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New comment by mjanx123 in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

mjanx123 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:50:35 +0000

It is fun to see the familiar Los Santos locations.

New comment by mjanx123 in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

mjanx123 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:01:50 +0000

An infinite number of hamsters running in an infinite number of hamster wheels could power a datacenter for one day.

New comment by mjanx123 in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

mjanx123 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:31:33 +0000

Thats a standard cookie cutter statement intended to give an impression of safety.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

mjanx123 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:25:24 +0000

IIRC the Asian honey bee is more resilient to mites

New comment by mjanx123 in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

mjanx123 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:50:31 +0000

> 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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Why does paper fold so well?"

mjanx123 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:54:11 +0000

Three negatively curved surfaces (saddles) mate despite not being flat. You need to rotate the surfaces also when lapping. (See the famous Robrenz video)

New comment by mjanx123 in "Why does paper fold so well?"

mjanx123 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:13:09 +0000

Paper is thin so the stretching needed to bend it is minimal

New comment by mjanx123 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mjanx123 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:04:49 +0000

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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mjanx123 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:17:33 +0000

The BMW inline 6 were the best engines ever. Their inline 4 and other are a strong contender for the worst engines ever.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mjanx123 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:10:37 +0000

It does not bond to polypropylene and other low surface energy plastics

New comment by mjanx123 in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

mjanx123 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:07:14 +0000

Will the drones at least look like Pikachu?

New comment by mjanx123 in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

mjanx123 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:40:12 +0000

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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

mjanx123 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:18:55 +0000

IIRC Microsoft has a no liability clause in its licenses. How did they react to this?

New comment by mjanx123 in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

mjanx123 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:25:11 +0000

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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:23:30 +0000

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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:44:56 +0000

The aftermarket would jump after such an opportunity in such case

New comment by mjanx123 in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:31:54 +0000

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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:29:05 +0000

- 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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

mjanx123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:05:51 +0000

> 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.

New comment by mjanx123 in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

mjanx123 — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:00:46 +0000

Nobody voted for this. People voted for the proclaimed plans , but that turned out to be lies and deception solely for getting the votes.