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by mateo1 4y ago
You can also allocate all this effort into preventing whatever apocalyptic scenario is likely to happen, but that's a lot less self-centered and forces you to accept uncomfortable truths about yourself and your place in society. It&#x2
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by mateo1 4y ago
I'm always entertained by the optimism of the people who think they'll be the ones to survive.
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The biggest contribution of CERN to humanity is not theoretical physics, it's the engineering progress made possible by the truly exceptional requirements of the machinery of the accelerator and all the supporting infrastructure. Ultra
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It's just barely feasible with fusion energy densities. To accelerate a million tons to 0.1c you need as much kinetic energy as is theoretically contained in a million tons of hydrogen you'll fuse. Maybe with antimatter, but trave
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by mateo1 4y ago
Lately I've been thinking that perhaps our technological progress might be deterministically leading us to our own destruction (or a major and irrecoverable regression) through some kind of unavoidable dynamic evolving. Like a combin
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by mateo1 4y ago
>First, AI can quickly read through the scientific literature, allowing it to learn the fundamental rules, facts, and equations of science, and help scientists manage the flood of papers and data that is drowning every field. That's
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by mateo1 4y ago
These days fake products are impressively good. I got a pair of earbuds on ebay to replace my damaged brand name ones, and upon closer inspection I realized the fake ones were made with a custom injection mold and if the electronics weren&#
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by mateo1 4y ago
People seem to suddenly forget that these transactions are already tracked and individually linked to you. Should we allow anyone to collect that data except democratically elected governments? What's the logic behind this?
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by mateo1 4y ago
I would expect any large datacenter to have a halon based fire suppressant system or something similar.
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by mateo1 4y ago
Most countries that use more than the standard latin script have at least one version of their name in latin so that everyone else can use it. საქართველო, Ελλάδα, Россия etc aren't very usable written like that. I would understand if T
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by mateo1 4y ago
Are there any other countries with diacritics in their official latin name?
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by mateo1 4y ago
I've been out of uni for a few years and have forgotten a stunning amount of material that I worked hard to learn during my time there. In 10 years time, anything you haven't been using, you forget.
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by mateo1 4y ago
I also think a shorter duration and/or a cap on total royalties would be useful. Like 10 years and 10x initial r&d investment, instead of "forever" and "infinite".
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by mateo1 4y ago
I believe that algorithms reconstructing your face or part if it (ie facial expressions) are already in use, it's just not advertised.
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You missed my point. Despite all the planning surrounding the earthquakes in Japan, one of them still did damage in an unexpected way. For every nuclear catastrophe, you can easily say that if something was done differently, it would have
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One of them did it though.
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by mateo1 4y ago
Unfortunately that's true. These days it's just cheaper and easier to place everything on a screen rather than using anything physical. Imagine that voice recognition gets even better, then it would be even cheaper to have nothing
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by mateo1 4y ago
Seems like a terrible implementation of an awful idea. In the uk you don't even need to carry your dl with you. Apps offer nothing over regular cards. What's the whole point of this?
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by mateo1 4y ago
The problem with ground effect planes is that flying at 1000km/h a few meters above ground (or sea) is never going to be safe. Terrain (and even worse, sea) is unpredictable. It might make sense for the military but not for commercial
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by mateo1 4y ago
I wonder if hiv is related. Has there been any information on whether the individuals have been infected at some point in their lives or are undergoing treatment for it?
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There are more issues than that, such as exchange rates. Also many populations around the world spend almost their entire income on food and still can barely survive. They are very price sensitive. If the price of wheat doubles it's al
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by mateo1 4y ago
NRC is not a free consultancy group for postgrads who think they can build a nuclear reactor on their own.
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by mateo1 4y ago
Small modular reactors are not even small. They're 400MW each and size-wise they conveniently don't include the containment building and all the supporting equipment and machinery. I don't know who came up with that name but
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by mateo1 4y ago
I'm always surprised with the "just close your eyes" attitude of medical policies. I mean, this way we essentially choose when to get women misdiagnosed? Isn't the solution to get a better idea of how common it is for no
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by mateo1 4y ago
A percentage is also lost in a way that is not and will never be economically feasible to recover, ie oxidized and dissolved in the sea. Although this research is probably done in good faith, it's going to (renewably) fuel all the ala
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by mateo1 4y ago
Fusion can and hopefully will be competitive in the near future, but gravity based storage is just not possible to scale unless we're talking about massive hydroelectric dams. I didn't know about energy vault and yeah the investme
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by mateo1 4y ago
If this picks up, google will just start ignoring the modifiers. It's like tv again, but with a lot more channels.
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Something else that would provoke some thought is what kind of returns do these subsidies get in terms of energy delivered? To get the full picture would require the inclusion of grands for r&d, governmental human resources and capita
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Is there some kind of report available that attempts to summarise how much money the US and EU have spend on subsidising green energy and technology?
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>It doesn't really matter. Yes it absolutely does. You can do intermitted fasting for 10 years but most people will die when they continuously fast for more than 20 days unassisted by IV nutrients. Are we really on the same page h

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