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by ocschwar 10y ago
It's pretty much a set pattern through the whole electromagnetic spectrum: The longer the wavelength, the easier it is for manmade artifacts to produce it. All the way from AM radio to X rays. The shorter the wavelength, the harder the
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Maintaining it right means monitoring it, which means a full time desk job for a controller looking at N turbines, and making regular site visits for inspections. Part of the inspection process means halting the turbine so one blade points
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by ocschwar 10y ago
It's more efficient in the manufacturing phase (1 LED instead of 2 or three.) But a 3 LED RGB light can produce softer light, with more lumens per watt.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"Coming from a Princeton egghead that's not a surprising point of view. It seems very typical for those with education to look down upon the less-educated." How is this "looking down"? He made a well-backed empirica
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Or my BeagleBone card, which is now my home data server.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Yes. Not necessarily reduce it, but change the profile around the blade to get more out of the wind.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Met a guy who was trying to sell a setup to plasma-fy the air along the edges of turbine wings to squeeze a bit more efficiency. There's room for improvement still.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
If Intel can't offer more compelling improvements in watts per operation, I would be very disappointed. We know fab sizing is going to stop being worth it. But bigger dies, with better heat dissipation, and processors that better fit t
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Train tracks in place of highways, for starters. Windmills and panels everywhere.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Today it is.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
A whole lot of factors involving LA's history. The first one is earthquakes. We have a lot of good technology now, that lets us build tall and beautiful structures in earthquake zones, But 100 years ago, that was not the case. Los Ange
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Historically, land-grant universities predate state police forces. In fact, in most of the US, state police forces are there primarily to enforce traffic safety laws on the highways, because out in the countryside, drivers cross county line
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Because in many parts of the US, the major universities were plunked down in a 10km by 10km square of wilderness, with literally nothing else around. Sometimes a big town grew alongside. Sometimes it didn't. Given that universities are
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Church of Satan, please come to the smoldering sulfurous courtesy phone. You're needed in Alabama again.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Letting children starve is a marker for the end of civilization as I define it.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
None of those are hard and fast alliances. None of them actually oblige the US to do anything in response to an attack on any of them.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I'm not getting any sleep tonight. WOW
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> If you're describing Parsis, then likely no. I'm also from a community that combines a religion with a tribal identity, so I left the question purposely vague since I have no idea which of these carries how much importance to
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Mussolini may have sincerely wanted to be a run of the mill leftist. Head of state is the kind of job that draws narcissists, and when they feel slighted, bad things happen. Checks and balances are important, yo.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> For what reason would a person want to use Tor instead of his regular connection? If I'm doing some background research for my work, I don't want to have to wonder if my ISP will sell me out, allowing a competitor to know wha
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Do you see your community's future existence as secure?
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Remember, folks: "follow your passion" only works if your passion is taking care of your family.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Politicians that will actively engage in that obstruction. Pretty gross.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
As a conservative, I can tell you that left-leaning politicians will not be effective at combatting climate change so long as they are up against a right wing obstruction machine. (For the record, I am stuck between supporting crooks and ha
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Totally. It's just that the notion that millenials are more frivolous because they don't buy cars and big houses seems so predominant in people's minds.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
If they keep assuming that millennials are frivolous consumers, they're going to keep losing money.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
What is unfair is that too many high schoolers don't get the opportunity to be MIT-ready when they graduate, and thus MIT does indeed get many incoming freshmen from the elite schools the parent comment is complaining about.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Money is nice. But if you don't have lots of fresh cut stone for your buildings, you spend that money on other materials, as it stretches the money much further to look elsewhere. You might note that American cities use very little sto
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Most of the concentration camps were built around quarries. By the end of the war there was a lot of fresh cut stone in rail depots around Germany waiting to be used. The intent was to use it for these megaprojects. Ever wonder how West Ger
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by ocschwar 10y ago
This would not bother me that much except for the way gamers get their minds warped by immersing themselves in their fantasy worlds for hours at a time.

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