> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" but this one was "the establishment is the establishment and most of the time…
> Repeated baking shows a steady decline in migration and emissions, suggesting depletion of siloxanes in the products over time. I wonder what the fall-off curve looks like for siloxane transfer out of the bakeware. If…
it's also important to know your audience. If they've spent their career reading technical papers or dense prose, that's one thing. If they've largely grown up in the social media era and click away from reels/shorts…
> Expensive high-efficiency chemistries for carbon capture will cede to simpler, energy-hungrier chemistries, the ultimate reductio ad absurdum being something like soda lime I haven't looked into the topic much at all…
In terms of impact, it doesn't sound major, I agree. But it's still work that will need to be done. As industry and transport become more electrified, and electric generation gets decarbonized, impacts like…
> The work may be niche, but the impact could be high. About 1 percent of SF6 leaks from electrical equipment. In 2018, that translated to 8,200 tonnes of SF6 emitted globally, accounting for about 1 percent of the…
There's a good DEFCON 29 presentation on this topic. https://youtu.be/cIcbAMO6sxo If you skip forward to 16m 33s you'll be treated to a lively streak of invective from the passenger of a car whose driver has just…
The catch here is the cost of the buildings you'd need to destroy in order to build the surface portion of the windcatcher. The deep underground lines run under heavily populated areas of London. To build enough…
I agree that the current nuclear proposal seems intended principally to extend the life of the coal and gas plants. It's likely born from a cynical attitude of 'who cares about how much the nuclear plants will cost…
was really hoping the threshold is 65,535 because I'm much more likely to reach it counting backwards.
I read it as solar + batteries, not solar alone.
If you listen to the episode you'll learn that such escalation did occur, and unfortunately the harrassment by local LEO did not cease.
The supercavitating supersonic submarine is a nice endpoint for the evasion discussion but I can't help thinking about the wake that would leave. Yes it can depart the firing area quickly but if one wanted to find it…
> I even suspect that the current near-sightedness epidemic is caused by people spending too much time in dim lighting. Maybe if our indoor lighting was brighter our eyesight would not adapt to become near-sighted as…
"People scheduling their travel around limited flights" drove extra operational complexity and expenditure for Concorde; it's not a hassle-free business case. BA and Air France understood that people paid extra to be…
How reliable do you find the calories-burned data from fitness trackers to be? Are there any brands that have higher accuracy than others? Are there any hardware features like pulse monitoring that improve the accuracy?…
Spot on. Would be interesting to see what sort of hoops you'd have to jump through in an academic lab today to secure similar money. That 5k GPB in 1973 is 77k in today's pound, or about 95k USD at current exchange…
I understood it as "do the bad habit, regret it, do a new good habit right afterwards." The aim is to rob the bad habit of whatever reward is attached to it and mentally transfer the reward to the good habit instead.
There are a few open-literature papers already on how a submarine's wake might show up in analysis of surface patterns. Doesn't seem hard to imagine that the classified literature is a few steps ahead.
Great article and a really interesting history of the company. I first heard of FitBits (and activity trackers in general) while working in Singapore in 2010; I met up with a hacking group that had a few FitBit…
I feel like a step is missing. How does one go from having access to Slack channels to exfiltrating scads of sensitive data? Did they impersonate the software development manager in order to steal credentials? Did…
Coal and gas are major domestic industries and major export earners for Australia, so for a very long time it was a) political suicide to do anything that undermined them and b) simply way too expensive to bring nuclear…
wasn't there some kerfuffle years ago with a Mercedes exec getting arrested at a traffic stop? Something about an invalid or missing passport and a program targeting undocumented immigrants driving in Alabama.
