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by uvdiv 14y ago
It couldn't work on that scale, because it's not practical to contain that big of an explosion. This is your Castle Bravo crater; it's more than a mile wide. http://goo.gl/maps/KEfZ Moreover, about 2/3rd of the energy in that device were
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by uvdiv 14y ago
That said, one application of the NIF is as the ultimate incinerator. Using it to literally rip apart hazardous waste (either the nuclear or more mundane variety) into lower atomic number atoms which are not a problem. How?
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I think `indexoncensorship.org' just violated these ToS, since they linked to the Olympics' ToS in a "derogatory... manner" (they criticized the contents).
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I agree, it's bizarre to have a commercial website with no contacts, legal information, and a disguised whois registration.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I think it's Adam Smith of Xobni, he's the guy (adamsmith) who submitted this link. http://blog.adamsmith.cc/about-adam-smith.html
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Okay, if it's per core-hour that's different.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
"Thus, we decided to only run computations when the outdoor temperature near the user is below a certain level (currently 16 degrees Celcius). When it's that cold outside, we assume that the computer's room is being heated anyway. All of t
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by uvdiv 14y ago
They can't integrate -- it's the whole point of the corruption, to maintain a cartel with limited supply, so as to inflate prices and profits. They don't want them to operate "within the rules" -- they want them to not operate, period. No n
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Wikipedia gives some insight: Most access is to a national intranet which consists of an in-country e-mail system, a Cuban encyclopedia, and websites that are supportive of the government.[7] Such a network, similar to the Kwangmyong used
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by uvdiv 14y ago
On chrome, 'ctrl-[' triggers a key event with .which, .keyCode, and .charCode all set to 27. 27 is DOM_VK_ESCAPE [1]. On firefox, 'esc' sets .keyCode to 27 [2]. Firefox's 'ctrl-[' sets .which and .charCode to 91 (codepoint for '['), but .ke
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by uvdiv 14y ago
One of the linked stories is much more interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/science/notebooks-shed-lig... Apparently Selman Waksman's 1952 Nobel in medicine is fraudulent, and it was his grad student who made the discovery (isol
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by uvdiv 14y ago
He just wouldn't be a proper Bond villain without a volcanic island lair.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It also sets the value of discovering new drugs at $0. What's smart about that?
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Project Prometheus) had a design delta-V about 40 km/s (100 kW nuclear fission reactor + electric ion thrusters). http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/jimo2003/hartman.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_I
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Vile. `pvarangot' didn't exaggerate.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
(Your second number is off -- it's 2,260 kJ/kg or 2,260,000 J/kg) There's no therodynamic objection that you can't recover (virtually) all the heat you spent creating steam, when the steam is recondensed back to water. Which is what they do
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by uvdiv 14y ago
" Also there are three definitions on that page... Under the last definition bitcoin would be easily considered fiat. " Then I regret citing it, it is wrong. That third definition actually misrepresents its source (Mankiw's Principles of E
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by uvdiv 14y ago
" I really liked the way it doesn't make the debate as "fiat" vs. non-fiat (as though fiat were a dirty term) but as centralized, opaque fiat vs. decentralized transparent fiat. " But he is plainly wrong about this -- he made up his own def
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Well why not? A serious question: what's the advantage of physical identity cards over digitally-signed documents + two-factor?
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Cryptographic hashes are "non-reversible" too. But they're both vulnerable to offline dictionary attacks if the attacker obtains the host's secrets -- which I think is what `astroduck' was really asking about, leaked server databases like t
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Apple claims Galaxy S3 infringes two patents, asks for US sales ban(news.cnet.com)
1 points by uvdiv 14y ago|0 comments
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by uvdiv 14y ago
They mean gigawatts of power, at some specific time. Germany has about 24.8 GW [1] of installed solar capacity, which recently peaked about 22 GW of actual power. The time-average is about 2.1 GW as of last year [1] (as 18 TWh/year), becaus
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by uvdiv 14y ago
And while we have autonomous robot factories (being wasted uselessly on asteroids or whatever), we might as well, you know, cut the costs of manufactured goods by six orders of magnitude, bring about the end of economics, and maybe build so
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by uvdiv 14y ago
" Ok so then there is the question of actively regulating the temperature of the ocean (which we might want to do for other reasons like food production). One might speculate on using the planet mantle as a ginormous heat sink. It has a fai
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by uvdiv 14y ago
"Unlimited energy - Lets say Fusion or something like it finally comes around and now using a couple of hundred megawatts for a an individual a month isn't out of the ordinary. How does that change things? Imagine that you can install gian
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Canada's oil sands from 1,000 feet above(businessinsider.com)
3 points by uvdiv 14y ago|0 comments
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by uvdiv 14y ago
How big are those slipstream effects compared to speed scaling? Drag power goes as the third power of speed; take average urban speeds from say 30 mph to 300 mph, and the drag goes up a factor of 1,000x -- to on the order of a megawatt.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
There's only on the order of 1 mg of Cf-252 in the source (my estimate) -- enough for the order of 10^9 neutrons/second. It's not a meaningful amount of fissile material. By weapons-grade they mean the uranium in the neutron multiplier is &
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The best article is the original one, which also hosts the primary sources (NRC documents). Maybe you could change the submission? http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120511/NEWS01/... http://www.democratandchronicle.com/assets
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Try this one (no URL junk): http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120511/NEWS01/...

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