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by Isamu 4y ago
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson is a fun book, where diamond becomes an extremely cheap building material due to nanotechnology.
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by Isamu 4y ago
I have personally seen this within organizations. Certain leaders can appreciate the simple approach, but not others, because it doesn’t increase headcount. For other leadership types it is drama and increasing headcount that drive their ca
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by Isamu 4y ago
Can someone point to a book that gives a good overview of the wage stagnation that started in the 70s (in the US), with the decline of unions and those jobs being sent outside of the country?
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by Isamu 4y ago
Right, electric motors can develop max torque at zero rpm (and with no shifter), this is similar to steam engines. That’s why many diesel locomotives are actually diesel-electric, with a diesel power plant generating electricity for motors
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by Isamu 4y ago
>Its popularity has been deeply tied to Christian imperialism Well, Roman Imperialism. The sheer reach of the Roman Empire is the reason why it became a de facto standard, difficult to displace. The month names are still Roman, and the d
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by Isamu 4y ago
So the word “equitable” is is unacceptable? What would be acceptable here? Genuine question.
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by Isamu 4y ago
If you are looking to buy, here’s tips and tricks from rpilocator: https://rpilocator.com/tips-and-tricks.cfm
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by Isamu 4y ago
This is a good concise overview that answers several questions right away. >The load-bearing posts are called staves and have given their name to the stave church. The stave church is built on a frame of sills. The whole frame is raised
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by Isamu 4y ago
My friend relies on his implausibility detector quite a lot. He never takes care to calibrate it though. It’s leading to a rift in our friendship.
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by Isamu 4y ago
The stated goal of the founder is to replace meat consumption. Why would you create a charity for that? That makes no sense. You need to create a whole new industry, and yes, it has to pay for itself.
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by Isamu 4y ago
This is really the goal of Impossible Foods. It’s to transition to a sustainable future by winning over consumers who prefer meat, and can only be persuaded by taste. I hope they manage to get the price down, then it will be competitive in
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by Isamu 4y ago
Seems rather to be a complaint about the ruining of people watching, now that everyone is looking at their phones. My thought is that this is an interesting new human behavior to observe, probably won’t last forever if we consider past tech
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by Isamu 4y ago
Ah so this captures his thinking about kinematic self reproduction, before Stan Ulam came up with the suggestion of abstracting it to what became cellular automata. Then they were able to show a construction that was self replicating with g
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by Isamu 4y ago
I just looked at them in the National Archives Museum and frankly they are hard to read because the ink is surprisingly faint, at least for the Declaration. That one I think looks like it was handled a lot in the olden days before they took
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by Isamu 4y ago
As an engineer I got into logic through the philosophy department. It was very eye opening for me. Engineers are not models of logical thinking that they assume they are. Illogic is everywhere and it takes constant vigilance to avoid always
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by Isamu 4y ago
Can we appreciate someone’s contributions without idolizing them? I would agree, yes, he had some objectively interesting ideas and proposals. The idolizing masses surrounding him makes it impossible to critique things like his Synergetics
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by Isamu 4y ago
Agreed that intuition can be useful, same as making a guess or going with your “gut feeling”. A crank turns that useful but possibly misleading thing into a crusade where truth is being suppressed by the establishment.
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by Isamu 4y ago
There’s a great book on Mathematical Cranks where one of the recurring themes is that the intuition must always be correct, and anything that seems counterintuitive is abhorrent and must be wrong.
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by Isamu 4y ago
There’s a language joke in Uncle from Another World, where to pass himself off as an elf girl he adds a “-wa” to his sentences in a completely unconvincing way because that’s “how girls talk”. So in this case is -wa a particle? What kind?
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by Isamu 4y ago
>It drives our dramatic hamster-wheels. Thank you for today’s most quotable metaphor!
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by Isamu 4y ago
Some common foods (e.g. kidney beans) must be properly cooked for them to be not poisonous. Chocolate is an example of a food that is highly processed just for it to be reasonably less bitter and unpromising as it is in raw form.
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by Isamu 4y ago
It’s a fun puzzle. The main thing is to only connect the ends of the rods to cables and not to another rod. This means the rods are under compression only and the cables carry all the tension. That’s the basic idea. Additionally they tend t
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by Isamu 4y ago
I believe there was an MIT study done after the contentious 2000 US election that compared election methods and their error rates. None had a zero error rate. Fully electronic was not preferable because of the lack of audit trail. The best
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by Isamu 4y ago
Of course we all learned from The Simpsons that this was a non-issue because the Flaming Moe had a secret ingredient that made it uncopyable.
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by Isamu 4y ago
>they don't want to risk some offended mob coming after them for wrongthink. So where is this actually happening? I know lots of people claiming this is right around the corner since I’ve been born, but somehow the mind control poli
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by Isamu 4y ago
Often the smaller you get with systems like this the faster or twitchier the control loop has to be. This can be an obstacle for smaller robots, where dynamic behavior can be actually harder than larger robots. Bandwidth requirements are di
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by Isamu 4y ago
Because of strict regulations on Ma Bell, Unix was free with all the source code. Universities would request a copy and Ken would send a magtape. And so it began.
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by Isamu 4y ago
>This is related to famine, I'm a fan of the theory that famines are generally man-made political events. If anyone wants to learn more about this, look up Amartya Sen and his work on the causes of modern famines. https:/&#x2F
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by Isamu 4y ago
Yeah, from that same period I remember the lab where I worked had a giant drafting table-sized digitizer. It could be angled and it weighed a ton. Those things died out, clearly a large format scanner is better.
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by Isamu 4y ago
>One final note: the "authors" of all these current 992 papers are from Chinese medical institutions, most of them appearing only once. If anyone got a raise or promotion based on their publication record off this stuff, what a

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