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by beambot 3y ago
There's not a single thing the Fed chairman could invest in that wouldn't be a conflict of interest -- whether the world's largest asset manager (blackrock), broadbased ETFs, or even USD since his monetary policy effects th
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Chess is featured in Peter Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" dating back to the 1st edition (1995) and at least up until the 3rd edition (2009). Algorithms such as alpha-beta pruning were definitely consi
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Even a personal "drone" flying saucer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee
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Riff on this: When your product is a monkey reciting Shakespeare while standing on a box in Central Park, you don't start by building the box.
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Lease non-renewals will continue over the next 4-5 years. TBD on when defaults hit a tipping point or runaway failure, but it doesn't bode well for the particularly-exposed regional banks. > About 700 office leases are likely to ex
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Cobalt Robotics - physical robots for safety, security & facilities management. Predominantly big-enterprise B2B. SaaS-like unit economics. Post-Series C with marquee investors (BloombergBeta, Sequoia, Coatue, etc). Robots in 8 count
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TLDR: Your rights are routinely violated in a "slippery slope" manner, but the methods and incidents cannot be rectified by the courts because it's hiding under a veneer of parallel construction. It's not like law enfor
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Conveniently ignoring parallel construction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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Simplest way to reduce crime statistics is to stop reporting or responding to crimes...
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The problem runs deep . Prison "slavery" is codified in the US Constitution's 13th Amendment: > Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
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Managing electronic signatures (e.g. DocuSign & file storage) is a 10x improvement for me compared to printing, signing, mailing or faxing, and file cabinets. The complexity & reduced costs are definitely worth it. YMMV.
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"The current system works well enough" is a poor justification to avoid technological progress. I imagine people said the same thing about automobiles during the era of horses & buggies... yet here we are. A much better argum
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Should be equally concerned about non-stick pans. PTFE (Teflon) and other coatings are notoriously bad...
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Let's use a magnetometer as an example. Inertial navigation system (INS) is just using the magnetometer as a compass, so errors in bearing accumulate over time. Instead, if you built a map of magnetic field strength, the slight spatial
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Wait till you read about the characters, early failures, and ultimate "success" of the central banking "too big to fail" ponzi scheme. My favorite character is Jonh Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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> It should be easy yes or no from the lawyers [...] I've rarely received such an unequivocal binary response from a lawyer...
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20um x 20um is still a bit impractical -- it gets close to the practical limits of wafer dicing, and you need support circuitry. That said, we've made useful payloads in as little as 100um x 100um; here's an example of our (publi
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Faked degrees happen all the time, sometimes in very prominent circumstances. E.g. > MIT Admissions Dean Resigns After Fake Degrees Come to Light https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/26/mit-admis
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Looking at the P&L of Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing and the entire military-industrial complex, I'll politely disagree that it's a "money-loser". Government loses (we'll, distributes conjured dollars from it's
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While we all communicate using TCP/IP, invented as a DARPA program for robust communication in the event of nuclear conflict...
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> [War's] bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generation
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Rates were raised to combat inflation.
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Tracing the source of materials is very non-trivial. Even diamonds, where UUIDs are commonplace, still have to manage the influx of blood diamonds into the global supply chain.
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This isn't about space exploration. The moon is the ultimate strategic military "high ground." Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a good read if you're into SciFi.
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This is the simple "metaverse" product Facebook should've started with. I just want a full-sized display headset that hooks into USB-C port and emulates a 4k external monitor
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Feels like a "Just Be Evil" corporate motto to me, but that's counter to my first-hand experiences with Sam & others at OpenAI. Can someone steelman Sam's stance? A couple possibilities come to mind: (a) avoiding r
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How do hourly employees clock in? Isn't that the same as "badging in" for an HR function?
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Water Bears (tardigrades) have gone to space: https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/water-bears-in-space
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Parboiling is often a critical step for certain mushroom species to remove toxins. But that's probably only relevant if you're foraging outside your local grocer.
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> He is not educated as a scientist though so I usually take most of his stuff with a grain of salt. Credentialing doesn't / shouldn't matter for science. The science should stand on it's own as long as you follow th

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