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by kleton 1y ago
How cheaply, in theory, could you mass produce cracking plants for post consumer waste?
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by kleton 1y ago
There would be serious logistical issues with this. Drive by the nearest refinery and see the cracking tower. Essentially this is doing as you describe, making ethylene, propylene etc from olefins. But these refineries are located at pretty
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by kleton 1y ago
I'll raise an alternative: plastics are degraded by the heat and pressure of repeated processes like injection molding. Recycled plastic objects will be of lower quality and shed more microplastics. Instead of recycling them, incinerat
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by kleton 1y ago
TeleMessage is most likely an intelligence asset, and a burned one now that Trump's people stopped using it. A fake hack is the safest way for the agency responsible to leak the messages collected.
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by kleton 1y ago
Less than half the population of the world live in birthright citizenship countries. Such countries as all of Eurasia except Pakistan, and all but a handful of African countries. Do those countries not have rational thinking people?
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by kleton 1y ago
I have never heard of DEI referring to diversity of viewpoints. Wikipedia for DEI defines diversity thusly: "Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics such as race, gender, ethni
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by kleton 1y ago
The full letter is here. It only looks like internal contradictions when you quote partial clauses and sentence fragments. https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...
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by kleton 1y ago
I don't think the institution will run out of money any time soon. It's a $50bn prop trading firm with a university attached.
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by kleton 1y ago
Confusingly, at various point in this article they refer to him in the past tense, "was a good father" etc, while he's still alive.
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by kleton 1y ago
Donald Trump has advocated for tariffs for 40 years. Agree with them or not, they were quite predictable, not chaos.
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by kleton 2y ago
A victimless crime?
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by kleton 2y ago
As a juror, I would expect such a trial to at least be able to produce a single victim that could testify on the stand that they got deceived before I would vote guilty.
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by kleton 2y ago
I have a feeling if the current administration had a problem with your social media posts, maybe you said something about Tesla that they could construe as supporting the current protests and/or vandalism, and similarly venue-shopped f
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by kleton 2y ago
Chipping away a pillar always starts with something that you can say was a good reason.
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by kleton 2y ago
I remember when the last administration jailed Douglass Mackey for tweeting
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by kleton 2y ago
> Can we learn to live with them? "We" don't have to. It's a uniquely Anglo problem to remove street cats and dogs. One that we could immediately stop. You would have a hard time finding a rat in Istanbul.
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by kleton 2y ago
> The quokka, like the rationalist, is a creature marked by profound innocence. The quokka can't imagine you might eat it, and the rationalist can't imagine you might deceive him. As long they stay on their islands, they surviv
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by kleton 2y ago
https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard
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by kleton 2y ago
Most of the things are applicable to the current top models, but he frequently references Claude sonnet, which is not even above the fold on the leaderboard
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by kleton 2y ago
The Uralic word for slave is very archaic and dates to well before they became sedentary. The Uralic tribes came into contact with the Aryas people on the steppes, and won battles with them enough to take captives as slaves, calling them or
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by kleton 2y ago
Imposing the Common Core curriculum on American children did infinitely more damage to the country's STEM competitiveness than gutting the NIH's funding of unreplicable or outright harmful research.
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by kleton 2y ago
To return to specifics, this thread is about the NIH- hadn't they been funding gain of function research on coronaviruses? It would be hard to claim that cleaning house there is national suicide.
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by kleton 2y ago
> preserving state institutions As Obama said, elections have consequences. Do you think there should be a permanent bureaucracy that is totally unaffected by elections? Or put it this way, hypothetically if James Bowman takes power for
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by kleton 2y ago
Becoming? This may sound like a trope and a canard, but indeed this very publication, The Economist is partially owned and controlled by the Rothschild dynasty.
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by kleton 2y ago
Commercially, they wash the cuticle off the eggs in the US before they are sold. This means they have to be refrigerated.
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by kleton 2y ago
cf Mickey S.R.L. in Paraguay
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by kleton 2y ago
They buy it through scale ai
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by kleton 2y ago
Do the Swiss want to be considered someone's ally or neutral?
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by kleton 2y ago
It is an interesting angle, because now he could potentially be subpoenaed by Congress or anyone else, and it seems unlikely that he would perjure himself over anything after 2014.
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by kleton 2y ago
It is a protein that exists in mammals. Presumably they produced the murine version to put in the mouse. Science journalism screwed up the paper's language, calling it a zebrafish protein, when it is a protein that is conserved for all

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