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Anti-gravity doesn't have working demonstrations available: https://www.google.com/search?q=tangible+holographic+plasma
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Perhaps it is more about ensuring advert supported competitors do not have an uncontested market. Better that Spotify gets a little bit of money, and that users that find Spotify via existing marketing, do not have to go elsewhere, which co
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Whenever I read about "green hydrogen" I'm always suspicious that's it's a bait and switch by the fossil fuel industry. Say green hydrogen enough times, people will start thinking all hydrogen is green. Meanwhile in
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Is it possible that he was talking about a different cost than that of vehicle parts? Even at a million dollars a piece, I'd imagine google would be happy to spend a hundred million or two to get dozens/hundreds of higher visible
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I know it is contrary to HN guidelines to discuss comment votes, but this is weirdly my most downvoted comment of all time. In almost 13 years of commentating I have never had a comment receive -4 points before.
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I love Firefox, especially on Android so that I can use UBO. I am amazed that it doesn't have a larger install base! That out of the way, does anyone have info on where Mozilla spends it's money? Is it still mostly on non-firefox
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Are you suggesting it's all an elaborate scheme? I know it is popular/easy to hate on the man right now, but this is a really strange take. Given that Musk has been talking about mars since at least 2001, many years before he had
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by zizee 4y ago
I'm no expert, but I think you have it backwards. My understanding is NIF raison d'etre is weapons research, with a power generation being a secondary concern. It got funded because of weapons research regardless of whether it was
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And the review process will cost €1 per line of code.
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I was talking to someone who was charged with a fairly minor crime, and they said the first advice their very expensive/experienced lawyer gave them is to no longer trust their phone is not recording them, as the local police (australi
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> Its the only way I can think of that space cargo becomes economical Depends what you mean by economical, but a totally, rapidly reusable craft that takes mass to orbit would massively reduce the cost of getting mass to orbit. Not as in
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How much labour is involved in the upkeep/operation vs a battery bank? I think that there are pros and cons of each, we'll end up with a mix of lots of different solutions.
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Context for your context: Bath County resevoir is descrbed as "largest battery in the world", and cost the equivilent of 4 billion dollars (in 2021 $), occupies 265 acres of land, and has a capacity of around 14,000,000 m3 of wate
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First ammonia-powered jet flight in 2023: A roadmap to clean aviation(newatlas.com)
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UK is not the only country to drive on the left of the road, including Australia, India, Indonesia, and Japan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
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A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes - Mark Twain
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Typically exports are used to gather USD. It sounds like Ghana has gold. Presumably people want their gold? They could sell the gold for USD, then use that to purchase the oil. But using the gold for currency does sound like it could be mor
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You think that the USA has never employed it's three letter agencies to protect its interests?
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Haha, I just posted the same comment. It's always entertaining to see one doing a snatch and grab from a public bbq, and then watch them leg it with a whole sausage in their beak...
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> There are few Australian animals more reviled than the white ibis. I just want to say that as a Queenslander who has had Ibises run off with whole steaks brazingly zoinked straight off a sizzling bbq, I think reviled is a bit hyperboli
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Thank you. Yes, I think that there is still some ways to go with making these cost efficient vs other tech. I have heard people mention similar issues that you are rightly calling out. I believe the hope is the viability of these designs re
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What is a terrorist reactor? And prompt critical?
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Sorry, I'm not quite following you. Could you please ELIA5? (No snark intended)
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I won't speculate on how much fear one can incite. Anything with the word nuclear in it could most lilely be enough to srir up feelings of panic. Hell, D&D was enough at one stage. So you're probably right. But I will say that
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by zizee 4y ago
Someone wrote in another thread: > It uses TRISO fuel, which are fissionable materials enclosed in a carbon and ceramic shell that's extremely tough and can handle far higher temperatures than are present in a reactor without meltin
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1500 miles a year is a huge caveat to your earlier prouncement. Of course if you drive rarely^, an existing ICE vehicle could result in less emissions than building an entirely new EV. ^Average annual KMs driven by Europeans is 12k, America
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by zizee 4y ago
Yeah, I guess I wasn't super clear. I meant seizure of certain things is fair game i.e. Obviously problematic stuff. I didn't mean to suggest that means all things are fair game to be seized. Looking at Wikipedia's definition
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> I'd love to hear a steelmanned argument in favor of it, maybe I'm missing something obvious? If it were a big shipment of plutonium laced heroin, it seems fair game. I think the biggest issue with civil asset forfeiture is th
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> You can pretend an entire city spending 7 days locked in their house You do understand that people were not actually locked in their houses in NZ? There were reports of people literally being locked in to their apartments in China, but
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There is value in creating designs that are feasible if some technological breakthroughs is made. If we manage to make fusion work, then someone can then capitalise on the existing designs. It's also a great motivator for people to wor

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