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by ISL 4y ago
Precisely why I left it un-referenced :).
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by ISL 4y ago
The wind you feel today probably has a meaningful supernova component.
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by ISL 4y ago
It is hard. In a nearby field, I once spent a few months characterizing a high-precision mechanical high-vacuum pressure sensor, astounded that nobody else had done similar work many decades prior. Turns out I was missing a critical keyword
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by ISL 4y ago
"I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I
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by ISL 4y ago
A drug addict with a $14T GDP. With ~7M deaths and a ~$1-10M value of human life [1], that's $7-70T in losses in lives alone, before lost productivity and economic value. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_
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by ISL 4y ago
If it was released from a lab, no matter whether or not it was accidental, Covid would be the mother of all torts. The entire planet can show harm and will be very interested in recovering their losses from the entity that mis-handled a
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by ISL 4y ago
Medical officials selling in March 2020 makes, um, sense? The pandemic's potential for destruction was massively clear to medical-professionals by mid-February. It is easy to believe that those making the trades were acting primarily
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by ISL 4y ago
Find a good and ambitious copyright attorney with some free capacity. Also, register your code with the copyright office. Edit: Apparently, with the #1 post on HN right now, you could also just go here: https://githubcopilotinves
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by ISL 4y ago
*Poisson. (the spelling matters here)
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by ISL 4y ago
The idea was to bootstrap a community of blockchain processors (miners) into existence. Once all the coins are gone, the transaction fees will remain.
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by ISL 4y ago
Seems more like a massive class-action copyright target, potentially at ($50k/infraction) x (the number of usages).
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DeepMind's new matrix result improved by humans(arstechnica.com)
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TikTok has an open computational chemistry position(careers.tiktok.com)
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by ISL 4y ago
I agree entirely -- so long as the intent is entirely performance-based and not as an attempt to short-change the employee, the employer can be justified in parting ways. However, this entire conundrum points to a flaw in the vesting struct
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by ISL 4y ago
If you're invested broadly in the S&P, so long as companies are "properly" valued, it is okay if INTC falls and AMD rises. If a major player is massively overvalued, though, then index funds, too, will feel some pain as t
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by ISL 4y ago
Yep! updatedb
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by ISL 4y ago
Rockfish are among the least-expensive fish at our local market. I stopped buying them when I learned that there was a very good chance that they were older (1-200 years) than I am. Eating my elders simply seems like an incorrect thing to
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by ISL 4y ago
I don't think people think about rental pricing from first principles. In general, they look around, see what everyone else is charging, maybe nudge it up a bit, and charge that. If they don't get any tenants, they lower the rate
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by ISL 4y ago
Sounds like a pretty good system.
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by ISL 4y ago
I'd disagree. Market makers want you to trade and want you to allow them to earn the bid-ask spread. They make more when you trade often.
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by ISL 4y ago
Markets don't have a goal. They just don't care.
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by ISL 4y ago
Yep. The primary bad thing about the Sprint is the name. If you call them "fortnight" or "week", things make more sense.
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by ISL 4y ago
Indeed. Here is an example of a company ordering trademark-infringing goods directly from a vendor, then successfully pursuing legal action against that vendor: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122820376/t
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by ISL 4y ago
My guess is that 2-5 years from now, copyright/trademark suits will have removed the current iterations of Stable Diffusion from widespread use. The idea and technology is awesome, but one must be very careful with the training data.
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by ISL 4y ago
Entered "Mickey Mouse", "Batman", "Microsoft", "Calvin and Hobbes", and "pokemon" into the generation field. All of the above appear to generate copyrighted/trademarked images. Careful.
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by ISL 4y ago
Pretty good chance that the USB-C plug-design will be with us for decades to come. Even if new protocols emerge, they're likely to use the same plug. When it comes to charging and slow transfers of data, today's USB-C sockets will
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by ISL 4y ago
Precisely because so many people would like to farm, small-scale farming is a brutal economic environment. In that respect, it isn't terribly different from academia -- people are doing it for love and the experience, not for money. S
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by ISL 4y ago
GW150914 was detected in September of 2015 -- the associated prize wasn't awarded until 2017. That award followed the very important detection of GW170817 in August 2017, which featured the critical detection of an optical signature in
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by ISL 4y ago
The Nobel Committees sometimes take quite a while to get around to deserving researchers. It is not a rapid-response organization. The only exception I'm aware of in modern times is the high-Tc superconductor prize in Physics. Results
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by ISL 4y ago
From my read of Levine's explanation, it was really the promise of a greater pension outcome for a given amount of contribution. Whether the contribution was smaller or the outcome larger is kinda immaterial -- the managers were chasi

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