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by scythe 5mo ago
Most high-entropy alloys contain expensive metals so the primary domain of interest has mostly been as a coating for other metals. Recently there has been some work on AlCrMnFeNi, which is the cheapest composition I've seen by far.
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by scythe 5mo ago
The production case for a stronger stimulant is weaker. Heroin is a really complicated molecule. It is only made from a natural precursor. Meth can be made by two major pathways, and P2P can be made by at least four off the top of my head.
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by scythe 5mo ago
There have been two hydroelectric power plant failures in the United States in the last fifty years, and one near miss. This is among hundreds of dams many of which have operated for more than a century. A pumped-storage dam also doesn&#x27
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by scythe 5mo ago
>On top of that battery prices have been plummeting too so that now Solar + battery is cheaper than other options like Nuclear and especially Gas. I'm a little bit sad that pumped hydro doesn't get more attention in the discuss
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by scythe 5mo ago
Homelessness and visible homelessness need to be distinguished here. The large majority of homeless people are not the ones you notice on the streets. Most try to be discreet. Some have jobs. A person who lives in their car is considered ho
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by scythe 5mo ago
>This is likely the worst issue humanity will be facing over the next 50 years, even more than climate change. Tangent, I know, but the climate change horizon is very long, much longer than 50 years. For example, a common projection is t
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by scythe 5mo ago
>Venice was run by very old men. It was common for the Doge to be in their 80s. Meanwhile, many of their neighbors had kings who were very young, sometimes teenage boys. But those kings were (legally) absolute monarchs, while Venice was
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by scythe 5mo ago
It's on Wikipedia, sorted backwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_in... Venezuela is an unusual case because their economy has been a disaster for the last half decade. And I agree tha
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by scythe 5mo ago
Most of South America has worked like this for decades. Hydropower is king even in Venezuela. It's altruistic on their part, but it may have reduced their long-term economic growth. Viewed in terms of GDP per capita, South America is a
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by scythe 6mo ago
>But if someone is willing and able to pay If someone is willing and able to pay, they have a source of money. If they aren't allowed to buy something, that control should be applied at the level where they get the money. If the chi
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by scythe 6mo ago
>Here I feel the need for an aside. Many, many people will tell you that the key to reducing bean gas is to eat more beans. Eating more beans, they argue, works because it allows our digestive systems, and the microbiome in them, to accl
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by scythe 6mo ago
go fmt
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by scythe 6mo ago
>It's a very comparable game of cat and mouse to spam email filtering. People also tried to claim that spam was over because for a time companies like Google cared enough to invest a lot in preventing as much as possible from gettin
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by scythe 6mo ago
I have a bottle of Colatura di Alici in my fridge. It's great when I remember to use it. But it costs about ten times as much as a Southeast Asian fish sauce, which is a natural consequence of only being produced in one town in Italy.
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by scythe 6mo ago
I think you misunderstand. I'm not arguing that the US will face a shortfall. The data above show that the US imports less than 25% of its bromine, but are redacted to prevent the public knowing the real amount. Factories in America ar
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by scythe 6mo ago
The US production in your linked article is listed as "W". This is explained as "Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietary data". But imports consistently exceed exports, so it appears that US production is not li
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by scythe 6mo ago
The British blockade probably did more for the downfall of Mossadegh than the US influence on the Shah. Iran's economy was severely impacted by the blockade and this allowed the Shah to gain support within the Iranian government for a
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by scythe 6mo ago
Bromine is unusually concentrated in the Dead Sea, representing 0.4% instead of 0.0065% in the oceans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine#Occurrence_and_product... The largest producer outside the Dead Sea is China
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by scythe 6mo ago
>Do you see, or experience, a lot of contention for nighttime parking? In the Hudson Waterfront of New Jersey, yes.
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by scythe 6mo ago
>the same government, mysteriously, has no problem building a vast network of roads reaching everywhere and spanning the whole country. Our road-building has slowed dramatically since the 1980s. The Interstate Highway network would be mu
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by scythe 6mo ago
>The vast majority of MRI machines used today use superconducting magnets made from niobium-titanium (NbTi), which becomes superconducting at 9.2 degrees above absolute zero. This is well below the boiling point of any other coolant, mak
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by scythe 6mo ago
Pakistan, the mediator of the agreement, declared that a ceasefire in Lebanon was part of the agreement when the agreement was announced: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/what-us-iran-isra... >Pakista
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by scythe 6mo ago
>Calling Iranians who are against their current government “morally compromised” is real reprehensible for someone sitting in an armchair. What I said was that anyone who wants their country to meet the fate of other countries the US has
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by scythe 6mo ago
> There are news reports of Iranian expats and opponents within Iranian who are disappointed with the ceasefire. They wanted trump to go further and destroy the regime. Most of them realized their mistake: https://www.economis
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by scythe 6mo ago
JCPoA compliance was verified by the US and the IAEA regularly until the agreement was suspended by Donald Trump in 2018.
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by scythe 6mo ago
A lot of stuff leaked today: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-wa...
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Right to repair: Why the US military can't fix much of its own equipment(taskandpurpose.com)
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by scythe 6mo ago
It's not entirely impossible that someone smuggled in some Chinese or Russian kit in the last month. It would certainly be an interesting development. I wouldn't be too surprised if there are some sympathetic people in the Pakista
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by scythe 6mo ago
It's probably fairly high, considering the existence of the sodium-sulfur battery. It's not economically competitive since it operates at high temperature, but it's based on very abundant materials.
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by scythe 6mo ago
>This excuse only works if who built the bridge isn't central to the discussion. It isn't central to the discussion. The appearance of corruption is clear; nailing down the culprit is difficult. It isn't reasonable to expe

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