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by KMag 5y ago
Circumcision can be delayed until a man can consent, but it's much more traumatic if done after infancy. I'm one of those people that people just feel comfortable opening up to. In college, one friend told me his dad was asking hi
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by KMag 5y ago
I think reversibly combining hydrogen with nickel to form nickel hydride is one solution that's been proposed for hydrogen vehicle fuel tanks.
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by KMag 5y ago
You're right. Plain bearings provide plenty of contact surface for thermal conduction. Though, thermal expansion will tend to increase clearance and decrease contact area (ignoring differences in thermal expansion between dissimilar
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by KMag 5y ago
> They are essentially gambling, you dont buy securities/assets/stocks/currencies you just bet on price movements of those items. It sounds like you're defining gambling in terms of tangibility. Very few people take p
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by KMag 5y ago
Right. High thermal gradients through ball bearings or roller bearings are tricky, and you don't get much contact area for thermal conduction in the bearing (meaning most bearing applications need to be mindful of cooling). (Pro tip
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by KMag 5y ago
We just returned to office recently, and a team I hadn't worked with in about 6 years just moved to the next row over. Their second day in their new location, and I overheard them talking about a rare segfault (thousands of processes,
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by KMag 5y ago
> Are there LSH techniques that are not applicable to DR? They're all applicable, but perhaps not useful in your particular problem domain. It all depends on how useful the distance metric used by the LSH is in your problem domain.
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by KMag 5y ago
It least at one point in the 2006-2010 range, Google would display a Chilling Effects link to the actual DMCA takedown request when some of your search results were censored by a DMCA takedown. The DMCA takedown request is required to spec
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by KMag 5y ago
> I’m sure a lot of Sony employees use them. Given enough time, we'll eventually see a case where a studio's master copy gets corrupted, backups are out of date, and the studio does its best by replacing a master with a high qu
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by KMag 5y ago
If I specify a particular venue, does Reg NMS still require my order to only be filled if it's within the national best bid-offer (NBBO) range? If not, that would seem to be a big caveat that should be mentioned whenever mentioning th
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by KMag 5y ago
Protazoan, not bacterium.
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by KMag 5y ago
A few observations: we don't yet know how to perform long-term qbit storage, so all multi-day storage at present is classic bits. If the proposal is to hash all of the possible lattice points using irreversable computation on Earth in
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by KMag 5y ago
Yes, given the dimensionality of the input is at least the dimensionality of the hash value, location-sensitive hashing is always a dimensionality reduction operation. Conversely, any dimensionality-reducing technique with a fixed number of
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by KMag 5y ago
The GGP was talking specifically about direct/indirect military training leading to the rise in totalitarianism, which I broadened to military support (to which the "such" you quoted refers). It sounds like you're talki
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by KMag 5y ago
I thought this was well-known. I went to MIT for undergrad in the late 1990s, and have 3 friends who got white patches in their hair in their late teens/early 20s that went away within a few months of graduation.
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by KMag 5y ago
Not all trans people undergo or desire surgical intervention. Also, a transgender woman who desires biological children and surgical intervention could freeze her sperm before surgery. Remember the story a few years ago about the gay coupl
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by KMag 5y ago
> Now authoritarianism is on the rise again as a result. Perhaps this is an indirect result of the US providing military support to totalitarian regimes, but I don't see how it accounts for a rise in totalitarian/authoritarian
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by KMag 5y ago
But, their accountants and lawyers at least pretend to think they're losing something. I guess the GP seeks to inflict a psychological toll.
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by KMag 5y ago
The GP is saying 3 base41 characters can encode 2 bytes. Using base45 doesn't shorten the encoded message size unless they increase the encoding unit to more than 2 bytes.
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by KMag 5y ago
Minor nit: I believe only party members vote on party leadership, and it's actually difficult to get into the party. Also, I'm under the impression that the voting is multi-tiered, where you vote on your level and region on which
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by KMag 5y ago
If everyone flagged every article they found uninteresting, particularly something that rarely comes up here, because they're afraid it will become common on HN, then we'd pretty quickly have a pretty narrow and boring "lowes
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by KMag 5y ago
How do you read a timer from within the JPEG XL bitstream? I believe the decoding process is deterministic.
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by KMag 5y ago
> He does have a CS background. The "even if he didn't" you quoted already implies this.
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by KMag 5y ago
Derivatives markets are zero-sum measured in currency, but few people/organizations have perfectly linear utility functions. Transferring risk from more risk averse people to less risk averse people is not necessarily zero-sum if the
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by KMag 5y ago
I don't think most libc implementations take care to buffer to filesystem block/cluster boundaries.
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by KMag 5y ago
The difference between (vi) a nutrient-depleted diet and (vii) nutritional deficiencies is supplementation, non-dietary factors affecting absorption, or something else?
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by KMag 5y ago
> If you made a peach smoothie out of nothing but pure peaches, it would be identical to eating the peaches, I'm sure. Faster absorption means higher peak serum glucose levels and higher amounts of insulin released. More insulin tr
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by KMag 5y ago
The title is misleading. The AI is floorplanning human-designed logic in 6 hours. Humans are designing the logic, and AI is doing the high-level placement and routing. It's an important step and a huge time saver, but it's nothi
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by KMag 5y ago
> google uses AI to design chips in 6 hours No, Google's AI is floorplanning[0] (basically routing and layout) human-designed logic in 6 hours. That headline is misleading. It's kind of like having a compiler will billions of
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by KMag 5y ago
Will the specifications for the software also be machine-generated? If the specifications are human-generated, then they're just a form of high-level source code, and your prediction boils down to future programming languages simultane

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