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by Ankaios 5y ago
What would good regulation of condos and homeowners associations look like? Are there any locales that have models that are particularly worth emulating? What do they mandate?
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by Ankaios 5y ago
Here's the paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/36074Y8aM291c462a4e264... https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04486
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by Ankaios 5y ago
What does "GitHub for Science" even mean? Personally, I think it means that the site is an attempt to centralize something that is currently decentralized.
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Ask HN: Cap Table Service Recommendations
1 points by Ankaios 5y ago|1 comments
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Rocket startup Astra to go public in race for commercial space(washingtonpost.com)
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Biden appoints geneticist Eric Lander as science adviser(sciencemag.org)
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by Ankaios 6y ago
Second blow should be a that any partially federal funded work would be required to be publicly available Federal agencies with research expenditures greater than than $100 million annually (which covers most federally funded research) ar
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by Ankaios 6y ago
Personally, I don't mind some inconvenience if language designers occasionally need to make breaking changes to allow improvements, and I've had to port enough scientific Fortran code to newer languages to limit my sympathy for po
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by Ankaios 6y ago
A major ( the major?) motivation behind Starlink is to try to earn SpaceX vast amounts of money that Musk can invest in settling Mars. See, e.g., this link for comments by Musk: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-interne
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by Ankaios 6y ago
Flying close to the Sun is hard, both because of the thermal environment and the difficulty of achieving trajectories that get close. A mission that launched two years ago, Parker Solar Probe, is actually going to get closer. Parker and Sol
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A Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19(nejm.org)
2 points by Ankaios 6y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 6y ago
NASA recently selected three teams to start development of new human lunar landers. Boeing's proposal was not one of the three selected.
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U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF(sciencemag.org)
15 points by Ankaios 6y ago|9 comments
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by Ankaios 6y ago
Sounds reasonable to me. At the same time, I think articles about potential new government policies are somewhat different than software release announcements and the like. It's usually easier to influence government policy before it&#
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Will Trump White House tear down journal paywalls? Many anxiously await decision(sciencemag.org)
15 points by Ankaios 6y ago|5 comments
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As coronavirus testing expands, a new problem arises: Not enough people to test(washingtonpost.com)
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Virus hunters rely on faxes, paper records as more states reopen(politico.com)
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by Ankaios 6y ago
That reference describes a separate antibody survey that Stanford ran on April 3 and 4. It's unrelated to great-great grandparent's test today.
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by Ankaios 6y ago
New York City's population is around 8.5 M, and more then 10,000 people there have died from from the virus so far ( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav... ). That puts the
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by Ankaios 7y ago
I tend to give each major thing I'm working on its own virtual desktop, which has a bunch of open browser and other windows. Each of the browser windows tends to have its own theme, too. (E.g. documentation for a particular framework,
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by Ankaios 7y ago
Usually probably about 1000 tabs, spread over 100 to 200 windows on 10–20 virtual desktops. (I also block Javascript by default, so Firefox still runs alright.)
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Beyond Cyberpunk(streettech.com)
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Frontier Development Lab applications open(frontierdevelopmentlab.org)
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by Ankaios 7y ago
To deal with no-show airlines, I'd be (darkly) amused if airports sold somewhat more slots than their gates could physically accommodate.
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by Ankaios 7y ago
Check to see if your House rep or either of your senators is on an appropriations committee. If so, tell them how you would like to see the appropriations for the Department of Energy, DoD, and other departments change in Fiscal Year 2020.
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by Ankaios 7y ago
Absolutely. Those sorts of anomalies happen routinely. They just tend to get less public attention than anomalies that involve fire and loud noises.
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P. gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains(advances.sciencemag.org)
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by Ankaios 8y ago
The price per seat of $58 M was actually the average over SpaceX and Boeing seats ( https://spacenews.com/nasa-boeing-spacex-share-more-details-... ), not the price for a seat on Dragon. As far as I am aware, the prices that
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by Ankaios 8y ago
Up until that point, if a rocket slowed down during takeoff something had gone horribly wrong. Just in case anyone is unaware of the most notable exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-X https://www.y
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NSF-funded publication public access requirement(nsf.gov)
3 points by Ankaios 8y ago|0 comments

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