Preflight_Tomato @ Preflight_Tomato @lemm.ee

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He’s levying tithes.

What did they do specifically? I’m trying to figure out how much longer i can still consider npr a reliable source.

Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) enable geothermal energy usage in unconventional areas by enhancing the subsurface permeability and increasing fluid flow, which is then extracted as a carrier of the thermal energy.

Is this fracking?

technical issues and concerns over induced seismicity have historically hindered the broader expansion of EGS.

Yeah, fracking…

I don’t know of recent advancements or how it relates to this application, but my understanding is that fracking is a bad idea.

Also, I’m astonished that anything costs more than nuclear.

Yes please, let's use this term, and reserve Open Source for it's existing definition in the academic ML setting of weights, methods, and training data. These models don't readily fit into existing terminology for structure and logistic reasons, but when someone says "it's got open weights" I know exactly what set of licenses and implications it may have without further explanation.

In 2022 the Department of Labor estimated, based on 1259 observations, that unauthorized workers make up 37-47% of agricultural workers (95% confidence interval).

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Fifty-eight percent of crop workers interviewed had work authorization in 2021–2022. Among the 38 percent who were U.S. citizens, 83 percent were born in the United States, and 17 percent were naturalized citizens. The remainder of the work-authorized population consisted mainly of lawful permanent residents (18%) with 2 percent authorized through some other visa program.

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The USA is cooked.

I’ve been stuck deciding between getting the 2.8k screen and upgrading to the larger 16 laptop. I stopped using my desktop last year entirely and so now I’m trying to figure out whether I should go with the larger laptop since it’s the only thing I use now.

I’m always wondering is how I became an independent thinker. I have a hard time understanding how so many people are so gullible

You may not think this way, but I'll comment just in case: Don't fall into the trap of thinking you are too smart to fall for a lie. The smartest people in the world have blind spots, and only the blind think they have none.

Note that established, accepted scientific theories often fall into the “fact” category.

For example the Theory of Gravity.

Bitcoin is the most secure banking method.

Though blockchain tech produces new problems that ultimately make it useless outside of a store of value.

Yes, these devices exist. But, IR is significantly, even several orders of magnitude, less powerful from the sun than visible and UV light. The only applications derive from receiving power from human sources that are bright enough, some examples are here in the other comments.

Even then, I have doubts that human IR emitters produce enough power for anything but the most highly efficiently engineered device, outside of a microwave.

Watched the documentary with a friend; we were trying to guess his age. We agreed on "decent looking for 55". He's 47 lol.

Check out Technology Connections on YouTube. Specifically this playlist on heat pumps.

The only thing more efficient would be mechanized Solar shades and passive techniques.

My wild speculation:

Viral snares/traps? Semi-permeable membrane + RNA; the virus gets in and binds to the RNA inside, then the viral package is "spent" on fake RNA that can't replicate. The MVP shell could keep regular cellular machinery away from the trap RNA. There are thousands of these vaults within the cell, as to create a bunch of "pits" that a virus could fall into, thus effectively slowing viral spread, even a little?

edit: from a link in the article:

vault protein somehow helps epithelial cells internalize P. aeruginosa, which in turn speeds the clearance of an infection. Compared to normal mice, for example, MVP-less mice were 3 times as likely to die when their lungs were infected with the bacterium

This was mentioned as a hypothesis that was determined to be fruitless. Was this ever explored further? Different viruses, organ systems, etc.? Since it's in a lot of different organisms, maybe some common virus that affects many different species is affected by this.

This is very interesting.

Depends how fast you do it.

Same sentiment here. I always try to care a bit more than the other person so that, assuming most people use proportional caring implicitly, the mutual care can increase steadily.

It's important in the sense that if it's "just gang shit" then people think it's less random, and so they have some agency to avoid it, which makes it less scary. They're also not in social groups even close to gangs, so it's not something that would ever happen to them.

I actually really like the new UI. The settings menus are more legible and seem better organized now too.

IIRC it doesn't do anything prevent tooth decay, it just doesn't cause it, unlike sugar and many other sugar substitutes.

7-8% is the standard value used after taking inflation into account. It's really 10%, but inflation eats 3% yearly, on average. Using the metric this way also conveniently means that the value you calculate for the end of compounding (in 35 years) is interpretable in todays dollars.

So 7% interest on 50$ monthly for 35 years means total principal of 21k$ and total of 83k$ (todays value).

See https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calculators/compound-interest-calculator

Firefox WAS Netscape. Netscape was open sourced, rewritten, and released as Firebird (in reference to a phoenix’s rise from Netscape’s ashes). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application_Suite