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by _Nat_ 7y ago
LaTeX should be regarded as a legacy technology, not the future. It's useful because it's a standardized language everyone knows and can be applied across the web, e.g. on many StackExchange sites (at least the TeX subset via Ma
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I wonder how true anecdotes like that might be? For example, what portion of trolls who said [offensive thing] ironically for shock value ended up internalizing that [offensive thing] later on? And is this like the concern that violent vide
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Isn't Satoshi Nakamoto supposed to control >5% of the total Bitcoin supply currently available? But they're inexplicably not tapping into the large amount of wealth that'd seem to be available to them? It's a bit har
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I think D-Wave systems are all annealers, while the paper's about gate-logic.
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> The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials. This seems really sketchy. I mean, I can completely understand why the College Board would want to avoid blowback from students knowing their scores, but their
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Plus the comment 4 levels up had "C02" rather than "CO2". <rant> I searched for why people do this 1337-substitution [1], and apparently the justification's that "C02" can be quicker to type on some
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
That's what makes this so interesting! I mean, if open-air capture is used, it's mostly just a higher cost -- switching to capture from point-sources should make it more efficient. But then it seems to demolish folks' evalua
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
You're mostly right, in that a timing issue could be resolved through a temporary storage unit, though probably wouldn't have to put it underground. Likewise, batteries/capacitors/whatever would probably be set up on the
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> 1. why extract from the air when you can just put a device on the smokestack of an existing coal or natural gas plant? The higher CO2 density of the effluent will make things more efficient. That was my big question, too. Asked and go
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> I agree, they're going for the harder problem, but it's also the most scalable solution. It's not really harder, just more expensive. When major point-sources give off CO2, it's more concentrated. Once it gets into
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Even in the long term, it seems like you'd want to grab CO2 from point-sources. Sure you might need to also grab CO2 from open-air if you reach such a scale, but even at that point open-air would just be a supplement rather than the s
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Why open-air capture? I mean, it's typically much cheaper to capture CO2 from concentrated streams, such as the flue gases from coal-fired power plants. So why accomplish the same CO2 mitigation at higher cost by getting it from open-
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Abstract from "Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures versus Founding Teams" [1], Jason Greenberg (2018-01-23): > A widespread scholarly and popular consensus suggests that new ventures perform better when launched by teams, rather than
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
It'd be neat if you could recall what IBM's programming language is called. It does seem to be the case that a lot of things can be interpreted multiple different ways, which does require people to precisely state what they want.
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
In the US, I used to tutor in a college's "Learning Center", where students could come in for free tutoring from staff who'd be hanging out there. One student who came in was very elderly; I don't know her age, but
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I've long been baffled as to why what I'm building doesn't already exist. Sure it's tough to actually design-and-make, but it's basically a holy grail of computing that a ton of people have, I think, generally want
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Cute idea, but I can't seem to get anything decent out of it. I tried the following: > Massive strike at oil rig as radical turtle lovers declare independence from federal regulations against shelled creatures > 1 + 1 = 2 > 1
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Hah, true. It's definitely been a heck of a lot more than I'd have guessed at first. Still, I approached this whole thing more incrementally; I never tried to say, "HAL, do this for me", but rather I just tried to make
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I think that's where I first heard the term "intentional" in this usage! It fit exactly what I was doing, so I adopted it as a name. I did a little bit of research on their prior work, but I get the feeling that they fell in
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
If you're making 30 kUSD/month without any employees, it sounds like you could reasonably hire someone to take some of those responsibilities off your shoulders, freeing you up to do more stuff. Have you considered hiring an emplo
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
This is such an eerie read for me. I've been working alone on a project that I've been calling "intentional programming" -- the idea being that a user/programmer specifies what they want, then the system handles map
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Apparently the universe was too hot for electrons to combine with atomic nuclei at first, so everything was a plasma. As it cooled, He grabbed up electrons first, forming the first neutral atoms while H+ was still a plasma. So there was a l
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by _Nat_ 8y ago
The pseudonym thing seems like a good idea even when not concerned about leaking demographic information, as people often have different associations with names. Sometimes there's an article on the issue (example [1]), but just in gene
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by _Nat_ 8y ago
To add context to the above, looks like SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launched 2018-02-06 [1] after Elon Musk's 2011 claim [2]: > “Falcon Heavy will arrive at our Vandenberg, California, launch complex by the end of next year, with lif
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by _Nat_ 8y ago
> It looks increasingly likely that many western countries will soon be taking a Chinese-style approach towards the internet. Could you elaborate on why you'd think this? I mean, that's a pretty significant prediction, and if i
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by _Nat_ 8y ago
From the linked article [1]: > Transforming cells, via modules, into the whole battery pack typically adds 30% cost per kWh on top of the cost of the cells alone. And to get a bit more info on what a module is [2]: > A battery module
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by _Nat_ 8y ago
Is there a protection that prevents the government from requiring an employee take an action that may be discovered? Or even a reason? I mean, unless the backdoor has a hard-coded URL like `www.ThisIsAGovernmentBackdoor.gov.au`, then a bac
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by _Nat_ 8y ago
I think that Wikipedia article is about a different idea than the parent video. The parent video is about the idea that an "individual" human mind can be described as being composed of subordinate minds. In this case, left-side v
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by _Nat_ 8y ago
That sounds like good advice! But if you could elaborate a bit, how do you actually apply this in everyday situations? Any recent examples?
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tl;dr- They're arguing that there's little point to building a new, larger particle collider to succeed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) because, while there are hypotheses that such a new collider could falsify, those hypotheses a

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