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Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change(centerforneweconomics.org)
18 points by ph0rque 11y ago|5 comments
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Modified laser cutter prints 3-D objects from powder(news.rice.edu)
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RetailXelerator: an accelerator focused on bringing startup products to retail(retailxelerator.com)
2 points by ph0rque 11y ago|1 comments
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by ph0rque 11y ago
I wonder if you could use vacuum instead of helium for the lighter-than-air medium? That way, you just have a vacuum pump as the energy expenditure. Also, that solves the problem of the ship being too light after unloading: just let a contr
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Today’s airship designers share a vision: magnificent amounts of trucking going on in the sky—regular convoys of enormous airships carrying timber, coal, wind turbines, prefabricated homes, or an entire summer harvest, puttering gently alo
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Right, proportional in the sense that for both n! and n^n, the fastest-growing component is ~n^n. (I was curious in the context of which grew faster for larger values of n in the big O notation).
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by ph0rque 11y ago
At some point, I wondered if n! is proportional to n^n. Turns out, it is: n! ~= (2 * pi * n)^1/2 * (n/e)^n ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation )
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by ph0rque 11y ago
You've discovered the secret! It doesn't.
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Have you heard of aquaponics? You can raise both fish and grow plants in an ecosystem.
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The solution to climate change that has nothing to do with cars or coal(washingtonpost.com)
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'Extraordinary' Cancer Breakthrough Revealed(news.sky.com)
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Very neat. I've been thinking about applying the concept of tiny houses to something that is a bit larger, enough for a family of six, while reducing wasted space: Maybe 1200 to 1500 square feet with 4-5 bedrooms. I'll be followin
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by ph0rque 11y ago
'bending the stick' of public perception I prefer the term "opening the Overton window". ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window )
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by ph0rque 11y ago
How about a revision of the Turing test that specifies rational, mature human beings. Yes, but then how many people would fail the Turing test? A non-trivial amount, I would guess.
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Rainforest regrowth boosts carbon capture, study shows(bbc.com)
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by ph0rque 11y ago
If companies were trying to minimize office square footage, remote work would be a lot more popular.
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by ph0rque 11y ago
That's a great list, but I'd love to see a table of carbon sequestration tech, and how much it costs per ton of CO2 sequestered.
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Fertilizer trees can triple yields(dapa.ciat.cgiar.org)
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by ph0rque 11y ago
How about carbon sequestration tech? Seems like the world is starting to move towards renewable energy generation, but that alone won't prevent the adverse effects of CO2 levels rising. A rigorous survey of what the current possible ca
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Ask HN: What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone? I've actually been thinking about that for quite some time now. Here's what I think will help increase prosperity: * Inexpensive housing: something like the Tiny
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Speaking of which, what would a robot war look like? I imagine a large portion of the effort would be to hack/otherwise persuade the enemy robots to switch sides.
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The Rise of the Artificially Intelligent Hedge Fund(wired.com)
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Scientists already modify mosquitoes to produce only male offspring: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gm-mosquitos-c... I don't have any evidence, but I don't think that will work: life will find
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Solar Sinter: Solar-powered 3D printer that sinters sand into 3D objects (2011)(markuskayser.com)
88 points by ph0rque 11y ago|25 comments
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by ph0rque 11y ago
(Assuming you're not being sarcastic) https://svbtle.com/ is similar to Medium. Mentioning something ~nobody has heard of makes a lot of sense as an alternative to something that is too popular.
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by ph0rque 11y ago
No mention of svbtle? Edit: I just visited the site for the first time in ages, and noticed it's no longer free to sign up. I take back any implied endorsement thereof.
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by ph0rque 11y ago
Why not modify them genetically to prefer fruit and plant nectar instead of blood? Mosquitoes already feed on nectar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito#Feeding_by_adults
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by ph0rque 11y ago
So, black-box / integration testing for AI? Neat. On a related note, I think an official driving test simulation for all the self-driving algorithms, perhaps sponsored by the government, would be really beneficial.
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The AI would invent a non-corruptible disk, obviously.
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Wind provided 40% of Texas’s electricity for 17 straight hours last month(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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