will_a113

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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Closer to the equator means less fuel to orbit because the Earth spins fastest at the equator so you don't have to add as much delta-v.

The Alaska one I'd bet is for military ops or maybe polar satellite installations.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm specifically using Voyager on iOS and MacOS (and in Windows via BlueStacks) because I do exactly this. I block several whole instances (lemmygrad and hexbear), the active politics communities, and also specific keywords (elon, musk, trump, gop, republican, etc.), so I'm even able to browse All without my eyeballs being seared.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I moved to Florida specifically so that I could live at the beach. Go to Hawaii.

Dec/Jan is the Florida high season, so everything is crowded and accommodations will be pricey. If your vacation truly is in Jan though, Hawaii will actually be quiet (end of December is super crowded tho).

If you do go to Florida, look at Naples up to Tampa on the gulf coast, or key west. The people are much nicer than Floridians on the east coast

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Oxfam International released in October that looked at 50 of the richest people in the world and their carbon footprint. In it, they found that these people release more carbon through private jets, yachts and investments in a year than the average person does in their entire life.

Fuck them.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't want to be forever young, but I'd love to feel like I'm in my 20s until I'm 100.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Air. Can’t go more than a minute or two without it, and there’s enough to share!

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If property values in high-risk areas start declining I wonder if there would ever be class action suits against the government or specific bad actors.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 101 points 1 month ago (11 children)

How the fuck is this still a tight race? I just for the life of me cannot understand (I mean, I can, but... I just can't).

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

THE COMMON COLD

(well... just the coronavirus variants that cause it about 50% of the time, no word yet on a norovirus vaccine - https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/moderna-sets-sights-common-cold-triple-attack-against-respiratory-diseases)

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 120 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I try to be a "silver lining" type of guy whenever possible, and a recent example that I've been using is mRNA vaccines. They were advancing achingly slowly before CoVID-19 basically turned the whole world into an mRNA lab. Now, thanks to that, there are vaccine trials underway for seasonal influenza, Epstein–Barr virus, HIV, RSV and several types of cancer. There's even talk of a bona fide cure for the common cold.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

The argument was that before we drilled holes into them, those stone formations had held similarly sized pockets of natural gas for eons, so just refilling them with CO2 would be fine. It sounds not completely stupid on first thought.

On second thought it sounds completely stupid tho.

 

Graphene: is there anything it can't do (aside from be manufactured at scale, anyway)

 

Some serious engineering makes for a pretty compelling voxel display. Plus the whole build saga is on Mastodon! Go Fediverse!

 

Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

 

SpaceX's laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. Each of the 9,000 lasers in the network is capable of transmitting at 100Gbps, and satellites can form ad-hoc mesh networks to complete long-haul transmissions when there are no ground towers nearby (like when they're going across oceans).

 

Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we're closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech's power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.

 

Noticed I was logged out of lemmy.ml this morning. When I logged in, everything looked the same, but... "All" loaded instantly. Switching to "Subscribed" was just as fast. Post thumbnails came up as quickly as I could scroll.

I don't know if it's the new software or if y'all cleared out some cruft when restarting the services, but from this end-user's perspective, Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.8 flies. Nicely done!

 

A new discovery reveals that astrocytes, star-shaped cells in the brain, play a key role in regulating fat metabolism and obesity. These cells act on a cluster of neurons, known as the GABRA5 cluster, effectively acting as a “switch” for weight regulation.

The MAO-B enzyme in these astrocytes was identified as a target for obesity treatment, influencing GABA secretion and thus weight regulation.

KDS2010, a selective and reversible MAO-B inhibitor, successfully led to weight loss in obese mice without impacting their food intake, even while consuming a high-fat diet, and is now in Phase 1 clinical trials.

 

CFPB officials said the proposal would expand the number of companies currently subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act -- a 1970 law governing the privacy of consumer data provided to lenders -- to cover the use of data derived from payment histories, personal income and criminal records.

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