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Soviets put out a burning gas well with a nuclear explosion (1966)(youtube.com)
2 points by rsa4046 5y ago|1 comments
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by rsa4046 5y ago
Deep sea chemosynthetic communities, sustained by cycling and release of hydrothermal vent fluids on the seafloor (discovered in the 1970s), are quite unlike anything living at or close to ocean surface, where primary production is sustaine
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by rsa4046 5y ago
“In the case of a translating ribosome, a frameshift can either result in nonsense (a premature stop codon) after the frameshift, or the creation of a completely new protein after the frameshift. In the case where a frameshift results in no
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by rsa4046 5y ago
The first two seem consistent as tentative responses to a statement that might contain hyperbole, joke, play on words, double entendre, etc., by maintaining some distance with the statement of supercar-as-fact. In contrast, the third seems
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by rsa4046 5y ago
The areas of the seafloor containing these nodules have some of the lowest sedimentation rates in the world ocean — this is why these deposits are exposed more or less at the sediment-water interface, and not buried in terrigenous sediment
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by rsa4046 5y ago
+1
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by rsa4046 5y ago
I've been running KDE Neon for about a year, and have to say it's about the best put together DE I've experienced in over 15 years. And KDE Connect is the bee's knees. Everything really does just work. I'm totally i
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by rsa4046 5y ago
An aside: in Germany, “Hamstern” = stocking up on excessively large amounts of something that is feared to be in short supply thereafter, although it can carry negative connotation, as a selfish refusal to share with others (when I lived in
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by rsa4046 7y ago
Zuboff's book is excellent
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by rsa4046 7y ago
Everything (void tools IIRC) is excellent, have used it for years. Fast, and completely reliable.
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by rsa4046 7y ago
+1 I'd forgotten Paradox of Choice. So true
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by rsa4046 7y ago
+1 3Blue1Brown's channel is indeed a treasure.
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by rsa4046 7y ago
+1
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by rsa4046 7y ago
Relevant to that, there's a good talk by Herman Mark Schwartz [0], in which he reports that total offshore holdings of top 15 US firms exceeds $1 T (more than Obama's ARRA stimulus of $830 B). Excludes onshore cash, and Apple&#x
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by rsa4046 7y ago
I've been there (Gardner Island). In the mid 1980s, as a grad student on an oceanographic research cruise dredging midocean seamounts for phosphorites in the equatorial Pacific, sailing from Pago Pago (American Samoa) to Funafuti (Tuva
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by rsa4046 7y ago
I, too, remember this show! Burke was great.
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by rsa4046 7y ago
"they barely make any money from their work." Researchers make zero direct money from publications. Yes, they are paid a stipend or salary to publish results, but by their University or Institute, not by Elsevier. I've publis
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by rsa4046 8y ago
> Well-written documentation (with plenty of real world examples) is severely underappreciated in modern tech. It's not only empowering but it's just plain fun getting under the hood. This can't be said enough. Complete, w
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by rsa4046 8y ago
The incentives are 1) professional responsibility; 2) the opportunity to participate in the direction of new research, stay abreast of the field, and maintain a high level of integrity; 3) young researchers joining the field benefit from th
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by rsa4046 8y ago
In academia (at least the hard sciences), no faculty are ever paid for publishing in mainstream, peer-reviewed journals. No reviewers are ever paid either, although recently Elsevier has started to publish the names of its "star review
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by rsa4046 8y ago
I think clavalle's point above is critical. Your good deeds, prowess, etc., have little chance of being noticed absent a willingness on your part to blow your own horn, loud. Now that he is your manager and you are subordinate, any att
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by rsa4046 8y ago
At a pH of ~8, the majority of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) exists as bicarbonate. Inorganic removal of a mole of HCO3- from surface seawater via precipitation of CaCO3 yields a mole of CO2 back to the atmosphere. Easier to fix CO2 via
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by rsa4046 8y ago
Echoes David Goodstein's "Paradox of Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates" from the early 90's[0]: "The answer, I think, is that in education and in science, as in fast food and popular culture, America is n
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by rsa4046 8y ago
To piggyback onto this comment, it really is a matter of rates, of chemical kinetics. The current increase in CO2 from fossil fuel burning and related human activities has occurred at a rate that is geologically instantaneous. There is no r
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by rsa4046 8y ago
I've lost track of the literature since the early 1990's, but from what I recall of the early IRONEX experiments the problem was that net sequestration was disappointing: despite significant increases in fixation, much of this new
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by rsa4046 9y ago
Wholly agree with above sentiment and advice. I'm in my sixties, which amazes me daily, as other than some recognition of slowing down physically I don't have a clear sense of being young or old. I'm also about to start looki
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by rsa4046 9y ago
Have read this, it's excellent.
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The bureaucrat versus the entrepreneur
2 points by rsa4046 9y ago|0 comments
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by rsa4046 9y ago
Man, what an interesting discussion, and a lot of good points here. As someone involved in education in US (research faculty at major private school in the South), and more recently, in Germany, I've become increasingly concerned with
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Could a doodle replace your password?(theconversation.com)
1 points by rsa4046 9y ago|0 comments

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