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Comment · 23 days ago
Autism correlates with specific neanderthal genes. There is a hypothesis that neanderthals were nocturnal based on the larger eyes and visual cortex.
Comment · 26 days ago
Thats a cool (!) idea. A zigbee knob + a PID loop would be a nice complement.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Legs, also little legs.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's when the RFC1149 pigeons fly elsewhere.
Comment · 2 months ago
It is fun to see the familiar Los Santos locations.
Comment · 2 months ago
An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.
Comment · 3 months ago
Thats a standard cookie cutter statement intended to give an impression of safety.
Comment · 3 months ago
IIRC the Asian honey bee is more resilient to mites
Comment · 4 months ago
> The population will have to pay taxes for their maintenance. But it will be vastly less.

Taxes are actually the means of how the government extracts work from the population. At the start of the circuit the government prints tokens and offers them for the things it wants done. At the end of the circuit the government demands to be handed tokens else prison. The value of the tokens only comes from it being the means to pay the artificial debt imposed on you.

Government: I want you to produce these weapons, and I offer you this bag of 1.5 trillion small metal discs Population: thank you but we are not into collecting small metal discs Government: on this day next year I will want a small metal disc from each of you and who will not give one will go to prison Population: how did you say we can get them?

A society that does not extract work from the population lacks the mechanism that gives the tokens the value. Nobody would be interested in being "paid" government tokens for maintaining the robots. Maintenance robots will maintain the robots.

Humans will not need to do anything and will just be having fun all the time. For some that means to be on the top/high in the hierarchy. That requires undermining others to get above them. The fun will be spoilt in some ways.

Comment · 4 months ago
Three negatively curved surfaces (saddles) mate despite not being flat. You need to rotate the surfaces also when lapping. (See the famous Robrenz video)
Comment · 4 months ago
Paper is thin so the stretching needed to bend it is minimal
Comment · 4 months ago
It is really called low energy, it refers to the low attractive force of the surface, liquids bead up and do not wetten, in epoxy that results in small contact area and a weak bond, on a high surface energy material it flows into all the crannies and has enormous contact area and a strong bond.
Comment · 4 months ago
The BMW inline 6 were the best engines ever. Their inline 4 and other are a strong contender for the worst engines ever.
Comment · 4 months ago
It does not bond to polypropylene and other low surface energy plastics

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