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by ciphol 4y ago
There is still plenty of amazing engineering going on, for example EUV development at ASML.
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by ciphol 4y ago
I think Linux is the king of backwards compatibility, in that you can always download an old version of Linux and run your old software stack. Windows forces you to use a new version; Microsoft puts a lot of effort into backwards compatibil
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by ciphol 4y ago
I think that's real life.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Scroll a bit down and you can see animated construction cranes moving goods from place to place!
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by ciphol 4y ago
Nuclear was perfectly affordable until laws were passed to make it unaffordable (specifically: if nuclear power happened to be cheaper than other energy sources for any reason, then it was considered to be not spending enough on safety, so
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by ciphol 4y ago
We survived just fine in a temperate belt, developed intelligence there, and that intelligence allowed us to expand to the rest of the world.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Doomed? Most likely they will gradually recover most of the gap over the coming years.
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by ciphol 4y ago
In all honesty, I think that would lead to some form of nationalization of Gmail to force it to continue as a service. Approximately half of Americans use Gmail and that is "too big to fail".
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by ciphol 4y ago
When I was a teenager I thought kids were a pyramid scheme. If your life isn't worthwhile, then what point is there in creating another life whose worth will be equally questionable? This sounds like your "scapegoat for meaning of
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by ciphol 4y ago
There's no evidence of this, of course.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Even more ironically, environmemtal groups and green parties have essentially created the problem of climate change. If the whole world had switched to nuclear power starting in the 1970s, a large fraction of carbon emissions so far and a l
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by ciphol 4y ago
A handful of post docs haven't been able to complete their research projects because Intel's CPU development is behind schedule.
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by ciphol 4y ago
This article sounds like more of a cult or superstition than the "conventional wisdom" medical advice it wants to replace.
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by ciphol 4y ago
No, there are thousands of us here, and by chance one of us will have thought of the idea recently, and this time it's you.
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by ciphol 4y ago
The nice thing about math is that often it's much harder to find a proof than to verify that proof. So math AI is allowed to make lots of dumb mistakes, we just want it to make the occasional real finding too.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Is there a user-transparent way to run Gimp over RDP/VNC, similar to "ssh -X" for X11?
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by ciphol 4y ago
Isn't the determining factor not which companies your employer competes against, but where the jobs are located? For example Google pays "tier 3" compensation packages to its Bay Area employees, but compensation for a Google
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by ciphol 4y ago
For a lot of parents, cosleeping is effective in the short term but counterproductive in the longer term. Also, it's a SIDS risk.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Studies show that to prevent SIDS you should sleep in the same room as the baby, but not in the same bed.
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by ciphol 4y ago
So is a "pair of beers".
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by ciphol 4y ago
If you're playing Magnus Carlsen, you're probably pretty skilled to begin with.
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by ciphol 4y ago
I'm guessing - instead of memorizing "7*9=63" (and numerous other products), you memorize that the multiples of 9 are "9,18,27,36,45,54,63..." and the 7th one in that list is the one you want?
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by ciphol 4y ago
I would say that WebMD is better than Wikipedia. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, and in practice this means content often comes from idiosyncratic people with axes to grind. Wikipedia pages vary immensely in correctness, completeness, objectivit
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by ciphol 4y ago
That bitterness is cyanide, right?
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by ciphol 4y ago
Or as I heard it, "better to destroy your food than destroy your body".
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by ciphol 4y ago
Do the Amish, or Hasidic Jews or whoever, have lots of MLMs and Ponzi schemes?
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by ciphol 4y ago
> More than half of a nuclear plant is essentially the same as any large scale power plant (goal, gas...). Presumably that's the cheap half of the nuclear plant, because coal/gas plants are pretty cheap to build.
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by ciphol 4y ago
The example given of a high trust society is Finland. The example given of a low trust society is Afghanistan. [1] Which would you rather live in? https://theconversation.com/trusting-societies-are-overall-h...
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by ciphol 4y ago
Possibly the bacteria which decompose the corn emit CO2 as they "burn" the corn for their food?
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by ciphol 4y ago
The problem is that a few people would use their leisure to do important basic research, while most would use their leisure to do... leisure.

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