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by mapt 2y ago
This is 99% urban legend. You can just barely create it in a lab with just the right plant (with thick hydrophobic trichromes) under just the right light with no wind... but that's not what happens in nature.
872.
by mapt 2y ago
Why not reduce it to 1% and see what happens? It is possible for this class of approach to be cheaper, but also for this particular implementation to be spending too little.
873.
by mapt 2y ago
You guys are decades deep into an ideologically propelled plan to "Starve the beast" by denying the NHS funding so that care quality declines, and use that as justification to privatize the NHS entirely. The starting salary for a
874.
by mapt 2y ago
A defined hydrothermal basin like this is heated by a very local pocket of magma or more properly magma-that-has-mostly-solidified-into-hot-rock, only a kilometer or so deep in this case, that has leaked up from multiple layers of deeper ba
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by mapt 2y ago
I've been to the place this was removed from, Huangcun, a small village half an hour from Tunxi in Anhui. Fantastic place - as in, like a fantasy setting. Covered in subtropical rainforest. Barely connected with reliable roads when I
876.
by mapt 2y ago
https://consensus.app/home/blog/does-iq-decrease-with-age/ "But global IQ is an amalgam of different kinds of intelligence, the most popularly studied being fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligen
877.
by mapt 2y ago
Having put together an i7-12900k rig on a z690 six months ago, two observations - * DDR5 is wildly different from previous generations in being much less stable with more DIMMs, due to timing synchronization sensitivity. With four 6000 sti
878.
by mapt 2y ago
Nope. Headline misleading. You can tell from background, because strong magnetic fields take an immense amount of power and space, and TMS & MRI magnets beyond 1 Tesla are the size and weight and density of an anvil. Nothing nano about
879.
by mapt 2y ago
Right now? Using an overprovisioned quantity of cheap cells is part of it. Insulating and air sealing your home well is part of it. Thermal mass approaches are part of it. Without cheap batteries, it's very possible to store a great m
880.
by mapt 2y ago
Maintaining reliable access to off grid electricity and going net zero are very different applications requiring very different expenditures. Both are valid choices, but going net zero relies on a great deal of grid infrastructure investme
881.
by mapt 2y ago
Both Poland and Iran have lost regionally inconvenient heads of state to crashes in fog. I think there is concern there with undiagnosable crashes, but also a more pronounced concern with hijacking. If you have access to the plane you can
882.
by mapt 2y ago
The appropriate response to VR is that we all get a VR/storage/etc room in addition to the existing paradigms of bedroom, living room, kitchen, etc. At the high end we've grown houses to the point that in order to remain box
883.
by mapt 2y ago
There are so many visible red flags in this one and my priors are sturdy enough that I think it's safe to call it nonsense with barely a skim. This seems like somebody that came to a spurious conclusion and then decided to write a pap
884.
by mapt 2y ago
Did this guy just literally ask an AI chatbot for insight on SpaceX's classified military plans? > "It is unlikely that these gaps can be closed until the end of the decade." I actually worked out my own BFR plan over the
885.
by mapt 2y ago
What would you do if you became the focus of someone with mind control technology? What defenses exist? It is an existential threat, a seizure of your agency, by powers of uncertain intent, for which you have no recourse. It is a game-th
886.
by mapt 2y ago
Can you complete the thought "Humanity makes stunning advance in the science of marketing, _____________" with literally a single objectively beneficial idea, looking forward into the future or back into the past? These people ex
887.
by mapt 2y ago
If you have 200 million "of your own money" to spare, you are no longer just a person for the purposes of this conversation, you're a walking VC fund, and you're not really risking a substantial change to your quality of
888.
by mapt 2y ago
> Due to how geography works, new suburbs are further from city centers and inherently less desirable. We have developed most of the geographically appealing regions of the US. "We have turned all of the areas within 15 miles of the
889.
by mapt 2y ago
I doubt you could hear the call of such an effect over the roar of other confounders: Regular moderate wine consumption is a strong correlate of comfortable, non-suburban living, particularly in a post-MADD world. Generally speaking, drive
890.
by mapt 2y ago
Ain't dead yet.
891.
by mapt 2y ago
I thought "Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking" combined with "PDQ Statistics" did okay. Way better than the awful instructor textbook taught as an intro to higher-level stats with R
892.
by mapt 2y ago
They should, but this is arguably social work rather than the sort of education we should charge [massive quantities of interest-bearing] money for. What I don't understand is how you can ethically accept someone for admission to a uni
893.
by mapt 2y ago
It's also not like they're not campaigning for the other 3 years of the term.
894.
by mapt 2y ago
Compare to Craigslist, or for a period of five or ten years after its inception, Google Search.
895.
by mapt 2y ago
We need LiFePO4 packs, we need them at a +200% markup ($300/kwh) rather than a +900% markup ($1000/kwh), and we need them mounted in a frame based on good backpacking backpacks with a wire running along your arm to the tool.
896.
by mapt 2y ago
"With my own eyes" But what sort of eyes are those? Priming the opsins in your retina is a continuous process, and primed opsins are depleted rapidly by light. Fully adapting your eye to darkness takes a great deal of darkness an
897.
by mapt 2y ago
It does spread out automatically. We call it diffusion. Diffusion can also be assisted with very modest power requirements.
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by mapt 2y ago
A megalopolis isn't characterized by a placename and an airport. It's characterized by continuous development. You can drive from Ventura to Yucaipa to to Temecula to Rosarito Beach in Mexico, and the only time you'd need t
899.
by mapt 2y ago
Why not? Existing ocean currents in the Gulf of California driven by wind, tides, and thermohaline circulation are on the order of 10cm/s, tens of kilometers wide, hundreds of meters deep. Very little of that is associated with local
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by mapt 2y ago
We got cheap desalination, supposedly - https://humanprogress.org/desalinating-water-is-becoming-abs...

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