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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I had to laugh. You're (correctly) saying: "Describe it all as a positive additional software feature you're about to introduce." Quite right. Sell the sizzle, and never use the word "vegetable" when telling ch
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Right. I remember a very small non-profit that was so happy with my code the owner wouldn't let me fix a bug (lack of a fail-safe), having convinced himself it would never be a problem the way the software would be used. Despite the fa
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
So I've said there's decline, but that might be temporary, then given reasons why it might not be temporary. Are you even sure we disagree? QE is a very recent invention. Inflation, such as during the Civil War, not at all. The mo
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I spent good money for a ScanDisk double-pronged device (and app) to get around this problem. It does and doesn't work - I have to have it plugged into the iphone to hear my music that I didn't buy on the itunes store. Now I'
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Which is why I'll never got there. Dark patterns don't attract me. But others might be better codependants than I am.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
And society assisting that parenting, the birthrate is way too long, although people still want kids. Unemployment shouldn't be possible, since children benefit from any amount of time with sane adults who show an interest. But we have
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
The explosion of inflammatory diseases over the last 50 years is sucking incredible amounts of money from the whole system. I'm working on it; have read prob north of 500,000 precis' and abstracts of medical articles. But aside fr
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Indeed from the physorg article illustration (cited up top) and their description, the N doesn't seem to form a molecular bond with F, but to diffuse into the iron crystal; with F binding to F and N being trapped but not bound. Fe16N2
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
None of these are truly new - even the quarter-baked coup attempt (see FDR times.) As for outrageous debt, that began with the US itself. Which raises the possibility that we're looking at the nasty part of a regular oscillation. Howev
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Another, to me stunning example right now is online banking. I ought to have two passwords (or even a separate app.) One that lets me check my balance, or pay a regular bill, and another that lets me empty the account. But no. It I want to
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
But note that, overall, the ores we're using now are much less rich than the ores we used up a generation or two ago. Cheaper energy costs have kept commodity prices about the same.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
I can't answer properly without seeing your video (again probably) but suspect that you and the video got flack because "how it's been observed to make light switch from 'wave' to 'particle'" puts its
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
There's a big divide here though, between pre-Black Death (poverty as you describe) and the couple centuries afterward. It took forever for population numbers to recover (more than two centuries, in England) and things were much better
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Not quite the same experiment, but I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_uBaBuarEM&list=WL&index=37
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Hope you'll pardon my pedantry (I just got schooled on this): https://www.motleybytes.com/w/N_David_Mermin_quotes/Shut_Up_... What I like is that the first use was ironic, as he continues "But I won&#x27
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Except that that's precisely what some Copenhagen Interpretation guys actually wanted to say; that the collapse of superposition didn't happen two days ago. Hence S's large-living-object example. You want to be sensible, th
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
No, that's one aspect of protection. Penalties apply otherwise see the Waymo/Uber case. Apparently the US statutes of relevance are: The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 Re publication I think yo
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Good points, but careful of the logic; yes there's a lot of energy being produced and plenty of harmonics etc. None of which says that every material heats equally well, with no passthrough, or that microwave ovens with different frequ
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Tall lunar pole towers: https://futurism.com/the-byte/harvard-super-tall-towers-powe... Maybe better: nuke the moon and reduce a few key crater rims, then use much shorter towers. Could be that a series of regular bomb
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
First sentence: not what was said. But note that microwave towers have been in use for mission-critical long-range all-weather point-to-point communication on earth for many, many decades. My late father helped design some of them. What wou
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Seemingly only yesterday, there was a lively rather abstract debate here on HN over the reasons why open hardware wasn't a thing. Many said it wouldn't ever exist and had good arguments for that. (Which arguments irritated me.) Ir
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
https://futurism.com/the-byte/harvard-super-tall-towers-powe... There's a famous-in-the-area ex-NASA blogger with good (not perfect) articles on the topic, but I can't Google and find him 'cause authorit
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Microwaves are highly tuned to the particular frequency that causes water molecules to resonate. But this is just one microwave frequency. You don't have to use that one. https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/using-microw
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
It's interesting to consider Marx's viewpoint here, namely that businesses are always, even during good times, in a rigorous exploitation contest for the right to stay in business; and so only the businesses that use every possibl
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
FWIW, and not meant as a contradiction: while (talking Britain here particularly) many were still literally slaves under Feudalism (not serfs) and others Villiens (serfs tied to a property - the root of the once-classist word villain); ther
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
IANAL but I had (kinda unconsciously) assumed that what can be protected by trade secrets was broader than what patents protect (patents merely implementations - which might be broad.) So I'd like to know more; though I wouldn't b
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
And you're right, a vendor could incorporate novel patent-encumbered instructions into their otherwise RISC-V (based) CPU designs. In which case perfect compatibility wouldn't be possible. Patterson, I believe, has said that folks
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Space based solar would also use microwaves to beam the energy to the moon.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
Might be still simpler at that. 'Specially if you build the solar panels on the moon from lunar materials, and there is lots of silicon there, yup.
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by Nomentatus 4y ago
The central fact seems to be the one the CDC highlighted a while back: there's no good research showing that opiod pain medications help, even with pain, over the longer term (over 30 days, say.) That's my experience: we don'

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