IntrepidWorm

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by IntrepidWorm 2y ago
Although curiously, most processes theoretically capable of exposing large amounts of lunar mantle would likely generate a decent fraction of that heat just on their own merit.
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by IntrepidWorm 2y ago
It does feel disingenuous, but its also nothing new. Military research has always been the one of the primary driving forces behind critical technology. Commercial tech is vulnerable to all sorts of disruptions, regulations, and setbacks. I
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by IntrepidWorm 2y ago
Cotton also shrinks when wet and has poor thermal properties - polymer blend fabrics perform better in the cold, and are lighter and cheaper than wool. Goretex is wonderful stuff, but its also made of '"forever-plastics" and
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
I'm just spitballing here, but I'd wager that the human toll required to evolve effective resistance to regular and prolonged asbestos exposure is more than most of us would be willing to pay. We already evolved these massive cran
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Unless you are pouring bat milk on your Cheerios, I'd reckon you're not going to be affected by that particular fun fact. The same can't be said for the legally acceptable portion of rat feces that makes its way into pretty m
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Sure, but ensuring all mechanics everywhere have access to use PPE, and then enforcing its correct use is way less effective in practice than removing the hazardous material from the workplace entirely. Being exposed to any fine particulate
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Since the cycle of stellar observation repeats each solar year, the observation would itself be a method of time keeping. One would need only to track the azimuth of a series of regularly positioned star constellations to determine time, an
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
More damning would be the perchlorates found in Martian soil, toxic to most Earth-plants, not to mention Earth-humans.
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
im not sure I want a lithe hunter stalking through my house, marking every surface and attacking everything that breathes. I much prefer my dopey dander machines that sleep on my chest, flop around on the ground chasing the pocket lint they
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Found this: http://www.ipodlinux.org/stories/piezo I got an iPod for christmas. The ipodlinux project was one of the main reasons for my choice and so I started exploring the iPod as far as I was able to. I patch
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Not an expert, but my read of the article was that he had code execution already, but needed to dump the bootloader so he could gain access to peripherals. You could no doubt pull the chip and read it out with a programmer: this has been do
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Hmm... You can run different CTF environments i to a VM, wouldnt take much to stream input back and forth to both machines. I just saw another item featured on HN for piped keyboard streams between multiple users on the same shell. Sounds l
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
We're all irrational actors, though. Various life events drive people towards drug use. It doesnt have to be a rational decision: a split second moment of desperation is all it takes. And heroin is just _that_ addictive.
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
To be perfectly clear, most addicts understand that their addiction is killing then, but caring about that pales in comparison to the addictive urge to continue using. It's not some cerebral choice- once addicted, you are no longer in
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
As a person who lives in an area known to have Lyme, and as an avid hiker, it is not hard to do tick checks periodically. Ticks don't embed immediately, and generally there is a window of several hours up to about half a day where you
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Also punching above my weight class here: isn't observation a function of time as well though, so a local observer would notice no difference in their perception of the passage of time? It's only across distance that the perceptio
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
It is much more effective to do more with less. There will always be a need for air conditioning in some cases, but having 10 million single window units blasting walls of heat into a crowded city very quickly becomes an arms race where nob
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
I read parent as looking for sources that provide access to hi-res satellite imaging, without them needing to provide access to their wallet.
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/ 80% of antibiotics produced in the US are funneled into agriculture.
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Certainly not, but one wouldn't need to catch every satellite launch for space weapon- one or two would be enough evidence to go public and warrant further scrutiny. There are a number of extremely savvy amateur astronomers across the
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Thats a long commute from the prehistoric Bristish Isles to the nearest Starbucks. I hope he bought in bulk.
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
It won't be permanent sequestration, though, or even necessarily long term. When these units are retired, their contained volume of CO2 will be reintroduced to the air, one way or another. In terms of scale, even several kgs of CO2 per
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
You have highlighted the core basis of Foucault's Boomarang: it doesn't matter the target of oppresive technologies and practices. Sooner or later, their scope will be turned on you.
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/2758/ Another whimsical XKCD reference.
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
Following the exposure of COINTELPRO, the FBI dialed back its presence information gathering apparatus publicly, though critics of beaueau practices maintain similar programs have persisted through the following decades. Either way, 9/
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
So far, I've seen nothing in these comments promoting Chrome, or Google more generally. They (Google and Microsoft) are both the tech equivalent of boogeyman, but this article focuses on specific anticompetitive behaviour from Microsof
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
There's no fluid bodies on the moon to cushion an incoming asteroid or comet - even if there was an initial gentle capture by the moons gravity, the object would either orbit indefinitely, be cast off, or meet a violent end, scattering
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
I doo feel that part of what defines what people will and won't tolerate within a disruption to their lives is spectacle. People seem to love to rail against the ordinary, while they crane their necks and gawk at the extraordinary. Nob
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
One wonders if the packets were US specification (a precise 2 - 4 grams) or the much looser Polish designation (5 - 10 grams). It's critical to get to the bottom of this: what is the SI standard for sugar sachet?
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by IntrepidWorm 3y ago
What works for Singapore works for Singapore; the US is a very different country. As for the failings of the "War on Drugs" in the US, these have been well documented by multiple levels of social research.

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