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Comment · 7 years ago
You'll understand when you're older.
Comment · 7 years ago
An interesting article about the US army's fight against malaria in the pacific theater during WW II:
https://armyhistory.org/the-other-foe-the-u-s-armys-fight-ag...
TL;DR: By spraying DDT everywhere, and coercing troops to take Atabrine (that often had nasty side effects), they reduced malaria incidence by about 70%. The Japanese, by contrast had little protection - nearly all Japanese soldiers had malaria at some time.
Comment · 7 years ago
An interesting discussion of that here:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...
Comment · 7 years ago
Nice try, IBM!
Comment · 7 years ago
I wonder if tin foil can block this :p
Comment · 7 years ago
I love this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE
Comment · 8 years ago
In Newport, Washington, electricity is so inexpensive ($0.05/kWh) that almost everyone uses electric baseboard heat - and it gets very cold (10 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter. Those baseboard heaters could be swapped out with bitcoin miners with NO change in power consumption, and there are plenty of other places around the world with similar conditions.
Comment · 8 years ago
A couple of suggestions for improvements:
1) Use quaternions instead of Euler angles for rotation
2) Show latitude and longitude grid so it's easier to identify equator and polar regions, etc...
Comment · 8 years ago
For wartime use. Military convoys might need to go off-road or around road damage.
Comment · 8 years ago
They could do brake and other inspections there too.
Comment · 8 years ago
RTFA
Comment · 8 years ago
"Despite a government plan to cut pesticide use in half by 2020, sales in France have climbed steadily, reaching more than 75,000 tonnes of active ingredient in 2014, according to European Union figures."
That's an incredibly large amount of pesticides - over two pounds of active ingredient per French citizen per year.