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number6 , vor 6 Tagen

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Well, yeah. Back then "Take a note" was like get out a stele, grab a hammer and chisel, and start banging.

number6 , vor 7 Tagen

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What's bizarre to me is that the FDA banned tryptophan for 20 years based on a single bad batch out of Japan.

So with this product they can't even do a simple recall?

number6 , vor 12 Tagen

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I thought states couldn't regulate interstate commerce -- that that could only happen at the federal level.

If the servers are in some other state, how can the State legally track and control the activity?

With https, the state can't know what content is being viewed. So if PH hosted some innocent documents, (e.g. Declaration of Independence) there would be plausible deniability for any net traffic.

number6 , vor 13 Tagen

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Actually, the article seems to be about research with very little actionable happening. People are looking into it, and have speculative ways of decreasing the bacteria that may or may not make a difference.

Meanwhile, we could simply stop subsidizing beef now.

We keep fiddling, playing round the edges while Rome burns. And Paris burns. And New Delhi burns. And Los Angeles burns. And Beijing burns, and ...

number6 , vor 15 Tagen

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What's weird is that every satellite they put up there will be down in 5 years. So they will have to keep firing satellites every year, just to keep the business running.

Now that we know incoming satellites is likely destroying the ozone, this doesn't seem like a sustainability industry.

The entire A/C and refrigeration world was turned upside down to protect ozone, and now starlink is getting a free pass?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/researchers-warn-of-ozone-risk-with-deorbited-starlink-satellites

number6 , vor 16 Tagen

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Seems to be more of a press release than actual news.

We're told that they can make a battery with 100x their current battery -- but we're not told what that is. Instead we're told what the competitor's density is? Huh? How does that help us understand if this is a meaningful development?

Then, when you read further, we learn that it's really only for the smallest of devices -- watches -- and is too fragile for cars.

So, a nothing burger, basically.

number6 , vor 20 Tagen

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I don't believe the claim that doing this wouldn't effect prices. Companies would have to perform hundreds of tests on every batch of product.

Maybe instead researchers could make home test kits, so that consumers could do their own testing. This would allow people to not only eat factory-packed food, but food from around the world that is not as conveniently labeled. Or food at potluck events or vendor stalls.

number6 , vor 23 Tagen

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Just to be clear, no one has ever made a bomb with HALEU, so the threat is entirely hypothetical?

They seem to be saying that the bomb would have to be made with a ton or more of material, which suggests that it might be much trickier to achieve a chain-reaction state.

That is, the original bomb only had to move 140lbs of material to achieve a reaction, but a bomb made of HALEU would have to shift more than a ton ... very precisely. all at once.

number6 , vor 23 Tagen

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Youtube comments are by far the lowest quality comments. I think there's a lot of people who are scolling at work or school.

I don't understand why you wouldn't be able to avoid those comments, at least.

number6 , vor 26 Tagen

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For 46 Billion dollars, Tesla could give cars away and still make money.

number6 , vor 26 Tagen

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If I understand right, the cost of Starliner is 4.2 billion.

The Russians charge 70 million per flight.

So for the price of a questionable and possibly short-lived Starliner, the U.S. could have had 60 flights on Soyuz.

Butt national pride: Priceless.

number6 , vor 27 Tagen

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If they could just tweak the design a little so that they always caught on fire, then it would be the perfect gift for that special person in your life you've been meaning to off.

number6 , vor 28 Tagen

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With no moving parts, how do they age anyways?

They don't mention cadmium, gallium, indium, tellurium, or selenium, which are in some panels.

And why do they have to send the aluminium frames and glass off for melting? Isn't "re-use" better than recycle? Couldn't they just slip in new panels?

Reduce
Re-use
Recycle

number6 , vor 29 Tagen

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On the other hand, we finally have a pizza where the pepperoni doesn't slide off.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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It might be schadenfreude, but I sort of feel justified that the best brains in the business also find GitHub confusing.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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Why are dancing videos on a private platform "dangerous", but stations on broadcast networks that promote the "election was stolen" lie are not?

Banning TT won't do anything except to convince young people that Biden is just as out of touch as the other guy.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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"And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust,

https://killedbygoogle.com/

number6 , vor einem Monat

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It would have been a more interesting article if they had mentioned the latitudes the early birds had moved to. Like, how close to the Arctic circle?

And did ptersosaurs move to colder climates also? All flying tetrapods today are warm-blooded.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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I don't understand the disappointed tone of this article. FTL is fantasy.

