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Penrose Process(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by _rpd 5y ago|0 comments
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by _rpd 5y ago
A more in depth look at the factors causing high fertilizer prices: https://www.fb.org/market-intel/too-many-to-count-factors-dr... tl;dr: high natural gas prices, weather caused production delays, COVID caused product
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by _rpd 5y ago
This is an article about a still life painter.
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by _rpd 5y ago
"Flattening the curve" is about not overwhleming hospital resources, to avoid non-COVID avoidable deaths spiking.
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by _rpd 5y ago
You're lucky it isn't just images of their tweets tied together with an 'emerging trend' narrative.
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by _rpd 5y ago
With US troops.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Counterpoint: high quality journalism must be well funded, and funding based on advertising and 'clickbait' undermines quality. So paywalls it is.
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by _rpd 5y ago
If you have enough electricity to do that, you can just put into EV batteries directly and skip the hydrogen middle man.
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by _rpd 5y ago
> To me it is sufficient to beat the top 20% of drivers. It's interesting that you set the threshold there (I presume you meant 'beat the bottom 80% of drivers'). Rationally, we should be happy if their driving performanc
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by _rpd 5y ago
Gt of CO2 = (12+16+16)/12 * Gt of Carbon
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by _rpd 5y ago
The missing component is curiosity.
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by _rpd 5y ago
I don't think your intuition is the problem: > Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years. https:
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by _rpd 5y ago
The Google doc doesn't say. The article says: > details of who was in a geographic area, such as a radius of a few hundred feet at a certain point in time It probably depends on whether the suspect was on foot or driving.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Actual paper ... > Among participants who tested positive for COVID-19, 68.7% experienced at least one symptom after 30 days, marking the distinction for long COVID. This prevalence increased to 77% after 60 days of follow-up. Researcher
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by _rpd 5y ago
It makes it easy to comply with the Fair Credit Billing Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Billing_Act
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by _rpd 5y ago
If you think about what payment processors actually do, dealing with fraud is one of the main costs. There's a lot of fraud associated with porn related transactions, so it can make financial sense to just drop the entire transaction
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by _rpd 5y ago
Both have been proposed: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/16202/1/Hunt2019_Article_C...
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by _rpd 5y ago
This is a different paper.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Here you go: An umbrella review of the evidence associating diet and cancer risk at 11 anatomical sites https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24861-8
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by _rpd 5y ago
> How TF is this news, on Wired Wired was always a gossip magazine, but now it is just a gossip magazine. It's sad.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Workhorse has full on plans for drone delivery that use the van as a base: https://workhorse.com/horsefly.html
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by _rpd 5y ago
I don't know about the UK, but in the US the FAA required that each drone be operated by a licensed pilot, which changed the economics. There's some talk of autonomous software being granted a pilot's license, so that might s
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by _rpd 5y ago
I think the hope was that the money would be used to support local cultural content/events since people in those enterprises have been hard hit by the COVID crisis.
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by _rpd 5y ago
Yes, this has been a common experience: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28264/w282... 20% of kids were disadvantaged (-0.4 standard deviation on tests), 20% were advantaged, 60% mostly
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by _rpd 5y ago
Somehow I don't think the app developer is experiencing the same sense of sublime transience as the Buddhist monks.
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by _rpd 5y ago
You shouldn’t be downvoted. Web only vs. conventional phone surveys is a significant change. Cheaper, but definitely excludes poorer demographic sections. You can’t ignore this for a survey about ‘life ratings’.
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by _rpd 5y ago
It's interesting tech, but a big part of offshore wind power is bringing the power back to shore. Onshore wind and solar are going to have the advantage there for the foreseeable future.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by _rpd 5y ago|0 comments
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by _rpd 5y ago
See also http://carbon.ycombinator.com/
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by _rpd 5y ago
This doesn't appear to be the case (as of Oct 2019) ... > members of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), including the United Kingdom, are prevented from taxing international aviation fuel, or any proxies for fuel,

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