Zeta_Function

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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
True, I did mention thermal effects, but it’s also something you can do in a place like Cali, Nevada, Riyadh, etc Without wasting precious water. Other options include giving up on the idea of these systems and going for giant Vanadium flow
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
I don’t know anything about the price of water in any of those places, can you cite some numbers? By the way, why are you so passionate about this topic? You’ve made 17 comments on this thread, or 17% of all of the comments here as of this
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
You can do the same thing with compressed gas as well, or really anything. Gas and fluid do make the most sense in terms of directly driving generator turbines though. The only issue with gas is thst you have to deal with thermal effects fr
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
The problem from the perspective of Brandolini’s Law, is that whatever factor the internet applies to the spread information enjoys a 10:1 ratio advantage in favor of bullshit.
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
No it isn’t, and one of the tenants of dealing with delusional people is that you don’t engage with their delusions, don’t try to refute them. That would be like trying to help treat someone’s cold by preventing them from sneezing.
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
You can call a clod a cake, right? We don’t live in a democracy, we live in an indirectly federated republic. I’m this case a very badly corrupt one, run by plutocrats for longer than any of us have been alive. We have killer propaganda tho
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New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail(quantamagazine.org)
10 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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BlackBerry accuses Snapchat of infringing its messaging patents(theverge.com)
7 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|1 comments
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
You’re not wrong, but you’re not a good teacher either. Rudeness and mockery don’t add anything, and in fact take away from your ability to inform people. You’re also only half right, insofar as nobody knows is a very accurate statement. Yo
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Sabbath Mode: Adapting Modern Technologies to Ancient Religious Restrictions(99percentinvisible.org)
1 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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JUMP Bikes weighing Uber $100m+ acquisition, investment offers(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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The Enduring Appeal (and Folly) of Disease Eradication(undark.org)
3 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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For Watchdog Scientists, Using Software to Fight Dubious Cancer Research(undark.org)
3 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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New indie project could lead to a bunch of Wear OS smartwatch competitors(theverge.com)
1 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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Bancor takes on Crypto exchanges with wallet that converts across tokens(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|1 comments
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
Thst sounds a bit crazy, but then again those are still some of the great museums so maybe they were doing something right. I particularly love the wording here. items Nichols defines as “a kind-of-thing” of which a museum already owned en
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Instagram suddenly chokes off developers as Facebook chases privacy(techcrunch.com)
11 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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Schools Struggle with Vaping Explosion(nytimes.com)
137 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|241 comments
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
“Always” is a long time, but its definitely fair to say that barring a series of unforeseen and radical breakthroughs in a number of disciplines, fusion as a reliable source of power is nowhere near being a reality.
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The Hour I First Believed(slatestarcodex.com)
7 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|1 comments
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
Today’s lazy person is tomorrow’s AI task that’s trivial and universally applied. When publishing to the net, think of your future.
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Charting the adoption of direct startup investments by family offices(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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Darpa Wants New Ideas for Autonomous Drone Swarms(techcrunch.com)
3 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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April Fools’ Day 2018: the best (and lamest) pranks(theverge.com)
4 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|1 comments
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
There are three narratives I’ve come into contact with vis a vis SDV’s. 1.) Utopian: Any sacrifice is worth getting people out from behind the wheel. That sacrifice never seems to belong to the person espousing this view. I run into this al
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Glycosylated Peptoid Nanosheets as Multivalent Scaffold for Protein Recognition [pdf](tree.sci-hub.la)
3 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
How does something like this event happen? Pokémon Go was huge, and I’d just expect that Niantic would have hired competent organizers. 20,000 pissed off people has a huge negative word-of-mouth potential, and it’s not like they had to have
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by Zeta_Function 8y ago
People at or near the top often have very different incentives from the rank and file. They want to stay afloat, or rise, and often that has little to do with their objective performance. Feedback from below is arguably one of the few thing
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All non-citizens will have to to disclose social media accounts at the US border(theverge.com)
1 points by Zeta_Function 8y ago|0 comments
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by Zeta_Function 9y ago
No one, myself included is going to give facebook the benefit of the doubt. To say that they’ve used it all up and then some would be an understatement.

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