Manglano

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by Manglano 9y ago
I actually don't doubt the Daily Mail about this particular story. Mining abuses in Africa include some of the worst crimes committed by Western civilization (vide: the concept of "Western Civilization" may be outdated), over
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by Manglano 9y ago
Cryogenic engines burn hydrogen from electrolysis and their fuel can be produced from renewable resources. All their atmospheric fuel is returned to the ocean by the water cycle, so little fuel is lost to the vacuum. Engine tuning limits gr
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by Manglano 9y ago
Pneumatic cars.
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by Manglano 9y ago
I think the point is that sufficiently-advanced economies manifest bizarre micro-economies, but that these aren't necessarily earth-shattering. Like, Etherium Cats might be the 21st century Dutch tulips, but perhaps nations don't
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by Manglano 9y ago
Too many variables. I would say, grow the most-energy dense, least land & water intensive crops possible. For the US my understanding is that that would probably entail GM corn, tepiary beans, and squash, on rotation or with companion p
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by Manglano 9y ago
Yes, it is so. Consider that corn was modified to be more resilient but its pollen may be compatible with nearby plants. Hybridization of transgenics with local flora may have unintended and far-reaching consequences. That's why the &q
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by Manglano 9y ago
when you think about it, it's a bad simulacrum of the social encounter and experience. i use mine as a blog for issues and feelings that have provoked a big response in me but it's far from ideal
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by Manglano 9y ago
Okay! Downvote me if you like but our fuel mix in this country is still ~40% combustion and the calculations on wind power say that at current power requirements civilization will harvest enough energy from the air currents to change the cl
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by Manglano 9y ago
Bear in mind that electricity has only been around as a resource for a little while, and civilization will necessarily reorganize to use less and less of it as time continues.
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by Manglano 9y ago
To some extent we are radioactive material on the surface streets of the major cities, because we have consumed soil!! Even our steel tools can be somewhat radioactive, refinement concentrates point sources. However, containment vessels lik
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by Manglano 9y ago
US production has resumed, according to Wikipedia, as Cobalt 60 is coproduced and useful for medical sterilization. As an aside: There are some people who are very skeptical of both atoms and space exploration. I'm not sure what their
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by Manglano 9y ago
There's some work being done in superfluid discovery which would create the sort of conditions you're looking for but physics discoveries move incredibly slowly and some of the materials are rare or difficult to create. However, t
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by Manglano 9y ago
Even something as simple as being able to have a clerk fill my jar with a weight of instant coffee would cut down my recycling mass by an average of about 50g per week and eliminate some plastic. Glass doesn't have a limit on recycle p
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by Manglano 9y ago
They're probably reaching road vehicle bandwidth saturation, which is affecting drivers and warehouse workers downstream of the web interface. Refactoring their supply model for depots and reallocating staff to the depots. Y'know,
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by Manglano 9y ago
I feel like if the work isn't immediately like, "This is a product I myself see an immediate use and a need for," I'll have difficulty working on it. On the other hand, if the product's like, "This is approxima
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by Manglano 9y ago
This study seems to be asking, "What makes a great Microsoft software engineer," given their sample cohort.
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Happy Human Rights Day, Humans of Hacker News(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Manglano 9y ago|0 comments
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by Manglano 9y ago
At least, properly separated, it degrades and can be reprocessed into more paper and cardboard. The US exports CRT televisions and chipsets for electronics with such minimal production quality as to be considered destined-for-disposal. In s
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by Manglano 9y ago
The almost-invisible consumer habits of the past 100 years circumscribe virtually all of the greatest environmental disasters of the next 100, bearing in mind that "environmental disaster" has only existed since the steam engine o
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by Manglano 9y ago
Tarski's undefinability theorem.
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by Manglano 9y ago
Math is a language for describing anthropic systems and perceptions. The brain is neither an anthropic system nor a perception, per se. So naturally, attempting to quantify it would select for eccentricities at either pole. Researchers say
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by Manglano 9y ago
Humbly I disagree! The labor of manufacture is perhaps why the fiat currency has value. This argument heads toward philosophy, but without the minting process (and its technological backbone), to some degree the dollar would be valueless co
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by Manglano 9y ago
Yes, I know that. I lump the US military under "network trust."
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by Manglano 9y ago
Gold in industrial applications will probably be used at atomic-scale in integrated manufacturing processes sometime within the next three years. If you look at an ATX motherboard from 2009 with an Intel processor and a MacBook Pro mainboar
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by Manglano 9y ago
From an economic standpoint, Bitcoin is backed by generated electricity, computer hardware, and network trust. This is not dissimilar from the American Dollar, currently backed by the global energy economy and network trust. Here, the netwo
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by Manglano 9y ago
This was published in 2014. I discovered it earlier this evening. I'm not sure, but I think it implies that laser manipulation of any form of matter is not only possible, but possible at macroscopic distances. Really fun read!
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A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam(nature.com)
3 points by Manglano 9y ago|1 comments
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by Manglano 9y ago
I hear a lot about kids being kids, and adults being "childish." By the time I was ten, I could read Michael Crichton and Frank Herbert, and although I wasn't a mathematical wiz, I did have an innate understanding of the scie
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by Manglano 9y ago
>Young adults leave high school unable to do their own taxes, unknowing of what laws are, with no usable skills in any industry. Exactly so. There are some who glide into the industries in our school systems but it may be that either the
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by Manglano 10y ago
The degeneracy of a given allele is relative to the phenotype of the organism and also the organism's environment. Sickle-cell confers survival advantage in environments where malaria is endemic, but is considered a degenerate allele i

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