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by wycx 11y ago
I would live next to a warehouse full of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc
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by wycx 11y ago
Fabricators of chips you are familiar with: Taiwan. Most of the Chinese fabless SoC companies (Allwinner, Rockchip etc.) aren't getting their chips fabbed by Chinese owned fabs. Most of those cheap chinese phones have Mediatek SoCs, fr
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by wycx 11y ago
We didn't see the Europeans let the German banks fail.
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by wycx 11y ago
And for those interested, H2Se has an LC50 about an order of magnitude lower than H2S. Fortunately S/Se in crude oil is likely to be >10000. It smells like garlic.
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by wycx 11y ago
Is Allwinner actually providing code, or is Next Thing using the linux-sunxi contributions to mainline?
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by wycx 11y ago
I would agree. I would suggest that people who are skilled, and good at what they do did not get to that state without making mistakes that could fall into the categories described in the article as stupid. The trick is, as you say, to dete
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by wycx 11y ago
Hat your cat today!
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by wycx 11y ago
Probably because the definition of communism you carry around in your head is inaccurate.
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by wycx 11y ago
Here is an earlier example than Friedman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit
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by wycx 11y ago
How about giving people money, and if they are a heroin addict, let them have access to free heroin as well. I would imagine that a stable supply of the substance to which one is addicted, plus money off which to live, would form an excelle
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by wycx 11y ago
If you want resistance to thermal shock, go and get some old Corning Ware from a thrift store. Corning Ware can go directly from the freezer to the oven without damage.
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by wycx 11y ago
There would be a few 10s of mililitres in a mercury diff pump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_pump
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by wycx 11y ago
I abandoned Mendeley back when I realised I could not use it whilst keeping my reference collection synced via Dropbox. That led me to try Zotero, and I have not looked back. Though I wish the Zotero devs would just hurry up and give us an
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by wycx 11y ago
Those that know don't have a tounge with which to tell the story.
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by wycx 11y ago
2 Gbps of true random numbers: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/
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by wycx 11y ago
By what metric is that Canadian wealth quantified? If Canada is anything like Australia, household wealth is essentially the value of the house, which is most certainly not intrinsic, but a function of credit availability facilitating a hou
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by wycx 11y ago
He gets that middle class welfare due to his child. As a single male professional in Australia, I see none of that middle class welfare, unless I start speculating in real estate or taking advantage of superannuation concessions.
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by wycx 11y ago
That all ended in 2008. The best you will get is <4% today. Compare that with the real inflation rate, and the tax rate and things are not so great.
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by wycx 11y ago
...but it is still OK for the US to subsidise agriculture.
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by wycx 11y ago
Despite all of that, Floyd's attack to regain the yellow jersey after his bad day in the 2006 tour is still one of my favourite tour memories. Drugs or no, his ride that day was really entertaining.
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by wycx 11y ago
I did like the last line of the transcript you linked to (re. The Lexus and the Olive Tree): "You know, this is so crazy: it's like someone writing a book on self-made men, and the first chapter is Henry Ford II." I love to h
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by wycx 11y ago
...and write into that contract compensation worth $100s of millions of dollars if a later goverment decides to cancel the project. Also, fail to release the unfavourable cost-benefit analysis.
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by wycx 11y ago
Here in Australia we have found even more egregious ways of transferring money for failed transport infrastructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Link,_Melbourne
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by wycx 11y ago
Do people actually do this? Can the accellerations you reach with laboratory centrifuges induce sufficient concentration gradients in salt solutions? Surely the salt begins dissolving as you stop accellerating?
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by wycx 11y ago
You can't centrifuge molten metal to separate the constituent elements in the same way you can't centrifuge salt water to get the salt out. However, you could think of a mass spectrometer as working slightly along those lines: sen
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by wycx 11y ago
Indeed. Ultimately, I think most private enterprises would rather not be competitve contestants of a free and open market but would rather be monopolists, monopsonists and above all, rent seekers (ideally a monopolist rent seeker earning re
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by wycx 11y ago
One million dollars of travel is not one million dollars of lost revenue, unless all the flights are guaranteed to be 100% booked.
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by wycx 11y ago
If the potato is sufficiently finely divided, and the volume of water is large enough, evetually all the potato will dissolve completely in the water, and there will be no solids left.
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by wycx 12y ago
I suspect it costs even more to extract the small amounts of REE from scrap electronics than it does to extract REE from Bayan Obo ore. Recycling is hard. Particularly in comparison to processing ore. When reclaiming desirable metals from e
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by wycx 12y ago
Back when I was an exploration geologist looking for uranium, one of the things we would do was wander around prospecting with a scintillometer. A typical background on sandstone would be ~40 cps, whereas we could expect >400 cps on gran

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