Everything posted by pantone159
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The Climate thread
It has occurred to me, that those giant cruise ships look very top heavy and would be very vulnerable to a torpedo hit or other underwater damage. Sending them into a minefield would probably work as well.
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Fuck the Police!!!!!!!!!!!
I got one in the 45.
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See page 144 of this thread. It was the top result for googling 'RICO Gatorubet site:surlyhorns.com'. That site: part is very useful for searching message board that have bad built-in search.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Probably something like this. Has she talked to the apartment management? They are probably looking to get rid of abandoned junk more than pissing off residents so she might get a reprieve if it is inspected and just needs the sticker.
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No Labels Party - What does it mean for 2024?
No, they are hoping that this ticket pulls enough votes away from Biden so that Trump gets to 270.
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Trivial things that please the ever living shit out of you
All this annoying behavior by hotels had me change my habits, now I just bring my own shampoo and soap on a trip, then I don't have to worry about the inadequate supplies that hotels provide.
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Anyone have alternative investments?
Investing in collectibles only makes sense for things you like collecting for their own sake. They generally have poor returns, especially considering transaction costs, liquidity, and the alternatives. But if you like something enough to collect it, you have something cool, and usually worth at least something, for your fun. It adds some financial diversity. But if you are just looking for an investment, collectibles would just be a money pit. Stacking precious metals could be an example of that, if you want to channel your inner dragon, you could collect gold pieces or whatever, and have something to sell if you wanted or needed to. But I would not expect high returns.
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Robocalls - Why don't we fine the companies who spam phones?
And real soon now, we are going to get an even more massive deluge of scams using generative AI to automate fraud even more. I am pessimistic that the only real 'killer app' of this latest batch of generative AI is going to be fraud.
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LK-99: A Room-Temp/Ambient-Pressure Superconductor?
YBCO works at atmospheric pressure. If it was indeed suitable as an industrial superconductor, using only liquid N2, it would have completely replaced the old-school stuff that needs liquid helium, which is far more expensive. But it hasn't.
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I figured that you would want to weight the '20-23 SWING' by the number of voters to make something that can be averaged sensibly. Just averaging the raw values doesn't make much sense.
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LK-99: A Room-Temp/Ambient-Pressure Superconductor?
It is synthesized in the process of making LK-99. You start with simple available chemicals, no need to mine minerals. But one of the things that is made along the way of making LK-99 is basically that mineral, but you make it and don't mine it.
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LK-99: A Room-Temp/Ambient-Pressure Superconductor?
One thing to remember before getting too excited about this, is that the now-standard 'high temperature' superconductor, the YBCO ceramic which works with liquid nitrogen, has been around for at least 30 years but has not replaced more old-fashioned superconductors in most applications. So there can be a long way from a material that does interesting things in the lab, and a commercially useful material.
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LK-99: A Room-Temp/Ambient-Pressure Superconductor?
The following preprint paper seems to very conclusively show room temperature superconductivity. They even got it with the old-standard YBCO material! https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2003/2003.14321.pdf
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Work advice
Yep. He needs a new job, you need a new VP. He had an easier task ahead of him than you do.
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LK-99: A Room-Temp/Ambient-Pressure Superconductor?
They did give good steps for reproducing their claims, and the synthesis seems pretty easy, so this will be proved or debunked in short order. So far it has not been debunked, so it might be real. If so, it will surely be a big deal. Even if this particular material is not very practical, it will be a starting point and other related materials will get tried very soon. Science at work!!! Fyi, there is at the same time, another research group that has reported room temperature superconductivity, though at very high pressures, and that research is very dodgy, at least one paper related to that has been withdrawn due to suspected data fraud. But those issues do not apply to LK-99.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
No problem, just so long as you personally guarantee to go ahead of me and clear all the blockages on the existing sidewalks, and add new ones to fill any gaps where there isn't a sidewalk yet.
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Coin Collecting Thread
Your memory is not so faded. I had not heard of these, so I just looked them up, and indeed there were bi-metallic coins in 1993-1995 (and also 1992 for the 10 nuevos pesos) that had the actual silver weight just as you said. My Mexico coin book can be confusing, as there were a number of bullion/commemorative issues that did have precious metals but did not circulate, it is hard to tell which is which. I wonder if I even have some of these without knowing...
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Desantis is a POS and needs his own thread
Why would I want to remember anything he posts???
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Coin Collecting Thread
For coin roll hunters, it usually sounds like the search for irregular coins is a big part of the fun. You are hoping to find something unusual, and any kind of error is a happy find.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Thread
It had to be an incredible relief when the launch went ok and it folded out ok also. The project took so long that it is basically entire careers for some people. It could have blown to smithereens, but instead it is working and you KNOW it will find something very interesting in the IR spectrum. The relief that something you have worried about for 30 years is now ok must be very welcome.
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What do y'all do with used personal electronics?
For computers, I remove all disk drives, and at least try to destroy them, mainly by removing all the screws so I can open up the drive and see the nice shiny (and sharp!) platters inside. Maybe I will try and break the platters. At that point, I figure that reading any data is beyond anybody who really cares and has special equipment, and then the drive goes in the trash. The rest of the computer goes in the trash.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
If they used that dark green color for the X, it would make it at least a little bit cooler.
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A&M botches hiring of Aggie grad to lead Journalism department because she’s black, leads to President resignation.
Yes, but he is the lowest rep getter in terms of likes per word posted.
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Dumb Question Amnesty Thread
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Needs a crocodile though.