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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
The article also didn't give any numbers at all. How much radioactivity are we talking about here? Talking about "tonnes of radioactive water" is meaningless. 80 MBq/L * 300,000 L = 24 TBq Investigations showed that t
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
This is bullshit (specifically, a perpetual motion machine of the 2nd kind). Suppose you have a heat source T_H in an environment T_C. If you could extract more work from the thermal radiation of T_H than the Carnot limit for this system, y
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
They're still doing that! "US project worker Alan Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the state in Cuba." "Gross, 61, was arrested in December 2009 accused of setting up illegal internet
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White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention(blogs.wsj.com)
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
Greenwald just posted his own account: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m... At 6:30 am this morning my time - 5:30 am on the East Coast of the US - I received a telephone call
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
Michael L. Anderson, an associate professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley, predicted that the cost of the entire project would be closer to $100 billion. Keeping the same assumptions as t
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
The fact that the F-35 is significantly slower than a 55 year old jet really shines light on how compromised its design is. This is nonsense. The tradeoffs for speed are fantastically expensive and haven't made sense since the 1950&#
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
A pipeline doesn't need viaducts because it doesn't have severe restrictions on curves. It can follow terrain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_Sys... A high-speed railway needs to be
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
"America's freight railways are... universally recognised in the industry as the best in the world": http://www.economist.com/node/16636101
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
This might seem unfair... If it were unfair, your ToS would categorically prohibit itself, under B.5.56 "any... service... that is... unfair".
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
This article is amazing. If you didn't read: two things it claims about the House intelligence oversight committee are: * That it censored a congressman from discussing the contents of the Snowden leaks with other representatives (sear
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
You should read the article. The issue is that CH4 is a vastly more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, because of how strongly it absorbs IR [0]. Even small methane leaks are significant. This is counterbalanced by methane * Being less carbo
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
Sounds like an insane fire hazard. With large volumes of hydrogen and breathable air in close proximity, otherwise minor failures would be catastrophic.
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
To be fair, if he's comparing to human-driven cars, every mode of transport is "nearly impossible" to get injured in. That clause doesn't really constrain anything.
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
Is there a complete list of Musk's statements about Hyperloop, constraining its nature?
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
Here's a transcript for you! (Made with Emacs, appropriately). How Emacs changed my Life Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto @yukihiro_matz 1980 I started programming BASIC 400 steps 1988 I met Emacs o
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
Why the sudden drop in one year, which seems to represent a change of definitions? That seems to be the case. This is from the same source as these population figures (Eurostat): http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics
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by throwaway_yy2Di 13y ago
This has to be fake. An email "allegedly" from Snowden with no PGP signature? (edit): And this is suggestive: ed_snowden@lavabit.com -- someone associated this address to some PGP key in 2010 edsnowden@lavabit.com -- no results