The reality is that the fastest man-made object moved at 0.05% of the speed of light.

Being able to shelter occupants from acceleration would be a major breakthrough. Being able to go 10% of the speed of light would be a breakthrough. Being able to avoid the debris floating in space would be a breakthrough.

At 10% light-speed, we could pass voyager in two weeks!

number6 , vor einem Monat

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Parachutes have been around for 250 years. Why can't they get it right?

number6 , vor einem Monat

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Junk science. Note the term "contributes to". So, yeah, if you smoke and cook with gas, maybe there's problems.

Meanwhile, in the U.S. a staggering 40 thousand people die in auto accidents. It's not subtle. It's not "contributes to". It's visible, on the freeways every day.

Another 53000 deaths occur thanks to auto emissions per MIT.

But CA still loves its cars.

We don't need to give the right more reasons to hate the left.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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The cats seem mostly bored.

It appears, when offered a stimulating environment with hundreds of possible activities, cats will mostly prefer to eat and sleep.

A lot like people on cruise ships.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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How to tell us that you don't believe in Global Warming without saying you don't believe in Global Warming.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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It would serve us right if we got there and discovered the asteroids were made of solid plastic.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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The whole idea of using a second rover to retrace the path of Perseverance just seems incredibly wasteful. Why didn't they just have Perseverance retain the samples?

And why are they sending back the entire second rover? If they just sent back the samples, the load and MAV could be much lighter. And then maybe they wouldn't need the SLS.

Or was the whole point of the proposal just to use SLS?

number6 , vor einem Monat

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Asteroids are very infrequent, and not always deadly. There were multiple factors that made the Cretaceous asteroid strike so deadly.

But it now appears that severe solar storms, 10x greater than the Carrington event of the 1860s, may occur every few thousand years.

There's almost nothing we could do about an asteroid (despite the article), but we could be hardening our electrical and communications system now.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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We seem to have left the information age and entered the whine-about-anything age.

Personally, I think they crushed it.

number6 , vor einem Monat

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Has the military made a breakthrough in battery technology?

Because otherwise I can't imagine that those critters can run around for more than 20 to 30 minutes without a recharge.

So the opposing tactic would be to lure the dogs outside of their limited range, keep them busy until they drop, and then capture and reprogram them.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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Rather than the rare cow-to-human jump, shouldn't they be looking at the more common cow-to-cow jump?

Maybe if the cows weren't being housed in factory farm conditions the virus would stop being able to spread.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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People may laugh, but if we're going to explore other systems, we're going to have to do it vicariously through our AI avatars.

Space is too big, and humans are too short-lived, heavy, and fragile.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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"Requiring the installation of analog AM radios in automobiles is an unnecessary action that would impact EV range, efficiency and affordability at a critical moment of accelerating adoption,"

Really? Adding in this tiny bit of 1920s tech will effect EV range?

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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I got 8/10 right!

In general, the Chat answers use more multi-syllable words, and sounds more like it was written by a lawyer.

The Chat never refers to itself in the first person.

The only case where the human and the Chat differed much was the scenario with the stolen credit card. The human response acknowledged that the perpetrator might also be suffering.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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I interpret this to mean that the remote desktop software, that was probably installed semi-officially to allow remote work, didn't have MFA. The fact that hackers were able to obtain the password suggests that this was an ad-hoc arrangment.

It is troubling is that they could leverage one account to gain access to the rest of the system. It seems like the IT people aren't following the same rules (long complicated passwords) that the rest of us are expected to.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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Maybe the fact that adult cats are lactose intolerant makes them more susceptible to the take-up of H5N1.

Yes, cats will drink milk. But that doesn't mean that it's good for them.

That would also hold out hope for those people who we know will stubbornly insist on drinking raw milk.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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I'm pretty sure there was a task-switcher app for DOS . Maybe 5 or 6?

It allowed you to quickly switch between running apps, And since the typical screen size was small, this made more sense than floating little windows. At least to some people.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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Do we know whether the recyclable rocket is actually economically superior yet?

Past studies have suggested that the cost of recovering and refurbishing rockets exceeded the cost of just building new ones. Of course, they weren't imagining the rockets coming back to a designated re-entry area.

number6 , vor 2 Monaten

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The first ichthyosaur, BTW, was discovered by 12 year old Mary Anning in 1811.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/mary-anning-unsung-hero.html.