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Perhaps wall construction / partition construction itself needs to be thought from the ground up, to enable automation. For example, is it possible to have LEGO like slot fitted bricks, with cavities in slots filled with mortar? Altern
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E-RUPI – A digital payment voucher system
(npci.org.in)
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Preventing deaths is one thing. What about all the economic loss that comes from people unable to travel / work / leisure due to heat waves. This climate change is going to be the next big depression of our age.
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WebAssembly is a game changer. Why? Because it removes the need for JS, and is more performant. Couple that with a secure sand box to run your apps and you have a new distribution model, somewhere between a full native app and a completely
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Sure. But what would be your position, if, as a neutral carrier and a profit making business , FB sets up a system of taking money & promoting content (whatever the content) ? Would you be ok with FB promoting glorification of white su
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Looks expensive. Wonder how they are able to manage waves moving back and forth. One of the better designs I have seen is to build concrete structures that are partially submerged in the sea, to capture the air flow caused by rising tidal w
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Google Ads is so deep into tracking that it defeats its own purpose. I search for Product A on Google or Amazon and am immediately inundated with ads for the same product on every page I go that has Google ads What is worse is that the ad
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For reference "Differential & Integral Calculus" by N Piskunov (Two volumes) [ https://www.amazon.in/Differential-Integral-Calculus-Vol-Pis... ] are very dear to me and have taught me quite a lot. They are goo
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Most calculus books in India never have any information on the history of calculus. I remember being taught limits, differentials, etc purely as mathematical structures. No context what-so-ever. In engineer, I read a book called "Advan
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They did do extensive X-Ray scanning of the device. Additionally, they sandbagged the device before exploding it, so I would assume they re-constructed the device after the explosion. Given that the detonator was housed in a thick steel she
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Eventually, Snowden came out with the truth isn't it. Also, not all of those 10k people might not be knowing what they are doing or don't care. You can cloak a lot of espionage activity with forms, sheets, memos, brainwashing and
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As always, with any crime, the more people involved, the greater the possibility that human factors will sabotage the operation. The perfect crime has one perpetrator. It is also why its fascinating that people will believe in conspiracy
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The sense of sitting in office is a tremendous waste of time and potential is inescapable. I work in the engineering industry and am lucky enough that I get to have privacy and my manager is good. I ensure I do my work and well at that. B
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What happens to the leftover content after the methane is extracted? Can it be used as a manure or is it safe to be dumped underground or in rivers?
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In India, a 10 MW installed capacity solar plant occupies 52 acres, about .25 sq.km You 5 sq.km figure, even for Cali is suspiciously high. Maybe you missed a decimal? Edit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_Solar_Fa
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Man whatever that means, I am sure nothing good will come of it. Society is not ready for all access, all communication, mass, thought influencing media controlled by an ethically ambiguous mega corporation.
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Those wind turbines are upwards of 10 MW each. That is massive. People dont get the scale of it. If the dynamics, control amd reliability are proven, then the only hurdle would be drawing high power carrying cables through corrosive sea wat
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I think the issue is Viasat think they are being shortchanged by the FCC to help Elon.
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Looks like they are arguing - hwe followed every procedure leading to a poorer quality service, but they are breaking rules and will out compete us. However, I wonder how the intersection of regulatory frameworks with rapid tech progress in
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Damn, I am brown and I guess I have to take that as a 3 - 5% error?
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I disagree. Spreadsheets are like a Swiss Army Knife. I have used them for - Templates for Printing - Data Analysis - Financial Tracking - Report Generation - Calculation sheet for engineering stuff and a multitude more uses that I cann
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Whoa, I sometimes get SpO2 around 91 - 94 and I chalk it up to calibration error on cheap SpO2 devices (The ones that clip on to the hand, cost about 20 USD). Have been tested twice per employer requirements and was never positive though.
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The second document is only related to forest service. Does not include other types of lands.
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Even a cursory reading of both the documents that you present shows the following points. 1. While the number of fires have reduced, the total area consumed by fires is still rising. 2. The average area fired up is increasing at an alarmi
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We are beginning to see the real costs of Global warming, the exact thing activists were bull horning about and the same thing corporations were denying.
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This is so true. We are living through an era of massive, global, black-box corporations, with ability to directly feed into the brains of its users. The kind dystopian stories talk about. Yet, we struggle to regulate them in archaic laws
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To me, apps that end up simply being translators for JSON conversion are poorly built or feature poor. There is only so much you can do with moving data around. Also, my approach to web app development is to put everything in a domain modu
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> Iran is a ticking time bomb I don't think so. Sure, its a dictatorship and flawed in many ways, but that doesn't mean the people are not happy. Society will bear some amount of constant pressure, to a certain degree. If that
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Seems like learning about the bio system and setting up a methane producing aquarium at home will be easier.
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Sorry, for got to mention. Most of India does not have direct water connections. Most homes have borewells, storage tanks and intermitten municipal supply. So there is no direct line from local municipal water tower to homes.
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