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by wycx 12y ago
The existence of subterranean oceans is not based in reality at all. All this reference to oceans in the mantle is science journalist bullshit. There is no ocean at 700 km depth. The paper refers to the mineral ringwoodite, for which the an
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by wycx 12y ago
It is not between the grains. It is in the crystal structure of the grains as OH-.
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by wycx 12y ago
Educate yourself: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
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by wycx 12y ago
Usury. The only way money is generated is by debt. Debt, by definition is encumbered by interest. Thus, the only way to generate money to cover the interest is to generate more debt, this is a feedback cycle, requiring accelerating borrowin
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by wycx 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gnomes_plan.png
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by wycx 12y ago
A good first step is to come up with some possible reasons for why we suck. I know I felt that mathematics was completely devoid of context during my high school and undergraduate years.Now that I have problems to solve, I have a real purpo
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by wycx 12y ago
Probably due to the ubiquity of regulatory capture
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by wycx 12y ago
This state of affairs is completely arse backwards. In hard sciences, where direct quantitative measurement is made (e.g. the sulfur isotopic composition of a mineral in a rock), those measurements, and details of how they were made are pub
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by wycx 12y ago
Please direct criticism to the proper source: regulatory capture
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by wycx 13y ago
A straightforward solution would be for the US to have a uniform online sales tax, distributed to the state of the shipping address. Is this intractable?
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by wycx 13y ago
Check out Zotero. It is primarily a reference management suite, but it can do some of the things you require.
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by wycx 13y ago
I suggest that much of Australia's good performance will turn out to have been a bit illusory. We were extremely lucky to experience a significant terms of trade increase from ~2003 onwards, as world iron ore and coal prices increased.
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by wycx 13y ago
It's probably already known by EEVblog subscribers, but I also recommend Mike's Electric Stuff. His FLIR handheld IR camera reverse engineering videos sucked me into hardware hacking. http://www.youtube.com/user&#x
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by wycx 13y ago
I found it entertaining, mostly for the interesting use of language. "Once in a while he found new axes at the hardware store. They were proclaimed to give greater striking power and strength through added weight and a variety of shen
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by wycx 13y ago
I am most definitely not an experienced SoC developer, and I am not trying to make products. Rather my experience is merely playing around trying to use ARM-based devices as general purpose computing devices in the same way you would use an
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by wycx 13y ago
That's not mainline. The almost universal lack of Mainline support is what makes ARM so frustrating. If it is not mainline, I don't want to know. Get a Minnowboard MAX and I suspect all the SoC functions will be available with a m
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by wycx 13y ago
Because trying to run open source on almost all ARM SoCs is a massive pain in the arse. Is there a single modern ARM SoC for which you can download a Linux install image with a mainline kernel and everything `just works'?
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by wycx 13y ago
There are many effective ways to limit real estate speculation and thus price inflation. Land taxes, un-restrictive planning regimes, capital gains taxes on real estate sales, strong tenant protection laws, loan to value and loan to disposa
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by wycx 13y ago
Debt slavery is probably a more accurate description of the citizens of developed countries with high house price to income ratios. (Or large student loans. Will the basic income be enough to cover student loan repayments?)
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by wycx 13y ago
And how many philanthropists practice charity by giving away money no questions asked?
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by wycx 13y ago
What's the deal with classes starting so early in the morning? Is this just a US thing? All through my schooling in Australia we never started before 9 am. When I read the title I though schools would be letting teenagers sleep in for
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by wycx 13y ago
I think the word you are looking for is "sophistry". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistry#Modern_usage
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by wycx 13y ago
The problem with central bankers is they print money at will to bail out corrupt financial institutions creating inflation that destroys the wealth of everyone except those who own hard assets
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by wycx 13y ago
The internet has an appetite for replace existing rent seeking with more scalable rent seeking.
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by wycx 13y ago
There are superior solutions to vitrification. Synroc [1] is technically far superior as it puts the long lived isotopes into mineral phases in which they are stable, as opposed to metastable glass. Once stablised as synroc it is simply a m
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by wycx 13y ago
What is Rh used for that is so specialised that it cannot be substituted by another PGE? It's a bit of a stretch to suggest that Mg and Mn are at all critical since they are major rock-forming elements without geographically restricted
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by wycx 13y ago
However, look at the direction desktop hardware is going. Integration of more and more functionality into SoCs is the future for non-high performance desktop computing. The more components that are integrated into the chip, the less there n
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by wycx 13y ago
Answer me this: It is the 18th or 19th century. You are in a less technologically advanced country. Your fate is to be colonised. I will allow you the choice of which European power will colonise you. Who would you choose, based on observat
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by wycx 13y ago
Why not ask some people from Angola, Mozambique, Ivory Coast or the Congo about it?
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The Anglosphere miracle(newcriterion.com)
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