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by mmmBacon 2y ago
This is cool. CO2 emissions are 36B tons per year. At $100 per ton, it would cost $3.6T to offset assuming you could build enough of these plants. At 4000 tons per year we’d need to build 9 million of these plants.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
One thing that’s not mentioned is what error there is in the theoretical calculation and what is the measurement error. From the theoretical POV I’d expect the theory to have an upper and lower limit based on values from initial assumption
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
I’m not sure it’s the length of our actual lifespan that matters as much as how we experience the passing of time. I believe that our human experience of the passing of time intervals is exponential with age. With this view, if we lived 1
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Mine too! Saw it about 100 times via the magic of HBO in the 1980’s. I loved to sing I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today to my kids when they were young. They are teens now. Still break it out once in a while to their
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
They do this to optimize user experience for 3G and 2G networks not LTE or 5G. A huge number of people are on those networks.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
My son’s E-bike was stolen. I hid an air tag inside the frame and tracked it to a house. Police came and helped me recover it. There are few things as satisfying as catching a thief.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
According to Wikipedia the Latin name was given for a reason. * Historically the ceremonial consumption often included vomiting, and Europeans deduced that yaupon caused it (hence the Latin name - Ilex vomitoria).[11] The active ingredients
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
How are you so certain? The voice was only changed 2 days ago. I think you and several other commenters have totally missed the point. In a causal situation, I’m not going to do a side by side comparison or a spectrogram of the voice. I
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
In case you’re wondering what Sky sounded like, here’s a recording of Sky being asked questions about Scarlett Johansson. https://youtu.be/1zoLfQ75QvU?si=6iBLrwTFR4nbqIIw While it doesn’t sound exactly like her, if I heard
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
China aggression was largely the reason India pursued nuclear weapons. From Wikipedia: India's loss to China in a brief Himalayan border war in October 1962, provided the New Delhi government impetus for developing nuclear weapons as
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
Another interesting angle is power consumption. The brain consumes about 20W so that’s ~200pW/neuron. The GPU is 4 orders of magnitude worse at ~2uW/neuron. The brain also does much more than a GPU. I’m not sure what percentag
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
It’s a true statement that they don’t know what the electron is. In the standard model the electron is a point particle with no volume.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
A photon is indivisible that’s the quantum nature of light. You aren’t reflecting a part of it. To do so is a classical wave interpretation of light. The photon after reflection is not the same photon.
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by mmmBacon 2y ago
When you do get a live person, you can say that you do not consent to be recorded. When I’ve done this the person on the other end claims to stop recording.
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
As an American, I find the British truly tiring when it comes to this topic. To be clear it’s not all Brits. If you notice it’s always a small group of whiners complaining. As long as they insist on spelling everything the French way,
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
I feel like there should be a permanent YC page for David. He certainly comes up enough.
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
The more that we learn about the evolution of Earth as a planet, the more I think that the development of complex life is an exceedingly low probability event. So many things had to go “just right” for conditions on Earth to allow the for
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
According to this: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/22b-worth-of-cargo-is-now-... the average value of goods per container ship is ~$350M per ship not including the value of the ship itself. However I think the impa
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
I don’t think this is just model trains. I recently took an interest in naval history and became interested in building a scale model of USS Missouri or Iowa. After researching how I could produce a realistic looking teak deck, I realize
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
While the Houthi drone itself is inexpensive, the cost to the economy of a drone hitting shipping is substantially greater than the $3M cost of the US interceptor missile.
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
If you’re looking for advanced courses in Python, I highly recommend a workshop or class from James Powell. https://www.dontusethiscode.com
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
Yes I think we’re all aware of that. Images of Stalin where people are edited out as they are purged come to mind. In the case of faked photographs these images were relatively few. I think AI generated images open up a whole new realm fa
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
Kind of a side bar but I wonder as AI generated images get better, it seems to me only a matter of time (if it hasn’t happened already) before images are generated to create “proof” of conspiracy theories. I wonder if over time, particular
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
The missile still needs the radar to lock onto the target regardless of whether the target was spotted by satellites.
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
Yes you need personnel but not very many. Local governments that give these tax incentives for data centers often think the presence of a data center is going to lead to a lot of high tech jobs. This is simply not true. If you’ve ever
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
Whenever I encounter an English person who laments the American spelling of color or honor, I remind them that they spell those words the French way.
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
You’d think by now we’d have our browsers handle some kind of default cookie setting so we don’t have to deal with these annoying pop ups.
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
It kind of amazes me that our government can’t figure out who is behind this. Because it’s extremely hard to hide these kinds of things. When I last moved, there were a few toxic people in my life at the time and I didn’t want them to be
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
Please don’t assume that copper and metal are the best in all situations. My home has in slab copper plumbing. The problem with this is that the copper pipes develop pinhole leaks over time. The slab itself is under tension and can’t be
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by mmmBacon 3y ago
I think the impact of these things is overstated. Salaries in Canada are pretty low compared to the US and cost of living is pretty similar. When you factor in the climate, it’s hard to see how Canada comes out ahead. I’d think Canada

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