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by beefman 5y ago
They made 50 neutrons from this shot! You can make billions per second, steady state, with a tabletop device plugged into a standard outlet. Edit: Fusion makes ~ 10^15 neutrons for every watt-hour of energy released (for the easiest kind of
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by beefman 5y ago
And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30916343
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by beefman 5y ago
Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2113883119 Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.454038v2
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by beefman 5y ago
Mozilla won't employ its founder because of who he donated money to in 2008. What makes them believe they can champion an open web?
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by beefman 5y ago
The Taylor rule describes monetary policy in a regime where the federal funds rate is the primary monetary policy tool. It doesn't apply in a regime with enormous QE/QT going on. It also requires instantaneous measurement of its v
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Conway's Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction(conwaylife.com)
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by beefman 5y ago
Paper (free PDF): https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
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Quantum hair could resolve Hawking's black hole paradox(theguardian.com)
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On Cultures That Build (2020)(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
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X Article(en.wikipedia.org)
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by beefman 5y ago
If anyone at Flickr is reading: Please update your Apple TV app (slideshow doesn't work and many links still point to Yahoo domains). You regularly update your iOS app so this shouldn't be too difficult. Regarding this announcemen
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by beefman 5y ago
It's often different subsets of users in these threads. People tend to read and comment on stories they're interested in. Any bias in this interest can become amplified. For example, most commenters on stories claiming that low-le
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by beefman 5y ago
Lots of comments like this in this thread, but no one has given a principle that generates such a ranking. However, there is a principle that recommends seasonal clock changes, quite apart from the (false) folk stories about why the U.S. (n
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by beefman 5y ago
The lack of agreement on this point tells us something about why we change clocks and why we should continue to do so (albeit more smoothly).
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by beefman 5y ago
Horrible but predictable: http://lumma.org/microwave/#2006.09.22
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A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods(arxiv.org)
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NASA is opening a vacuum-sealed sample it took from the moon 50 years ago(npr.org)
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Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been found(usatoday.com)
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by beefman 5y ago
After determining the root cause of the software issue, we found that our flight control software was vulnerable to a specific "packet loss" failure mode. A missed series of signals resulted in a chain of events, resulting in the
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Loop – Pool on an Ellipse(loop-the-game.com)
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Important Policy Updates(discord.com)
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Shibboleth(en.wikipedia.org)
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Dialect Raises $4.1M to Bring 'Smart Messaging' to Solana(coindesk.com)
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by beefman 5y ago
No one cares about USD-denominated wealth either. People care about real wealth, which is a physical quantity. USD wins here because its volatility is much lower. But it's also nonzero. I'm shopping for a car this month, and I&#x2
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by beefman 5y ago
If it seems ridiculous to add COVID stuff here, consider that the nuclear stuff is equally ridiculous. No one wants to use nuclear weapons, and if they did it would be against military targets (mostly other nukes). If one did hit a populate
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by beefman 5y ago
We'd love to see thoughtful plans for how to spend $1-100B to make humanity's future as good as possible. We might learn a great deal from these plans, even when we don't put them into action—and in some cases, we might do t
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by beefman 5y ago
I submitted a permalink to the current revision https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azov_Battalion&ol... It seems HN transforms these to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page New subm
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by beefman 5y ago
I learned programming and math mostly by self-driven exploration. But for computer science there was a book that hit at the right place and time: Feynman Lectures on Computation. It's bounced around between publishers over the years an
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by beefman 5y ago
https://archive.is/Gby5a
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Tell HN: Feeding the Twitter mob that's trying to 'fight Putin' is a bad idea
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