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by centimeter 6y ago
> If you just want to make a living from your software This mindset is not compatible with creating multi-billion dollar software like Windows or GTA 5. The only way to do that involves financial structures that are more complicated than
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by centimeter 6y ago
> SuperCam fires a laser at mineral targets that are beyond the reach of the rover’s robotic arm, and then analyzes the vaporized rock to reveal its elemental composition. Like the ChemCam on rover Curiosity, SuperCam fires laser pulses
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by centimeter 6y ago
How does this compare to the behavior of nonlinear optical crystals like lithium triborate? They are also pumped at a lower frequency (e.g. 1064nm photons) but lase at twice that (532nm).
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by centimeter 6y ago
You're describing the concept known as "money".
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by centimeter 6y ago
Something being a lepton has nothing to do with whether it's a point particle. Pontryagin duality of position/momentum (which comes from both QM and Relativity, depending on your perspective) rules out the physical existence of po
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by centimeter 6y ago
“Point particle” is an approximation that doesn’t accurately predict reality. It only works at large actions. Classical is R^3, quantum is R^3 -> C. (Sort of; this glosses over a lot.) Objects don’t really have a concrete location; they
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by centimeter 6y ago
I’m not a company, I’m a person. International wires probably work better if you have accountants to hammer out the bullshit. I’ve never had a Bitcoin ATM fail, but I’ve had normal ATMs fail all the time even in first world countries like J
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by centimeter 6y ago
This is 10000% bullshit. Everyone on here says "oh yeah, it's easy to send a wire anywhere in the world", but as someone who's actually spent decades living abroad as a US citizen, this couldn't be further from the
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by centimeter 6y ago
How do you blame Thiel for bureaucratic bloat in the US government? NASA, the canonical example of a formerly productive organization becoming hopelessly turgid, was dysfunctional by the time he was a teenager.
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by centimeter 6y ago
You can't pull apart quark pairs because the energy involved is so large it will create new quarks to pair up with the ones you're separating. Antimatter would make a great energy storage medium, if we could create it efficiently
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by centimeter 6y ago
Action quantization (colloquially "planck scale") suggests limits on how small these things can get (very small size = very high momentum, which is not observed).
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by centimeter 6y ago
> "Protecting" the city by attempting to limit Black people to certain areas. Why do you put protecting in quotes? The residents of areas typically like to be protected from demographic disruption, especially if the disrupting
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by centimeter 6y ago
This blog is interesting because the author is clearly on the cusp of achieving a greater level of understanding. He's thinking about a lot of things as deeply as possible in the normie intellectual framework, and he's running int
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by centimeter 6y ago
> it’s not like they killed a cop Correct, it doesn't seem like they did; the NYT story was debunked. > dragged an enemy flag through the senate The rebel flag isn't an "enemy flag" any more than the Republic of Te
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by centimeter 6y ago
> boomer panty raid > "coup" Come on, man.
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by centimeter 6y ago
> The solution is to foster an appreciation of the values of freedom and independence in the population This is almost entirely heritable, and can only be "fostered" through demographic management.
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by centimeter 6y ago
I think it’s unfortunate that society has become pacified to a point that people generally will not use e.g. minor equipment sabotage to deal with nuisances like this that otherwise take excessive bureaucratic nonsense to combat.
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by centimeter 6y ago
> high-pitch "safety" beeping This drives me insane. I know some shithead lawyer or safety “activist” somewhere is responsible for all the bullshit beeping I have to deal with in my life. A fire alarm going off for no reason. (
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by centimeter 6y ago
Ted Chiang’s “life cycle of software objects” is also similar to the OP. Basically about how an AI (not strictly an upload) would probably be subjected to all sorts of horrible shit if it was widely available.
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by centimeter 6y ago
Stephenson went from “uncensorable machine gun schematics” in the 90s to “but what if someone posts fake news on Facebook?” in 2020. His newer books average a lot worse than his older books.
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by centimeter 6y ago
I don’t want it, but I’ll tolerate it given the benefits.
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by centimeter 6y ago
The overwhelming majority of hacks are dragnet, not targeted.
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by centimeter 6y ago
People who choose to take stupid risks don’t deserve pity if they get burned.
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by centimeter 6y ago
It’s generous of you to assume that laws are passed and repealed based on benefit. We already had a natural experiment, in which Australian publishers were free not to share their content on fb.
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by centimeter 6y ago
This attitude is why 98% of software is absolute dogshit. Have some pride.
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by centimeter 6y ago
The structure of your comment suggests you don't grasp the fundamental point of proof-of-work, which is precisely to prove that a certain amount of (physical) resources were expended. > Is there any reason a cryptocurrency can’t be
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by centimeter 6y ago
Maybe when someone invents a “free” consensus scheme that actually competes with PoW’s security properties. There are plenty of reasons to suspect this isn’t possible.
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by centimeter 6y ago
Ah, well if he uses basic math, his conclusions must be correct.
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by centimeter 6y ago
I've never gotten a counterfeit sold by amazon, but I have gotten used items sold as "new" by Amazon (not by a third-party seller). In one instance, the item was not only used, but a piece of safety-critical equipment in an
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by centimeter 6y ago
Amazon has become exceedingly dishonest over the last few years. They deleted my negative review of the Kindle with no explanation or recourse. Since maybe November, a couple of things I've ordered (shipped and sold by Amazon) were lis

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