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Comment Re:Spoiler alert (Score 1) 87

Interesting.

I'm building a solar battery from LTO cells and am now wondering about adding a simple square driver.

Gotta see if they're NMC or not. 20,000 cycle rating natively might go to 40,000?

Quote:
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The length of relaxation period was
the same as current pulse, resulting in a Duty Ratio of 50% under PC charg-
ing. The average current for all three charging modes were kept the same
(1C, i.e., 2.2 A), thus the current during PC charging (2C, i.e., 4.4 A) was
twice as large as that during CC charging.
```

Comment Re:Do people realize this is nuclear energy? (Score 1) 41

> Only the Soviets were so uncaring for public safety to build a nuclear power plant like that,

Years ago a commenter here claimed to have been involved with Chernobyl and the way it went down is that a grad student in nuclear engineering wanted to run his pet theory experiment on the Chernobyl reactor.

Everybody said no up and down the chain.

Bu his father was high up in the Politburo and ordered it.

Soviets do what they're told.

It sounds plausible enough that a smart researcher could probably find the father and son from records.

Comment Current Fad Explains Fermi Paradox (Score 1) 315

If you follow this subject long enough it is obvious that this pattern will replay.

Ten years ago it was nanotechnology that explained the Fermi Paradox.

Next decade it might be psychedelics or something.

However

> and the total lack of evidence that they do exist

That is false. There is an embargo on scientifically statistically significant evidence in the public domain (go ahead and try to FOIA it - say Nimitz/Princeton, and see what you get - it's been denied repeatedly).

The existing eyewitness testimony would win any civil or criminal court case.

Hynek reassessed based on this.

Comment Re:isn't that already possible? (Score 1) 31

Can your F-Droid download and install with one click like Play Store (without root)?

Can it install security updates for you (without root)?

Some people may not known that F-Droid can compete with Play Store but only if you're rooted to bypass anticompetitive restrictions Google places on users to ensure its market is dominant.

Regular users take risks by having to patch manually. Everybody already knows that rarely works so auto-updates are the industry standard.

Comment Re:Were there DMCA notices? (Score 1) 70

The case revolves around subscribers who received repeated notices but they allegedly never stopped their infringements and cox never disconnected them. This was a problem because the DMCA has language about repeat infringement, strikes, and removal/disconnection but doesn't specify what qualifies as infringement or how many strikes is too many.

The jury seemed to decide that accusations qualify as infringement, and whatever number of strikes was considered "reasonable" was largely ignored since cox allegedly didn't ever disconnect anyone and maybe wasn't even tallying how many "strikes" individual subscribers received.

To my understanding cox was following the law regarding passing on strikes/warnings to subscribers, but as the alleged infringement was temporal in nature there's nothing to takedown. It does seem that the courts just passed interpreting the extremely poorly written law onto a jury which might be the only group of people less qualified than the congresscritters who wrote it.

Comment Re:A great mind (Score 1) 28

Real physics went dark, man.

I was following a very promising gravity research Postdoc on LinkedIn who then announced a job he got at Lockheed and then his profile disappeared.

Academics play with math and pretend it's getting closer to reality.

This guy was full professor material but he chose to be a physicist instead.

Even arXive will blacklist you if you publish on antigravity, new energy, anti-Dark Matter, or anti-Big Bang.

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