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by beloch 4y ago
"One weapon that nuclear planners want to make from recycled parts and designs is the W93 — billed as the first new warhead for the nation’s nuclear arsenal since the Cold War." ... “It’s important to keep these parts around,” sai
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by beloch 4y ago
Here's another great one: Q: "Prove that Jeff Bezos is not an Android." A: "import numpy as np def main(): print("Is Jeff Bezos an android?") print("We can test this using 1-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov
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by beloch 4y ago
If you go under "Unreal Estate", they're selling NFT's of the gigaturtle's various accommodations, and say they plan to expand into the metaverse (there's a countdown timer to release!), where they'll do m
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by beloch 4y ago
Q: "Is Reddit a reliable news source?" A: "To explain, the answer is yes, but it depends on the subreddit. For example, r/worldnews is a reliable source, but r/news is not." Q: "Is Facebook a reliable news
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by beloch 4y ago
If you look carefully at any modern A-list game, you will find no shortage of carefully deployed 2D sprites (e.g. billboarding) adding subtle detail to 3D worlds. They may no longer be the stars of the game, but good sprite design and appli
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by beloch 4y ago
Paid social media is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Many people would pay to join a high quality social media network if their friends and family were already there, but very few will pay to be the first on a network devoid of their so
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by beloch 4y ago
The sausage men are genius. Rather than being instantly modded out of S&Box by new players, I predict these will be modded into Skyrim and a host of other games in a very short period of time. Who wouldn't want to see Whiterun pe
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by beloch 4y ago
I think we're going to see the return of the oral exam (i.e. You show up to the prof's office and they ask you questions on the spot.). Perhaps not for massive low level courses, but likely for advanced courses. They're goin
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by beloch 4y ago
They're actually importing Russian oil for domestic use to free up more of their own for export. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-saudi-arab...
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by beloch 4y ago
The iBug will probably be good for some people but horrible for others. "It just works" is a fine motto, but a lie. Devices often need intervention to work properly or to work at all. Laptops and phones generally require a lot
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by beloch 4y ago
"Finally, what you have effectively done here, is monetized racism, sexism, and any other kind of ‘ism you can think of to your own advantage." Everyone over a certain age has concerns for the future rooted in disappointment about
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by beloch 4y ago
While 120 GWh of electricity storage may be remotely feasible to build now, I would not characterize it as "little" in any way, shape or form.
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by beloch 4y ago
"The money thrown into the convenience economy has also created a crowded marketplace. Couch potatoes can choose between Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus and others, and a glut of ultrafast delivery and takeout services; ride-seekers
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by beloch 4y ago
My first thought was diet. Monastic orders typically progressed from austere origins towards outright decadence when compared to normal folk. Monks could have been eating all manner of unhealthy foods (e.g. Mett in Poland and Germany) that
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by beloch 4y ago
1,193,000 L is just over 9 railway tanker cars. I have a hard time picturing large numbers, so I use railway tanker cars the way some people use bananas for scale.
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by beloch 4y ago
If you show a room full of engineers your new idea and none of them criticize it, you have failed. Disinterest is the worst response you can get from an engineer. As the time I write this, this link is at the top of the front page and th
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by beloch 4y ago
It's pretty common. If the site isn't about to be turned into the foundations of a new supermarket (This is a common fate for archaeological sites), you can't just leave an open pit behind. People might fall in! Plus every
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by beloch 4y ago
"the memo proposed that Amazon should create and foster partnerships with local nonprofits and community organizations that company officials hoped would “provide political cover for local policymakers, neutralize organized labors’ att
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by beloch 4y ago
What research? They link to their "citizen science" website. Their website links to itself and a pre-print article that is unlikely to even pass cursory inspection by a journal referee. This is blog garbage. Flagged.
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by beloch 4y ago
I'm almost surprised that, after explaining conservation of angular momentum, they didn't propose a bonkers solution like building a pipeline from the sea up a mountain to create a massive artificial glacier to directly regulate t
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by beloch 4y ago
Who wants to... "...do what they love doing" "...build their dream" "...help people in a way that is truly needed" "...create shareholder value in a mind-numbing hellhole for minimum wage with a boss who c
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by beloch 4y ago
I turn on the news, and inevitably an ad appears. On one side of a split screen, a hipster-looking guy in an apron with a deep look of stress on his face is agonizingly bungling an attempt to measure coffee beans out into some kind of over
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by beloch 4y ago
Netflix has a pattern. They have stats from a lot of multi-season shows and know that there's a sharp drop off in viewers the more seasons a show runs for, even if they're all excellent. This makes the first season a great inves
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by beloch 4y ago
It helps to look at where we've been. Russia is threatening Europe now but, a century ago, Europe was in the breathing space between two massive wars with itself . The EU isn't perfect, but it's a vast improvement over what
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by beloch 4y ago
Anthropomorphize computer programs and invent a BS way of injecting a real human into a computer and Tron is what you get. It's complete nonsense! However, if you can suspend disbelief, Tron is a seminal film that has echoed through
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by beloch 4y ago
Expecting publishers to behave isn't the answer, since there will always be those who won't behave as well as those that simply disappear. What is needed is laws that classify games in situations such as this as abandonware and gr
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by beloch 4y ago
One of the biggest challenges in distributing entanglement is loss . It's easy to send a classical signal over 30 km of fibre. You just send a lot of photons and a significant portion of them will get through. Big pulse goes in, s
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by beloch 4y ago
You've heard of the "royal we"? This is the "executive I". Where the potentate uses the former to lend the weight of the many to their words, the executive uses the latter to take personal credit for the work of man
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by beloch 4y ago
This article ends on a couple of pretty bizarre points. >Politico founding editor and editorial chairman John Harris reminded Smith on stage that "in the old days," a handful of people at a small number of outlets had all the a
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by beloch 4y ago
The famous EPR paradox paper [1] that Einstein co-authored remains one of my favourite "wrong" papers of all time. This paper points out some of the most basic, paradigm shifting implications of entanglement and concludes, not tha

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