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by timerol 6y ago
Are you familiar with Sealand? It was basically the same idea, but in international waters
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by timerol 6y ago
Similar to the author of the post, I'm surprised that I haven't seen or heard much about bio-hacking your own vaccine. Seems like an interesting trend to follow, though I will be waiting for an FDA-approved vaccine myself. I am a
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by timerol 6y ago
Looks like it got hugged to death, which is odd, given how I appear to be the first comment. Archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210120183824/https://www.inspi...
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by timerol 6y ago
I completely agree. The economy will recover when the pandemic ends, and I am going to contribute to the end of the pandemic in any way I can. Then we can end the massive business closures and massive eviction crisis that we're current
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by timerol 6y ago
This is another specific scientific communication, of the type that are widely misunderstood. Remember "no evidence that masks reduce transmission" and "no evidence that immunity from COVID will last"? Both were true sta
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by timerol 6y ago
How much longer? There is significant benefit to rolling out massive amounts of vaccine immediately. I know that any scientist worth their salt will almost always claim that more study is warranted. But we're playing against a clock me
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by timerol 6y ago
The leaderboard aspects of Strava are the worst part. I like it as a personal training log, and as a way to keep up with friends who are also being fit. The social aspects are really nice, as it's fun to be asked about your run through
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by timerol 6y ago
> For me, it was fascinating to see how our interactions changed over the course of the call. Everyone became more expressive in physical space. I found this to be extremely useful, even when talking to people with normal hearing on a vi
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by timerol 6y ago
Not all carbon sequestration requires input energy from the grid. As an example, one of the projects that Stripe is funding is https://projectvesta.org/ , which distributes olivine, a volcanic rock that absorbs CO2 to become
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by timerol 6y ago
The burden is showing that you have under $XM in assets. You'll need to show your net worth somehow, so that the IRS (or equivalent) knows not to tax you. Otherwise I could assure you that I totally only have $1M in assets, with defini
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by timerol 6y ago
I am familiar with and very much enjoy patio11's writing style. I enjoyed his "An update on a pre-registered result..." to the extent that I was actually laughing out loud while reading it, which was very much not the intent
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by timerol 6y ago
Does anyone know enough about Stripe's product lines to comment on what the following paragraph means? "My view on Stripe’s business prior to joining was “Stripe is basically a B2B SaaS company with extremely reliable capture of u
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by timerol 6y ago
The Northeast Corridor is wildly profitable for Amtrak (based on operating costs), despite being significantly worse than flying, and often slower than driving. (It's faster than rush-hour driving, but that's about it.) Making fas
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by timerol 6y ago
There appear to be a number of dictionaries improperly listed under "Online Services / Tools" instead of "Translation / General". Though I have no idea how to fix that, or even how to report it as an issue
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by timerol 6y ago
Care to post the new, realistic math?
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by timerol 6y ago
I have a few questions: As mentioned in a top-level comment, this could be incredibly dangerous, depending on the properties of the microwave generator. Can you say what the maximum level of power density experienced outside of the laser bo
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by timerol 6y ago
>> This is a Rorschach test that shows preconceived views depending on whether you interpret it as A or B. > I have no preconceived notions, but this is clearly A. I honestly can't understand how anyone can see this as anythin
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by timerol 6y ago
"Pregnancy tests are 99% accurate in the lab, 75% accurate in the wild due to misreads- mistakes which are highly dependent on education and socioeconomic status. No, it is not stupid or wasteful to use a hardware interface to help wom
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by timerol 6y ago
Ahmedabad, India appears to have about 6M people and 1 highway interchange. The interchange isn't even a full cloverleaf, but instead only allows 4 of the standard 8 cloverleaf options. In 2012 it was listed as India's best city t
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by timerol 6y ago
FYI, if you want to liquidate those, AnchorUSD makes it really easy to transfer them out to a US bank account.
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by timerol 6y ago
As someone who works on embedded devices, yes. The whole system can have 256KB of flash or less. 1 or 2KB for keys hurts, but is manageable. 65KB means that much of the IoT will not be upgraded to post-quantum security.
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by timerol 6y ago
TFA doesn't really summarize what's available very well, so let me take a shot from a technical perspective: - 130 nm process built with Skywater foundry - Skywater Platform Development Kit (PDK) is currently digital-only - 40 pro
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by timerol 6y ago
This doesn't seem like a fair comparison. Based on the table provided, 2010 retail is 1.6 TB, 2020 retail is 24 TB, and 2030 retail is 384 TB. That's a 15x improvement last decade, and a projected 16x improvement next decade. Whet
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by timerol 6y ago
> I get about 177,000 plays / month. Spotify is 96% of those plays. > I earn around $800 / month from music streaming. Spotify is 93% of that income. > And every month about 65,000 people listen to my music on Spotify. Th
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by timerol 6y ago
The manufacturer claims 60-75%, with a lifespan of 30-40 years https://highviewpower.com/technology/
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by timerol 6y ago
If they are able to be used in cars for a million miles, they will still be able to be used after that at a lower performance. It's likely that a used "million mile" battery will be even more valuable, since it presumably lo
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by timerol 6y ago
Note that zoning in NYC requires the step backs that you see. It allows the full building footprint to X height (based maybe on the width of the street), and then is based on an angle formula, where for every additional Y feet requires a fu
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by timerol 6y ago
Ads, but without targeting. They sell the search terms entered in an anonymized way. So you can buy an ad that will display to everyone who searches DuckDuckGo for "vacuum cleaner". You cannot buy an ad that will display to women
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by timerol 6y ago
The text has the same number, but interprets it, ah, interestingly: "By 2100, that number will balloon to 11 billion, pushing society into a Soylent Green scenario." This is a pretty ridiculous statement from the article, consider
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by timerol 6y ago
I built my PC. I bought ~6 things off of Newegg and stuck them together. Combining pre-existing modules into a system is a valid use of the word "build."

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