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mjanx123··on Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors
Thats a cool (!) idea. A zigbee knob + a PID loop would be a nice complement.
mjanx123··on Things that apparently cause cancer
The root cause of cancer is cellular stress. One cope mechanism with cellular stress is the cells fusing. On occasion a blood and a somatic cell will fuse. A blood cell is an organism on its own, disconnected from the electric network of the somatic cells which controls the growth and shaping into functional tissues and organs. When the programming of the fused cell combines in a way that it wants to grow and divide while disconnected from the body control network, you get a cancer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EWNjw3pg9sA

Pretty much anything can cause cellular stress, including the normal operation of worn cells in an old body. Cataloguing the strength of the stressors is still useful.

mjanx123··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
Legs, also little legs.
mjanx123··on 507 Mechanical Movements
It's when the RFC1149 pigeons fly elsewhere.
mjanx123··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
It is fun to see the familiar Los Santos locations.
mjanx123··on A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.
mjanx123··on DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
Thats a standard cookie cutter statement intended to give an impression of safety.
mjanx123··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
IIRC the Asian honey bee is more resilient to mites
mjanx123··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
> 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.

mjanx123··on Why does paper fold so well?
Three negatively curved surfaces (saddles) mate despite not being flat. You need to rotate the surfaces also when lapping. (See the famous Robrenz video)
mjanx123··on Why does paper fold so well?
Paper is thin so the stretching needed to bend it is minimal
mjanx123··on Electric motors with no rare earths
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.
mjanx123··on Electric motors with no rare earths
The BMW inline 6 were the best engines ever. Their inline 4 and other are a strong contender for the worst engines ever.
mjanx123··on Electric motors with no rare earths
It does not bond to polypropylene and other low surface energy plastics
mjanx123··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Will the drones at least look like Pikachu?
mjanx123··on Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)
Animals minmax on being active. To the point of going into a damaging overdrive when active and repairs when sleeping. The total accumulated wear is massive. Discarding an old animal and booting a new one seems to be more viable than trying to keep the old one going indefinitely.
mjanx123··on The EU Open Source Strategy
IIRC Microsoft has a no liability clause in its licenses. How did they react to this?
mjanx123··on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
A change that is going to creep in over decades, known about ahead of time, is not a crisis and not a reason to panic.

You can still today buy lands that are going to be submerged under the sea and make net profit before that happens.

mjanx123··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
When AI takes all the jobs, it will also need to take care of supplying all the demand/customers, as humans will no longer have the resources for that.
mjanx123··on CT scans of BYD car parts
The aftermarket would jump after such an opportunity in such case
mjanx123··on What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
Water is also averse to emergence of life chemistry, despite the mature life depending on it, it hydrolyzes and damages the fragile structures. It is the same situation as with oxygen in principle.
mjanx123··on What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
- cells appear very soon after the hadean Earth - meteorites contain life building blocks

These suggest that the life chemistry evolved in the proto solar cloud (and exploring the conditions in there would yield how that happened) and the life on Earth evolved from the already complex stuff that fell on it after the hadean phase.

mjanx123··on What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
> I like to think of the Earth as a supercomputer running a vast self-interactive chemical computation of unfathomable scale for an unfathomably long amount of time.

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mjanx123··on U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
Nobody voted for this. People voted for the proclaimed plans , but that turned out to be lies and deception solely for getting the votes.
mjanx123··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
In China the desire for profits serves the society. In the US the society serves the desire for profits.
mjanx123··on All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
How long would it take for the ozone to recombine back, if you didn't vent the house?
mjanx123··on Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
As this article shows, it already started in the chimp-human common ancestor.
mjanx123··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
Whip them to the hamster wheel...
mjanx123··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
The refined form is unstable, a hair from an objective reality observation fluke collapsing it.

The system that persists in practice is where everybody knows how things are, but still everybody pleads to a fictional status quo, because if they did not, the others would obliterate them.

mjanx123··on Why is the sky blue?
Oxygen is blue actually. That only contributes to the sky blueness a little tho.
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