Tomminn

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by Tomminn 7y ago
For clarification, the coronavirus is currently exponential with a R^2 value very close to one. The question is whether of not it will stay exponential, or go sigmoidal soon.
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One of the problems is the bounce back is not evenly distributed. The fastest breeding animals bounce back fast, the slow breeding animals take hundreds to thousands of years, if they ever recover at all.
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While I don't think this is the case here, it's super interesting that leaving in disgrace can be a valid financial exit strategy. The founder and (ex) CEO of a company is able to sell 100% of their stock without causing a panic,
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A very well timed press of the escape key, between when the text has started booting and the paywall has started booting. You do it earlier than you'd think.
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It doesn't seem possible to give "no explicit rules", unless you count "making an illegal move equivalent to a loss" as giving no explicit rules. Which doesn't seem like anything but word laundering. If you do
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Everything bothers some people more than others. Office noise is a subset of everything.
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The deviation from your initial trajectory is 1/2at^2 where "t" is time of flight, and "a" is net unexpected accelerations. A 30 minute flight time is 1800s, meaning that if you have a target with 20m of give, you c
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Next stop, how about letting a foreigner visit the US for a week without having their fingerprints taken.
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Okay so here's why this is trivially unsound from the perspective of standard modern physics. 1) Newton II: F= dp/dt. This particular formulation of Newtons Law is valid in relativity. 2) Newton III: My own formulation of this is
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Sure, but the kinds of requests NVC codifies are ones where "you hurt my feelings via action X".
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I think non-violent communication is great when you actually have to ask someone to change something about the way they operate in the world. If you want to improve your relationships though, make rule zero "minimize the extent to wh
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Mensa members are an extremely biased sample of high IQ individuals.
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Do you know many developers with excellent mathematical and high performance computing skills willing to work for 30k a year? I think this is the underlying reason that the way this connection happens in practice is via commercially availab
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by Tomminn 7y ago
The fishing gets me. I used to fish from the shoreline a lot, but when I went snorkeling in a couple of beautiful places in the world all the lost tackle and line just made me angry at my past self. It's very hard to fish from the shor
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by Tomminn 7y ago
Imagine the delta between the electric infrastructure we need when we have a car fleet that is electric vs the electric infrastructure we need when we don't. Given we need to transport electricity for a bunch of other things, this delt
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by Tomminn 7y ago
I'm guessing it essentially increases the elastic constants of the material; that is, increases the "spring constants" of the bonds between atoms. As a result, the resonant frequency of acoustic vibrations rises. When these a
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by Tomminn 7y ago
Amateur in this space. What are the barriers to AMD taking Intel's market share?
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Origins of the STEM Shortage Myth(ineteconomics.org)
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Ha: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606675 (2017)
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Donate to cool earth. When I looked last, it cost about $300/year to offset my carbon footprint. Go offset yours 20x or 30x over, or whatever "x" you can afford without feeling resentful about it.
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Have a -30x climate contribution. Give $10,000/year to cool earth.
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On a homonymous note, viewing society as a (psychologically) gaslit world can be a really useful lens for having new ideas, and for freeing yourself from some of its ruts.
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There's also supposed to be a lot of platinum and things near it in the periodic table, which are all very important catalysts. I think the person who wrote this article is massively underestimating technological effect of making a p
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by Tomminn 7y ago
Is it just me, or do all the photos feel strangely sexualized?
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MOND doesn't actually get rid of dark matter, it just means you only need ~20% as much of it. If it did fix dark matter it'd very possibly be the more popular theory. The issue is that galaxies-- according to the dark matter parad
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This is not a culture war: by GPT2(old.reddit.com)
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I get that you're tackling this specific argument, but it's important to remember the context too. She makes between $56 and $85 dollars a month. Working 12 months a year, for 50 years, she'll make a total of around $42,000 d
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Bertrand's Theorem (Classical Mechanics)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Okay, so Cook is implying here that Apple's maneuvers are not only restricted by rule of law, but by some underlying ethical principles. This model is bolstered by similar pronouncements he's made on privacy. Apple is a company th
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The average depth of the ocean is about 4km, so a thermal expansion of 1x10^(-4) per degree C (right order of magnitude), would result in about a 4m rise per degree increase in average ocean temperature. Which is obviously significant. One

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