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byisdnip
2025 @02:16PM
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Attached to: Bill Gates-Backed Nuclear Fusion Developer Wants to Deploy a Reactor in Japan
The rich and powerful are treating it like a tiger running after them. They know that they don't have to be faster than the tiger, just faster than other running from the tiger.
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byisdnip
2025 @02:13PM
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Attached to: BMW Unveils New iX3 EV With 500-Mile Range, AI-Enabled Software
Well, you know the difference between a BMW and a porcupine.
(A porcupine has pricks on the outside.)
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byisdnip
@04:51PM
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Attached to: 'Firefox is Fine. The People Running It are Not'
Tom's basically suggests that Brave is steering requests to one Ponzi scheme to a different Ponzi scheme site that pays them a share of the take. No honor among thieves.
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@08:41AM
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Attached to: Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet
Hail Eris!
It's bigger than Pluto and Mike Brown found it at Palomar, not in some desert state where gila monsters and politicians compete for who can bite worse.
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byisdnip
2022 @12:34PM
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Attached to: 'Google Is Forcing Me To Dump a Perfectly Good Phone'
Sure, but didn't Apple also build some laptops with soldered-in SSDs, so you couldn't pull the SSD or HD out of a broken laptop in order to salvage its contents, the way you can on other computers? Funny how many Starbucks laptop users had such machines.
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byisdnip
22 @06:46PM
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Attached to: All Charges Dropped Against MIT Professor Accused of Hiding Ties to China
Other articles on the topic point out that much the specific "evidence" against him was factually wrong, and the government ignored it when it was pointed out to them. The Former Guy's administration was out to make China and Chinese-Americans look bad. Lelling, then the US Attorney, was playing along with the racist fraud. Rollins, the new one, correctly dropped the charges.
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byisdnip
2021 @10:11PM
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Attached to: US Government Investigators Still Believe Havana Syndrome is a Directed-Energy Attack
Come again?
> 74 mw is 74,000 times more power than your WiFi router (-30dBm)
A WiFi router is allowed +30 dBm, not -30. That's one full watt, though most WiFi devices aren't quite that powerful.
But if the Havana Syndrome were caused by microwaves, a spectrum analyzer -- a standard piece of test gear -- would be able to pick it up. These used to be big heavy devices but now you can buy hand-held microwave ones, professional quality.
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byisdnip
2021 @10:12AM
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Attached to: Biden Offers Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Energy
Nope, CAD doesn't let you overcome the basic physics of reactor design; it just lets you tweak away safety margins.
Whether or not uranium-cycle nuclear is safe enough, the reality is that it does not have a net positive production of power. When you take into account the energy cost of building the plant, mining the uranium, enriching the uranium, dealing with spent fuel, and decommissioning the plant when done, you end up putting more in than you got out along the way. In large part it's a very costly way to take TVA hydropower, turn it into enriched uranium, and spend it elsewhere. Rather than just have some transmission lines.
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byisdnip
@10:21PM
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Attached to: No, Open Source Audacity Audio Editor Is Not 'Spyware'
MuseScore may have a public address in belgium, but the company isn't using Yandex because they have a thing for matryochka dolls. TheRegister refers to "The Russia-based WSM Group, owner of Audacity".... Which is to say the Russians have a Belgian subsidiary address, but Vlad calls the shots or run a risk of defenestration.
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byisdnip
@09:49PM
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Attached to: Bitcoin Mining Council To Report Renewable Energy Usage
Bitcoin is a modern, super-harmful variation on an old theme. Gold is not worth very much inherently; it's over-valued because some people think it's currency. But the easy gold has been found, so miners will put in huge effort for it, so long as the value of the gold exceeds the cost to mine. The cost of mining helps set the value.The money supply, in a gold standard, depends to some extent on the success of miners, and is divorced from the needs of the economy. Too much gold created inflation -- Spain's pillaging of Mexico tanked its economy.
Bitcoin is similar. The value is based on the cost of mining, which is predominantly the cost of electricity. So it is almost literally created out of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Even if you were to use "renewable" energy to mine BTC, that energy could better be used displacing coal and oil. The total amount of CO2 on the plant is what matters, and BTC causes huge amounts to be generated. It is stupid, evil, and existentially harmful to everyone on the planet.
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byisdnip
21 @12:14PM
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Attached to: Mozilla Is Working On a Firefox Design Refresh
I have PaleMoon too, but do more with Firefox nowadays. PaleMoon doesn't have the security ecosystem that Firefox has. Facebook Container, Ghostery, and other tracker-blockers aren't on PaleMoon. NoScript is desupported on PM (though it still usually works) and was a pain in the arse anyway.
Mozilla is having financial issues and it's sad that they're wasting their time on silly fritterware stuff and copying Chrome, rather than improving stuff people use and keeping the API stable for extension devs.
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020 @08:08AM
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Attached to: Vaccine Hopes Rise as Oxford Jab Prompts Immune Response Among Old as Well as Young Adults
The price is more like $100/dose, and governments will pay for it. This Oxford vaccine is also being mass produced in India by Serum Institute for low-cost delivery to lower-income countries.
There is real science around Covid; it just isn't coming from Donald, Boris, Vlad, or Joao.
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byisdnip
05:22PM
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Attached to: How Electric Cars Will Affect Oil Company Investors
They're not rare, and they're all over the place. But they're a b*tch to refine, since they have such similar chemical properties (they don't vary in the outer ring of electrons). The easiest processes are really messy, China is willing to create vast pollution in its refining processes, and thus others who have tried to develop cleaner refining processes, which are costlier, are shut out of the market. Molycorp went bankrupt a few years ago with its mine in California.
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byisdnip
05:16PM
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Attached to: How Electric Cars Will Affect Oil Company Investors
BP is "beyond petroleum" in its public relations, given its miserable record such as Deepwater Horizon, but it's still British Petroleum at heart.
Exxon has over the years invested in all sorts of sidelines. They owned a speech recognition company 40 years ago, a phone equipment company, and a bunch of other techie stuff over the years. But they're just sidelines to oil.
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018 @05:57PM
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Attached to: As China Option Fades, Bill Gates Urges US To Take the Lead in Nuclear Power, For the Good of the Planet
Right. NuScale's small U-235 light water reactors, essentially a scaled-down version of an old design, are probably safer than the big old reactors. But they still use the same 5% U-235, with its high price, very low cycle efficiency and thus high amount of high-level waste production. And they cost a fortune, probably about $5/watt, based on the Wiki. Not that nukes always come in "on budget".
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