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by marze 10y ago
If Mars "secedes", I'm sure looking forward to a possible real life battle of worlds, something thus far only enjoyed through scifi and games.
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by marze 10y ago
It is cute that you have so much faith in Wikipedia. And that world powers haven't tried to downplay the impact.
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by marze 10y ago
Wow, how many people want to pay $350/year for the Boston Globe? YOu can get an cell phone data plan for that much that gives you the entire internet. I can see why they are focusing on finding subscribers who think they are only payi
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by marze 10y ago
These are companies that have a responsibility to shareholders to spend funds to benefit the firm. Obviously they feel the quarter million is well spent, as a bribe to influence government actions. Anyone who thinks the bribes don't ha
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by marze 10y ago
With a fan and some aerogel insulation, it should be possible to avoid a thermal sig.
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by marze 10y ago
I thought the previous article suggested that they spent several times that.
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by marze 11y ago
Research threats to coral that aren't climate change related, such as deforestation generated silt in rivers, disruption of ocean ecosystems due to destruction of top predators (such as sharks), overfishing, and excessive fertilizer ru
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by marze 11y ago
Considering we need about 30x the solar currently installed to made a real dent in fossil fuel usage, I'd call what we have now an under supply.
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by marze 11y ago
"Nice"? The whole world will be running on solar and wind electricity in 20 years. "Nice" is a bit of an understatement.
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by marze 11y ago
Give me a break, the structures are already full of holes. That's why the ice dam is needed.
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by marze 11y ago
The robot problem is simply a lack of imagination. Just set up a long drill, like an oil rig, aimed sideways into the reactor. Drill six inch hole with cutting torch drill head, then insert equally long periscope. No rad hard electronics n
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by marze 11y ago
The implicit assumption seems to be that we need nuclear because solar and wind alone (with presumably cheaper batteries in the future) won't be able to supply the needed power. It is hard to prove something like that, that future tech
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by marze 11y ago
Any ideas on the computing requirements at run time? Amazing and impressive!
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by marze 11y ago
The satellites themselves can adjust their individual phasing within the same orbit with minimal propellant.
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by marze 11y ago
What a ton of nitpicks, missing the big picture. Embarrassing for HN community this comment is top voted.
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by marze 11y ago
Um, isn't the reason we have an FBI is to shut down operations such as these? Can't they track payments and have the ransomware operators apprehended, with cooperation from authorities in other countries? Maybe we should defund t
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by marze 11y ago
The whole point of testing is to give consumers data, so if the test can be gamed by companies like Samsung, it is a bad test. There are so many TVs and they run so many hours a day the aggregate energy use is non-negligible. Consumers shou
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by marze 11y ago
Uh, so you think an appreciable amount of carbon is going out another way? Like carbon monoxide? Or unburned hydrocarbons? Neither compares to CO2, as a fraction. You are simply wrong. CO2 emission is proportional fuel consumed.
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by marze 11y ago
Uh, it is the same. Fixed amount of carbon in a gallon of fuel, all will be emitted.
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by marze 11y ago
Sounds like the four "arresting officers" were so ignorant they didn't know that you need explosive material, not just a trigger, to form a bomb.
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by marze 11y ago
The whole conclusion of the article is there is no "predictive model". Why isn't this comment -4?
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by marze 11y ago
If you want to change the world significantly, you will need significant numbers of customers, and associated revenue. Nothing wrong with wanting to change the world. One of the author's arguments is that you will dilute your ownershi
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by marze 11y ago
Any time and energy a baby expends crying is that much less time and energy they can apply to learning and brain development.
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by marze 11y ago
Or a compromise of four places in rotation. Many cities who've hosted the games recently have the infrastructure already.
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by marze 11y ago
Is it just me, or is the peak of stupidity in this episode the fact that the car will verify/reject a few hundred thousand passwords in 30 minutes? Shouldn't that be security 101, limiting the rate to a couple per minute, max? Wh
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by marze 11y ago
The people who lived near the plants lost everything, perhaps 80000 of them. I'm not sure what became of them, but I'm pretty sure no one came up and said, here is a check for the fair market value of your property. It was more
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by marze 11y ago
Multi-level marketing schemes are similar, in that they exploit people leveraging those people's desire to improve their situation (or dream to get paid while doing nothing). The film industry is similar, you work for low wages, hoping
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by marze 11y ago
You claim only a minority of people getting PhDs want to become a professor? Citation?
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by marze 11y ago
The purpose of "the" is to reset the vocal tract to a neutral configuration, allowing the subsequent (and more arbitrary) word to be resolved more readily.
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by marze 11y ago
My policy: if someone wants me to eat poison, even if in small doses, there better be some really bulletproof evidence of benefit.

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