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by photochemsyn 5y ago
There's a fundamental energy demand for removing salt from seawater and creating drinkable water that can't be avoided. Hence, desalination is fundamentally tied to the price of energy. These costs can easily bankrupt cities tha
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Odd quote from this article: "One interesting idea that has emerged in dry places (notably Australia and Israel) is water markets. These make sense on a pretty basic level: if something is scarce and valuable, I should be able to buy,
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
I don't think the person made any attempt to hide their affiliation, did they? This kind of international cooperation on infectious disease is pretty normal, i.e. that's how smallpox was eradicated, and it's also normal for
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Virology labs can play important roles in the eradication of infectious disease around the world, but they must be stringently and transparently regulated. They are needed because if we have a natural outbreak of an infectious novel virus,
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
This seems to have a central data-harvesting angle according to the article. The threat to banks is described as: "And that means they'll be further away from the mountains of data others are hoovering up about the preferences and
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
In my experience of human society, marriage is extremely transactional. It's modern legal form was invented largely to legally codify how wealth transfers related to marriages would be handled, essentially. A marriage in today's
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
This kind of thing seems to be a rapidly growing trend. Anyone see this? "See this report, and the curious lack of media interest: "According to the U.N. report, Turkish-made Kargu-2 lethal autonomous aircraft launched so-called s
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Well, prior to the legal system, the only way to resolve conflicts between humans was, well, violence. So, if the legal system loses legitimacy, we are back to violence as a dispute resolution system. Probably not a good idea, unless there
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Well, there was no Bill of Rights in the Soviet Union... or China... or Saudi Arabia. And that Bill of Rights provides a legal basis for opposition to an American government that clearly envies Chinese and Saudi state control systems. Now
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
#3 "We do use a third party to operate our email service, so we remind you to carefully read #1 again." #1 "If privacy is of utmost concern, we recommend that you refrain from communicating any personal data to us since plain
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
"Mullvad's vision is to make censorship and mass surveillance impractical." I'm pretty convinced that the only way to do this is through enforceable legal restrictions, not through technology. This is because those with
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I can't find any 'dissident USAID' outfit concerned about the fate of Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, however. Seems like 'human rights concerns' are highly conditional on the amount of money an repressive govern
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
GuardianUK says: "The Guardian reported this year that hundreds of thousands of euros of Yana Peel’s legal bills were expensed to the NSO Group by her husband – another move that apparently angered his partners. Stephen Peel’s lawyers
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by photochemsyn 5y ago
Pure gasoline is not that great of a motor fuel because it knocks (explodes when it's not supposed to during the internal combustion engine cycle). This is a major problem with high-compression airplane engines. However, tetra-ethyl-l
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I can imagine the reactor shell itself surviving intact, but as with Fukushima, loss of the secondary cooling system (and its power supply) could well have resulted in a runaway reactor situation followed by a hydrogen explosion blowing the
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When reviewing 9/11 attacks (likely the biggest and most disastrous intelligence failure in U.S. history, give or take Pearl Harbor), it's worth remembering that it could have been much worse. If the first plane had hit Indian Po
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Unfortunately the author didn't do basic diligence on that intro - anaerobic photosynthesis is indeed a thing and was likely around for about a billion years before the water splitting component evolved (such anaerobes get their electr