matmatmatmat

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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Desal gets tricky quickly. Already at current scales, the brine discharged back into the ocean causes dead zones.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Would be great to get your thoughts on climate change when you get the chance.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
I'm not in favor of giving Putin money, but I am in favor of dependencies. Dependencies are what keep people from invading each other's countries when there's trouble. People are unlikely to start bombing their customers.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
I have the same complaint about the Bolt's radio. It seems the issue is that pressing the power button merely mutes the radio. If you can figure out how to actually turn off the radio when the car is on, it doesn't turn back on wh
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Well, maybe in the past.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
> No, this isn't the reason. Straight, clear communication of facts from professionals is one of the best ways to combat erroneous viewpoints. For better and for worse, this is not true with most people. Most people are most open to
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
My understanding is that synthetic fertilizers are (at least in part) made using crude oil. Would be interested to hear an expert chime in.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
This is wildly optimistic, but personally, I'm looking forward to CO2 captured from the atmosphere, reformed into hydrocarbons on-site, and used as feedstock in the global plastics and fertilizer trades. Yes, balancing that equation is
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
They're very underground, you've probably never heard of them.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Nit: They are unenforcable, but not illegal in themselves: https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in...
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
I have a group of friends who all worked there (San Diego office, formerly Cymer), half of whom have quit. They complained of massive inefficiency (very bureaucratic, lots of meetings), relatively low pay, difficulty moving around, feeling
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
If buying from ebikes.ca, be sure to write them with your planned purchase and ask them to verify that it makes sense and if they're seeing any issues with it. Some parts/combinations have known issues that you're just better
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Haha, don't know where the downvotes are coming from, this is the absolute truth right here. He knows the world idolizes him as a slightly eccentric genius engineer with a heart of gold, and I think there's probably some truth in
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
I don't know, given Elon's showmanship, is it really that different?
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
What do you think about ITER?
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Non-agricultural use makes up about 16%, IIRC, but not sure how "household/urban" use fits in there.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Just a small point about Texas: Although it still pumps huge amounts of oil and gas, it also has more wind power resources that it could deploy. Texas could have a lower carbon future if it so chose.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
COW filesystems have more write amplification than non-COW FS's, which will wear out the SSD more quickly.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
Plenty of people, including me, have never lost a single bit to btrfs. Now, is it super fast? (No.) Is it (or any other COW FS) the right choice for an SSD or database? (Probably not.) Is it the right choice for data that get read much more
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
I would be interested to know what the technical hold-ups were. Bad training data? Insufficient/noisy sensors? Insufficient battery life? Or, was it all just bad management, with a lack of vision and leadership?
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
> Go ahead and start "fixing earth" then, you're free to do so if you think it is "sexy". I don't think it's sexy, at all. It's hard work, but it's also necessary. > "colony run by a d
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
I don't believe this is true. Undertaking the risk of exploration has -- I would venture to say -- almost always had some economic, political, or military motive. Someone had to see some potential gain for the risk they were undertakin
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
That's a silly strawman argument; no one is seriously asking for this.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
> Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. I find this level of optimism completely unwarranted. Plenty of people have died trying to go places they hadn't gone to before, or if they si
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
This argument would have a lot more merit if Earth and Mars were similar, but they're utterly not. The difficulty, expense, and risk of setting up life on Mars absolutely pales in comparison to cleaning-up life on Earth. Suppose there
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
I'm stunned at the level of "optimism" in these comments. Guys, we're not going to be setting up colonies on Mars, we're not going to setting up heavy industry in space. There is literally no. point. at. all. Mars i
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
It is unclear to me why anyone would vote this down. It's spot on.
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
This seems like such a short-sighted move by Qualcomm, is there some reason that they would do this and risk losing Google as a customer? Or, did they always assume that they would lose Google as a customer and so they thought it wouldn&#x2
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by matmatmatmat 5y ago
> canada is over 81% of the eligible Cries in American.

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