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by nkoren 11y ago
Did you even read what I wrote, or follow the sources? Hydrogen pumping is absolutely not identical to how people fill up their cars today. And you can't simply retrofit a standard gas station to pump hydrogen: you need to build an e
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by nkoren 11y ago
I honestly don't mean to sound antagonistic, but literally every single point you make is wrong. > use the same hardware to put it into my car It is not the same hardware: hydrogen pumps are far more complicated, difficult, and expe
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by nkoren 11y ago
Hydrogen is not simply a drop-in for petrol, like LPG/Natural gas. It is considerably more challenging to store and pump, and its infrastructure is orders of magnitude harder to install than electric charging points.
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Meteor 1.2 Release Candidate(forums.meteor.com)
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by nkoren 11y ago
Chrome's updates aren't infallible. A year or so ago, there was a Chrome release which was crashing nearly constantly. Fortunately, switching to the "beta" channel left that bug behind. It got re-introduced in the next u
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by nkoren 11y ago
Sure. I see one in the mirror every morning.
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by nkoren 11y ago
Can I actively control my visibility settings, as with every other IM client? Inability to control my own visibility makes Hangouts an absolute non-starter for me, and many other people that I talk to. Our only choice is to keep it turned
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by nkoren 11y ago
Cars are infinitely more anti-walking, inasmuch as they require the creation of non-walkable environments (and, correspondingly, the elimination of walkable environments). These, in contrast, can easily coexist with walking.
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by nkoren 11y ago
Looks amazing, but is there a demo scene I can load to test it out?
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by nkoren 11y ago
Thank you!!!
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by nkoren 11y ago
Hindsight is 20-20, of course. But in this case, foresight was 20-20: G+ has failed in almost exactly the way that I (and everybody I was talking to at the time) expected it to. For me, the saddest thing about G+'s failure has been i
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by nkoren 11y ago
Every time I see that Bruce Sterling quote, I feel obliged to point out that the Gobi Desert has been settled for many thousands of years, and is currently inhabited by hundreds of thousands of people.
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by nkoren 11y ago
No, it's not "true". It's "unknown". To date, there have been no studies of how human (or any other) physiology holds up in low-gravity environments. There have been a lot of studies showing that zero gravity[1
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by nkoren 11y ago
Upvoted for the thoughtfulness and references! That said: > We're talking about real ecosystems and their incalculable impact (there are estimates of the economic importance of reefs, but it is the scientific and social impacts whic
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by nkoren 11y ago
According to the article, this might be an extremely cheap way of making the problem worse: > There are also concerns that trapping CO2 at the bottom of the ocean may increase ocean acidification ...However it certainly is interesting en
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by nkoren 11y ago
Ocean acidification scares the crap out of me, in a way that the rest of climate change doesn't. Fact is, a lot of the rest of the chaos that is predicted from climate change is, on a long baseline, a more or less normal state of affai
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by nkoren 11y ago
I'm afraid I have to turn around and say that it is you who does not have a proper understanding of the sunk costs fallacy. The future value of the sunk costs is not important -- in fact, thinking that it is important is the very defin
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by nkoren 11y ago
In other words, they're stuck in the Sunk Costs fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs
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by nkoren 11y ago
I hadn't run across the concept of "Janus words/phrases" before. It's very apt! Here's another fun musing on the subject, which I read years ago: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg&#x2F
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by nkoren 11y ago
Yeah, you'd like to imagine that, but unfortunately it isn't the case. Here's a perfectly credible and very well-studied architecture for a Mars mission with 1/3rd the upmass and ~540 days on the surface. If your objecti
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by nkoren 11y ago
Six SLSs for a crew of 4 to spend 24 days on the surface. At first glance, this is a wildly inefficient mission architecture.
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by nkoren 11y ago
The first time I came to the UK, I remember sitting across from some rather loud Scots on the tube. I think they were talking about work; I wasn't sure, because the only word I could clearly understand was "fookin'" (a
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by nkoren 11y ago
Absolutely, a great example! I was just on holiday in Sarajevo (a lovely place -- I'd highly recommend going there before they resume shooting at each other). It's full of insignificant little differences which really drive this
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by nkoren 11y ago
There is no precise and official way to identify something as a "language" rather than a "dialect". For example: there are five major dialects of Hindi, some of which are mutually unintelligible -- yet few people call th
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by nkoren 11y ago
Also, I'm kind of amazed that this is attracting loads of downvotes. Do people think I'm trolling?
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by nkoren 11y ago
The genius which goes into getting these images is astonishing, and I'm not meaning to disparage that at all! The damaging part is when they colorize an image and then call it "true color", when this is simply untrue. As an e
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by nkoren 11y ago
Argh, I was just preparing to write a rant about this. No, it is absolutely not true-color -- although this is something which NASA insists on claiming, to its detriment. It annoyed me when they used the same technique to show a "tru
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by nkoren 11y ago
I used to live in Portland, and thought about this impending catastrophe a lot. Once -- under the influence of intoxicants, most likely -- I came up with a way of dramatically reducing its impact. It's a batshit crazy solution which wi
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by nkoren 11y ago
The Lambda-4 was approximately 9,000kg[1], so we're still talking about a different order of magnitude here. 1: http://orbitalaspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/japanese-la...
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by nkoren 11y ago
Far from orbit, but still a very impressive achievement, particularly in 1963. As far as I'm aware, no other amateur rocket club has had that kind of success since.

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