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by photochemsyn 5y ago
This article seems rather confused at best. Take this: > "So-called clean ammonia comes in two main varieties: green, produced with hydrogen that is created by splitting water with renewable electricity; and blue, made with traditi
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Occidental plans up to $1 bln for facility to capture carbon from air(reuters.com)
3 points by photochemsyn 5y ago|1 comments
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
FDR's Rural Electricity Cooperatives did a lot to electrify much of the midwest and rural south, along with the creation of the TVA. I doubt anyone would want to rely on the current major providers, Comcast etc., who have such a bad t
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Let's consider Gross National Product of each county adjusted for population size: gnpUSD = {'USA': 21,650,000,000,000, 'THA': 491,910,000,000} #4th quarter 2021 pop = {'USA': 329,000,000, 'THA':
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
The mathematical development of non-Euclidean geometry required for Einstein's general relativity took place over the previous century and really changed people's thinking. From Poincare 1905, chapter on non-Eucliden space, the c
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
So, something like "Europe and America will turn into China-style mass surveillance states if we don't demand a change in direction immediately"? Has the benefit of being relatively true as well. Google leadership was all too
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
The author mentions bike repair as a hobby, and the issue with trying to turn that into a monetized hobby will quickly become apparent once you talk to some experienced full-time bike mechanics. As a hobbyist your scope is almost always ra
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
The terms 'guestlist' and 'shitlist' would perhaps be more accurate in terms of what those two forms of security access control are really about. Using a guestlist to control access is more secure (as you can background
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
THe 1950s are calling, and they want their talking points back... https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/scare-tactics-... > "On April 21, 1954, Dr. Frederic Wertham strode into the U.S. Senate hearing r
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
This site has a nice timeline of computer development history dating back to the 1930s: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
This sort of confirms my suspicion that the major news corporations in the United States are not really in business to make money, any more than state-funded news outlets in China or Russia are. Their purpose is to control the narrative be
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
There's an interesting book out about the history of political use of technologies like the punchcard, which might have been the early 20th century version of today's collection of AI technologies. https://www.hurstpubl
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Any discussion of statistics-based reasoning should include the concept of systematic bias, and that's not mentioned in this article at all. An example of systematic bias is that of an accurate but miscalibrated thermometer, where the
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
One solution would be to push more people towards MS degrees, which should be no more than 2-3 years in duration and focused on gaining skills and experience valuable in the private sector.
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
There's a serious omission in this organizations list of concerns, namely the increasing control of academic research by corporate interests and the resulting attack on traditional academic norms of open sharing of research results. S
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
If you can point to a single investigative journalism story / series similar in scope and detail to Top Secret America published in the WaPo since Besos acquired it, then I will recant my opinion.
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Makes you wonder if the linked pdf itself incorporates this method and there's a secret message hidden in it.
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I'd like to see this thinking applied to John Coltrane's Giant Steps: https://perfectauthenticcadence.blogspot.com/2016/01/analyzi... > "By creating this system of cyclical patterns, Coltrane cha
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Why do you think Besos bought the Washington Post for what, $200 million... right after AWS got that $600 million CIA web services contract? Notably there are no more "Top Secret America" investigations looking into how the US go
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Why people are so eager to spread false information(theinfographicsshow.com)
2 points by photochemsyn 5y ago|3 comments
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Better article here: https://www.theinfographicsshow.com/musk-starship-starlink-c... > "Jamming attacks are common threats to wireless communications and happen when a hostile device creates radio signals that disru
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
What I want is a search engine which searches the complete content of every paper, including both original research reports and reviews, published in a peer-reviewed journal since 1900. No, not just abstracts. Of course we can't have
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I think the solution is to allow student loan debt to be discharged under normal bankruptcy proceedings, on one hand, and to return to c. 1980 costs for a university education, on the other. The latter requires cuts of administrative salari
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
All the studies this article references fall into the social science replicability problem zone. Such studies shouldn't be viewed as reliable, and in this case, are merely being used to give a very thin patina of 'scientificity&#x
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Alternative view: infectious diseases have been around throughout the entire history of humanity, and have played an important ecological role in human history, namely controlling population size (particularly under famine conditions, when
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Better headline: Corporate Profit Motives in the Social Media Sector are Driving the Amplification of Rage and Hatred Online. Twitter's business model can be simply described as the promotion of outrage porn to draw in eyeballs who wil
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
> "We should also understand that just as some kids at 16 are ready for a college education, just as many kids at that age are ready to take their places in the working world. Most of us today would have a hard time articulately jus
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
As far as I know, every major human civilization across the span of history has been a bubble that eventually collapsed to a much reduced state. Egyptians, Romans, Sumerians, Mayans. . . Now we've gone and created a truly massive popu
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
True enough. This is why the simulation hypothesis is so interesting - i.e. the notion we are all living in a perfect VR simulation that never glitches. Science can't be used to address the veracity of that hypothesis, much to the app
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
My concern is that this can too easily result in disaster like a herd of cattle stampeding over a cliff. Everyone's rushing along together, everyone's safe in the herd, and then, oops, goodbye herd. We need more people willing t

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