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901.
by a9h74j 6y ago
I agree that Bitcoin is too easy a punching bag, but "we found a lot of hashes with leading zeros" didn't have the same brevity to it. I am open to wondering if CO2 emissions are also too easy a punching bag. Crops can go way
902.
by a9h74j 6y ago
And perhaps work this thought into your head: "My job is to make my boss look good, not to impress his boss or higher."
903.
by a9h74j 6y ago
Modified meme caption: Yea, we destroyed the environment, but for a brief moment, we sure mined a lot of Bitcoin.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
In a way, having a 1-2 year manufacturing plan can be like pre-selling many still-discrete still-not-in-hand components in advance. In other words, short-selling. Your BOM can be 1000 vulnerabilities to a focussed short-squeeze. I suppose t
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by a9h74j 6y ago
The view associated with Joseph Tainter, regarding collapse, is that collapse necessitates/involves retrenching at lower levels of complexity.
906.
by a9h74j 6y ago
Kanban is not incompatible with queuing theory.
907.
by a9h74j 6y ago
I haven't followed this in much detail yet, but https://thefactual.com/how-it-works mentions ranking reporters for their expertise in particular subjects. Saw site mentioned in an HN comment a few weeks ago. So far app
908.
by a9h74j 6y ago
Just as "television will eventually be a window in a window manager"... "A newspaper edition will eventually be a repository with good comments on commits"???
909.
by a9h74j 6y ago
This might be a new variant of: You can tell how old a national lab is by what they study in the "physics" division.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Philosopher Larry Laudan had a tripartite view. He proposed IIRC convergent processes between better (and more complete) measurements, better (and more complete) models and theory, and better instrumentation. Thus, one could also include a
911.
by a9h74j 6y ago
Finally I read the wikipedia article and see the medieval reference. For awhile I have wished to see a different term used to call out this strategy. To me, "Motte and Bailey" sounds [has sounded] too much like the name of some ob
912.
by a9h74j 6y ago
I experienced sciatica for about a day and thought my life was over. I'd take a kidney stone in its place any time; with a kidney stone you at least think that by moving it might help (and no fear it will last forever). Fortunately in
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Requirement number 007 addresses that.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
I have a dumb idea/question. Has anybody ever implemented zero-terminated arrays within spreadsheets. Or in this case blank-cell-terminated arrays? A 1-D array as a base-cell plus direction, not a cell range?
915.
by a9h74j 6y ago
Mine was never as severe as OP's. At a time when I started to feel some numbness, I took to doing wrist exercises with some 10lb(?) dumbells. That eliminated the numbness.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Re: arbitrary. I once attended a Stephen Toulman lecture where he explored the meaning of 'arbitrary.' While the word is often taken to connote "random and uninformed", the root of the word indeed connotes "arbitrat
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Similarly, if I understand it, in the recent Sidney Powell filing and partial representations thereof. Out of a 60(?) page filing, presumably offering point after point after point after point, one point apparently offers [rhetorical hyperb
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by a9h74j 6y ago
To amplify this, a significant use case could be: Associates (e.g. family members) hanging out in the same room. You certainly don't want to share all of your windows, but you [both/all] want to act immediately on "Look wha
919.
by a9h74j 6y ago
A "store of energy" implies some ability to extract energy back out. "A putative store of value" != "a store of energy".
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by a9h74j 6y ago
SuezGlide(TM)
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by a9h74j 6y ago
I know meta-posts are discouraged, but folks, you were supposed to be micro dosing.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Kessler has entered the chat.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
How soon will this be standard in SV interviews?
924.
by a9h74j 6y ago
Wait for sea-level rise to do the work. According to some, it won't be more than twelve years for 3m rise. Edward Teller: How big is Antarctica?
925.
by a9h74j 6y ago
I haven't spotted "now you have two problems" anywhere yet.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Which is what fraction of what the Fed is lending. Problem solved.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Chicago1992 is standing by ready to donate air mattresses.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
At the level of [un]reality in many of the comments under OP, actually the Great Pyramids were built off-site and then dragged to their present locations.
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by a9h74j 6y ago
Next subsidized Elon venture: The Dragging Company .
930.
by a9h74j 6y ago
I remember having an Elec-Tec catalog with the back cover listing a 10MB hard drive for $10K. I kept it for awhile, thinking of it as will be iconic someday . Sure enough, that is the era / order-of-magnitude recalled in the OP.

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