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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But in practice what happens is people/companies make donations directly to a candidate then all of their priorities get fulfilled by the candidate even though the people that voted for the candidate don't support the issue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Depends on the crop lots of crops are still harvested by hand. Also lots of crops are destroyed by hail, heavy rains or high winds all of which are somewhat protected by solar panels above.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I never understood the hatred for crash. It's a great story great acting and great ending. I really don't see what the hate is about.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

I've heard of a male birth control every couple years and still nothing on the market. Usually it's because there are slight side effects and that's considered to much of a risk meanwhile female birth control can cause blood clots and whatnot. I'm too jaded to believe this will ever come to fruition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So it looks like for senior design classes the students don't have to be associated with projects where they lose their IP rights. But sponsors have the right to say a project will give all IP to the sponsor. I imagine how this works in practice is all external companies will require they retain IP then the professor creates additional projects where ip can be retained but these are usually canned projects solving some trivial problem that won't really allow the students to go anywhere interesting with the project. I am not saying that's the case but I remember at my undergrad and at the UC school that was the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There are graduate students unions or research assistant unions. Undergraduates (not ones working in a lab) don't work for the university they are customers. It would be like members of a gym unionizing. I guess it could happen maybe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I worked at a UC and companies retained all IP across all UCs and my undergrad school from the east coast was the same way. I've never heard of a university that let students keep their IP. I would imagine it would be hard to attract outside companies since the companies pay to be a part of the program. Can you point to a university program that allows students to retain their IP for senior design projects? I know if a student is doing a project through the school for a different class like a lab and they invent something or are volunteering the university has no claim to it but senior design is different.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (9 children)

The sad thing is the students who actually did the work will probably see no financial gain from this. Students pay to take a class and then a company pays the university for access to the students and the students ideas and work is used by a company with no financial benefit to the students. Everyone makes out except the students.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I'm furious about the genocide but I'm furious with our president not listening to 70% of Democrats and still supporting Israel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That would be awesome, any idea where you heard that, I've read other sodium based technologies have ~65%

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I didn't see anything about round trip efficiency. I've heard that's a big downside so it might make energy storage a hard sell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You mean like ores like copper, iron, rare earths that kinda thing. There are seems of minerals that are actually meteorites that have collected in certain spots on a glacier. Haven't heard anything about other large deposits but usually you would need to do all kinds of geological surveys to find that stuff and since most places are covered in 1mile+ of ice it's near impossible.

 

With the hurricane approaching and now some projections show it passing over Vegas could the hurricane fill lake Mead? Is there enough rainfall in a hurricane to fill that large of a lake.

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