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zardo
5y ago
The externalities should be internalized.
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zardo
5y ago
Isn't Israel a 'Middle Eastern' countr, and Japan 'Eastern'
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zardo
5y ago
Judging from SmartTVs, if you buy a car with a Samsung radio you won't be able to change the volume without reinstalling the audio drivers five times a week.
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zardo
5y ago
10% of the global meat market is around 30 million metric tons per year. What are we currently at?
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zardo
5y ago
I like the concrete example from when I first used tensors in school. Stress in a block of concrete. You can choose any basis you like to represent the stresses and transform between them. Whether or not the concrete block breaks under that
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zardo
5y ago
Is the implication that the slide was presented without discussion? You can't judge a presentation based on the accompanying visual aids without considering the verbal content.
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zardo
5y ago
It does for the megaphone salesmen.
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zardo
5y ago
> The Biological Threat Reduction Program’s priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern Where would these pathogens and toxins that need to be secured be coming from?
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zardo
5y ago
Isn't the purpose of NATO to be prepared to fight a war with Russia?
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zardo
5y ago
Painful enough that the sick and poor can't get medicine and food?
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zardo
5y ago
1. They are trained to estimate the sizes of featureless flying tic-tacs?
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zardo
5y ago
Even with the video evidence from the Nimitz incident, all the calculations rest on the pilot's estimate of the vehicle size.
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zardo
5y ago
> Aside from demographic studies by governments to improve social mobility, what good can it do the world to know the class of an individual? In large part, government decision makers are made up of people from dominant classes. They can
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zardo
5y ago
If they're not disarming they're either willing to use them or bluffing.
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5y ago
>it is not clear how great the average temperature of the metal would become. Certainly not above the melting point of the metal if the lattice structure is required to sustain fusion.
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zardo
5y ago
> In my experience, a bicycle balances for about as long as it takes to fall over. I bet you can do a lot better than that with a bit of practice.
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zardo
5y ago
We've pulled awful lot of natural gas out of the ground, it seems like there ought to be room for more than a months worth down there.
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zardo
5y ago
> The entirely of the nuclear waste produced by the United States since the beginning of its atomic program could fit in a couple of olympic sized swimming pools. Hanford alone has enough liquid nuclear waste to fill 80. Does that waste
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zardo
5y ago
What is unique, is that there is a clear aggressor and it's a US enemy. When the aggressor is backed by the US it's a boring story that wouldn't get good ratings.
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zardo
5y ago
Going past statements about "no boots on the ground", US special forces must wear heavy duty shoes instead of boots.
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zardo
5y ago
What's the sound idea for build pumped hydro storage on flat land?
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zardo
5y ago
Thermal storage of various sorts looks pretty reasonable. I think it's constructing towers or digging holes to store gravitational potential energy that's being dismissed.
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zardo
5y ago
> This is my observation as a German looking into the West's mindset, its riddled with hypocrisy and self-contradictory ethic system aimed at distracting its citizens from the truth that their comforts are at the cost to this planet
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zardo
5y ago
A few hundred miles is plenty accurate to hit a large country.
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zardo
5y ago
Yeah building mountains is not a realistic solution. Thermal storage is probably the best replacement where pumped hydro isn't feasible.
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zardo
5y ago
That sounds like a proposal for just not de-carbonizing until fusion is ready. Is that what you mean? When do you think we could have say 5% of the worlds power coming from fusion reactors?
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zardo
5y ago
Just skimming for what I was interested in, I don't see anything to suggest that a thicker atmosphere would provide support for a large land animal. That would require structures in the animal kept at below ambient pressure. e.g. heate
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zardo
5y ago
I would love to see a scientific paper on the bouyant dinosaur theory.
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zardo
5y ago
Like a sunlit fog at just the right angle to be blinding white. Only, it's midnight and that's a cloud of white hot liquid metal.
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zardo
5y ago
I would if the source of the funds remained at the federal level.
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