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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I don't think you would want any toxic metals in fuel given the risk of sending it into the air. There are probably real industrial uses, though, like reagents for labs.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
The land would be the easy part. Hiring a PI, a team of subject matter experts on botany, metallurgy, and genetics, a few skilled lab technicians, a couple programmers or statisticians, an environmental compliance expert, and whoever else I
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I am ignorant about agricultural research budgets, but $10M does not seem like a very serious amount to prove the basic concept and, much more importantly, the viability of scaling an industrial process. This is interesting, but I am guessi
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
You may be defining a rule by the exception. You did have to find an example from 26 years ago.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
They might be better. This is opposed to say, any metropolitan area on earth, where there is no attempt to restore prior conditions at all. I think your argument is essentially an ad-hominem that asserts without evidence that mining compani
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Western open pit mining operations will have environmental remediation plans that are likely bonded. Eventually, the ecology will go back to normal. Meanwhile, a monstrosity like Los Angeles will remain a massive concrete eye sore for centu
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
This is very cool. Just doing napkin math, the US produces 18000tonne of nickel. Wheat yield is close enough to a tonne per acre, so if you got, say, 1% Ni by weight, you would still need 1.8M acres. Wheat grown on the same area would have
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Housing can be very affordable if living in a dense metropolitan area is not a requirement. There are also some efficiency gains happening with design automation and prefabrication that are very slowly creeping into the industry. I think an
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
The criticism in the article seems pretty weak. If the goal was an omniscient oracle, then, yeah, probably not the god you were expecting. However, I don't see how this is not more cost effective than an outsourced call center. Speakin
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Can We Get Everyone Off Smartphones? (corrected)
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Caught and, more importantly, nothing bad typically happened to anyone involved. Also worth noting that there is probably a survivorship bias in play.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I want to agree because I see myself in this, particularly the conclusion of the career arc, but I try to remember that market conditions are beyond my control and aren't productive to dwell on. I had a boss who cut his teeth at one of
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I am curious of there is potential for a structural application, like getting the fungi to produce chitin or cellulose. I could imagine providing a light lattice for a structure, spraying it with spores and a nutrient slurry, and then letti
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Yes. Dolphins and protective features for this sort of scenario are more standars now.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
There is a pretty good explanation of this in the documentary movie 'They Live'. Turns out they're just aliens most of us can't see.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I am not seeing any mention of a certain US security state 'investor'that gave them a bunch of money and PR, either in the article or in comments. I suppose it's uncouth within polite company to speak of such things. We now h
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I think this is OK. By extension, the services those knowledge workers provide become trivial costs. World class medical advice doesnt cost $500/hr with a month-long wait. Getting a freeway interchange designed doesn't cost the pu
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Not a falsifiable theory, but I believe it anyway.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
The economy clothes aren't great, but you can get a quality tailored suit for $4000. That's about 6 weeks pay for a PFC in the US Army. A roman legionnaire would pay about a gold ounce for a quality (at the time) set of clothing,
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I use plasticity exclusively for 3D printing. I'm a huge fan. I also deeply appreciate a no-nonsense perpetual license for a fair price. You can't define persistent dimensional or relational constraints; however you can iterate an
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I really admire those with the ability to conform themselves to a work place to be successful. I've always been candid, and I am occasionally at odds with management when polite lies are expected. Those I've managed appreciate th
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Sometimes they can. Your provider probably sources power from multiple generators. Some consumers can get power from brokers who sell closer to market rate, rather than a levelized one. Customers usually save money, but pay newspaper-headli
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Highway construction standards are much higher than they were 30-50 years ago, but it's a mixed bag. Administrative costs are significantly higher. Survey has dramatically improved with GPS. Highway engineering has not improved since a
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
AE is a special case. Procurement law for public agencies in the US requires qualifications-based selection for professional services. The price is then negotiated, but it's basically whatever the consultant says it is as long as they
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
An hour ago I sat across from a member of upper management in a mid-sized (1000+ FTE) AE firm that bragged about doing exactly that. AI is coming for middle management's jobs... and that's a good thing.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
A more successful model is to launder a DoD project into a private company (Lifelog to Facebook, for example) and then a leviathan of media flaks can promote the product as the Next Big Thing.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Correct. A major cut and cover in downtown Dallas would be insane. Bringing a TBM to put in a tunnel for bikes in Springdale Arkansas would be insane.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I'm undecided if it would be a net good or bad. If you think government should subsidize infrastructure that creates value that's hard to bill to users (like roads), then software is a pretty logical extension. However, given my
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
The author paints with too broad a brush. There is significant differences in markets that drive these decisions. Cut-and-cover is standard in my state, but the land cost, density, and regulatory environment allow this. Directional drillin
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Come on, when has Microsoft ever used the legal apparatus for market positioning or suppressing competition? Get real, dude.

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