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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Breakthrough using extremely rare earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulium which comes at a high price and only provides a low power laser? Wierd that the article says its low cost. Certainly not a holy grail.
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>Why do you think inclusion and good engineering are mutually exclusive? I would not agree that is what I said. I'm not opposed to inclusion. I'm not even saying their decision is wrong. Maybe they are exactly what we need on t
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>I wonder how much of that is simply for short term political gains. I think it has happened long enough ~150 years to prove it's not short term. Every single major immigration event in north america has benefitted us greatly. New o
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Recently reinstalled OS and tried Firefox for some time. Could only last a couple weeks before dumping firefox. I guess Safari is still their own. KDE Konqueror still their own. Sad that opera became chrome. Guess I'll be staying Brave
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>I find comments like this interesting - what is so implausible about this? It’s just a bit of radio chatter, nothing amazing happens, just a funny anecdote that a pilot tells when speaking to an audience. The original story has an SR71,
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
It takes ~1 months at quickest approach. This pretty much eliminates any biological pandemic level issues. War on Mars will also be something else. Canadians understand this all too well. You're far enough from everything to make you n
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>We got very, very lucky with several factors Not at all. You look at pages like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m... RCP8.5 is the only RCP listed on the graph with no context that
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Everyone seems to think I am making a statement about GDP or economic systems when I say infinite growth but I am just speaking in broad strokes about human activity. The saying you said is specifically about economic and GDP. Fair enou
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>A beefy camera would be very interesting to work with. As of now, our phones do a ton of proprietary processing which makes open source/external solutions... suck. I'd love to have a decent open source camera app with the capa
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Hmm for some reason the webpage loaded as a blank page first time. "Guess no good news" RCP 8.5 was never expected to happen. It was a prediction based the entire world doing nothing at all, banning things like green tech, and inc
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>We are essentially awash in our own waste Way worse than that, but I expect you know. >Growing up, I was fed lies about a future of a unified world, universally prosperous under American hegemony. Interesting, I'm Canadian and w
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I bought the pinebook pro and ya it just doesnt quite have the power I want it to, but on flipside the lack of power gives the giant battery tons of runtime. But for the pinephone. I really want >= 32mp camera. Whereas 5MP is ridiculous
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Gasoline prices have little impact on demand. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=19191 For this reason alone Carbon taxes do not work. In my jurisdiction, we already have over 100% tax on gasoline. Partly
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
It's unfortunate that 'doomsday' will remain. In society there will always be the Y2K and Mayan Calendar people. Climate change is a much more reliable source compared to some ancient Mayans. There are also ideologues pushing
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>Nobody says what goes through my body but me! That's selfish! Mandatory trip to Chernobyl!
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>Back on planet Earth, a review of the current scientific literature firmly disproves this thesis. Nasa satellite images clearly show the deserts are retreating, and on average there is a strong trend to global greening... Canada is one
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>Isn't this called Autism (spectrum disorder)? I've heard stories about people coming of age suddenly realizing that people less intelligent then them are better at the social game, how can it be?? And then they realize it is s
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>77% of agricultural land is devoted to livestock. We could return a lot of that land to wilderness if we adopted a whole food plant based diet. You have to be careful here. Livestock is generally carbon sinks. Those cow patties are taki
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>This is not the answer the Australian government is looking for. Which blows my mind. Australia has the opportunity to do very large outback scale energy capture projects that would effectively drop the cost of energy to 0 in the long r
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>I don't think it makes sense to see human settlements as separate from nature. I think of nature as the fabric within which such configurations occur. For sure we are not. If we put a bubble(mars dome) around Toronto. Everyone dies
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>The big difference vs. Greece is that ~90% of all Japanese government bonds are held domestically. Of which ~45% is held by the bank of japan itself. https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/central-bank-balance-shee...
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>The easiest (and probably the only) way to prevent a war with China is to convince the US to not start it. Noam Chomsky recently wrote similar to this. The military threat is really against china. The point of a cold war is to prevent a
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>So the Chinese have UFOs and we have a war with China but we are moving chip production to all these countries you mentioned to prevent the ongoing war with China? Is it China's UFOs? I don't think so. https://www.c
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>Is there some reason why a country experiencing deflation can't print money and hand it out to voters until inflation returns? That's a great question. Japan has been doing this for about a decade. Shinzo Abe kind of called it
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This is related to yesterdays: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29312300 Japan is on the verge of economic collapse. Negative interest rates, major deflation during all of covid. Barely pulling out of deflation and tren
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This is about the war with china. Europe: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/tech-is-make-or-break-i... Germany: https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/press/press-r..
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5. A wild strain would have spit out many new variants early on as it mutates to become accustomed to us. >None of this adds up to positive evidence of any variation of the "lab leak" theory but given that there is no alternati
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>No where in the linked article does it say that Dr. Xiangguo Qiu shipped viruses to Wuhan. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-s... >All of this has led to conspiracy theories li
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Regardless of covid's source. Are we ready for something that is truly bad? It sure is a good thing that covid turned out to not be anywhere near as deadly as the spanish flu as they touted it to be. Here's an article from April 1
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>i don't understand why the so-called "lab leak theory" of origin for sars-cov2 is treated as some sort of conspiracy theory. it is completely plausible, and things like this have happened in the past ( https://e

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