rhodrid | 7 years ago | on: Declassified videos of atmospheric nuclear tests (2017)
Such vandalism and for what?
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rhodrid | 7 years ago | on: Emissions of banned, ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 have climbed 25% since 2012
Crops don't like it much either. Same with trees.
rhodrid | 8 years ago | on: World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
When I saw the title I thought it was going to be the first deployment of the Qualcomm system featured on fullycharged[1] back in November. What they've actually done looks... kinda flakey.
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
CRISPR sounds extremely powerful. Like turning all blue eyes brown powerful.
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: Scaleway ARMv8 Cloud Servers
Reminded me of this article "Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period." [1] from 2013.
And also of SeaMicro [2].
Looks like the wimpy core lost this particular battle. Or maybe they only make sense at a particular scale.
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: Cassini will make its final close flyby of Saturn‘s moon Titan on April 21
The Cassini mission reminded me of the line "we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." and I thought I'd post the whole verse as it is as poignant today as it as ever has been.
What we can accomplish together in peace is breathtaking.
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: Cassini will make its final close flyby of Saturn‘s moon Titan on April 21
CASSINI’S GRAND FINALE
"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: Rave Panic Button: Vulnerabilities in a Nationwide Emergency Alert System
Rave Panic Button: For when the drop goes too deep.
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: Google Bans JSONView – Extension Contains a Serious Security Vulnerability
I'd really like to know more information about the vulnerability but can't seem to find anything online.
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you regret in life?
Ever starting smoking.
rhodrid | 9 years ago | on: The Age of the Superbug Is Here
It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body.
- ALEXANDER FLEMING, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945
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