Pennies are copper clad zinc. The standard (AA) battery is zinc-carbon, and alkaline (zinc-manganese) batteries have zinc too. If zinc was all that toxic we've have a lot more than zinc-bromide battery fires to worry about.
... the fact that hydrogen escapes through solids
This discovery is actually bad news for hydrogen, since it was hoped that pure graphene was impermeable to hydrogen. Apparently the theory that postulated impermeability was wrong.
If I understand correctly, that means there's an address that owns 111,000 bitcoins, and that no one else is claiming ownership of it, or simply transferring the coins to a different address. I could understand a few blocks being mined and not claimed, but 111,000?
Assuming they don't belong to the alleged fraudster, does that mean those coins have been lost entirely?
Still relevant https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/teu2k/car_stereo_i_wanted_10_years_ago_vs_the_one_i/
In my car, I like the built in speakers, and don't care about the rest.
I'd much prefer a standardized slot/harness, so I can easily go to someone other than the dealer and get what I want.
Some countries banned copy machines.
I'm sure it reduced copyright violations, but I still think it was a bad idea.
The value of a machine that can make a metal part from a design I download from the internet is very high.
There's no reasonable way to police it. Proving that is sort of the point of the Ghost Gunner.
Rather than try and legislate reality, I'd rather lawmakers accept that CnC machines exist and people can do things with them they don't like.
The machine is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
The purpose of the second amendment isn't to increase safety.
How would that even work in practice? Payment processors don't have an exhaustive list of every service provider, up to date contractual listings and points of contact for negotiation and terminating such contracts. Heck, many such things would be impossible to even provide for small businesses in the first place.
How do they know it's okay to charge you periodically if they aren't keeping track of that information?
Do they just accepting the word of a random company that someone asked to be charged?
They don't have to know everything about every contract, they already allow you to pay once, they just need to add an option that allows you to make that payment repeatedly, for a fixed amount of time, or until you cancel.
Another place that "Financial service" companies have dropped the ball.
Subscriptions are things that happen often enough that payment processors should have a process for signing up for them, and for canceling them.
I.e. When I want to cancel, I should be able to talk to VISA, not Comcast.
It doesn't have to be easy, but it shouldn't be up to the producer to decide how hard it is.
The melt value pennies dimes and quarters is far more than 1/100th of their face value. More like 20%-60%.
The melt value of a nickel is more than a nickel.
If I want to watch Outlander, I don't really care who delivers it to my TV.
Britannia is not a substitute.
I care about price and convenience, not HBO vs. Netflix.
Costs for a streaming service used to be dominated by bandwidth. Bandwidth costs plummeted, and that changed.
The first "streaming service" middleman who charges only a small fee to connect the people who create video directly to the people who watch video will crush all the others.
And frankly, good riddance to the others.
I'd much rather pay Mutant Zombie productions directly for the stuff they make.
I'm okay with paying a small fee to the agent who handles collecting the money and delivering the content, but again, it's about price and convenience.
Back when bandwidth was expensive, the companies that could stream made decent money.
Streaming isn't the big profit center anymore, and it never will be again.
Netflix knows this, that's why they're busy making content, trying to become a content producer.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factor was "a giant stratified micro society, of levels" and came before either.
Snowpiercer was just a sequel, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX52h1TvuA
Nope. Unless you think 1/4 is roughly 3/4.
Check out https://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/ and try 224m in radius (.27 miles in diameter)
Hard drives are being destroyed because after a few years they're too small to be useful, even if they were as reliable as a new drive (which they aren't).
Add in the risk of data leaking, and old drives become less than worthless.
It might be possible to engineer drives with (relatively) easy to remove platters.
That way, we could could recycle the rest of the drive and still be confident that the data was unrecoverable.
But I doubt they'd be economical even so -- it would probably increase the cost more than you'd get for the scrap.
Reddit is a middleman.
Middlemen can add value, but frequently do not.
Reddit is not an exception.
There is some very reasonable logic in zoning
The reason used to be explicitly stated, but then the SCOTUS decided (Buchanan v. Warley 1917) that you couldn't be that blatant in your racism.
Zoning still does essentially the same thing, it's just more stealthy about it.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
