subnaught

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by subnaught 8y ago
NBER is not a governmental organization.
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by subnaught 9y ago
You must live in the late 20th or early 21st century. Your claim doesn't hold true for most of human history.
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The Myth of Name Changes at Ellis Island(nypl.org)
3 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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by subnaught 9y ago
Just a nit: beer never had loads of NO2. So-called "nitro" pours are pushed with nitrogen gas (N2), not NO2. This is a good thing, since NO2 is rather toxic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide
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by subnaught 9y ago
I think it's pretty clear that the article intends "rapidly expanding niche" to refer to all of "third-wave specialty coffee," not just Blue Bottle.
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Meg Whitman Is Benchmark Favorite for Uber CEO(cnbc.com)
2 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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by subnaught 9y ago
That's an apples-and-oranges comparison. The system you cite differs from the one under discussion in several ways; the most important of which are: 1. The cited system does not include a light-harvesting component. It merely postulate
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by subnaught 9y ago
>That said, relying on a fuel source that requires CO2 as >input seems just as potentially destabilizing to the global >carbon cycle as relying on a fuel source that produces CO2 >as byproduct. Not really. Using CO2 to generate
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by subnaught 9y ago
You've got a lot of it right, but you're missing the key advance described here, which--if true--is pretty wild. Taking a step back, in 2016, this group did cover a bacterium with tiny semiconductor nanoparticles (specifically CdS
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by subnaught 9y ago
That may be the origin of this particular phrasing, but the idea is much older: In 1973, the artist Richard Serra made a film called Television Delivers People which declares "You are the product of TV" [0] Key to Noam Chomsky&#x2
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The Extropians (2005)(villagevoice.com)
1 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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Carbon nanotubes as true random number generators(pubs.acs.org)
2 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road(wsj.com)
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Self-driving Volvos struggle to deal with kangaroos(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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Tau constant now included in Python(bugs.python.org)
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by subnaught 9y ago
A descendent of pluto is still in use: http://www.cryst.chem.uu.nl/spek/platon/pl010000.html See also: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/ccd/graphics/p012.htm
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by subnaught 9y ago
I won't pass judgement on whether 410 micrograms/kg is an "unbelievable" amount, but I will just mention that it is 410 parts per billion, or less than 1 ppm.
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Higgs on the Moon(inference-review.com)
1 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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by subnaught 9y ago
This is fascinating and, like you say, counter-intuitive. Can you expand on this or provide some links?
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by subnaught 9y ago
Some background and context from someone tangentially related to the field: 1. The overall idea here is to take an intermittent energy source (e.g. solar power) and "store" it as chemical fuel, in this case hydrogen and oxygen. Th
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Marc Ribot: Google is hurting musicians(guernicamag.com)
2 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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Letter from a Drowned Canyon(story.californiasunday.com)
1 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple to Begin Testing Self-Driving Cars in California(bloomberg.com)
2 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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A David Grann Reading List(longreads.com)
1 points by subnaught 9y ago|0 comments
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Science Needs Reason to Be Trusted(nature.com)
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Visions of Future Physics, Annontated(theopennotebook.com)
2 points by subnaught 10y ago|0 comments
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The scale of damage to the Oroville spillway(blogs.agu.org)
2 points by subnaught 10y ago|0 comments
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Oroville Dam Resource Center(cdec.water.ca.gov)
2 points by subnaught 10y ago|0 comments
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The enormous scale of the erosion problem at the Oroville Dam site(blogs.agu.org)
3 points by subnaught 10y ago|0 comments
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The Atomic Origins of Climate Science(newyorker.com)
1 points by subnaught 10y ago|0 comments

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