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New comment by lxmorj in "Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air"

lxmorj — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:18:30 +0000

Wouldn't (fully) burning all single-use plastics effectively make them no more long-lived and problematic than burning crude oil at sea? I know that's a low bar, but it seems like at least you're getting two uses out of them at that point...

New comment by lxmorj in "Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]"

lxmorj — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 07:14:14 +0000

Firm believer that he stole the entire thing from the book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

New comment by lxmorj in "US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F"

lxmorj — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:40:30 +0000

Why not just use a natural gas or electric heating element to heat up the air coming into the heat exchanger when it's below the operating window? In most of the US below zero is a <10 day per year issue. Sure it's terribly inefficient on those days, but I'd bet it's cheaper than maintaining an entire secondary heating system.

New comment by lxmorj in "Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?"

lxmorj — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 08:34:42 +0000

I use SignNow.com - the level of subscription I need is something like $8/mo.

However, I probably use it less than 1/3 of the months that I pay for. This is true for dozens of memberships: Adobe, Canva Pro, Netflix, HBOMax, The Economist, etc.

It'd be nice to have a service that automatically unsubscribes me after every use, but rejoins seamlessly the next time I sign in.

If I pay for a month of Netflix on Jan 1 and immediately unsubscribe, I'm good to use it until Feb 1. If I don't log in for a week, it'd pay on Feb 8th and unsubscribe again. I'd have til March 8th to watch, and I'd save ~25%. For less frequently used services I might save 50% or more this way.

New comment by lxmorj in "Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle"

lxmorj — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:17:06 +0000

Surely there are flight patterns that can minimize this risk: ie diagnostic hover at 10ft for X seconds to rule out start up failures, followed by an ascend to 500ft, flight path maintains that height, similar pause prior to descent on landing...

New comment by lxmorj in "Under the skin of OnlyFans"

lxmorj — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:11:10 +0000

I believe he is not saying the site owners are traffickers but that some OF channels could be trafficker run.

New comment by lxmorj in "A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years"

lxmorj — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 05:44:39 +0000

Saturn's captured satellites might also be the result of incidental aerobraking or whatever you want to call smashing into a bunch of very tiny satellites during a close periapsis, no?

New comment by lxmorj in "A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest"

lxmorj — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:52:54 +0000

That’s silly. A single buyer doesn’t have to buy the entire supply in one shot. They could easily say “We buy the cheapest marginal salt in any quantity until our total capacity is met. You must beat $CANADA_PRICE + $IMPORT_PRICE, as well as $NY_PRICE + $TRANSPORT_PRICE or we’ll have to buy from them instead”.

New comment by lxmorj in "The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut"

lxmorj — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:59:29 +0000

They are both collections of flawed humans. Accountability is necessary regardless of the collective noun you use.

New comment by lxmorj in "The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut"

lxmorj — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:57:04 +0000

We could maintain a few populations in labs and/or isolated areas. Inspects repopulate hella fast, so it’d be easy enough to undo such a project if we found that they were a lynchpin of some kind.

New comment by lxmorj in "NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy"

lxmorj — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:42:41 +0000

The asteroid is the reaction mass. Send a solar collector and a rail gun sled that fires bits of asteroid really fast backwards.

New comment by lxmorj in "Killer Whales: 'Transient' Orcas Are Thriving"

lxmorj — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 06:54:28 +0000

It’s an interesting alternative history idea though - what if the disease pressure was flipped but the technology was left as is?

New comment by lxmorj in "Turning desalination waste into a useful resource"

lxmorj — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:49 +0000

2/3rds power rebate on your desalination ain’t bad!

New comment by lxmorj in "'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build"

lxmorj — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:51:04 +0000

Don't forget you get 2.7% more mass per volume from the salt!

New comment by lxmorj in "Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube"

lxmorj — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 08:29:03 +0000

Is this really different than old media? Seems like all networks are biased - these are just more powerful, centralized networks.

New comment by lxmorj in "Gravity Energy Storage: Alternative to batteries for grid storage"

lxmorj — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:04:40 +0000

Nah man you make tanks down there

New comment by lxmorj in "Gravity Energy Storage: Alternative to batteries for grid storage"

lxmorj — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:03:28 +0000

Probably easier to have a hose and a balloon / reservoir of compressed air.

New comment by lxmorj in "Why Doesn’t Gravity Happen Instantly?"

lxmorj — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 05:03:59 +0000

The more I try to read about this the more unsure I am I truly understand it, so perhaps not...

New comment by lxmorj in "Why Doesn’t Gravity Happen Instantly?"

lxmorj — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 04:04:04 +0000

You can only slingshot in a direction another body is orbiting (to gain velocity). You're harvesting it's momentum, basically!

New comment by lxmorj in "You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules"

lxmorj — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:53:15 +0000

They are tried in the court of public opinion largely because it's just accepted that they will not be tried in a court of law, because no charges will be brought against them even.

There are honest cops who are impacted by the lack of trust that's created by lack of accountability. If they continue to support that lack of accountability through supporting union policy that protects good and bad cops alike, then it's a self-inflicted problem.