twawaaay

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by twawaaay 4y ago
I will give you one statistic to get your head going. I studied theoretical math (long time ago, not in the US). At the university I attended, there were 17 applicants for each admission. My class was 125 people of which about 30 were men a
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The loss of mass is insignificant and we are talking 0,5B years. Sun will be loosing a lot of mass later, but that will be way after Earth has been baked to a crisp.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Also, it is capital letter because it is named after this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%A9on_Denis_Poisson Has an amazingly long list of things named after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> Again, you still aren't grasping how big this would be. You seem to be very sure about knowing what I can or cannot grasp. You wield this sentence as some kind of weapon against me but the fact is you are not presenting any argume
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I did not say crushed rock is the solution. I just used it as an example that solution may not require us to supply the amount energy from the grid that we would normally get from emitting the CO2 in the first place. Also, I think you are
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> You're describing small systems being scaled up millions of times. What you are describing is how technological progress works usually. We first typically learn to do something at small scale, then learn to solve problems that are
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by twawaaay 4y ago
There are possibilities for removal mechanisms that do not require proportionate input in energy directly . For example, you could perfect growing algae and let the algae extract energy from sunlight on its own. We would just have to ensur
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think the same. The number seems completely unrealistic. I don't know of any person who retires one phone every year. Also, a lot of phones get second life, being usually passed within families or sold used.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You know, the difference is that marine animals travel a lot more than land animals.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I worked a lot for banks and aside from mandatory vacation there are other rules. For example in one bank I worked for there is a 2 year limit on how long you can work there as a contractor. This is to make sure that all key personnel is ac
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Ignoring reality isn't helpful. If we go this way we would have to defund highway patrols because it is waste of time (traffic rules already specify how to drive safely). You don't need IRS (because law says how to pay taxes). Als
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You are right about the fact this is fasting. But the parent wrote "Does such caloric restricted diet allow one to maintain muscles and/or strength?" Which means he is asking about caloric restriction responding to comment ab
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think you are confusing calorie restriction with fasting. You can be regularly fasting AND eating the same amount of calories on average. You just eat more between fasts. Fasting just means there is enough period between your meals for yo
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Exactly. During WWII the already had radars enough to detect periscopes sticking out of sea surface from tens of miles. They were also able to triangulate subs by their short transmits anywhere on the Atlantic with pinpoint precision. Peopl
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The drone can refuse to takeoff or fly into restricted space based just on its own GPS. It absolutely does not require to track the pilot.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You can't prove something is impossible by showing a bunch of people try it and fail. That's faulty logic.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/ShaniChristopher.shtml Spontaneous ignition temperature for gasoline vapour listed as 280C, well below "red hot".
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Except, a lit cigarette can ignite a pool of gasoline. All those videos with stupid people holding cigarettes and igniting vapours at the gas station are proof that gasoline can be ignited with a cigarette. What you need is for the cigare
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You could. The point is to disprove the validity of the video. Correct signature is not a proof the video is valid but incorrect one could be proof that it is not. In practice, most people who manufactured videos before very recently were s
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I wonder when people will stop unquestioningly believe this 10k hours crap. If you spent a lot of time in one job there is good chance a lot of your skills are transferrable to the new one. When I decided to change jobs I figured out I want
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is not a matter of "number of locations". The problem is that each location just to function requires so much infrastructure to operate and be available that it is very unlikely that it would be possible to continue any of thes
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by twawaaay 4y ago
On the other hand it makes sense if you just need to borrow their infrastructure for a while to calculate something. A lot of scientific computing isn't happening continuously, and a lot of it is one time experiment or maybe couple of
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by twawaaay 4y ago
In the past I would say billboards are the scourge, but other than nuisance they do not harm me. On the other hand online advertising...
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Still, snow can cause blindness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photokeratitis
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think people will in fact get nostalgic about titanium dioxide white. Actually any white. Looking at the progress, in 50 years every surface is going to be covered with ads.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
For solar sail you don't want to absorb, you want to reflect. When you absorb you only get half of the push (assuming reflective surface reflecting directly back at 100% efficiency vs absorbed heat that gets radiated omnidirectionally)
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It does not matter for airplanes. Both cooling and heating are in ample supply on an airplane.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
You can't mix Vantablack. It actually isn't paint, it is a coating grown through vapour deposition.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> You understood correctly that quantum mechanics cannot be based on some hidden variable we haven't or cannot find. That's not true. The only thing we know is that the above appears to be true, but since we do not actually k
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yeah, I especially like to use CT for reducing configuration parameters or to replace meaningless configuration parameters (requests per second, batch sizes) with more meaningful ones (acceptable latency, acceptable failure rate).

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