CGMthrowaway

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by CGMthrowaway 2mo ago
Fun fact, Anglo American is a British company, founded by a German Jew, with a South African CEO. The company name reflects where the startup capital came from.
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by CGMthrowaway 2mo ago
These apheresis machines are removing microplastics and PFCs, but that is a byproduct of their process. They are not TARGETING these molecules, nor do we have a reliable way of doing so without also filtering every other molecule of similar
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by CGMthrowaway 2mo ago
The comic doesn't answer the question "how many energy slaves is 100 horsepower?" but based on the assumptions therein, the answer is 4,706 energy slaves.
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by CGMthrowaway 2mo ago
Seconding this. I particularly love how clear his POV on design is. Put simply, he believes good design (and technology) boils down to doing more with less. Others have written in reply that ephemeralization as he calls it (doing more wit
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Cultural Capital and the Productivity of Ideas: Evidence from Historical Texts [pdf](st-andrews.ac.uk)
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by CGMthrowaway 2mo ago
Here is the revised post title that follows ASD‑STE100 Simplified Technical English rules: "Agent Skill to Enforce ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English in Documents"
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Cooking for Engineers - Recipe Infographics(coolinfographics.squarespace.com)
1 points by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago|0 comments
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Interact With Real Robots(robots.online)
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The Varangian Guard(en.wikipedia.org)
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
Why did people downvote this? Virginia, Rhode Island, DC and Puerto Rico public schools all mandate the HPV vaccine for kids, regardless of sexual activity. Many people think it's a good idea and this may be a good idea also.
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
Yes, just like cow farts.
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
We are doing a lot. Almost 90% of electricity capacity added last year was renewables. Nearly 1 in 3 cars sold are now EVs. The world is spending over $2 trillion every year on low‑carbon energy investment. Solar and wind have already avoid
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The Irony of Technology: As Technology Increases We Suck More at Craft(brenthull.substack.com)
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
That's because many (most?) LLM chatbots were pre-trained by Kenyan ESL people
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
Missing one of my favorite in USA which I will not mention here because it is unofficially open to the public and i don't want that to change...
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
The folly is thinking that getting hiring right is the solution at all. As has been pointed out a) leaders matter, b) the difference in impact between great and mediocre/poor leadership is massive, c) even if you hire a great leader yo
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
>this is all downstream of structural incentives You are mostly right and the structural incentives are more related at root to unsustainable national debt than any legislative choice (unless that's what you were referring to)
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Conversation Stenography: Hide secret messages in normal looking conversations(github.com)
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
At age 22, FLW was specially trained, working at the equivalent of a frontier AI lab (the most important architect in Chicago) and in the most booming city at the time (Chicago, especially where construction was concerned- due to the Great
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
TLDR, use lime mortar not portland cement. And don't use rebar. Also- modern concrete is not waterproof... requires sealant
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
FLW created the times
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
> Is it useful? No Seems like it might have some use thwarting Ring/Flock/etc cameras within a specific proximity. It's giving major "They Live" vibes.
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New Clues on Colorectal Cancer Among Young Adults(microwavenews.com)
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
Salmon canning in Alaska was many people's ticket/gateway to that romantic state. If you were a climbing or ski bum or fishing bum type of guy, it was a great but grueling gig that would grant you access to the best outdoors spots
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Touchscreens at Risk: A Practical Side-Channel Phone Attack via EM Emanations(arxiv.org)
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
How about > 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog > 20x stronger than a human jaw > as strong as the jaws of a great white shark ?
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Are Memories Transferable – Or Edible?(quantamagazine.org)
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
If anything he would be for tightening it, but I suspect his role is less about being a vote one way or the other. The value he brings is in his data, knowledge & analyses - which he surely has from the Fed - on the scope and extent of
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/policytools.ht...
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by CGMthrowaway 3mo ago
Not quite. "Notably, in 1974, Federal Reserve chair Arthur Burns felt it necessary to make clear that high nominal interest rates would need to continue “for a time” as an anti-inflation measure;" "A later chair, Paul Volcker

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