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In the future, we could use some sort of traffic management system, were cars which conform to a standard are able to 'link-up' and move as one unit like a train, it would relieve …

ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes (nature.com) 1205 points by physics_lover 12 hours ago | hide | 402 -Sustained fusion still only 10 years away!

I've had magnetic drives with excellent data integrity that spent the last 20 years un touched in self storage units. I have read CD-RWs of approximately the same age with no data …

I try to tell my 'past' self events that have occurred. I also try to listen to any future 'self' notifications. It's mostly a fun thought experiment.

It does especially when learning from the article, with Argentina's average income, earning an extra device is no small feat: "An iPhone is not cheap in general, and in Argentina l…

What better answer than drawing butts of course, to all of those students who are wondering where they would ever use sin/cos/tan in a real world application.

The energy app is pretty good, it fits pretty well with my double policy but I don't look at it anymore, since it requires diverting my attention moreso than glancing ant the estim…

It may be better, but I generally look at my current Wh/km usage for an estimate of my remaining range. Average over 130000km (3y) is 191Wh/km Winter can be as bad as 330Wh/km (-30…

I make sure the displayed range on the M3 is double for the distance I want to travel. Winter tires, snow and ice sticking to the car, and -15C are quite normal occurrences here, a…

I don't. I pay the counterparty directly with lightning for under 200 fiat equivalent, or on chain for larger purchases. The point is, I never need to buy fiat (what you call withd…

You're going to have to get used to people ignoring you and working around you then. I don't want to help you understand bitcoin, because I don't want insufferable obstructionists …

Great thing about bitcoin is you don't have to use it at all. It is opt in. I don't tell you what to do with things you buy that I think are useless. Those who purchase or generate…

Bitcoin is great for the climate. It currently uses .1% of global energy, instead of all the worlds energy as predicted in 2017. It makes use of stranded energy, off peak energy st…

Shouldn't there be a popup to subscribe to a newsletter before scrolling 10% of the content?

7 also resolves to Sunday, but doesn't take away from the fact that the first index [0] is Sunday.

Sunday is the first day of the week in crontab. First index in the array, 0.

You the laborer have the capacity to decide where the value of your labor should be kept. Whether some think it's leaky, or that it is a melting ice cube or ultrasound money is irr…

So did Netflix and Amazon Prime.

I don't have time to thoroughly research the topic and come back to you, so maybe you can do some leg work. But I do know people over estimate what can be accomplished in a year an…

I may only buy when Fidelity and Blackrock say it is safe for retail, if at all. Until then, I will let institutions take the risk and I will stick with my index fund.

Lightning is popular because few prefer slow transactions. El Salvador primarily uses lightning network, same network Strike uses for instant cross border payments.

Yes. In a fairly large public company I worked at, I remember a DBA on contract got fired because he knew absolutely nothing. But only a few weeks later he was back, in the same bu…

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HTTP represents any documents as ... drum roll ... text. It is literally in the name of the specification. If it were meant to be a document transfer protocol, HDTP would have been…