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silence_kit posted:How are they making the solar cells absorb IR but allow visible light to pass through?
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JawnV6 posted:they can make hot mirror/cold mirror coatings, why would this be impossible Usually when a material absorbs IR, it absorbs visible light too. Now that you mention it, there might be a way to engineer reflectors on both sides of the cell to force IR light to make multiple round trip passes in the cell until it is absorbed, and force visible light to only make 1 pass through the absorptive cell. Then the cell could absorb IR much more strongly than visible light. edit: I just googled hot mirror coating—I’ve never heard of that before—an important distinction between a hot mirror coating and Shifty Pony’s solar cell is that the hot coating reflects the IR and does not absorb it. Shifty Pony’s solar cell needs to absorb the IR light in order to convert it into electricity. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Feb 16, 2018 |
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silence_kit posted:Usually when a material absorbs IR, it absorbs visible light too. you can get stuff that is>99.99% reflective or opaque across different bands so that shouldn’t be a problem
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prisoner of waffles posted:I guess the people who just loving love power know more about how it works, how to build it, how to use it where’s the “I loving Love Power!” Facebook page?
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the mode of separation is operating a heavy-water fission reactor I thought they used a centrifuge to get the tritiated water out of the regular water and anyway I was wondering why you would store it as tritium gas instead of heavy water
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i read that as "titrated water" and wondered why we were generating power homeopathically
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eschaton posted:where’s the “I loving Love Power!” Facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/zuck
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https://twitter.com/bobservo/status/964612218825334785
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another problem with these idealized autonomous car caravans is how they'll be hosed up as soon as some jerk human driver realizes they can weave in between as recklessly as they want and force the robot cars to do all the work of not crashing. tho i guess you could program the robot cars to record and snitch on you
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:another problem with these idealized autonomous car caravans is how they'll be hosed up as soon as some jerk human driver realizes they can weave in between as recklessly as they want and force the robot cars to do all the work of not crashing. tho i guess you could program the robot cars to record and snitch on you i was thinking if their solution is only the lead car is looking ahead, what happens when a car in the caravan blows a tire. lead car says everything's fine, maintain velocity?
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Enderzero posted:i was thinking if their solution is only the lead car is looking ahead, what happens when a car in the caravan blows a tire. lead car says everything's fine, maintain velocity? each car is supposed to be communicating with just the car immediately in front of and behind them
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hobbesmaster posted:each car is supposed to be communicating with just the car immediately in front of and behind them lol this will magically resolve traffic surging through a frantic waving of hands
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Munkeymon posted:I thought they used a centrifuge to get the tritiated water out of the regular water and anyway I was wondering why you would store it as tritium gas instead of heavy water heavy water contains deuterium, not tritium.
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https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/964368777277157381 https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/964408867634397184
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san francisco, realm of the landed tech-gentry.
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lol https://twitter.com/Ana1Sima/status/964410921786331137 *gesturing wildly at chart* This. Explains. Everything!!! 
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/964368777277157381 new york times does a column every like month that will be "houses that sold for around 450k" or "houses that sold for around 500k" like this https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/...type=collection compare the apartments/condos/houses they're showing sold for those prices with what that money would get you in the bay area, and how much closer it is all is to where people work than what you'd get in the bay
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damore's nlrb claim got rejected hard “the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected.” quote:Damore’s memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” contended that Google’s diversity efforts were misplaced because they ignored women’s biologically driven disinterest in technology. It includes many claims, which have previously been dissected in detail online. But Sophir focuses specifically on Damore’s “statements about immutable traits linked to sex — such as women’s heightened neuroticism and men’s prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution.” These statements were “discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment, notwithstanding [Damore’s] effort to cloak [his] comments with ‘scientific’ references and analysis,” she writes. Moreover, she says Google “carefully tailored” its reasons for firing Damore, limiting them to unprotected portions of the memo.
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ITT: a Hackernews reinvents nuclear engineering from first principles
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fishmech posted:new york times does a column every like month that will be "houses that sold for around 450k" or "houses that sold for around 500k" like this those are so much nicer than anything you could get here for that price lol
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qirex posted:damore's nlrb claim got rejected hard i hope this made the news hard enough for his long-suffering gf to finally dump him
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i hope this made the news hard enough for his long-suffering gf to finally dump him why? google is going to quietly give him his job back and he'll be on wingnut welfare the rest of his life, they're set lol if you think she's still with him for any reason other than financial ones
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We are in Mountain View, home to Google’s headquarters. Damore’s girlfriend has agreed to meet only after being assured that, like her, I disagree with her boyfriend’s views. She does not want to be identified or directly quoted: she is keen to remain in the shadows. Damore, meanwhile, has appeared to bask in the attention; in the months since he left Google, he has become a commentator on political issues that extend well beyond the tech industry, becoming one of the most polarising figures in Silicon Valley.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:We are in Mountain View, home to Google’s headquarters. Damore’s girlfriend has agreed to meet only after being assured that, like her, I disagree with her boyfriend’s views. She does not want to be identified or directly quoted: she is keen to remain in the shadows. Damore, meanwhile, has appeared to bask in the attention; in the months since he left Google, he has become a commentator on political issues that extend well beyond the tech industry, becoming one of the most polarising figures in Silicon Valley. odd that the characters “ex” do not appear in front of girlfriend. typo?
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I don't think he was working on anything particularly valuable so I see no upside to rehiring him but nice sexism
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he very specifically wasn't working on anything valuable, after 5 years, which is why he was so loving salty to begin with
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that is a very misogynist thing to say, Unquoteable One.
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they'll rehire him because they only fired him for pr reasons not because they think he did anything wrong, if anything they'll rehire him as a consultant on how to better conceal their white supremacy it's also pretty tremendously sexist to suggest his girlfriend is staying with him because she's somehow fooled or otherwise coerced by him, give her some credit, she's probably smart enough to know a gravy train when she sees one
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thread’s moving closer and closer to silicon valley fan fiction.
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hahaha yeah women are whores amirite 
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lol if you think google isn't already stacked to the rafters with untalented ivy league white dudes and they need help from the one dumb enough to codify his sexism and racism into writing
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johnny cabs are go in phoenix
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remember, engaging with a stymie is haraam
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Sapozhnik posted:hahaha yeah women are whores amirite i dunno, maybe i just don't see anything wrong with her profiting from his wingnut windfall and then punching out when she's had enough i guess she's just a poor innocent naif who needs the wisdom of us
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Maybe he's just a beast in the sack, don't presume to know her motivations.
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one thing's for sure, she needs a man to sit her down and tell her the folly of her ways since she very clearly doesn't understand and can't be trusted to make her own decisions
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relationships and the dynamics thereof are a deeply personal and varied subject and it would absolutely not be my place to speculate about a person's reasons for being romantically involved with another person, especially since they have given no indication that the relationship is in any way an abusive one. of course our local tedious straw progressive troll immediately leaps to a cynical, dishonest, and financially-motivated explanation for a hitherto-unintroduced woman's actions, despite having no evidence to support this accusation whatsoever. obviously it is because he is that much woker than us and not because he is actually a knuckle-dragging woman-hating fuckwit once you peel back the flimsy mask
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it could be any number of reasons. know one here knows. there’s the logical conclusion to this conversation. god bless.
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well we know one thing: it couldn't possibly be for money, because women who care about money are like unto prostitutes
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don’t use my voice of reason as part of one of your twisted rhetorical plots, stymie.!
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