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by cerealbad 5y ago
There is an informative interview with Linus Pauling on youtube from 1990 in which he discusses his life and scientific work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8maetlPd8Q
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by cerealbad 6y ago
Anyone with a passing interest in this or adjacent fields should check out the Deep Carbon Observatory website. https://deepcarbon.net/worlds-oldest-groundwater-supports-li... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by cerealbad 6y ago
Demography of England: 1348 4,810,000 +16.7% 1351 2,600,000 −45.9% 1650 5,310,000 +29.2% 300 years to recover
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by cerealbad 7y ago
very little of a writer survives with time; asimov had interesting world building but his characters are a little flat. the surviving great works of literature deal with human beings rather than the world they find themselves in. there is a
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by cerealbad 7y ago
in a multipolar world you might see precise attacks during periods of tension targeting military facilities - base trade conflict. this minimizes loss of life and it creates a real sellers market for turnkey anti-missile solutions. the regi
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Lockheed makes a mobile system called THAAD. I doubt there were any deployed in Iraq, and the effectiveness of these are dubious. The Russians put the S400 in Syria and it has performed well enough. These act more like a deterrent than an a
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by cerealbad 7y ago
radiation spreads and matter clumps. in this universe matter was allowed to form but radiation dominates. island chains swallowed up by a rising ocean.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Management bloating faster than the codebase.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
The meta-position that you can absorb multiple world views and hold them temporarily to assess their ontological narrative is ridiculous. It bleeds from the stone of Christian reformation theology and the rationalist enlightenment chisel ch
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by cerealbad 7y ago
regional hegemons enforce embargoes on nations which refuse to behave according to new standards. a carbon non-proliferation treaty backed with coordinated blockades and cyber-attacks of critical infrastructure, initiating limited civil war
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by cerealbad 7y ago
specific languages are the result of history and territory. Language is an innate human capacity. the speed, breadth and depth of acquisition is measured relative to other humans. less methodical than athletics, art, music or mathematics- w
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by cerealbad 7y ago
human biology adapts to the environment and forms the basic primitive culture. technology for over 10,000 years rapidly mixed cultures and to a lesser extent biologies forming: languages, empires, religions, and ages. the technological proc
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Allegedly Rent seeking billionaires are hypothetically positioning themselves in the supposed space race because the theoretical American -Chinese cold war will be potentially fought in low earth orbit, "smart money gets in quick to su
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by cerealbad 7y ago
people are self-interested not truth interested. most scientific fields are initiated by a small handful of geniuses, but over time become a type of cloistered bureaucracy. your standard university education teaches you there are two paths
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by cerealbad 7y ago
It's a continuation of the pivot to Asia strategy dating back to Clinton. The Middle East was a sandbox for testing new weapons for the next cold war century. Remember in American foreign policy the two parties are indistinguishable.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
there's content creation - which seems to be reducing in length of time. (tiktok is just a vine reboot). and content curation - which is about maximizing viewer-curator interaction (websites like twitch where an intimate experience can
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by cerealbad 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S051A8doXP0 (mind control) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6dldvNECI (heart attack gun) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVF8YGFcJWU (electronic weapons) h
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by cerealbad 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6fb59XFbQ (The Net 2003)
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Mirage Men.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
Interest rate cuts by the BoE, the pound weakens, Asian foreign investment - Japan and China would love to build high speed rail for an international market. Companies like Huawei will offer turn key solutions to government infrastructure p
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by cerealbad 7y ago
That's a new way to spell oligarchy, or do ladders on mountains roll from the bottom up? Articles like this spell out a painful economic correction of overheated speculation, add that to EU tensions the eventual Yuan float and the stan
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by cerealbad 7y ago
a lot of people would lose income if the climate stopped changing.
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by cerealbad 7y ago
america needs to elect another straight shooter so people don't get confused about foreign policy issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qdvm6h8WKg
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by cerealbad 7y ago
i did mean the ocean originally, you have heat sponges which sit near the surface and use the gradient between air flowing above the surface, the hotter temperature above, and the cooler temperature of the ocean. the sponges can use the hea
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by cerealbad 7y ago
the mechanism that generates heat is reversible, that's how we got fossil fuels to begin with (hydrocarbon storage). if you think converting heat flux into electrical or mechanical energy doesn't reduce the total heat flux of the
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by cerealbad 7y ago
a seebeck generator can exploit airflow above or depth below oceans to convert heat into electricity. what uniform heat? all human heat effects augment the existing temperature cycles which have baked in gradients. thermoelectric processes
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by cerealbad 7y ago
isn't the universe expanding at an accelerating rate? if the problem is excess planetary heat, you can use thermosynthesis to accelerate novel thermogenesis in pseudo-living species - imagine endothermic sea sponges cooling the oceans
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by cerealbad 7y ago
text-to-speech synthesis + voice recognition can revive text based adventures as lightweight audio only games. the best immersion engine is human imagination. a world in which literary fiction becomes interactive content, and authors begin
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by cerealbad 7y ago
it's a scattershot approach. the size of china and it's appetite for growth means it invests everywhere, its concentrated wealth and power is being dispersed globally in order to throw as many seeds as possible and water the ones
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by cerealbad 7y ago
this is a joke right? "every nation but mine.... (acts in its own self-interest and needs to be encircled should it try to expand)". this is exceptional in it's dullness. you want to benefit all of humanity but also out-compe

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