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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
Huh - very interesting! Now I am going to have to calculate this for myself! Seems that (r_d/(theta_e z))^2 P t_p ~ 100 hv (~100 photons at 3 GHz; a single 3GHz photon is about 2e-24 J) I'll drop this to 1 photon below. Where r_d
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
>Earth's television and radio broadcasts would only be detectable at distances up to 0.3 light-years, less than 1/10 the distance to the nearest star. This is what I always thought was one of the major problems - unless an alie
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
I highly recommend Whitaker's "The New Quantum Age" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-new-quantum-age-... for (what I think is) the fascinating history of Bell's Theorem and the subse
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
>He also famously rejected quantum mechanics due to his philosophical beliefs, which many consider a slight stain on his legacy. The stain comes from the distortion of what others have interpreted as Einstein's "rejection"
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
Depends on the application - each battery technology has a trade-off between energy density, cost, lifetime, safety, scalability, etc. Sodium may have a place in grid storage, although iron-air is being deployed today and is even cheaper an
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
The article gives the technical reasons that answer the headline question (e.g. potential for better energy density) I am surprised they didn't point out the literal "killer app" - military drones. Energy density is king for
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
>It sounds like you believe that DNA contamination in the manufacturing process >would leave the body rapidly and they are saying that it sits around in >exosomes for much longer based on their observed specimen. No. The ori1/
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 2mo ago
Just going to lay this here: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2016/06/13/profit-ibm IBM went seven decades without layoffs. Yes, part of that was the unique situation of post WWII America. But read TJ
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3mo ago
This is a good summary of why it is so hard to make a wrist-watch device to monitor glucose (without the little needles of the current commercial, accurate, continuous monitoring devices.) I remember people talking about optical and IR dete
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3mo ago
Brandolini's law is strong in this one. Let me pick one thing: their main (we-found-alien-life-level) claim that they detected vaccine-derived mRNA and non-functional fragments of the artificial plasmid DNA used in vaccine manufacturin
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3mo ago
Lest anyone take this seriously - the above link is a case study of a single person who appears to have had Covid and other health issues for years. The authors in NO WAY establish that their detection of Covid spike proteins and immune res
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3mo ago
This is a molecular dynamics (with a specific TIP4 water model) and AI. I would characterize this paper (and basically most MD/AI simulation) as "guided hypothesis generation". I am skeptical that this result will hold up to
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3mo ago
That's a quote from Corey Doctorow, not Sarah Wynn-Williams. I read her book. She was pretty careful to use your language (i.e., that it was offered, but not implemented, and was China-only data from what she related. Not that that is
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3mo ago
For me, the most intuitive explanation is that: Force = change in momentum with time Energy = Force x distance Now consider how much energy can be dissipated by a tiny change in momentum over a small distance dx, when we are at a given velo
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 3mo ago
>All I do is read books, paint, fix-up the house, tend to the garden, play boardgames, and generally do things that require me to be present when at home with my wife and child, rather than in someone else's version of the world And
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
As "cool" as this vehicle is, I have a hard time seeing it make much progress in the market beyond a novelty. It's basically a covered 3-wheel motorcycle, and that rear wheel is going to hit every piece of road debris that 4-
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
"The digital commons of 2026 is defined by its grifters. So it's not purely tech's fault that its now seen as a sort of avenue for getting rich quick and amorally" I am not so sure I agree with this take. The "nerds
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
To quote good old Chester Karass ( https://www.amazon.com/Business-Life-Dont-Deserve-Negotiate/... ): you get what you negotiate. In an ideal world, people are compensated according to their contributions (and when hired
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
Of course - at founding, if $20M goes into the company at $1 per share, and the CEO gets a 10% equity stake (usually subject to restrictions), then the CEO has $2M on paper (or will have after possible vesting.) Real money in this case cam
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
He was talking about an equity stake in a start-up. Although on paper it is worth $2M, it is (probably) not liquid (i.e, the shares can't be traded easily, maybe at all.) The vast majority of founders don't literally spend $2M fro
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
That is the drawback - sometimes important calls come from someone not in my contacts (like an emergency where someone borrowed a phone, or a contractor trying to call you.) Still, the beauty of voice mail is that, if the caller is really t
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
This is basically where I (and I imagine many others) have landed with the telephone. Anyone not in my contacts goes to voice mail. Made my phone usable again.
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
OK we are really nerding out here but I just can't resist :) The propelled blade weapon doesn't need a control system in the "shape of a human mind" to be effective. A very simple control system would work. If they have
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
The 5 threats: 1. Unreliable results True for human generated results too - how many "proofs" of Fermat's Last Theorem were proposed then discarded when a mistake was found, before Wiles? 2. Lack of proper attribution and vio
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
>What good are drones, except as weapons of assassination? Can't use them in an conventional war, there are shields. Presumably a drone could get close enough to push a blade through the shield (maybe use a rocket booster or some ot
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
The Bene Gesserit tried to solve alignment through their breeding schedule, but Lady Jessica threw a wrench into it by bearing a son (Paul) out of love for Duke Leto. Paul wasn't aligned with the Bene Gesserit, and hilarity ensued. So
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
It's not Georgia. It's Georgia.
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
Sure - having raised kids myself, and never once hitting them, there are lots of ways to memorably punish a kid. First and foremost, kids really respond when their parents get upset. They remembered when I was visibly angry with something t
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
>As you point out, if they designed this thing in the late 1970s, there is no >reason for those giant arrays of drill holes. Yeah, this was precisely what my original question was about. Weird claims in this thread - we had multilayer
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 4mo ago
Actually no. I don't remember parents actually hitting their kids, even in the 1970's. And this was a very rust-belt working class environment.

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