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by Barrera 4y ago
It's easy to lose sight of this in the amazing images: > In a dream come true for exoplaneteers, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has demonstrated its unprecedented ability to analyze the atmosphere of a planet more than 1,000 ligh
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by Barrera 4y ago
This is an evergreen story. The actors change, but it's the same play over and over again. Roughly once every four years. People with addiction problems and their influencer-enablers find "crypto" and go absolutely apeshit ov
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Homebuyers cancel deals at the highest rate since start of the pandemic(cnbc.com)
3 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
What's not production ready about Bevy?
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by Barrera 4y ago
Have the cultural undercurrents that made the franchise popular in the first place abated at all?
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Macau shuts down casinos following Covid outbreak(bbc.com)
2 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
The article kind of dances around the cause. It suggests that the war might have something to do with it. Then it pivots to the ECB being "behind the curve" on raising interest rates in the face of sky-high inflation. The higher b
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by Barrera 4y ago
In a nutshell, for added stability back when it was thought that BART tracks would follow the lower deck of the Golden Gate Bridge: > Michael Healy, a BART historian and the former BART Director of Public Affairs, believes the use of the
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Georgia Guidestones(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Barrera 4y ago|1 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
The article does not even mention long range attacks in which large portions of the block chain are rewritten. This is made extremely hard in Bitcoin through proof-of-work. To rewrite history you must re-do all of the work, which means you
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Validators fulfill various functions in blockchains, including the creation of transaction blocks and the updating of data oracles. Ronin uses a so-called “proof of authority” system for signing transactions, concentrating power in the
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by Barrera 4y ago
> In theory, developing nations like El Salvador are ideal candidates for cryptocurrency adoption. More than half its citizens rely exclusively on cash, rather than credit or debit cards. Some 70 percent of households have no bank accoun
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by Barrera 4y ago
The article is vague about the identities of the elements. They tend to occur together, but some are way more valuable than others. Cerium, for example, is considered a "rare earth" but is not that rare at all: > Cerium is the
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Thechikottukavu Ramachandran(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Barrera 4y ago
> A cryptocurrency lender backed by Peter Thiel and Coinbase Global Inc. suspended withdrawals, trading and deposits on its platform, citing volatile market conditions and financial difficulties facing key business partners. > The pla
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by Barrera 4y ago
Those turtlenecks. Anyway, the article mentions: > He [chief product officer] said the company was "very well funded" with no liquidity problems. While he noted that its 2022 financial results were "below budget," he
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Germany has recorded its first monthly trade deficit [€1bn] since 1991 [the year of reunification] amid soaring inflation and supply chain disruption weighing on the country’s industrial base. Then from Wikipedia: > In 2016, Germany
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by Barrera 4y ago
> I’d like to learn whichever language will make me a “better” coder in the long term. Since the goal is to learn rather than to get stuff done, I suspect Rust will give you far more bang for the buck. If you're arrived at TypeScrip
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by Barrera 4y ago
Make sure that any unresolved issues between you and your partner have been resolved. Time to work on your marriage evaporates when you make that trip the the hospital. Actually, it starts fading some time before.
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by Barrera 4y ago
You didn't mention anything she's interested in currently. Whatever it is follow it, no matter how frivolous or irrelevant to future success these may seem. Participate. Really jump into it in an unreasonable way. Things your chil
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by Barrera 4y ago
> On June 28, the controversial author, clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto lost access to most of his Twitter account features because of a tweet he posted earlier in the week that used transgender
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by Barrera 4y ago
I'm wondering if the last sentence from the abstract is more of a holy grail than the conversion of methane to methanol: > ... The confinement of mono-iron hydroxyl sites in a porous matrix demonstrates a strategy for C–H bond activ
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Over the last two years I’ve been on over 120 dates with men I’ve met online - a few I met in person - in 3 different cities . What was wrong with them? What common patterns (if any stand out)? If this were a StackOverflow question abo
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by Barrera 4y ago
> It has already shrunk by two-thirds since the 1980s, from around 8,547 square kilometres to just 2,590, US Geological Survey data from last summer shows. The article mentions Owens Lake in CA. Not nearly as well-known but much more sub
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by Barrera 4y ago
Quite a shock to see Niels Bohr staring at me from that page. He's a towering figure in atomic theory.
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by Barrera 4y ago
> We are in discussions with various parties regarding additional liquidity and the go-forward strategy for the company. While we don’t have anything else to share today, we are working diligently and hope to have more information to sha
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by Barrera 4y ago
> “We know that teenagers are the most sleep-deprived age group, and the cause is our own public policy,” said Joy Wake, who helped lead the efforts of the “Start School Later” group in California. I really doubt that. Sleep deprivation
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by Barrera 4y ago
The story doesn't discuss what's causing this, but another story in Rolling Stone has a plausible lead: > “They [company] were kind of implicating the customer in not cooking them correctly, but I definitely did because I cook
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by Barrera 4y ago
> While some of what that means for California remains to be seen, parts of the process have already begun, including the steady decline of the Colorado River. Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir which is located along that river,
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by Barrera 4y ago
There's way too much theory and not nearly enough experiment in this writeup. I still don't know what happens if I put two glasses of water, one at room temperature and the other at 100 C, into a freezer and determine which one fr

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