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There was a funny but insightful take about how Factorio is about a colonizing force going to a planet and taking all of it's natural resources while suppressing all the native inhabitants and how the player identifies with this evil e
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Yes, it was Tim Roscoe's one.
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> there is no $100 mil to $1 bil investment that can return what he got out of starting his current business, which wasn't a political donation. Numerous startups turned $1 mil into $1 bil. But nobody yet turned $1 bil into $1 tri
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Yes, the Bitcoin Maximalists which are based, red-pilled, on carnivore diet, gun totting, rolling coal, ... One of them (Tone Vays) even participated in the Stop the Steal marches and Jan 6 riots.
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There was a great talk I can't find right now about how the share of computer hardware that it's directly controlled by the OS kernel keeps on shrinking. In a modern smartphone, the OS directly controls just one of a dozen chips.
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I agree with you that PoW is the biggest threat to Bitcoin and that it will be the thing that takes it down, if not solved. But it's irrelevant, the community is already stuck in this place.
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It will not happen. The Bitcoin lobby is already to strong in the US. Crypto firms are among the top Democrat donors. Crypto CEO SBF plans on donating $100mil - $1bil in the 2024 election, and calls political donation the highest form of re
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If you're using fibers it's assumed you know what your doing.
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Victim of shared state, not shared libraries. You can change floating point modes dynamically, and it's commonly done, and then it doesn't matter if the library was dynamically or statically linked.
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At this rate, soon each switch will have a programmable controller inside, and you'll have drivers adjusting them as you type. Thought idea: predict what key you are about to press next, and make the ones around it stiffer so you are l
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I have a 5yo Cherry MX keyboard, and the rarely used keys (Scroll Lock, Pause, numpad) have a somewhat more defined feeling when they actuate than the most commonly used ones. The difference is subtle, but it's there.
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Could you hide a bone-conducting bluetooth speaker in your big hair? This way the computer could speak the instructions and confirm the inputs. How about the controls being inside your mouth at the top. The tongue is very agile. But it migh
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Because G7 is afraid of Russia splintering into 10 nuclear republics. This is well covered by various analysts. So G7 wants a soft "landing".
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China increased US gas imports to record levels, after the war started. US is now the biggest exporter of LNG gas to China: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
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> yet they are not willing to negotiate Negociate what? Russia has stated multiple times that the only negotiation offer they accept is the complete surrender of Ukraine: > Russia vowed on Tuesday its assault on Ukraine would conti
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The chain requires some pretty fine engineering. Arguably jewelry makers had it.
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> remote controls that weigh several kilograms That would require either very expensive metals, or a giant remote control. But something like this is already done - a lot of people use leg weights as an extra in the gym.
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> None of that applies to music. But how would we know that? People thought music was figured out and then atonal music was invented/discovered/re-discovered (whatever you prefer). We are somewhat speaking about different thi
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What's the penalty if you make an instrument tuned to A=442? Do you get dragged to the Hague International Criminal Court?
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There is more to music than just physical instruments. In popular commercial music you do literally have a different instrument (synth setup) for each song. But even if we talk about guitars and saxophones, I was speaking about AIs which di
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> 2020: UK National Cyber Security Centre: Figure 1 shows that NameCheap became the most popular host of UK government-themed phishing during 2020. By December 2020 we found that it hosted in excess of 60% of phishing in this category.
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Song gets into Billboard Top 100? Song view count on YouTube? And for earlier stages you can have human raters or similarity with past successful songs.
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Instead of just accusing that journal of being a paper mill and summarily blocking it, we look for face saving way of filtering papers. Because in science it's totally forbidden to accuse someone of deliberate fraud. You always must fi
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In Go, and Chess, there are a number of "rules": you should never do this (move the same chess piece twice in the opening), you should do that, ... And then AlphaGo appeared and dismissed all this and did just the right thing for
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> Looking for a change of scene? > Russia’s “beautiful women, cheap gas, and traditional values” await you, according to a bizarre new video shared by a Russian embassy. > The 53 second clip urges foreigners to “move to Russia
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According to this theory the price of energy should be the same in all of Europe, since it's the same mandated price. But it's not according to article graph.
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If that were true the price difference would be quickly arbitraged away by energy traders. They would buy this "cheap" energy you speak of and sell it at the "inflated" market price, thus converging them to the same pric
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There are regular train/truck transports with much more dangerous and volatile chemicals than lithium.
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> Unlike C++ the C language takes its freestanding mode seriously You can easily implement a stack allocated C++ string: https://forums.4fips.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1075 You can also wrap a const char* in a string_v
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Fermi's quote is not acceptable for publication in Nature according to these new guidelines because he centered on the "men" privileged group and excluded "woman, non-binaries, ..." non-privileged groups.

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