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by beloch 7y ago
IBM viewed this tech seriously enough to be marketing it to the public in 2006. It wasn't a "Hey, we're making this." ad but more of an, "We're cool because we're working on this, sorta maybe." ad.
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by beloch 7y ago
Don't forget the Persians before the Muslims or all the self-inflicted damage from coups, inept emperors, etc.. In this case though, the fourth crusade really is important since it was when the Hagia Sophia was first looted during a sa
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by beloch 7y ago
That could have turned out so much worse for all involved, but I suspect those involved had different perceptions of the risks than we do now. Though there was still some risk of dying, this must have seemed like a cakewalk compared to jum
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by beloch 7y ago
The next step (that will probably never happen) would be to refurnish the Hagia Sophia, as it would have been before it was plundered in the fourth crusade, and seat an audience in it, as if for a mass. Then pop another balloon. All those
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by beloch 7y ago
Here's a study that might be even more interesting: 1. Have a reporter write a series of stories on several topics. 2. Label these stories with the same author name and have Group A read them. 3. Label these stories with a bunch of dif
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by beloch 7y ago
Reddit has become highly successful as a political discussion forum for people from pretty much every part of the spectrum, but the moderation is utterly opaque. Even relatively centrist subreddits, such as /r/Canada, have mods w
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by beloch 7y ago
The kicker is that scammers could claim their own site is being attacked in this manner and then drive up their clicks with bots. Google's response necessarily has to include denying sites revenue for clicks they deem fraudulent. This
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by beloch 7y ago
Any perceived stall may be an illusion for a couple of reasons: 1. Real-world performance is not necessarily linear with technological progress. 2. Landmarks by which we measure progress may be far apart. #1. We frequently compare computer
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by beloch 7y ago
If a company raises their prices and commits to spending more on software updates, users are going to buy a similarly spec'd phone that's cheaper. Their perceived value of software updates is "free". It's arguable
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by beloch 7y ago
The problem with planning obsolescence in this manner is that different people use their devices differently and have different expectations, both of which make their devices go obsolete at different times. An ancient phone that hasn't
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by beloch 7y ago
I'd really appreciate a comparison of how the sound was done. Although the SNES could not match the resolution of the Amiga, for my money OoTW sounds a lot better on the SNES.
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by beloch 7y ago
"Nuclear energy, to start with, is ultimately not safe, and the Germans have always been particularly uneasy with it. After the nuclear accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan in 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered the “Ato
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by beloch 7y ago
Canada's mint already created a crypto-currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip It didn't exactly explode in popularity, and has since been sold to a private corp. China won't be the first countr
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by beloch 7y ago
I'd be curious to know if Huawei phones and network devices are currently being used for surveillance in Hong Kong.
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by beloch 7y ago
There's an epsisode of "Abstract - The Art of Design" on netflix in which this building is featured.
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by beloch 7y ago
Always be wary of researchers who go straight to the publicity mill instead of seeking verification via a sample size >1.
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by beloch 7y ago
The Vasa museum is amazing. The ship itself sank 15 minutes into it's maiden voyage and had as uninteresting a career as can be imagined, but the museum captures a slice of 17th century Stockholm life in a way that's utterly comp
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by beloch 7y ago
Here's a page on why Firefox uses cloudflare for DNS resolving: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv... This page makes it sound like a good thing from a privacy stand-point, but I'm s
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by beloch 7y ago
Here's a sobering fact: HK's GDP was about 14% of China's GDP in 2000. Now it's about 2.4%. This is mainly due to growth in mainland China. HK is no longer China's golden goose, which is probably why China starte
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by beloch 7y ago
"The Nobel prize judges have always been sticklers for experimental proof." One of the big challenges of devising a grand-unifying theory of everything is that, if it doesn't make different predictions than existing theories
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by beloch 7y ago
Academic abstracts are very similar but evolved to serve a slightly different purpose. Papers take time to read and there are a lot of them coming out all the time, so researchers need to know if a paper has something they're intereste
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by beloch 7y ago
Consider the equation: 1+1=2 You don't have to understand the mathematical explanation for why this is so (one does exist) in order to have an intuition that serves you well in practically all situations. For most of us, there is no
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by beloch 7y ago
I did my M.Sc. in quantum physics, and I'll be the first to admit I don't understand it. Yes, the equations do seem to predict what we observe in experiments very well. Shockingly well, given how strange some of the predictions m
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by beloch 7y ago
The verdict is not yet in on whether Beyond Meat's products are actually healthier for you than real meat. Beyond Meat certainly makes this claim, but there exists debate[1]. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business&#x2
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by beloch 7y ago
Damn! Take that NES!
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by beloch 7y ago
It's always impressive to see somebody try to build something that lasts, and succeed. It's even rarer to see such a thing in consumer electronics. I'm currently sitting in the same room as a Bryston amplifier that, according
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by beloch 7y ago
I once decided that I should spend less time arguing online, so I collected a few pieces of advice for myself that I try to obey. 1. "People are allowed to be wrong on the internet." It's not my job to correct people who are
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by beloch 7y ago
I'd be curious about this farm's safety record. Wild moose are unpredictable and powerful. One thing that can trigger moose attacks is if one group of people feeds a moose and then another group denies it food. What happens if
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by beloch 7y ago
A huge part of advertising is getting users to feel that they can trust in a product or service enough to spend their money on it. Spend a bit of time watching TV commercials and see how many methods of establishing trust you can spot. T
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by beloch 7y ago
It's interesting that this happened in Bolu, which is nowhere near an international border. I'd be curious to know what tipped the police off that they should start tearing up carpet in this car. Were the smugglers stopped for so

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