Where does the leverage lie with breaking down ISP monopolies? Is it a product of regulation at the municipal level, or state laws, or federal regulations? It doesn't seem like a situation that's going to be improved by…
"In the end, Google will pay out only $27 million, a drop in the bucket for such a titanic company." The article compares that payout against the $20,000 million Alphabet profited just last quarter, a significant…
> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" but this one was "the establishment is the establishment and most of the time…
> Repeated baking shows a steady decline in migration and emissions, suggesting depletion of siloxanes in the products over time. I wonder what the fall-off curve looks like for siloxane transfer out of the bakeware. If…
it's also important to know your audience. If they've spent their career reading technical papers or dense prose, that's one thing. If they've largely grown up in the social media era and click away from reels/shorts…
> Expensive high-efficiency chemistries for carbon capture will cede to simpler, energy-hungrier chemistries, the ultimate reductio ad absurdum being something like soda lime I haven't looked into the topic much at all…
In terms of impact, it doesn't sound major, I agree. But it's still work that will need to be done. As industry and transport become more electrified, and electric generation gets decarbonized, impacts like…
> The work may be niche, but the impact could be high. About 1 percent of SF6 leaks from electrical equipment. In 2018, that translated to 8,200 tonnes of SF6 emitted globally, accounting for about 1 percent of the…
There's a good DEFCON 29 presentation on this topic. https://youtu.be/cIcbAMO6sxo If you skip forward to 16m 33s you'll be treated to a lively streak of invective from the passenger of a car whose driver has just…
The catch here is the cost of the buildings you'd need to destroy in order to build the surface portion of the windcatcher. The deep underground lines run under heavily populated areas of London. To build enough…
I agree that the current nuclear proposal seems intended principally to extend the life of the coal and gas plants. It's likely born from a cynical attitude of 'who cares about how much the nuclear plants will cost…
was really hoping the threshold is 65,535 because I'm much more likely to reach it counting backwards.
I read it as solar + batteries, not solar alone.
If you listen to the episode you'll learn that such escalation did occur, and unfortunately the harrassment by local LEO did not cease.
The supercavitating supersonic submarine is a nice endpoint for the evasion discussion but I can't help thinking about the wake that would leave. Yes it can depart the firing area quickly but if one wanted to find it…
> I even suspect that the current near-sightedness epidemic is caused by people spending too much time in dim lighting. Maybe if our indoor lighting was brighter our eyesight would not adapt to become near-sighted as…
"People scheduling their travel around limited flights" drove extra operational complexity and expenditure for Concorde; it's not a hassle-free business case. BA and Air France understood that people paid extra to be…
How reliable do you find the calories-burned data from fitness trackers to be? Are there any brands that have higher accuracy than others? Are there any hardware features like pulse monitoring that improve the accuracy?…
Spot on. Would be interesting to see what sort of hoops you'd have to jump through in an academic lab today to secure similar money. That 5k GPB in 1973 is 77k in today's pound, or about 95k USD at current exchange…
I understood it as "do the bad habit, regret it, do a new good habit right afterwards." The aim is to rob the bad habit of whatever reward is attached to it and mentally transfer the reward to the good habit instead.
There are a few open-literature papers already on how a submarine's wake might show up in analysis of surface patterns. Doesn't seem hard to imagine that the classified literature is a few steps ahead.
Great article and a really interesting history of the company. I first heard of FitBits (and activity trackers in general) while working in Singapore in 2010; I met up with a hacking group that had a few FitBit…
I feel like a step is missing. How does one go from having access to Slack channels to exfiltrating scads of sensitive data? Did they impersonate the software development manager in order to steal credentials? Did…
Coal and gas are major domestic industries and major export earners for Australia, so for a very long time it was a) political suicide to do anything that undermined them and b) simply way too expensive to bring nuclear…
wasn't there some kerfuffle years ago with a Mercedes exec getting arrested at a traffic stop? Something about an invalid or missing passport and a program targeting undocumented immigrants driving in Alabama.
Where does the leverage lie with breaking down ISP monopolies? Is it a product of regulation at the municipal level, or state laws, or federal regulations? It doesn't seem like a situation that's going to be improved by…
"In the end, Google will pay out only $27 million, a drop in the bucket for such a titanic company." The article compares that payout against the $20,000 million Alphabet profited just last quarter, a significant…