knolax

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by knolax 6y ago
There's nothing civilized about Tinder.
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by knolax 6y ago
Thanks for reminding me about pico8. What a lovely platform.
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by knolax 6y ago
Why am I being downvoted? Currently available betavoltaic cells are rated for about ~20 years[0][1]. [0] https://newatlas.com/city-labs-nanotritium-betavoltaic-batte... [1] https://citylabs.net/products&#x2F
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by knolax 6y ago
20 year / 20 hour = Year / Hour = 365 * 24 = 8760 hours per year, so about two orders of magnitude off from lasting "millions of times longer".
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by knolax 6y ago
> The nuclear battery just produces it for millions of times longer. IIRC Last time I checked most betavoltaic cells of this scale only last around 20 years.
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by knolax 6y ago
What happens to the 1-π/4 of land that isn't irrigated?
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by knolax 6y ago
Only if by "western knowledge" you mean Communist Internationalism and its associated obsession with conformity. The change to left to right horizontal wasn't a natural development, it was forcibly imposed during the 20th cen
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by knolax 6y ago
> and provide better service to people with some culture If it's uncultured to know what you want to eat then call me a savage.
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by knolax 6y ago
When I go to eat I go to eat X food item and the restaurant is only a means to the end. If they don't have X food I'll just go somewhere that does serve X.
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by knolax 6y ago
Yeah, they've only occupied it on and off for 19 years. So much better.
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by knolax 6y ago
> Unsurprisingly, the first mantra my dad imposed on everyone was (in the voice of Faye Dunaway) No. Apple. Products. Ever! As someone who has to maintain my extended family's fleet of outdated apple products. I can only daydream.
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by knolax 6y ago
> a NATO and EU member, annex a piece of another sovereign country https://www.rferl.org/a/29669794.html
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by knolax 6y ago
What does being an EU member have to do with this. If you look at the history behind most EU member nations it would only make them seem more prone to invading others.
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by knolax 6y ago
> This way people of similar socioeconomic status can rub shoulders with eachother and feel more comfortable, and receive a greater standard of service. That's a lot of work just so you can avoid being near poor people.
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by knolax 6y ago
I'm gonna be honest, I only like cyberpunk for the aesthetics, not any of the themes. In 2020 most of the messaging behind the cyberpunk genre seems trite and obvious in hindsight (probably because of how accurate a lot of their social
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by knolax 6y ago
Why not exchange call signs in band?
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by knolax 6y ago
Was this an automated system he was dealing with? I can't imagine the type of person who would with a straight face demand a high school diploma after seeing a graduate degree.
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by knolax 6y ago
> other extreme is the absolute censorship of someplace like China, where only permitted thoughts and expressions can be posted. The US and most of the rest of the world tends to fall somewhere in the middle. It's like other countri
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by knolax 6y ago
I didn't see anything about fourier transforms in TFA? Do you have links?
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by knolax 6y ago
Most people know that a rapier is a type of sword. No need to insult a whole nationality over it.
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by knolax 6y ago
Apparently asbestos has been used since at least 5000 years ago[0]. I wonder what prevented large scale extraction between then and the 19th century. [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=eYHEEWhye94C&pg=PA449#v=on...
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by knolax 6y ago
> Of the six camps that we used in our feasibility study, five had blank tiles at their location at zoom level 18 in Baidu, They "correlated" that out of 6 "camps" 5 of them had missing tiles, which gives you the chan
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by knolax 6y ago
> In total there were 5 million masked tiles across Xinjiang. They seemed to cover any area of even the slightest strategic importance — military bases and training grounds, prisons, power plants, but also mines and some commercial and i
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by knolax 6y ago
I was looking into buying a ReMarkable 1.0 last year until I saw that it didn't have an SD card slot, so I couldn't fit my library in it.
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by knolax 6y ago
Elon Musk and some investors don't represent humanity. Hell I doubt even SpaceX values Starlink all that much, most employees I know say that it exists mostly as a filler payload during launches.
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by knolax 6y ago
Astronomers don't "own" the skies, the rest of humanity simply considers the benefits of astronomy to be higher than some satellite internet vanity project.
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by knolax 6y ago
Whether Von Braun was Nazi or not the fake German accent is a little distasteful.
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by knolax 6y ago
> Its possibly also why mercury is still used in dental fillings white porcelain as well as the more commonly known amalgam fillings. Could you explain how?
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by knolax 6y ago
> generally far more rebellious culture. Since the first English settlement in North America, America has had one successful regime change, China has had 3. It's rich seeing people who think standing around on the pavement and waiti
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Why?

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