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by JDEW 3y ago
> ...highlighting the deep, underrated link between geophysics and biology. Wait... what is the "deep" link exactly? And how does that follow from comparing numbers at face value?
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by JDEW 3y ago
> If all are omitted it's just a single note not a harmony, so there are 2^11-1 = 2047 functionally distinct harmonies. Most of them are of little musical utility, but you could conceivably use and have opinions about them all. Unre
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Microsoft president says no chance of super-intelligent AI soon(reuters.com)
6 points by JDEW 3y ago|1 comments
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by JDEW 3y ago
https://archive.is/k8b8j
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by JDEW 3y ago
> And if you grew up in a thrifty family, like me: … Hits home for me. Many of those things are also actually cheaper in the long run.
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by JDEW 3y ago
Indeed, and it’s one of the most powerful tools in propaganda: slather on additional context so that it become indiscussible (as there is no common language anymore). Capitalism is a power system where capital and not creation dictates owne
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by JDEW 3y ago
The old joke that mathematicians can't distinguish a donut from a coffee mug (because of topological "equivalence"/homeomorphism) [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mug_and_Torus_morph.gif
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by JDEW 3y ago
Why not? I’ve lived there for years, and although it’s not perfect, I think it’s very easy to get around both walking and cycling.
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by JDEW 3y ago
https://archive.is/F8cZI
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by JDEW 3y ago
You know what’s expensive? Treating 100s of millions of people for pollution related illnesses.
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InAs-Al hybrid devices passing the topological gap protocol(journals.aps.org)
1 points by JDEW 3y ago|0 comments
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Accelerating scientific discovery with Azure Quantum(blogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by JDEW 3y ago|1 comments
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by JDEW 3y ago
Following of the “Uber for x” trend of the 10s, we really need an “X but without VC pressure” trend for the 20s…
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by JDEW 3y ago
I was thinking the same. > ...they fraudulently possibly told their comrades... > ...by flying to the heavens. These sentences, among others, strike me as odd/unnatural, but I'm not a native speaker.
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by JDEW 4y ago
Narrow banks. The FED didn’t like the idea…[0] [0] - https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/09/fed-nixes-narrow-...
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by JDEW 4y ago
…sure, but the discussion is about _where_ taxes a levied, and _how much_ taxes should be levied.
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by JDEW 4y ago
From what I gathered: Intraday returns: the difference in price from market open to market close Overnight returns: the difference in price from market close to the next day’s market open. They are only talking about stocks and they are tra
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by JDEW 4y ago
Paper [0], Quanta Article [1] [0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10774 [1] - https://www.quantamagazine.org/father-son-team-solves-geomet...
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by JDEW 4y ago
Sorry, can't resist: you probably mean pi radians (and by convention you don't even need the word radians). Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.
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Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters(science.org)
1 points by JDEW 4y ago|0 comments
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by JDEW 4y ago
This is probably a comment worth ignoring, but I still feel inclined to say that journalism is a cornerstone of democracy on which, love it or hate it, we in the west have chosen to build our societies on. So yes, it is important and certai
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by JDEW 4y ago
> The economy is more resilient… Sure, but OP said “continues to decline”, not “completely collapses.”
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by JDEW 4y ago
> Salesforce let go of fewer than 1,000 employees Monday, according to a person familiar with the move. > At the end of January it employed 73,541 people. “…employees Monday”, “…January” Is this grammatical? Is it coherent? Or was thi
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by JDEW 4y ago
Isn’t that what he writes in the second to last paragraph? > But one of the most bizarre aspects here is it doesn’t actually matter how aware that person is of what they’re doing. The concept of a “genius mastermind” is itself outdated,
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by JDEW 4y ago
I feel the same about these electric scooter services like Bird, Lime, etc. Most European cities are very walkeable and so you’re not “getting another car off the road” as Bird will happily tell you. You’re paying for the luxury that you’re
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by JDEW 5y ago
You make a lot of valid points but this sentence: > I say legalize all the “drugs” and let people decide for themselves whether or not to be morons. Is probably a bit too spicy. You say the government robs us of agency but you know what
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by JDEW 5y ago
Wow, such a simple idea but I can totally see how this works (for me). Struggling with a 'mild' scrolling addiction myself and this might be a nice middle ground between deleting apps alltogether and not having guard rails.
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by JDEW 5y ago
Another way to think about it: privacy stayed constant over time, it just shifted from the family, local communities, and the social oversight (“eyes on the street”) that came with it, to big tech and government.
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by JDEW 5y ago
> We have already noted that quantum physics offers a world view in which the future is not entirely determined. This indeterminacy is not practical but fundamental. It permits us to think that our experience of free will may be real ins
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by JDEW 5y ago
> He is excited by the possibility that developing this idea will solve the measurement problem of quantum mechanics as well as uniting quantum theory with relativity. He also thinks, even more controversially, that it could identify mea

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