For the same reason that saltwater can remain separate from fresh water, or even hot water and cold water - diffusion is typically a slow process, particularly if you do not stir, or otherwise mix the substances.

Consider this: drop a single drop of food dye into a glass of water. There’s no way the entire glass immediately turns into the relevant colour, it takes time for the molecules to move about.

Superconducting magnets don’t heat up naturally, not without breaking. All we’d need to do, is engineer an isolated environment for the magnet, and there’ll be no chance of it heating up, except maybe for an intense solar storm overwhelming it’s magnetic shield.

Unlike earth, where there are multiple potential sources of heat, in space the only one of note is the sun. So yes, you can’t remove heat via conduction or convection, but that also means that you can’t gain heat from it. If anything, that simplifies the design.

The energy requirements for keeping a magnet out of the sun at all times, is probably considerably less than powering a conventional electromagnet for the equivalent duration.

We’ve already achieved this on the extreme end via the new horizons probe, I’m not sure what all the fuss is about.

We could maybe make superconducting magnets strong enough to create a field to reduce the charged particles, but then you have to keep them powered

The superconducting magnets you describe, do not require ongoing power, only ongoing cooling. Which in space, is more manageable.

LCDs are designed to filter out extremely specific types of light, and in a specific direction.

It’s true that the changing optical properties of each crystal could affect the albedo, but whether white or black is more effective is beyond my knowledge. It might even be neither, but green instead.

No, and not because the effect is in any way small.

It is because a phone screen producing white light, looks white because it is actively generating white looking light. Compared to white paint, which looks white not because it generates its own light, but reflects other light, these are two different mechanisms for making things look ‘white’.

Your phone has a brightness setting, to keep ‘white’ the exact same shade of white despite whatever viewing condition you have. A white paint does not, and as a result, looks different depending on the amount of light in the room.

So in your hypothetical, a white phone screen won’t reflect less light as you presuppose - it’ll generate more heat internally - unless you cover the screen with white paint.

Interesting concept, but not very scalable. It’s basically a reversed dam - when it’s full, there’s 0m head of water. Then with excess energy, you lower the level inside, storing the energy in the water outside. E.g -2m head. Water then flows in to equalise head, and doing so, regenerates electricity. Adding depth to supercharge pressure differentials is a good idea, although I wonder how they limit the flow rate, or otherwise prevent cavitation shocks each cycle.

Could be useful as a private industrial battery, but a dam would still be better on an infrastructural level.

The comic is out for preorder now as a hard copy too! (it’s already available free online)

Before an instance does something malicious, how do you know it will be malicious?

Even if everyone there running it, & participating is pure of heart, how can you be assured that haXXors won’t simply break in to take advantage of that trust you’ve given them?

Banning bad instances is a reactive stance that only applies after damage has been done. Can you convince the corporate overlords to take that risk? And it only increases as the fediverse gets more popular, and more instances get trusted.

Yes and no.

Decentralized IDs exist, but will almost never be accepted by any large reputable institution.

Why trust every indie site to be 100% truthful, and definitely not full of malicious haXXors?

Paraphrasing a bit from the scientific source:

If the population of Canada used email signatures for a year, ~30 people in developing countries will suffer a premature death within the next 100 years.

That 100% should have been in the article in some clear form or another.

I’m not against the points of the article, I’m against it being so poorly written that AI slop is just as good.

Why not post that link instead of AI slop then?

This is AI slop.

Anytime you do something good, you lose something of yours in doing so, be it time, attention, wealth, etc. Having good done to you, you only gain.

That being said, good acts, and evil outcomes are not transactions, and thinking about it that way only leads to the belief that life is a zero sum game.

Sure society full of Evils exists, but they’re not stable. Do you want to live in such a society? Or do you want to live in one where the people do good?

Obviously you’re thinking of living in a good society, but then not contributing your part - but that’s how a society slowly turns Evil, from the absence of Good. You can try chasing the good society, but as more good societies see your non-existent good acts, the harder it will be for you to join.

The point is that you’d also like to have good things done to you.

It really depends on how much you have to do, to be considered as doing ‘good’. Do you consider returning a shopping trolley as a good act? It’s a simple, small act that you do have to go out of your way to accomplish, and it brings some utility to others, which you might unknowingly be a recipient of.

That’s not to say you’re expected to return every trolley in the carpark, or that all the evil corporations are actively trying to exploit this for free labour.

Society requires that people do good to exist, while continued Evils tend to slowly destroy their community.

This really depends on your tap water; in some places tap water is clean enough to work, but it seems yours is not. If you want something to just set and forget, you’ll probably need to do more localised research. E.g Hardness, turbidity, etc.

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One of the defining properties of 0 is that anything multiplied by it results in 0.

So in your operation, without being given the actual result, I’d say no, the question is ill-defined.

Well, yes.

It doesn’t have to be a technical feature though.

Why would you sign up for more than one to begin with?

If it’s got a good new feature, audience, promise of service, or something to distinguish it from shouting into the void.