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by jws 11y ago
This works because of Germany's high electric rates, $0.30/kWh in 2014. The waste to energy plants get about 500kWh/ton of garbage, or $150 of electrical energy. They can pay $50/ton and make a profit work out. I'm
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by jws 11y ago
You have to study the failure and the mechanism that leads to it. Then hopefully you can tell which sort you have.
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by jws 11y ago
It depends, did your stomach rupture in an Alienesque scene? If so it might be specifically related to the quantity. Did you see increased cancer incidence (granted that would be a longer study)? You might have been eating apples treated wi
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by jws 11y ago
On the other hand, if you have two traps, and you see them filter out this one, then you may have evidence of malicious intent and be eligible for multiplied damages. (In my totally made up guess at applicable law).
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by jws 11y ago
Biologists routinely test with larger concentrations in order to make the effect more visible. Sometimes this creates a new effect where you overwhelm a process. Sometimes it just shortens the test and saves the lives of a lot of mice. If y
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by jws 11y ago
As long as we are ripping on their numbers… "75% less noise" almost certainly means 75% less power in the noise which means about 6 decibels quieter. That's noticeable, but not huge.
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by jws 11y ago
It's nice living in 2015 when you can code your modem in Octave, an interpreted numerical computation language, and not put an appreciable dent in your available CPU. He approaches the problem at a higher level than a typical modem, fo
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by jws 11y ago
dlopen() can be used to call a C function by a string name. More ambitious programmers can scan executable regions of memory for the instruction stream of the target function and call the address directly without any help from symbolic name
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by jws 11y ago
… in which the authors describe application level device drivers to map between the physical hardware and a presumably common abstract interface. That doesn't seem to change the world much over a kernel device driver mapping to a commo
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by jws 11y ago
This is one of the first papers introducing exokernels. The paper argues for breaking the shackles of OS abstraction and giving direct, (but mediated), control to the programs. I like the idea, and am experimenting with it in my own OS. In
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by jws 11y ago
In rural areas, the neighborhood squares cover individual houses. I'm seeing some where my daughter lives that cover individual people. They seem accurate, the blues and reds live next door to each other.
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by jws 11y ago
If you made medallions nontransferrable then you would see each medallion be owned by its own individual corporation, then the corporation would be sold instead of the medallion. A fixed term license would be a better idea.
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by jws 11y ago
At a glance, it seems like delivering a message to one of a pool of waiting processes would be difficult to do in a library. If the process reads a large swath of data it may get multiple messages and a fragment. If it reads a fraction of a
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by jws 11y ago
The trick with capacitors such as these is that you are talking 1nm spacing between the layers. It doesn't take much to punch through a layer, and if that releases enough energy to get through the next, then you might have an exciting
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by jws 11y ago
Together with a battery, such supercapacitors could run a cellphone for days. Really? That's novel. One of the proposed applications is for bursty current applications which currently have batteries with more capacity than required i
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by jws 11y ago
It also neatly solved iFixit's problem of having an app out there that they had abandoned and was giving users a defective experience. Pulling your own app from the store will make someone angry at you. Having Apple pull it is about id
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by jws 11y ago
I'd expect less than half. The drag of a pair of jet skis is going to be significantly more than the X itself. Perfect use for me though. I drive 500 miles then need to put a boat in the water. My available high efficiency cars can&#x2
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by jws 11y ago
Mimicry can handle the ordinary events. I pay accountants to notice and handle the extraordinary. Long ago when I was in digital medical imaging we observed radiologists reading X-rays and figured we could make many times our engineer wages
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by jws 11y ago
They do boot over the network for hardware testing. That doesn't help them if the problem is in your software install.
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by jws 11y ago
You don't have to. It just lets them better test and repair your device. If something is gorked up in your system files they can fix it using an admin account. I just dropped two laptops for repairs and didn't know an admin passwo
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by jws 11y ago
Great, give us an Earth flag and we can go stick it in things and claim them! Then we can explain to the local inhabitants how that has changed their situation. We'll need pamphlets in a universal language too.
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by jws 11y ago
I find location checking to be more civilized. The question being asked isn't "where are you?", it's somethings else like "should I pop home for lunch?" If my wife is out, then I don't need to interrupt h
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by jws 11y ago
I've used duktape as an extension language and wholeheartedly recommend it. It does the job and caused me zero problems. I can't ask for more than that in software.
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by jws 11y ago
Yes. Phased arrays are just that.
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by jws 11y ago
I'd place beacons in live fish. They are well suited to navigating underwater hazards. Acoustically ping a serial number for a couple of days. Place an array of sonobuoys in the likely outlet area, scan with boats further afield. If th
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by jws 11y ago
Globally, 16 suicides/100000 people/year. So the 30 million people should have 4800 suicides in a year, or 13 per day. But these two deaths are restricted to Canada which has a lower suicide rate than the global average, and we do
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by jws 11y ago
In general: Copy title, paste into google, take first result.
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by jws 11y ago
Perhaps you could make an infomercial selling a dietary supplement that cleanses your brain from toxins. Then with the money you earn from that you can fund an actual drug that really does it?
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by jws 11y ago
Wherein, amongst much else, the author identifies Hacker News and four other sites as huge source of non-paying visitors. He speculates about the effect of just banning referrals from these sites. It surprises me and my observer bias. I vis
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by jws 11y ago
That may not work out. If radiologists block its use, then the next logical customer is malpractice lawyers. Use it to sift potential clients for ones where early indications were missed. After a few of these suits succeed then the hospital

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