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by mohawk 12y ago
The DNA analysis not only backs up the evidence, but it's is a different kind of evidence. Language or pottery styles could theoretically be transmitted without there being a trace in people's genomes. Memes vs genes if you will
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by mohawk 12y ago
Sure, just insure your advanced fission reactors against desaster with a prudent insurer instead of relying on the government to bail you out in case anything happens. Proving something with long-tail risk is secure takes ages. There are j
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by mohawk 12y ago
A pretty big number if you do the math. If you need more, sure, go for nuclear fusion. Until then, just remember slow and steady usually wins the race.
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by mohawk 12y ago
Nobody needs can't-do engineers. So he found out that lead-acid batteries aren't enough. 1) A fleet of electric/plug-in hybrid cars are a pretty big battery. Build more of those. 2) Power-to-gas seems like a good avenue, too
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by mohawk 12y ago
In the long run, the sky going dark is not such an unlikely scenario. Big asteroid impact or a large volcanic eruption would be enough. Or some big war, sadly we tend to have them quite frequently. I forgot that was the background story
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by mohawk 12y ago
We have a large and wonderful fusion reactor fully operational and running already, at a safe distance of 1.5e11 meters. All we have to do is harvest its energy output, with solar panels, windmills, or hydroelectric. The price of panels ha
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by mohawk 12y ago
That seems like bad advice to me. A possible infinite loop is given as justification in case of wrongly implemented reverse iteration (counting down an unsigned loop variable). Well, i claim that an infinite loop is a much more noticeable
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by mohawk 12y ago
I don't like fear-mongering either. But nuclear only looks cheap because a lot of costs are externalised. Prudent calculation of costs of insurance against accidents and waste storage for centuries make it unprofitable. Improvements
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by mohawk 12y ago
Probably. Decriminalization and being able to get hard drugs from a doctor would go a long way in reducing drug-related crime. I don't think society is ready for hard drugs in the supermarket aisle. At least i'm not ready for i
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by mohawk 12y ago
It is the price. Not many people addicted to cheap legal drugs become criminals. To buy cigarettes or grog, it is enough to work a low-paying job or just beg for money. Personally, i don't believe you should be able to buy hard drug
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by mohawk 12y ago
Some property crimes are caused by people trying to fund their addiction to hard drugs.
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by mohawk 12y ago
The next sentence is "The exact definition of the term commodity is specifically used to describe a class of goods for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market."
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by mohawk 13y ago
You cannot turn back the wheel of time.
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by mohawk 13y ago
Besides the speed aspect which most other people have mentioned, you can avoid running out of harddisk space.
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by mohawk 13y ago
I can tell you what my problem is with flash: the reference implementation by Adobe stinks.
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by mohawk 13y ago
I used to get upset about these things, but nowadays if a writeup of a paper bothers me or sounds weird, i just go to the original publication. This might be hard if you're not at a university or otherwise have access to the journals.
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by mohawk 13y ago
The statement is a little bit ambiguous, what is meant that he wrote the first phd thesis on the topic. I don't know if that is true, but at least that is what's claimed in the linked comment.
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by mohawk 13y ago
You can add 5% hydrogen to the natural gas in the german grid at the moment without changing much infrastructure, up to 15% in the medium term. Here is a pilot project: http://www.eon.com/en/media/news/press-r
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by mohawk 13y ago
Convert energy to hydrogen, store and distribute via natural gas storage infrastructure, burn in gas plant when needed. Problem solved.
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by mohawk 14y ago
Passing the 500 mark means you have to hand in SEC filings, nothing more.
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by mohawk 14y ago
Hate to be a pedant, but the first people who reached North America were massacred by the ones who followed.
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by mohawk 14y ago
Exactly, and my point is that these homophobes, racists, etc. have much more in common with the Nazis than their passports make them believe. You could also argue that fighting against Hitler laid bare the hypocrisy of racial injustice in
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by mohawk 14y ago
So unfortunately, in the end, the Nazis did manage to kill him.
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by mohawk 14y ago
This is not an 'experiment'. But please go on telling us that it is impossible, we'll get it done it even quicker. For an engineer, there is no better motivation.
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by mohawk 14y ago
First i wish to say good luck to your family, i hope you can find something. Ok here's a guess: Assuming missing deglycosylation and N-Glycanase's involvement in ERAD (endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein degradation), perhaps there is
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by mohawk 15y ago
Printing money to service debt will most likely drive inflation higher, in turn driving up interest rates investors will demand from government bonds. This escape route from a towering debt burden was tried by German post-WW1 governments, a
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by mohawk 16y ago
Lets talk money. I think it is only reasonable to ask that avoidable civilian technology be insured against harm done by it. So: how much would this insurance cost? Cleanup, health care costs, disability payments, loss of property? Given
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by mohawk 16y ago
so i guess the solution is to only use https://www.facebook.com/ to login?
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by mohawk 16y ago
Sorry i completely misread your post, old content deleted.
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by mohawk 16y ago
Molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry?

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