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by zardo 4y ago
What an embarrassment. I wouldn't want to swim in the bay without a wetsuit for fear of someone thinking I was one of these assholes.
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by zardo 4y ago
And Norway has plenty of EEZ, China is short on it.
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by zardo 4y ago
Is the idea that we should we repeal helmet laws with the intent that it will lead to more people getting hurt, then try to harness that wave of misery to get bicycle infrastructure?
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by zardo 4y ago
You can't meet the the standards by crushing particles, it's a mass limit inclusive of all particles of the regulated size and smaller.
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by zardo 4y ago
Brammo does this as well. Selling a software 'upgrade' that runs the motor outside of it's manufacturers recommendation seems like a good way to stick your company with replacing a bunch of burned out motors. Edit: Zero, not
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by zardo 4y ago
It really should be denied simply on the requirement that it not be obvious to a practitioner in the relevant field.
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by zardo 4y ago
> So they must have been having to touch all those components anyway. Or they conveniently misunderstood the regulatory requirements.
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by zardo 4y ago
I think it captures the style of a person who posts about their 200 IQ well.
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by zardo 4y ago
Have you changed any parameters in the firmware? What was that process like?
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by zardo 4y ago
> Another issue is the desire to appear dignified... tough to do on a skateboard. You won't look like a kook though.
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by zardo 4y ago
> But the idea that the US and North Vietnam were on the verge of a peace deal in ‘68 is just laughable. North and South Vietnam weren't on the verge of peace, but the US could easily have had peace at any time by withdrawing.
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by zardo 4y ago
Being in an address book or on a flight is not going to be able to convict anyone. The large number of CDs and hard drives recovered from the 2019 raid on his New York apartment seems a much more likely source of usable evidence.
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by zardo 4y ago
How weatherly the ship is (how close to the direction of the wind it can sail) seems like such an important performance spec on a sailing ship, but it never seems to be listed.
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by zardo 4y ago
You also have the possibility of transferring that energy into tire deformation and heating.
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by zardo 4y ago
> A hand built steel frame is luxurious and will ride like a dream. Surely that depends on the hands.
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by zardo 4y ago
If it works, I think Democrats (referring to national politicians) would like to just do a one off bill every few years. That way they get to say, "Vote for us and save money, don't and the Republicans will drain you dry."
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by zardo 4y ago
In my experience, shippers will claim a package was delivered and must have been stolen rather than own up to losing it.
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by zardo 4y ago
I find in an apartment complex with lock boxes to prevent package theft, some shippers (FedEx and Amazon) almost never use them, presumably because the drivers are under a time crunch. It may be easy for FedEx and Amazon to just have insura
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by zardo 4y ago
> Tritium they apparently want to separate it from their fuel and treat it as nuclear waste. Not waste, but they do want to store it for ~20 years to wait for it to decay into He3.
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by zardo 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Q typically used for MCF does not count the energy in neutrons, only the alpha particle energy.
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by zardo 4y ago
> This experiment didn't prove you could get more energy out of a fusion burn than you put in. Haven't H-bomb tests already proven that beyond all doubt?
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by zardo 4y ago
Yeah it's definitely not new, Marx called the process proletarianization.
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by zardo 4y ago
> And, "rare-earths" are not in fact rare. It's not a lie but is an unfortunate synonym. They are rare in the sense that they are rarified, spread thin everywhere not concentrated in ores.
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by zardo 4y ago
Just referring to what particles the released energy is carried in. The easiest fusion reactions to make happen release most energy as neutrons. But neutrons are, from a practical standpoint, a huge pain in the ass to deal with. They just f
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by zardo 4y ago
The targets are really the secret sauce right? If there were a civil ICF for power program, would NIF designs and data even be available to help, or is it all classified?
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by zardo 4y ago
> But maybe I'm missing something important about the economics? I think you've understood it. Imo fusion is never going to be able to compete with renewables+storage with the energy being captured from neutrons. Maybe reaction
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by zardo 4y ago
NIFs purpose is to validate simulations of thermonuclear weapon detonations. The default is going to be classified, it's making something public that would have to be justified.
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by zardo 4y ago
> This is sometimes seen as wasteful, on the surface, but there are very real benefits to doing things like this, even when it is much more expensive than alternatives: Those benefits are from having government rocket program, not from
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by zardo 4y ago
It's energy_out/energy_in, but the energy_in is not the total energy used by the experiment, it's the fraction that is transferred to the fusion fuel.
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by zardo 4y ago
The more dollars and jobs you can claim you brought to your district during the next election, the better. This isn't just a NASA thing, a NASA contract is probably pretty small compared to getting a new military base, or keeping one o

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