Isamu

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by Isamu 7y ago
Surely we can encode morality in blockchain
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by Isamu 7y ago
If you were wondering how lasers are involved, this is from the abstract of the paper: >Here, we give a proof of concept of a compact radio frequency transmitter based on a semiconductor laser frequency comb. In this laser, the beating a
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by Isamu 7y ago
The click-bait-iest article I've read in a long time. At least they put some time into a barrage of every thing they could think of. It would be tiring just to put together a refutation of every dodgy assertion. >If AirPods are anyt
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by Isamu 7y ago
>cracked all the Allied ciphers An interesting unbreakable voice encryption that the Allies used was SIGSALY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY It was unbreakable because it was essentially the same idea as a f
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by Isamu 7y ago
It's a punchline from a joke that Reagan told repeatedly around the time of US-USSR weapons treaties. It's supposed to be funny. Something along the lines of: "Q: Can we trust these guys to uphold their side of the deal? A: S
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by Isamu 7y ago
Thanks. For giving me a place where I can comment and others can disagree with me. Thanks for not being overrun with stupidity. Not saying stupidity doesn't have its place, but ... Thanks for the upvotes ... and the downvotes. I deserv
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by Isamu 8y ago
>It would require forgoing electricity, heating, cement, steel, paper, travel, and affordable food and clothing. I think this is where you would get the most disagreement. That is, people are focused on transforming all those listed rath
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by Isamu 8y ago
Search ads, for instance in the App Store. Again, nobody spends all day searching the App store. Apple's business model is not driven by your engagement. They make vastly more money when you make discreet choices, like buying a device,
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by Isamu 8y ago
Apple doesn't make money from you spending all day on your phone. They would be fine if everybody would buy a phone, maybe a couple of apps, and set aside until there was a need. You are mistaking them for Facebook or any of the other
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by Isamu 8y ago
Ooh, awesome! Thank you! It would be cool to weave some rope memory with this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory
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by Isamu 8y ago
Anyone have details about about where you get these tiny ferrite cores? I just assumed they were no longer available. I have a card of core memory from maybe a DEC10, but the fine copper wires woven through the cores are starting to break.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Confit is actually the same, it is about sealing and preserving cooked meat with fat. I guess this was widespread. In the US it was maybe more prevalent before refrigeration. I remember it being in a documentary about colonial times.
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by Isamu 8y ago
The middle income group in the US has shrunk to around 48% of population. The lower income group has grown a bit and this is the real problem. This group is defined as below 75% of median. The upper income group has also grown significantly
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by Isamu 8y ago
Yes. Important and high-level people often wore large and conspicuous helmets to show that they were still on the field. Others could look to see that the lord was still not overrun or had not taken flight, or perhaps he had taken a differe
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by Isamu 8y ago
There's an interesting helmet with a large statue of Fudo Myo-o, the "immovable radiant king" of Shingon Buddhism. I don't recall seeing another helmet with a full statue. Are there more examples?
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by Isamu 8y ago
This is short but interesting. Microsoft is aware of the downsides of false positives. In this case California police officers would use facial recognition on individuals, but Microsoft recognized that the false positives could disproportio
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by Isamu 8y ago
Tufte makes a good point that the critical information could have been conveyed so much more effectively. If only the managers had been given a better summary! But I think this is a vast over-simplification. Even with a crystal-clear summar
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by Isamu 8y ago
It is burned to measure total energy and then a model is applied to approximate the calories available to the body.
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by Isamu 8y ago
I do agree with the sub- $1000 Macbook Air, I bought a couple of those. In particular I don't know why it was not more popular among consumers that don't need the flagship models. I think consumers must be programmed to buy the mo
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by Isamu 8y ago
A very good discussion, maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, given the participants. But I guess I am surprised at how much I agree with Daniel Dennett, as I vaguely remember reading him in the past and not buying his arguments. Mayb
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by Isamu 8y ago
I agree with the spirit of what you are getting at. Except that it's not fair to simply assume that a good salary was roughly similar in terms of purchasing power across the a few centuries. In fact at that time middle income people w
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by Isamu 8y ago
Thanks for the interesting report link. That report says 100 entities are responsible for 52% of greenhouse emissions. I wonder why the discrepancy.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Well, except the bait-and-switch would also cause outrage.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Very interesting discussion, especially with respect to experience with the SBIR program. And I like seeing hardware startups here. Thank you for posting.
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by Isamu 8y ago
The true "problem" with moving a sofa is finding available friends on a weekend.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Go is open source and was designed by Ken Thompson (over 70) and Rob Pike (over 60) Don Knuth of course is over 80, he has written some of the oldest available open source programs still available (from before the term "open source&quo
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by Isamu 8y ago
I know the US Army has a precise definition for an assault rifle, but I'm not so sure there is a good legal definition, and that's what I'm talking about. This holds true for New Zealand. If anything the US Army definition is
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by Isamu 8y ago
>Assault rifle is a defined term It is not precise enough, that is my point. You can take an assault rifle and manufacture a sport version that removes military convenience features but is still as deadly. Not so with the auto or semi-au
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by Isamu 8y ago
I believe that writing legislation for assault rifles is trickier than for semi-autos, because the latter is a more properly defined type. That is, we talk about assault rifles as if they were easily defined but they can be functionally the
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by Isamu 8y ago
The range is surprising. I've walked to another part of the house and then wondered, where did I leave my phone? Because the airpods just didn't quit.

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