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by acqq 6y ago
The introduction in the article is historically accurate, compared to the countries behind the so called “iron curtain” that land was indeed different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain “Soviet-installed gov
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by acqq 6y ago
“November 27, 1989“ “Broadcast on Repeat Monday with no pre-announcement. The original airdate was February 10, 1989.” “Was it overdubbed on the original airing?” “No.” and see all Pike Bishop comments: “as a native Spanish speaker from Chi
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by acqq 6y ago
> Having a positive PCR test is way better than a positive antibody test. This knowledge means that it is unlikely that you will get it again soon. I believe positive “antibody” test could hint to some chance of faring better “next time”
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by acqq 6y ago
My post with the summary, 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23881080 "Apparently even the "less sensitive" tests are in fact sensitive enough to catch these who produce a lot of virus. Those w
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by acqq 6y ago
I like the comments: 1) "- How do magnets work? - Oh, they're just a bunch of nano-magnets" 2) "Yes, but why? Still it's a description, not an explanation" 3) "To 2: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by acqq 6y ago
> It was missing what would quickly be considered a standard feature That is an anachronistic claim which sounds logical to the reader in 2020 but doesn’t match the environment of decades ago. The feature he added could have been based
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by acqq 6y ago
> crappy closed-source printer drivers It was about not being able to customize the behavior, lacking the access to source code, not about “crappiness.” “ In 1980, Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused access to the
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by acqq 6y ago
> This will probably be a very unpopular opinion Not because of Bob Ross, but because it's based on the false premises of what is today (as in: last hundred years) considered and accepted as art. In the previous and this century, no
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by acqq 6y ago
> They just aren't very similar beasts It took a lot of HIV vaccine research to figure that out. Before that research, nobody knew. Of course now it is knows, when the people started, it wasn't clear what the problems will be.
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The visual explanation of the ideas and concepts presented there, also mentioned in the later podcast: Medcram: “Coronavirus Pandemic Update 98: At Home COVID-19 Testing - A Possible Breakthrough” https://www.youtube.com/wat
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Yes, and Mick West made more on that and similar topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus
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Based on how I understand the numbers in the tables, it looks to me like both implementations behave the same in the critical points, and AMD obviously achieves less distance from the "exact", but has some kind of truncating inste
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by acqq 6y ago
Really fascinating, thanks!
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The algorithm would be approximately: 1) Use the binary representation of the numbers! To do so, cast the resulting float to the unsigned integer, then use bit masks and shifts to extract the exponent and mantissa. Note that the leading 1 i
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by acqq 6y ago
I've used that, a few years later, and really enjoyed it. At the time I've used it Turbo Pascal for CP/M was also available and it was pure magic, practically instantaneous compared to anything else. Even then, that environme
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by acqq 6y ago
> I've extracted a small subset of the data to graph in Excel Thanks. If you still have the data (or if you can regenerate it) it would actually be possible to make a few small graphs that would cover the whole set: Basically, the
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by acqq 6y ago
And even the part of the article which isn’t behind the paywall is enough: “Deutsche Bank Investors Sue Over Epstein Ties, Stock Drops July 16, 2020, 4:29 PM COURT: D.N.J. TRACK DOCKET: No. 20-cv-08978 JUDGE: Esther Salas” Compare with the
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by acqq 6y ago
Related, LLVM developers evaluated the use of these instructions too: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21385 On your graph, what’s red and what’s blue and what is on x axis?
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by acqq 6y ago
The Hollywood films almost by rule distort the real details, but some scripts do manage to pass the general idea. Never trust the Hollywood details but if you are interested in any topic, search the books (or the news articles) that did t
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by acqq 6y ago
I understood that differently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816968 Hint, the questions were: "Now, what is it, the feeling between those two magnets?" " There's something there , isn't t
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The confusion comes from the wrong expectation: whoever called the Feynman's answer "Magnets" missed the point. I'm quite sure Feynman would not name his answer so. One has to carefully to listen to the question he was a
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by acqq 6y ago
Context: It’s published there as of 1997 but it’s about CIA spying technology used in 1963, 57 years ago!
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> no idea how I would know whether this is fundamentally amazingly better than what I have now, if I were in 1978 for example. For the start you should define what role you imagine you had in 1978. Do you imagine working in some company
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> Which $1 test currently in production would this be? It's not about what's "currently in production." It's about what should be a strategic goal to produce the bigger number of tests and use them frequently. 1)
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Byng is not actually a “source”, just the one who has been killed: “He was sentenced to death and, after pleas for clemency were denied, was shot dead by a firing squad on 14 March 1757.” That’s what apparently got Voltaire to write “in thi
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Then you have to watch these videos too: https://xvivo.com/inner-life-of-the-cell/ For example, this looks like a cartoon but it really behaves so (except that the molecules are too small to have the colors, as in othe
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by acqq 6y ago
Influenza viruses don't have that mechanism. That doesn't prevent humanity to have working vaccines each year for the currently important influenza viruses. The needed research was already done long ago. But regarding SARS-CoV-2,
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by acqq 6y ago
One of very interesting properties of SARS-CoV (2003) and SARS-Cov-2 (2019) is that they have their "proofreading" replication mechanisms, or in the terms of people working with computers these viruses have an "error correcti
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Apart from the course promoted (which sounds really good!), does anybody know a really good book that already presents this kind of material about CSS use in a similar "logical" way and is not being written the style "margin
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> what is the scenario where a single madman causes a complete simultaneous nuclear conflagration An actual nuclear war planner wrote a whole book about that: "The Doomsday Machine Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" https:&

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