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by akamoonknight 5y ago
Enjoyable read overall. Always fascinating to see the human ingenuity involved in problem solving. I might have missed it in the article, but how do the fascine mattresses do the work of helping keep back the sea? By breaking up waves befor
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by akamoonknight 5y ago
Might be a long ways out, as this article still seems mainly about research purposes, but if there's things like the Outer Space Treaty (which to my understanding theoretically limits country-based ownership of things like the moon), t
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by akamoonknight 5y ago
Another related thing I've wondered is if, similar to how the possible electroweak force un-unified into the electromagnetic force and the weak force, is there a scenario where the electromagnetic force (or the weak force) un-unifies i
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by akamoonknight 5y ago
My main difficulty with a direct democracy is that it's a _job_ to be properly informed about topics. How can every person be informed enough on every vote-able decision that might affect them, while also trying to work a normal job re
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by akamoonknight 5y ago
And that's totally valid. gitk is my main experience with visual git tools and using it gives a ton of information that is not only visually nice to look at, but also pretty easy to navigate. But gitk isn't always the most availab
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by akamoonknight 5y ago
I will agree that visually seeing the tree is such a useful tool to have access to. I know that's not the true desire of your use case, but in case it's useful, I will add what is obviously the best git alias, 'git lg':
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by akamoonknight 5y ago
Maybe naive question, but why do _any_ insurance companies provide payments for these medications?
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by akamoonknight 5y ago
Just read this article about the project: https://scitechdaily.com/magicdna-tiny-complex-dna-robots-de... Seems like pretty cool stuff, makes me think of DNA-as-programming-language somehow.
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
"It is the research of hundreds of historians who have carefully assembled thousands of quantitative estimates that inform us about us about people’s living conditions that give us this global perspective on the history of poverty. In
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Taiwan introduces more water restrictions, potentially worsening chip shortages(techspot.com)
12 points by akamoonknight 6y ago|0 comments
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TSMC trucking water during drought(theregister.com)
4 points by akamoonknight 6y ago|0 comments
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History of Dice(awesomedice.com)
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
Do you know how he makes such precise curved folds? I'm no expert, but love me some origami and I can't believe that I'd be able to get folds to turn out like that. Anything I would attempt would invariably have little sub-cr
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
I'm wondering something similar, where maybe GMs could train against a neural network that is built off of their upcoming opponent's historical games and thus they would get more experience against that 'opponent'. Inste
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‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years(singularityhub.com)
450 points by akamoonknight 6y ago|212 comments
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
I love all the things we're still learning from nature! All of the secrets and intuition that's yet to be found astounds and excites me.
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
It kinda feels like public playlists are what it would have to become, but there's a sense of curation with a public playlist that might not be present with something more akin to a private collection. I'm not saying i want to fin
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
This isn't exactly the same, and isn't a new thought, but is at least tangentially related. One of my memories is around finding my dad's record collection and seeing the music he and my mom would listen to. There weren'
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
Regarding the prime directive as a mushy human emotional idea. I don't think it's unreasonable for some advanced society to see preservation of newly encountered life as a worthy goal even as a selfish motive. How many new ideas a
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
I mean, I'm not an expert, so I might be misreading here, but section 803 of your second link seems to say essentially that the USPS must pay into the retirement fund pre-emptively. "Requires the Postal Service, beginning in 2007,
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
I've been hearing a lot about the difficulties that seem to be attacking the USPS recently and it definitely worries me. I was kinda hoping this article would have some concrete steps to take on how to actually help the USPS as an indi
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
This isn't a fully formed idea, but it kind of feels like even the _option_ for UBI is based off the exploitation inherent to capitalism. The statement in the article: "Because we all become wealthier when goods are produced by th
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
Ah, much better than the white paper, thanks!
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
Is there information on how the Fugaku machines are connected together? The highest performing Power9 ones seem to use InfiniBand, but is that still true with the ARM devices? Edit: seems to be a Fujitsu designed interconnect [0]. Wonder ho
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
Come to think of it, that's kinda sorta what I do to! Stare at the ground right ahead and just plow ahead. I always put it down to just saying well, doesn't really matter what's further ahead too much, just follow the path an
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
One of their examples about the balls appearing bigger when needing to hit then reminded me of something from a YouTube video [0] about our senses lying to us. The example brought up in the video is how a hill appears steeper to us if we ha
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by akamoonknight 6y ago
Hive is pretty fun.
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by akamoonknight 7y ago
One of the interesting things that stands out to me is that the age range of athleticism is still the same as today. I guess it's not that surprising that his career spanned from age 18 to 42, but the fact that lines up so closely with
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by akamoonknight 7y ago
Not necessarily specifically RNA/DNA but a super accessible description of biology is The Machinery of Life ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6601267-the-machinery-of... ). I can't get over much it mak
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by akamoonknight 7y ago
In one of the later gifs it looks to me like the snake aims higher in the air than would be expected if it was going for the rat just on the ground. I wonder if that's a learned behavior after multiple interactions, like darn you littl

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