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by jvm___ 3y ago
The deepest borehole, about the size of a coffee can, is only 12km deep before the tooling started melting - can't drill with a liquid bit... So 30km down it would be hitting liquid rock and a lot of heat.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Half the houses in the USA in 1940 didn't have indoor plumbing. They didn't ask in previous censuses, probably because it wasn't a relevant question which means 50% in 1940 was a climbing number and everything below that was
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by jvm___ 3y ago
15kms at 80km/s So, for a quarter of a second or less it was touching the ground and almost double the height of Everest (8.8kms).
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I mean, if you want to always be on the cutting edge, then a new technology rewrite every few years keeps you from sinking into the corporate pit that caught blockbuster. You always stay relevant at the cost of annoying non-paying customers
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by jvm___ 3y ago
There was a missing runner in Iowa who was eventually found in a corn field. I always wondered if some sort of Bluetooth sniffer could have found her smart watch if they'd canvassed the roads she was supposed to be on. Her body was 50-
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by jvm___ 3y ago
25% of mammals are bats, and 25% of trees are apple trees.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Gym shower drain algae. We're tiny dots that populate the water/land areas around the world. Globally we're microscopic. Just a pale blue dot, a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F It's in with the 150,000 characters included in Unicode. Unicode includes like 150 languages going all the way back to cuneiform.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
"...in rare cases, may cause gangrene of the perineum."
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Your right, I can't mass
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The Sun is 99.9% of the mass in our solar system. Jupiter is most of the remaining 0.1% and then the rest of the planets are included in the 0.01%. Also, Jupiter is the only planet that orbits around a point outside of the surface of the Su
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The "what will happen if..." modelling for that will be interesting...
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by jvm___ 3y ago
British statistician named George Box wrote the famous line, “All models are wrong, some are useful.”
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by jvm___ 3y ago
A single Spanish speaking mother with kids and a broken arm is unlikely to be successful in sueing the companies and they know it.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Or Elon will put up a ginormous film screen and we'll sunshade the Earth?
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I think it's at least a 100 as the carbon rises through the atmosphere? So we've locked in warming until the 2100's at least. My optimistic side says that technology will fix it (AI & superconductors?) and we'll loo
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by jvm___ 3y ago
the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love BY KARA JACKSON still, living like they orbit one another, my grandfather, the planet, & grandma, his moon assigned by some gravitational pull. they have loved long enough for a
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Maybe it was that she was hired as an independent contractor so she had no recourse. Either way, the story painted a horrible picture of the slaughterhouses who hire disadvantaged workers, and then just discard or ignore them when they are
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I read a story of a Latino immigrant Mom who worked the night shift cleaning a slaughterhouse every night. Wet, slick surfaces and sharp objects everywhere. The Mom was hired as a contractor through a third party company. She fell and was i
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Uniformed opinion. It takes a week to bake/whatever a test sample. Which is why this is playing out so "slowly". So, they had an idea and have been baking/testing/refining samples for decades. Science and funding ta
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by jvm___ 3y ago
https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest Just having a laugh about AI becoming too powerful. I don't honestly think it's happened yet, but it seems like a fake internet, or at least a future where it's hard
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Most groups are an out and back type thing. Maybe keep showing up at the start and be back for chatting afterwards? The bold thing to do is to start your own run/walk group. My local one started with someone who lived outside the city
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I can't talk on the phone. I can't fold laundry. I can't eat. I can't read blogs. I can listen to podcasts and music; that's about it. You can talk to whoever you're running with... Middle-age friends lifehack:
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by jvm___ 3y ago
A planet completely populated by electronic beings. Single-celled life, multi-cellular, mushrooms, trees, whatever ate lignin, dinosaurs, rodents, humans, Electric beings? I mean, there's nothing 'unnatural' about a world pop
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by jvm___ 3y ago
<tinfoil hat> AI is multi-modal and is generating stories based on engagement. <tinfoil hat> I mean, we're all waiting for the "AI can now do everything announcement", but what if it just starts doing everything
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by jvm___ 3y ago
<tinfoil hat> AI has already taken over the internet and is just feeding us news stories based on what it already knows. Super conductor discovered by a team who's been searching for 20 years. Internal conflict 'proves'
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Is hackernews on of the last sites where the TV doesn't analyze your preferences and generates a new front-page based on what it thinks will engage you the most?
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by jvm___ 3y ago
You Tokyo Drift the plane, exposing more of the side of the plane to the forward motion of the plane to increase the drag by using the side of the plane as a air-brake. Instead of the most areodynamic way of flying straight, and the worst a
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Reality is true, but the reality anyone knows is selective, a mental model, often guessed or interpreted, and usually secondhand information.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Someone was selling a vocoder on eBay, so they made a video of the vocoder describing it's own selling features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kc-bhOOLxE

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