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by ncmncm 4y ago
Climate catastrophe is imminent, and governments dragging their feet are directly responsible. It is very far from clear that civilization collapse will be averted.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Meaning, of course, tragically.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Sea level rise finished ~8000 ya. The sunken urban areas explored lately are mostly subsidence, e.g. Heraklion off Egypt. That said, there is a great deal of underwater urban stuff off India not accounted for by subsidence. And a million sq
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Think of, sure. But act on? By the evidence, incentives run the other way.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Probably all the orbits are well off the ecliptic, and they turn off their lasers when near it, to keep travel within the ecliptic safe. Stray light from all those x-ray lasers blasting in all directions 24/7 ought to make anything lik
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by ncmncm 4y ago
But usefully for only one.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Most of what it needs is attention.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Copying is how China and Japan became industrial powerhouses. There is no shame in copying, except where you have been tricked into copying something useless.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Relative to the tech needed to produce the boxes, that is extremely crude. But your pic is far from the most crude seen. That there is no uniformity is more evidence that they were tagged.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I see that you have not looked pictures of any other Egyptian artifacts.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
So you are bombarded by a mix of relativistic hydrogen atoms, molecules, nuclei, and electrons. How do you extract energy from such an influx? Will extracting it slow you down much? Actually it would vaporize any part of the system needed t
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Not true: any old asteroid strike launches millions of microbe-bearing rocks into interstellar trajectories. Any that do reach another planet might take millions of years to get there, and be vanishingly unlikely to pick one that microbes c
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I am saying they are not straight even on the flat parts.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It uses many more additions. When the elements are themselves matrices, additions are a lot cheaper than multiplications, so that is OK. But with ordinary numbers, additions cost about the same as multiplications, so trading off a few multi
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by ncmncm 4y ago
This looks like what APL needed.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yeah, it's weird, but some people really do think that way, and need to be gentled along.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You can do both, producing hydrocarbon fuels and carbohydrate calories, and also sequestering carbon. Maybe as diamonds, instead of soot to bury. Yes, you absolutely can trap much more CO2 per unit of collection area with photovoltaics than
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yes, some faces have what look like dents in or scoops out of them, probably from fractures in the mother stone, or from quarrying.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Guessing they have lots of submarine patents they have been keeping in abeyance until they spot somebody they can use them against. "Cost effective" and nukes don't seem to exist in the same universe.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I can't even think of the space between galaxies as they are now.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The result is not interesting for ordinary numbers, where the classical ("slower") method is faster. When each element of the 5x5 matrix is itself a matrix, it could be important. So AVX ops for the method are not interesting.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I wonder if they are allowed to put a fan in to suck it down to the road surface, offering better static friction to the tires. You would of course start the fan before the wheels. That would mean you could get by with lighter-weight tires,
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Just goes to show that counting comparisons doesn't tell you all you need to know about a sort. There are of course faster sorts than std::sort, such a pdqsort, if you are really pinched. Usually you are not.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
So, they want to force us back to torrenting. Twist my arm, why don't you?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I am forced to interpret the titular "new nuclear age" ironically, as not including any new nukes.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The patents probably cover details that have become important in other industrial processes, and have gone on without enforcement for too long already. A favorite trick is to require a contract promising payment in perpetuity, even after th
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is substantially more efficient, by unit of collecting area, to produce electricity using a regular solar panel and then electrolyse water for hydrogen. But of course collection area efficiency is not what matters, cost is. We don't
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Maybe read exactly the post you replied to? Here, I will reproduce it for you: " We don't know which generation of Egyptians did the top quality work. " Now you may ignore it in both places.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You may comfort yourself with believing that. Be my guest. Good day.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The lines are, visibly, not even straight. The surfaces of the boxes are ground to flatness we could not improve on today.

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