bergoid

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by bergoid 6mo ago
>I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. HRC's secret email server and the leaked Kash Patel emails couldn't be more different. The first one is, in the words of a federal District of Columbi
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by bergoid 4y ago
Curiously, they refill the empty bladders with air before sledding them back to McMurdo. "For safety", but the article doesn't explain why this is safer.
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by bergoid 6y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-... > In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more
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by bergoid 6y ago
What's an example of a decent protest in your view?
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by bergoid 7y ago
> I expect that designs for 'permanently underground/inside' cities would need to include some high-ceiling park-like areas with some bright UV lights, and other considerations, but that sort of thing seems pretty doable.
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by bergoid 7y ago
Agreed. You could cover your above-ground pressurized habitat with blocks of ice. Or with a thick layer of dirt. But the subjective experience remains about the same as living underground.
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by bergoid 7y ago
Low gravity is one thing. But the radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field is quite another. People colonizing Mars will need to shield themselves from several types of harmful radiation. Wich means in practice: living underground.
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by bergoid 7y ago
Their modulus squared gives you the probability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_amplitude
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by bergoid 7y ago
Is Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO, a good enough source? https://thehill.com/policy/technology/402495-twitter-ceo-jac... > Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I 'fully admit' our bias is 'more left-leaning&#x
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by bergoid 7y ago
The granite sarcophagus in the "Kings's Chamber" [1] of the Great Pyramid of Giza has been used as a lithophone too. Paul Horn's record album "Inside The Great Pyramid" [2] starts with the sound of the sarcopha
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by bergoid 7y ago
Is there a Raspberry Pi 4 case somewhere for sale that can hold a 2.5 inch HDD?
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by bergoid 7y ago
Beluga whale playing fetch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uMSl28_8Rw
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by bergoid 7y ago
Entire text: Short Thread: staying with some friends and last night after everyone went to bed I could not figure out how to turn off the large ceiling light in their living room. There is a wall controller that seemed fairly straightforwar
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by bergoid 7y ago
> Such questions are not tolerated, so be warned. These are fair questions. Where are they not tolerated? And by whom?
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by bergoid 7y ago
> it is becoming increasingly apparent that non-technical solutions to climate change will necessarily include the elimination of those who metaphorically are holding a gun to humanity's head. I beg your pardon? Who exactly is holdi
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by bergoid 7y ago
> What will be the unintended consequences of foresting deserts I think you are overly concerned but here you raise a good point: foresting a desert could lower the albedo of the Earth. If not offset by the CO2 uptake of the trees, this
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by bergoid 7y ago
> Now had we created no-development zones around forests, to allow them to expand naturally, in a world not deforesting at ever increasing rate... I am no fan of rainforest destruction and the ensuing loss of biodiversity, but globally t
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by bergoid 7y ago
> if you biochar fallen trees and litter, and then bury it, it stays sequestered for a long time. > It also improves the soil long term - particularly in sandy soils it helps water retention. > Obviously this is much more work that
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by bergoid 7y ago
> The phenomenon needs a good name, though. Jamie Zawinski calls this the CADT model: "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers". https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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by bergoid 7y ago
>If these things were flying in 1997, presumably what's up there now is even better. The USA-224 satellite was launched in 2011 and has much better capabilities than the ones that took the 1997/1998 pictures. The Wikipedia arti
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by bergoid 7y ago
> how would you feel if you went on a Hacker News break for 3 months and dang gave your username to someone else? The funny thing is - dang (AKA gruseom) appropriated his username from a dormant account: https://news.ycombinat
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by bergoid 7y ago
> spinning rust TIL https://etherealmind.com/network-dictionary-spinning-rust/ > Spinning Rust – term for conventional hard disk drives with motors and using ferrous-based platters for data storage. Probably dero
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by bergoid 7y ago
I think GP meant with "higher immigration limits" : less restrictions on immigration.
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by bergoid 7y ago
"Clovis first" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#Clovis_First/...
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by bergoid 7y ago
The Apollo 13 astronauts would like to share a couple of anecdotes with you.
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by bergoid 8y ago
FTA: "Faster-growing, rapacious societies might peter out before they could touch all the stars." I don't get this reasoning. The way I see it: every solar system that gets settled is a fresh roll of the dice. Every newly col
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by bergoid 8y ago
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18960718
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by bergoid 8y ago
I had to look it up. MAD: Militärischer Abschirmdienst (Military Secret Service, Germany) https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MAD
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by bergoid 8y ago
The author of the piece - Pankaj Mishra - has a track record of making racist anti-white statements under the guise of anti-racism. Here he's calling Jordan Peterson a fascist: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018&#x
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by bergoid 8y ago
It's a book excerpt, not a regular article.

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