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Crazy to see you end up at the top! Excited to have you run the programme for all the newcomers!

Can someone share some light on what's covered in the wire transfers?

Carleeon Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact

If you take a positive spin it on, it could be heavy manipulation for the environment.

1. Buy Bitcoin to put added focus to it

2. Stop using it and cite environmental impact

3. Swap to something more environmentally acceptable in an attempt to tilt Bitcoin from the crypto throne or push them to change the amount of mining going on.

I’m not sure how beneficial it is to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it’s a view I haven’t seen it the threads before.

Carleeon CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history

You should check out Hans Rosling's lectures [1]. Statistics points towards the fact that as people become more wealthy, they have less children. It should stagnate around 11 million people by most models.

[1] https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E

Carleeon Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says

Making a BMS is by no means simple or cheap in the range of cents. It's hard to make good cells, but creating a good BMS, designing an easy way to at fuse wires, creating cooling bands and figuring out how to do so on a huge scale is just as hard

Carleeon Under Pressure

Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiMIQk29iWg&t=30s

Carleeon Under Pressure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiMIQk29iWg&t=30s

There's the product

Carleeon Under Pressure

I do explosions with liquid nitrogen almost daily at my job as a science demonstrator. We've had one accident where a bottle exploded in the hands of a college of mine. He got a good scar up his arm, but nothing deadly. He had to get sewn, but that was about it.

Most often though, if you fill up the bottle with too much nitrogen, it won't explode. It'll just freeze up and slowly disperse through whatever cracks are present. If it didn't explode over night, it probably wouldn't have at all.

I suspect it might have started to fizzle due to air leaving the bag, or due to a small leak, which is pretty harmless. Nitrogen explosions of half-litre bottles are very large, and can shake the ground 20-30m away. I can test it later today if time permits and upload a video, but overall, it would've been much clearer if it went off.

Edit: to people saying the cap is the weak point: 9/10 times it's the bottom that gives in first.

Carleeon Letter From A Psychopath

I had a teacher who worked in a psych ward. She insisted that everyone has a trait of each mental issue you could name - you just don't get a diagnose until it's a big enough issue for the person.

Carleeon Letter From A Psychopath

It differs from person to person. I've met people who know that they suffer from schizophrenia, some who are unaware, but know hearing voices is abnormal, and some who has no idea.

There's a big difference between the three. The first, the ones who know and care about it - you probably won't even notice he/she is suffering from it, unless they tell you. The others.. yeah.

Source: used to be a med student and a trained hospital sitter.

Carleeon Soylent: Operations Update

How on Earth is ten days enough to test anything in regards to diet? Pretty sure humans don't notice much change in that time, let alone enough to measure? Day to day numbers fluctuate by a lot, so wouldn't it have to be tested over a longer period for it to be valid?

Carleeon Join the largest online protest since SOPA to stop NSA spying

Can't Britain revoke America's government until they figure this out?

Carleeon Design your focus - Read better, work better, sleep better, X better.

"Great idea" - Continues procrastinating.

Carleeon Music to Let you Concentrate

That is absolutely amazing. I am so in love with Carbon Based Lfieforms right now.

I'm terrible at music genres myself, but I am a huge fan of Bonobo's music. It's classified as trip-hop - no idea if that falls under this category. Bonobo - Black Sands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjF2_-bneM the entire album is amazing

He just released a new album not long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Z4ibZFA6c&list=PLXEYOK9pTAB...

Carleeon People with nothing to hide

Good point, I haven't really checked it out any more than a google search, but it would be interesting to see if they actually published any numbers at all.

Carleeon People with nothing to hide

To me it's a bit like maintenance: You only notice it's there when it doesn't work.

Like someone else said, we have no idea how much crap they actually catch, maybe the boston incidence is just one instance out of many others that were prevented.

Carleeon Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down

I can tell you the sound is NOT purely psychological. I used to around 1-2km away from one. When the wind came from "the right" direction, it sounded like a thunderstorm.

I can't even imagine what it is like living even closer to one.

Carleeon Bullying has to stop, now.

Being bullied is a terrible thing to experience, and I wish that kids wouldn't be that cruel, however, to me, it is not fair to expel or exclude the bully.

You can't blame the bully for his/her social upbringing. Kids are basically psychopaths in such a young age - they just act according to whatever they feel, and if they haven't been taught boundaries - well, shit. Bad environments promote shitty attitudes and behaviour patterns, which is often due to their parents. Rich or poor doesn't matter. Some of the worst bullies I've been faced against came from wealthy families.

I think schools should be more focused on teaching the bullies way to cope with things at home, instead of simply excluding them. The bullies don't change their attitude, and someone new will take their place (I recall a Danish study about class rooms where the bullies removed, experienced the same amount of bulling just a month later. New bullies take other's places).