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871.
by kurthr 3y ago
Reliable water and electricity, as well as geology, are really important too. It's worth checking into those first two, but it's probably fine for the next 10-20 years.
872.
by kurthr 3y ago
Thank you for pointing out that the right side of the graph is labeled in F and the left label is in C.
873.
by kurthr 3y ago
Is this sarcasm from the king (prince... duke) of low effort comments?
874.
by kurthr 3y ago
... and based on that chart are now hotter than any time in the last 100k years, heading into the last few million. A few 10s (of million) years at +25c are going to be the "new normal"? I'm trying to understand the point. Th
875.
by kurthr 3y ago
Well, to be fair, he has broken multiple promises (for the release date of WindsOfWinter alone). I don't hate him for it, but he's not trustworthy in that I doubt he has any idea when any book will be released and should know bett
876.
by kurthr 3y ago
I think the point is that they don't have "cell walls", animal cells have "cell membranes". I'm not sure it's that relevant here since cell size seems more important to tolerating the spikes, but hopefully
877.
by kurthr 3y ago
I'd also say that "cash" includes a lot of things like savings/sweep accounts, short term treasuries (5.3%), and even CDs. Those are usually losing (eg not the last 20 years!?!) only a couple of points to stocks much les
878.
by kurthr 3y ago
I'm sure autocorrect will fix that.
879.
by kurthr 3y ago
Not really because of the number of generations (12 months is ~50 generations of mites and the miticide is every 2 years) between treatments and the effectiveness of the treatments. It's like breeding cockroach resistance to stomping w
880.
by kurthr 3y ago
As an urban beekeeper I find this argument a bit odd and not matching my experience. I'm not trying to optimize for growth rate or monocrop pollination and frankly find that the hives grow quite fast and can swarm multiple times per se
881.
by kurthr 3y ago
I suspect part of this is that there are other parts of society (corporations) that are preying on their older intuition. It also means that as we get older, we should also question "obvious answers", because others will have lear
882.
by kurthr 3y ago
They have droughts every 3-5 years near Taipei and during those droughts they regularly consider shuttering parts of Hsinchu Science Park where many of the largest fabs are are major users of water. They likely wouldn't turn off the ne
883.
by kurthr 3y ago
You only lose ~50% using ablation rather than reflection so it would work fine without a lightsail. Long ago there was discussion of using X-Ray lasers pumped with nukes as well. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/21&
884.
by kurthr 3y ago
Shirley, you're joking!
885.
by kurthr 3y ago
Beware the, "I'm already a bitcoin billionaire so I'll share my secret to success". Either they're lying about the Lambos, or they suddenly got less greedy. One of those is more likely.
886.
by kurthr 3y ago
In general this is true of influencer type garbage and "get rich" stuff. It's junk food for the fearful/hopeful/greedy mind. However, there are entire industries that don't exist without a growing capable workf
887.
by kurthr 3y ago
The law in India that this was a direct response to... or the FTC's case in the US? I'd answer those two questions differently, but I think you're referring to something I wasn't.
888.
by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, like red lights, speed limits, licensing, and most of the rules that govern driving on the road. Unless you're a sovereign citizen it's a privilege and not a right.
889.
by kurthr 3y ago
Alphabet in the US would just spin off 3 "competitors" and be done. All 4 would then be subsidiaries of the holding company and they still collect the money. Of course this can't happen in India, because there would be politi
890.
by kurthr 3y ago
To be fair, I thought the Melatonin for food waste was comedy.
891.
by kurthr 3y ago
Thanks! That's great information. We had to make our own, but it's good to see that there are decent off the shelf systems. I agree that contact resistance on these tiny samples has got to be a huge issue (can they use mercury?).
892.
by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, I ran low temp STM/BEEM systems in UHV for 4 years at JPL's MDL. I assume you know what that means. Even today low frequency nV signals are still hard. Did you know you can do zero-bias tunneling sensing?
893.
by kurthr 3y ago
Well, it's at a 1mA test current (I'm assuming a 4 point probe to mitigate contact resistance) so 10u Ohm would give a 10nV DC signal. That's a pretty small voltage signal and comparable to a fairly standard chopper stabilize
894.
by kurthr 3y ago
Apparently, they've offered samples to "serious experimental groups". "Condensed Matter Theory Center (a Twitter account affiliated with University of Maryland) says they will send samples." - sanxiyn 2 days ago ht
895.
by kurthr 3y ago
Yep, it's easy to grow in quantity. It has a relatively large/complete plant genome and, I think tobacco mosaic virus was used to implant genes early on. Another plant often used is corn since as I remember it allows plasmids to b
896.
by kurthr 3y ago
If, by political views, you mean boredom with a well worn artificial meta argument that makes a farce of whatever rules do exist in debate. It was funny/interesting once.
897.
by kurthr 3y ago
I think all they have to do is send a sample to another lab to analyze. Apparently, people feel it's pretty easy to make, but in any case, if they have a sample they can see if it has the claimed properties and analyze what it's m
898.
by kurthr 3y ago
I see 1-2 a month, but they're all Mirai and I only know of 2-3 charging stations within 10mi/20km.
899.
by kurthr 3y ago
That, and the 400kW peak charging rate (most SuperChargers and batteries are only 250kW capable). With 3-4mi/kWh (7-10km/kWh) it's possible to get 100mi (150km) of charge in <5min. Even 100kW charging feels slow now (anyth
900.
by kurthr 3y ago
That, and because ultimately the whole world is affected and the "news" is just there to motivate people and governments to do something about it. Pointing out that it's winter in the southern hemisphere right now isn't

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