uA BLE Energy/packet: 71 uJ BLE Idle current: 1.1 uA You can see this from Figure 4 as well. So, like I wrote, Bluetooth consumes less battery.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I hope not. For one thing, Bluetooth consumes less battery. Also, when the topic of Bluetooth comes up, many people complain that they have Bluetooth issues. Sadly, some manufacturers do not care about interoperability. Maybe I'm just
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I don't know what you define as insurance, but in this case it's basically something which contains things you can invest or save money to, and you get to name a beneficiary (e.g. your child/grandchild/wife/husband&
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by jnurmine 6y ago
1. Nordnet and Avanza both do this, but they let you opt out. Specifically to Avanza, if you have stocks in a kapitalförsäkring then you are automatically included and if you don't like this, you need to opt out. 2. Yes, looks like it.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
With Bash I use "pushd .", "dirs" and "pushd +1"/"pushd -1". I guess that's not quite as advanced as z or fasd though!

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