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Comment · 5 months ago
That has a fresh new tax on it following the BBB on gains.
Comment · 9 months ago
Does anyone have the list?
Comment · 10 months ago
... So the answer is to make a series of worse products?
Comment · 1 year ago
citation?
Comment · 1 year ago
What is the benefit over a macbook in this case?
Comment · 1 year ago
What will make the hemp?
Comment · 1 year ago
What I don't understand about the proposal is that every c-c bond the fungus could make still has to be shipped from earth.
Comment · 2 years ago
Entire fields are based upon the existence of crispr now, it demonstrated its impact. It has been 2? 3? years, people who were making papers anyway have implemented AlphaFold, it hasn't exactly spawned a new area.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you for responding, I agree with your points, I did indeed make a mistake.
Comment · 2 years ago
My two cents having formerly worked in perovskites trying to upscale the process:

Perovskites are exciting (or were exciting) because they have a high theoretical efficiency, are relatively simple to prepare, and the "worst" component in them is lead (an incredibly abundant material). The big problem with them is that they are famously horrifically unstable in ambient conditions.

Roll-to-roll processing means that you can fabricate them in mass scale. Ambient means that they claim to have solved issues like working in glovebox conditions.

Even if the price of solar panels has come down below labor, the fact that they are produced from rare earth minerals goes (in my opinion) underreported.

Consider the relationship between perovskites and multi-junction solar cells similar to the comparison between sodium and lithium ion batteries. Lithium will always have a higher capacity, but sodium is so abundant that for many applications it just doesn't matter anymore.

Comment · 2 years ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09500...

They produce 60-80 milligram of calcium carbonate 'per fiber', per 30 hours. I'm interested to know how they keep the bacteria alive over time, through the concrete curing process (high temperatures, high level of carbon dioxide, making any liquids in the vicinity highly acidic), and how the bacteria remain viable over time. Concrete we consider to last over decades, or a century?

Comment · 2 years ago
Can you elaborate about what you define as "used against you" even if it is entirely inaccurate? What is the use case of inaccurate data with which you are concerned?
Comment · 3 years ago
You're correct on all accounts, save for my optimism. Maybe the Riff can only work for something of this style when data feedback losing 10 lbs is large, compared to supplements, and the confines of the experiment are relatively limited (30 days). In hindsight, my comment was supposed to be 'its exciting that random people can get together and try to figure something out', and less about the difficulties of biology in science.
Comment · 3 years ago
p values are meant to relate whether or not 'some' hypothesis is statistically relevant versus a control study. For something like biology, human nature, dieting, weight loss, in a world where you can't really control how stressed someone is, how far they walk to work, among 100 other things... if you're trying to find out how 'the potato' works, safe citizen science (a Riff trial) may be far more effective than 'traditional' proofs to get to the bottom of something that works, and then someone can do a controlled study.

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