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by areoform 4y ago
I try to look towards the better angels of everyone’s nature. Being jaded and cynical rarely solves problems.
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by areoform 4y ago
This comment is tongue in cheek, but it's not meant to be pithy nor sarcastic — I mean this with sincerity. Let me be the first to extend my heartfelt congratulations. You avoided the inevitable SEC enforcement action and DoJ indictmen
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by areoform 4y ago
If you are wondering how it got so far off the rails, then look no further than the fact that they hired, trained, and equipped former Nazi SS officers. Not Wehrmacht grunts. Nor enlisted SS grunts. But SS officers. Less than three years a
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Incorrect Theory of Lift #1: “Equal Transit” Theory(web.archive.org)
3 points by areoform 4y ago|0 comments
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Who gets to use JWST and what's it like?(planetary.org)
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by areoform 4y ago
It costs a lot more to run a telescope in space! For the JWST, the annual cost is, $175.2M/yr. Calculated from the $861M that NASA budgeted for its first 5 years of operations. As always, the most expensive costs aren't the hardwa
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by areoform 4y ago
Disclaimer: I am biased. I've talked to some of the people on the team. And am friends with one of the many people who've worked on the project. So a few points here; First, a lot of people are pointing to the JWST as the heir app
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by areoform 4y ago
I'm so glad that you brought up TRIGA. For those who don't know, the story of TRIGA is quite fascinating from our perspective. The pitch was rather simple, "Build a reactor that a teenager could play with" (without super
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Romania deprived 1,000s of babies of human contact. Here's what's become of them(theatlantic.com)
17 points by areoform 4y ago|3 comments
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by areoform 4y ago
> Here's the thing. Art is individual to its creator. Only Van Gogh can paint a Van Gogh. Only Shakespeare can write Shakespeare. Only Tolkien can write Tolkien. > Rings of Power could never, ever be Tolkien. It could be, at best
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by areoform 4y ago
From the paper, > We obtained de-identified whole blood samples from 14 astronauts who flew relatively short Space Shuttle missions (median 12 days) between 1998–2001. These samples were stored at −80°C for ~20 years. Blood samples were
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Cory Doctorow on “Bossware”(twitter.com)
40 points by areoform 4y ago|5 comments
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by areoform 4y ago
Believe it or not, YouTube is not good pedagogy. A YouTube video doesn't help you to fill in the gaps of your understanding by re-working a difficult concept with you. A YouTube video, nor an app, doesn't go through the steps of s
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by areoform 4y ago
He deserves way more than that, but the issue isn't that he wants the field trip. The issue is that he's saying that it's to hunt for alien tech. There are missions all the time to recover remains of meteoroids that didn&#x27
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by areoform 4y ago
30 years ago, Lobe was the first to suggest that we should look for exoplanet with the help of gravitational lensing. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h... He was also amongst the first to stud
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Shell Money(en.wikipedia.org)
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Racing for Peanuts; Monkey Jockeys of the 1930s(greytarticles.wordpress.com)
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Frisch–Peierls Memorandum(en.wikipedia.org)
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by areoform 4y ago
> One final note: the "authors" of all these current 992 papers are from Chinese medical institutions, most of them appearing only once. I’ve observed something sociologically fascinating about China. In multiple fields, gaming
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How Much Things Can Change(rodneybrooks.com)
1 points by areoform 4y ago|0 comments
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Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft; the Jet Age(history.nasa.gov)
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The country where having a pet could soon land you in jail(bbc.com)
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Delta Wings(centennialofflight.net)
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Military Importance of Natural Toxins and Their Analogs(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Comic: Living on Mars time taught me to slow down(npr.org)
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The Limits of Game Theory(1517.substack.com)
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by areoform 4y ago
Author here, There are many overlapping possibilities that aren't necessarily incompatible. For example, over here, the Girard's conceptualization of the scapegoat isn't incompatible with your perspective. It's important
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by areoform 4y ago
Author here, it was an exercise run by a philosopher and attended by (mostly) philosophers, historians, a smattering of scientists, and a plebeian such as myself. The idea is to use Socratic arguments and debates as if we were the character
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by areoform 4y ago
It’s actually thought to be entirely fictional by most of the authors I’ve read.
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What I learned from trying to hang Socrates(1517.substack.com)
71 points by areoform 4y ago|19 comments

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