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- Here are some "I-told-you-so"s regarding Douglass Mackey's original guilty verdict for posting Twitter memes, who, since then, was acquitted on appeal. https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=43531283
- The Ivry Gitlis interpretation of the chaconne is wild
- The major innovation of this paper seems to be a rayon process that uses less harsh chemicals than the current viscose and lyocell processes.
- The Meta FTW data centers use evaporative chillers, but they re-condense the water so that it's a closed loop.
- Native copper could be found pretty readily in prehistory
- Nearly every word in every Uralic language pertaining to a tech level past the stone age is a loan word.
- Celebrities voice their political opinions in public for the same reasons you are right now. They have a strongly-held belief and want to improve their city, nation, or world. And given that they are well-known, feel a duty to use this platform to advance their beliefs.
- Or you could build nuclear power plants and not depend on sun/weather
- This is called cupellation. Romans used clay crucibles
- How cheaply, in theory, could you mass produce cracking plants for post consumer waste?
- There would be serious logistical issues with this. Drive by the nearest refinery and see the cracking tower. Essentially this is doing as you describe, making ethylene, propylene etc from olefins. But these refineries are located at pretty centralized petroleum or gas terminals. Compared to the mass flow of used plastics distributed evenly across the population density. You either need the haul the stuff very long distances or build lots of huge refineries everywhere. An incinerator is a significantly smaller capital investment than a refinery.
- I'll raise an alternative: plastics are degraded by the heat and pressure of repeated processes like injection molding. Recycled plastic objects will be of lower quality and shed more microplastics. Instead of recycling them, incinerate them for electrical energy. Use a modern incinerator design that guarantees 100% mineralization to carbon dioxide and water.
- TeleMessage is most likely an intelligence asset, and a burned one now that Trump's people stopped using it. A fake hack is the safest way for the agency responsible to leak the messages collected.
- Less than half the population of the world live in birthright citizenship countries. Such countries as all of Eurasia except Pakistan, and all but a handful of African countries. Do those countries not have rational thinking people?
- I have never heard of DEI referring to diversity of viewpoints. Wikipedia for DEI defines diversity thusly: "Diversity refers to the presence of variety within the organizational workforce in characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, culture, class, veteran status, or religion."
- The full letter is here. It only looks like internal contradictions when you quote partial clauses and sentence fragments.
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...
- I don't think the institution will run out of money any time soon. It's a $50bn prop trading firm with a university attached.
The blue morpho is actually blue from iridescence, not pigment.