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by skosch 7y ago
I'm more curious about the Conservatives' response to this, actually, as talking about waste has been one of their favourite diversion tactics whenever the environment (read: climate change) comes up. Will they vote for this?
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by skosch 7y ago
Indeed! Thanks to tireless lobbying, there is now a bipartisan-sponsored bill before the House: https://teddeutch.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Documen... This is the one mechanism that actually has the potential
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by skosch 7y ago
Fasting has lots of well-documented benefits, but your claim sounds pseudoscientific. A water-fasting proponent would probably encourage us to drink water to "flush out toxins". What toxins, exactly, are being "drawn out&quot
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by skosch 7y ago
I recently walked into a Casper store to check out their new night light. The sales girl came over in her silly sleep scientist outfit to demonstrate the shake-to-dim feature. "Neat, right? That way it won't disrupt your REM sleep
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by skosch 7y ago
The bit of heat produced in a power line isn't a huge deal. The more important applications will be in electronics and electromagnets. For instance, it would make nuclear fusion reactors cheaper and easier to build.
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by skosch 7y ago
That worked for me on Linux FF 66. Thank you.
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by skosch 8y ago
They're all wonderful, established technologies and all very capable of making concurrency relatively painless. At this stage, you should go with whatever you would be most productive in: do you already know one of the languages? If so
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by skosch 8y ago
China already has the largest carbon trading market in the world [0]. Perhaps it's not aggressive enough, but they're significantly more ambitious than the US, and their population isn't nearly as wealthy to begin with, so it
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by skosch 8y ago
Carbon pricing, carbon pricing, carbon pricing. It's the one thing virtually all economists agree on as the most efficient way to catalyze large-scale change (although we'll still need regulation and sequestration as well). Politi
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by skosch 8y ago
This made me go "huh, then how do they know their sensor is working at all?" The answer is that the sensors are two spectrometers that detect all sorts of gases, not just methane: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by skosch 8y ago
Read the article – it's bacteria that produce the smell humans perceive as "sweaty", but it's not that smell that attracts the mosquitoes, but rather acidic compounds that are already present in our sweat.
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by skosch 8y ago
I have found that book to be an impressive example of poor scientific writing – one long, convoluted, intentionally obtuse sentence after another, as if the author was constantly trying to make the reader feel like an idiot. I have found so
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by skosch 8y ago
Right – but then consider what its popularity might be today if AfD-aligned content had been banned by Facebook and other platforms from the start. Parties like the NPD have been around for ages, but unlike the AfD they were kept out of the
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by skosch 8y ago
> It just makes it fester somewhere else that isn't as visible. Is that true? Would we have the anti-vax movement if it weren't for Facebook & co.?
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by skosch 8y ago
This is addressed later in the article. The whole formula is: "3 numbers were inaccurate. I feel frustrated because I keep having to [deal with the consequences]. Would you be able to [double-check all calculations from now on]?"
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by skosch 8y ago
I just wanted to answer the question. The limiting factor is indeed the sunlight and how much of it is absorbed – thus my comment that 85% is nothing special.
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by skosch 8y ago
Back-of-the-napkin: > 90-nm ultra-thin I don't know the density, but let's say 2g/cm³. That means a 1cm² piece of this film weighs 18 micrograms. > 30°C to 150°C in 30 seconds If by "sunlight" they mean 1000 W
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by skosch 8y ago
I didn't mean to come across as cynical — it's still a cool discovery, and it might turn out to be useful in some surprising niche context. The researchers do speculate that it might be > suitable for a wide variety of uses, in
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by skosch 8y ago
This is cool, but at 85% absorptivity it's no better than coatings you can already buy. Absorber plates in glazed solar water heaters you can get in your hardware store today have numbers in the 90s. Edit: I recommend a look at the ori
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by skosch 8y ago
Interesting, that's how I remembered it too! However, Wikipedia says: "While many reviewers compared Elliot Carver to Rupert Murdoch, Feirstein based the character on Robert Maxwell." ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by skosch 8y ago
We can acknowledge the suffering caused by the bear. Perhaps the overall utility of having a happy bear in your ecosystem beats not having a bear, or a starving one. Since we can't know for sure, the precautionary principle tells us to
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by skosch 8y ago
> so they probably have an evolved way to deal with the psychological burden of this. I like that idea, but I don't understand how natural selection would favour animals that are less stressed about predators. Are you implying tha
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by skosch 8y ago
> Kind of similar to the way how behavior of cellular automata changes between the predictable patterns and chaotic ones. Hm, reminds me of Permutation City. That's an interesting parallel I hadn't considered at all.
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by skosch 8y ago
> this doesn't need to assign consciousness to simpler computations (rocks, buildings, simple cells). That necessarily follows, I think. The quantum processes in a rock are also a form of computation and, therefore, inhabited by som
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by skosch 8y ago
Self-aware consciousness is a pretty high bar, but how about the ability to experience suffering? The ability to experience reward? That question very quickly turns into "what is experience", or rather, "what isn't exp
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by skosch 8y ago
Absolutely, and why stop there? Neural nets just add up numbers – other physical systems do that, too.
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by skosch 8y ago
I like how quickly this line of thinking leads to panpsychism. Alright, so your dog has some level of cognition – sensations, emotion, joy, pain. Perhaps less complex than a human, but nevertheless nonzero. Because whatever computations hap
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by skosch 8y ago
Environment :)
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by skosch 8y ago
Several years old, but still awesome. Does anyone know what the "Trace" algorithm does? I can't find anything on Google.
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by skosch 8y ago
Your heart is in the right place, but what you advocate isn't currently palatable to anyone, left or right, on the political spectrum. Instead, push for a fee-and-dividend model – not entirely UBI, but similar in spirit. It's what

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