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Post-Launch Investigation(astra.com)
2 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
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Trump-backed Truth Social tops Apple's app store charts(cnbc.com)
36 points by beefman 5y ago|39 comments
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Fire on Ship Packed with Porsches and VWs Reportedly Fueled by EV Batteries(roadandtrack.com)
3 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
814.
Too much evidence can be a bad thing (2016)(phys.org)
2 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
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Semantle – Guess the Secret Word(semantle.novalis.org)
2 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
816.
by beefman 5y ago
Presently in the U.S. about 60% of people have jobs; 55% of women and 65% of men. In Feb 1962, 56% had jobs but it was 36% of women and 78% of men https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EMRATIO https://fred.stlo
817.
by beefman 5y ago
No, unless you count thermonuclear explosives. This experiment didn't demonstrate it either. The fusion only yielded 1/3 the energy used to heat the plasma.[1] That doesn't include the energy needed to run the rest of the mac
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by beefman 5y ago
He says this is also a world record, but JET got 0.67 in 1997 (according to Wikipedia). The missing asterisk may be that this Q was the average for the whole shot, whereas the 1997 result may have been measured over a short time. Just my sp
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Amyloid Lurks in a Third of Cognitively Normal People over 70(alzforum.org)
5 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
820.
Saving Democracy from the Pandemic(tabletmag.com)
2 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
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by beefman 5y ago
"In our design users interact with a central transaction processor using digital wallets storing cryptographic keys. ... Despite using ideas from blockchain technology, we found that a distributed ledger operating under the jurisdictio
822.
Detecting Individual Decision-Making Style in Chess(proceedings.neurips.cc)
3 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
823.
WMO certifies two megaflash lightning records(public.wmo.int)
2 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
824.
Unison Share(share.unison-lang.org)
1 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
825.
by beefman 5y ago
https://archive.is/Rk7M4
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by beefman 5y ago
https://archive.is/Zj9R4
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Surgisphere(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
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WMO certifies two megaflash lightning records(public.wmo.int)
2 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
829.
The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (2019)(thegradient.pub)
11 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
830.
by beefman 5y ago
Those numbers look right, thanks. Looks like about 3x the radiogenic heat from the major nuclides producing heat today (not taking into account nuclides that may have decayed away... but I don't think there were any substantial ones).
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by beefman 5y ago
Neither this article nor the wikipedia entry[1] contain the string "geothermal". A web search[2] seems to return some stuff. Both sources of geothermal heat (residual heat from the planet's formation and nuclear decay heat) w
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by beefman 5y ago
In England 800 years ago, an ounce of gold was worth about 6 months unskilled labor.[1][2] Today, it's worth about 3.5 weeks. In the past century, gold has underperformed U.S. equities and has not, in any case, held its value very well
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by beefman 5y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lbry
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Odysee: Our Priorities in 2022(odysee.com)
7 points by beefman 5y ago|2 comments
835.
by beefman 5y ago
Why is the "geographic center of area" so far North? https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/geo/geogr...
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Altos bursts out of stealth with $3B to reverse disease(fiercebiotech.com)
3 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
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by beefman 5y ago
Not just selfies, AI face model. Vendor is Id.me. Already required as of about a month ago for me (my IRS.gov credentials were disabled). Abusive onboarding too, which makes you enter lots of stuff before telling you there will be selfies.
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Altos Labs launches to transform medicine with cellular reprogramming(prnewswire.com)
2 points by beefman 5y ago|0 comments
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by beefman 5y ago
My wife and I have > 40 years of industry experience between us in Silicon Valley, including two FAANGs, five unicorns, and several less exciting companies. Anecdotally, we've observed an increase in the percentage of female enginee
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by beefman 5y ago
Women were never in computing in the sense imagined by the author. The manual "computers" and early patch-cord "programmers" he mentions carried out instructions by wrote. Instructions created by men. Women left the fiel

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