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by Blammar 6y ago
? I assumed the globe was to maintain a vacuum. Huh.
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by Blammar 6y ago
Another thing that may affect the probability of life in a solar system is the number of planets. More planets seem to make the planetary orbits much more circular and stable, allowing more time for life to occur and develop. This matters b
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by Blammar 6y ago
I remember leaving off the initial "I" for insert-mode a few times when writing long TECO edits. Hitting the double escape and realizing in horror that the editor was parsing my assembly language program as editor commands wasn&#x
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by Blammar 6y ago
Intelligence has developed in multiple Earth species (see crows, dolphins, etc.) Intelligence isn't what separates humans from crows. It's our ability to time bind information past our lifetime. We can use oral traditions, or writ
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by Blammar 6y ago
I am wondering how the subjects avoided oxygen toxicity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity for example.) Also, this is half of what needs to be checked. Does lengthening your telomeres have a measurable
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by Blammar 6y ago
I have read (though can't find the source) that Ramanujan had access to a black board, chalk, and just the paper in his notebooks -- no other paper. So he did his derivations and proofs on the blackboard, and just wrote down the result
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by Blammar 6y ago
Not if their opinions are of the flavor of: female genital mutilation is acceptable; there was massive election fraud in the US Nov. 3 election; the earth is flat; etc. At some point you need to draw a line.
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by Blammar 6y ago
I was agreeing with you until your next to last sentence. Sometimes you cannot respect someone else's opinions. I believe the fundamental dichotomy is that, for some of us, our opinions are not who we are. We can change our opinions a
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by Blammar 6y ago
The best tasting soft pretzels are the ones dipped in a weak solution of lye, for sure.
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by Blammar 6y ago
No one has seemed to notice the following two things: "To pave the way for the deal, SoftBank reversed an earlier decision to strip out an internet-of-things business from Arm and transfer it to a new company under its control. That wo
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by Blammar 6y ago
Oh, there are definitely interesting problems to solve. See my post below for some issues.
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by Blammar 6y ago
Hmmm. 1. So the units are actually modular, i.e., not connected. Aha. If a unit jams, it's annoying but not fatal, as all the units above it continue to be usable. 2. Since the weight units are separate, then the force on the gearing (
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by Blammar 6y ago
You'd figure they and a broken clock would be right twice a day (unless it's an electronic clock so broken means it's not showing anything...) Also, read this about Robinhood: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by Blammar 6y ago
It's $50 million. That's all. See https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/07/21/university-of-flori... for the numbers. It's probable the hardware is being offered at a deep discount. The build
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by Blammar 6y ago
Plywood has become significantly more complicated. See https://www.columbiaforestproducts.com/library/reference-gui... for example. Agreed on going to a lumberyard or specialty wood store for hardwoods. It's great
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by Blammar 6y ago
Solar energy, carbon dioxide and water directly to butanol. In other words, store solar energy directly as fuel. There are other versions that generate hydrogen, but that has a much lower energy density than liquid fuel. Just modify your ex
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by Blammar 6y ago
Possibly because they haven't read this book ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealthy_Barber ) or understood it.
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by Blammar 6y ago
I like Julia, and tried it out, then decided to wait some more. What happened was that my Julia programming environment just stopped working all by itself, with no apparent updates happening. That did not give me a warm feeling of reliabili
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by Blammar 7y ago
I'll focus on unexpected effects of climate change. 1. Insurance companies stop offering fire and hurricane insurance to forested/coastal area properties. 2. Major fires and hurricanes hit and millions of people lose everything (b
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by Blammar 7y ago
There's also General Technics, yet to be formed. A nod to whoever remembers that company.
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by Blammar 7y ago
From what I recall, their approach is mostly what you might call "special situations." That is, their analysis looks for significantly incorrectly priced items, and purchases/shorts them. The Medallion Fund is kept fairly sma
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by Blammar 7y ago
Hopefully, people are also looking at https://github.com/dgasmith/opt_einsum for ideas of what could go into a julia implementation.