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PFAS is added to many pesticides: https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/06/maine... and to some herbicides: https://pfasproject.com/2021/03/05/pfas-in-pestici
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So this has been going on for more than half a century now. Wisconsin started using Milorganite in 1926: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite "Since its inception, over four million metric tons of Milorganit
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Aren't there laws that were passed declaring that an increasing percentage of vehicles have to be electric as we get further into the future? Is Detroit essentially saying they are giving up on making vehicles and will close up shop s
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Quite interesting, new testable physics theories. I wonder if some of them could be tested using this system: https://phys.org/news/2024-08-prototype-quantum-internet-yor... The possibility of a new small gravity mete
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Something like this might work: "Virtual Walls: Protecting Digital Privacy in Pervasive Environments" https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/kapadia-walls/in...
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It's like bringing a calculator to the test!
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Isn't this a matter of USA national security?
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Learn physics, it is really useful for understanding just about everything. Knowing the mechanics of machinery is also very useful. If you're asking about physical tools, there are the usual ones: screwdrivers, hammers, saws, wrench&
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This can work both ways, ordinary people can add EULA's to their web presence. See Cory Doctorow's version: https://pluralistic.net/ READ CAREFULLY By reading this website, you agree, on behalf of your employer,
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Some other possible sources of environmental contaminants in the Moncton area: https://www.globalresearch.ca/canadas-use-of-chemical-weapon... During the war in Vietnam, the US tested agents orange, blue, and purple at CFB
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Some related work that might be interesting: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/project/solar/ https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/cmc/projects/solar.html
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Perhaps he is trying to expand the market to conservatives who would not have considered an EV before?
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While "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is great, I don't understand why everyone assumes that Google uses the user data it gathers _only_ to enhance search and for selling advertising. Look at all the things people are u
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He left out education. Become a computer scientist and do research in exploits and you're getting paid to create exploits. There are lots of profs doing it, I've known some of them, they call it research. Companies don't u
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Heat increases anger also, air conditioning helps. In fact there are lots of known triggers of anger, being lied to, being betrayed, having possessions stolen, getting yelled at in your workplace, losing a bet, losing a contest, feeling pa
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Know the tricks and don't fall for them. Start competing for your managers job. Build your own concensus with your coworkers and support each other. Form a union. Find a better place to work. Work to get your manager fired and rep
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Yeah, and whatever happened to the supposed efficiency of multi-level logic in integrated circuits? CMOS processes might be capable of a whole new level of performance if they used base 64 with multi-level transistors. Not sure if I'
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Similar to self-driving cars, future AI will train directly on reality rather than on text documents. The ultra-low-power-very-high-resolution cameras we all will wear will track our eyes and take note of what we pay attention to and ignor
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Their sensors have batteries, I would think they'd want to eliminate that power source as a potential cause of oxygen production first. High pressure water has a way of getting into things. Also the sensor devices may have metals in
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Stereo HiFi personal music was a new thing though. Transistor radios were mono and were listened to through a low fidelity crystal earphone in one ear. The time was ripe for mobile personal cassette players though, business had been using
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It was a concern though. People worried that people wearing headsets would not hear cars and walk or bike into their path.
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Also what other structures are left out because they haven't been discovered because staining techniques don't make them visible? The dark matter of biology, is anyone even trying to look for such things? Though you would think
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A distributed approach to pumped hydro might make sense. Massive reservoirs are useful, but smaller systems could also offset fossil fuel use. There are already millions of water tanks across the world that store water for households and
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So would this be a way to terraform Mars? It would take a few million or billion years, but it would be cheap. There might be ways to speed up the process, for example by introducing multiple bacteria so you don't have to wait for th
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This is like how the internet changed surveillance. Surveillance used to take time, people, and effort, then the internet came along and now surveillance can be done on a mass scale with low cost. Before AI people could learn from musical
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The case fatality rate for H5N1 in the past has been around 50%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1 If half the country starts dying people will either wear a mask and take other precautions or the
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I wonder if the percentage of the world economy that is based on crime has increased in recent years due to the ease of commiting crimes on the internet. Everybodies identity has been stolen multiple times, everything is hackable; seems li
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It might be done like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/magazine/earth-geomicrobi... It would indeed take a very long time, millions of years at least. So better get started now.
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Looked through the Github files and I don't see anything that describes the hardware. This web page shows a picture of the insides of the camera housing (click "Next" once to see the picture): https://pigazing.dcf
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It's hard to see how preserving phase information translates to immunity to distortion from air turbulence. Entanglement has physical binding properties akin to gravity or electrostatic attraction? The source article says this is sti

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