lxmorj

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by lxmorj 1y ago
Wouldn't (fully) burning all single-use plastics effectively make them no more long-lived and problematic than burning crude oil at sea? I know that's a low bar, but it seems like at least you're getting two uses out of them
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by lxmorj 3y ago
Firm believer that he stole the entire thing from the book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
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by lxmorj 4y ago
Why not just use a natural gas or electric heating element to heat up the air coming into the heat exchanger when it's below the operating window? In most of the US below zero is a <10 day per year issue. Sure it's terribly ine
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by lxmorj 5y ago
I use SignNow.com - the level of subscription I need is something like $8/mo. However, I probably use it less than 1/3 of the months that I pay for. This is true for dozens of memberships: Adobe, Canva Pro, Netflix, HBOMax, The Ec
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by lxmorj 5y ago
Surely there are flight patterns that can minimize this risk: ie diagnostic hover at 10ft for X seconds to rule out start up failures, followed by an ascend to 500ft, flight path maintains that height, similar pause prior to descent on land
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by lxmorj 5y ago
I believe he is not saying the site owners are traffickers but that some OF channels could be trafficker run.
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by lxmorj 5y ago
Saturn's captured satellites might also be the result of incidental aerobraking or whatever you want to call smashing into a bunch of very tiny satellites during a close periapsis, no?
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by lxmorj 6y ago
That’s silly. A single buyer doesn’t have to buy the entire supply in one shot. They could easily say “We buy the cheapest marginal salt in any quantity until our total capacity is met. You must beat $CANADA_PRICE + $IMPORT_PRICE, as well a
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by lxmorj 6y ago
They are both collections of flawed humans. Accountability is necessary regardless of the collective noun you use.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
We could maintain a few populations in labs and/or isolated areas. Inspects repopulate hella fast, so it’d be easy enough to undo such a project if we found that they were a lynchpin of some kind.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
The asteroid is the reaction mass. Send a solar collector and a rail gun sled that fires bits of asteroid really fast backwards.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
It’s an interesting alternative history idea though - what if the disease pressure was flipped but the technology was left as is?
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by lxmorj 6y ago
2/3rds power rebate on your desalination ain’t bad!
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Don't forget you get 2.7% more mass per volume from the salt!
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Is this really different than old media? Seems like all networks are biased - these are just more powerful, centralized networks.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Nah man you make tanks down there
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Probably easier to have a hose and a balloon / reservoir of compressed air.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
The more I try to read about this the more unsure I am I truly understand it, so perhaps not...
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by lxmorj 6y ago
You can only slingshot in a direction another body is orbiting (to gain velocity). You're harvesting it's momentum, basically!
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by lxmorj 6y ago
They are tried in the court of public opinion largely because it's just accepted that they will not be tried in a court of law, because no charges will be brought against them even. There are honest cops who are impacted by the lack of
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Seems like a good opp. Make a bench seat attachment that fits into most cars, with interchangeable carseats for different aged kids. Could have a 3-wide and a 4-wide model for different sized cars.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Moving water shouldn’t cause the same issue as stationary droplets lensing in one place.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Eventually they should have enough data to stitch all different seasons together globally, no?
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by lxmorj 6y ago
No way to guarantee them the oil is still theirs / pay them for it? Probably worth a coalition ’buying’ that boat from them...
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Absolutely. There are some many direct and indirect subsidies (fossil fuels, defense, farm) that actively encourage and reward actions with huge negative externalities.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
I completely disagree. Individual restraint will not do the trick. Your limited time and energy is better spent working on creating mandatory, systemic behavior change. It is not hypocritical to, for example, vote for closing tax loopholes
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by lxmorj 6y ago
Any plan that relies on self-imposed austerity measures of billions of people from disparate groups is doomed to failure. We need to quietly change the math behind the scenes by internalizing externalities legally - long enough for green te
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by lxmorj 6y ago
I would argue that the manipulation of the interactions of geological & solar radiation systems is orders of magnitude less unpredictable than manipulating intentionally manipulating living systems on a living planet.
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by lxmorj 6y ago
It’s just back-filling a personality when you don’t really have a strong internal identity. We all do it a lot when we’re very young - defining yourself as someone who likes a certain Venn Diagram of interests whose intersection makes you
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by lxmorj 6y ago
I've seen wage garnishment work terribly. A guy works at my company for a week or two and then ghosts once we get the state letter mandating wage garnishment for child support. One woman (of many this particular charmer owed) was owed

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