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by dave333 2y ago
I had the same feeling about 10 years ago before I got a new mouse with a wheel for scrolling. Prior to that the increasingly vestigial and disappearing/reappearing if hovered over scrollbars were a huge annoyance. There should be a pa
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by dave333 2y ago
Are you old enough to have experienced a bear market? Investing 100% in stocks can suffer big drawdowns when there is an extended bear market say down 40% over several years. I would diversify with small portions (5-10% each) in gold, crypt
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by dave333 2y ago
Spaced repetition should be automated by inserting it into the most popular games that education authorities can license in bulk. So students get to play their favorite games for free but they have to do spaced repetition learning to get to
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Given that Northern Ireland is effectively in the EU trade-wise it would make sense for UK to put most of the southern UK into the same state for frictionless trade with the EU, but have areas of the UK that can free trade with the rest of
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by dave333 2y ago
Having retired in 2018 in part because I couldn't learn React (about my 15th web framework in 20 years) this is ironic.
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It's interesting that skeptics are always vague and dismissive - I think very few have actually studied the theory - I'm not aware of any specific rebuttal other than the infamous Rathke paper that initially had a sign error in th
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Yes everyone, especially including all the believers, is waiting for the definitive demonstration that makes everyone stop and say whoa, WTF is going on. I envisage something like putting a suncell on top of a mountain and illuminating the
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They are using concentrator photovoltaics than can handle light 1000 times more intense than normal sunlight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrator_photovoltaics and the actual suncell lightsource in operation wit
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Videos are evidence of the many problems they have run into getting it to work reliably. One good reason to hold back would be intellectual property/stealth mode development. They have many patents but have had some patents rescinded a
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See engineering challenges documented above and https://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/ and their video archive also they have hydrinos isolated in a test tube and have performed many analytical experiments to me
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Except for dark matter, dark energy, accelerating expansion of the universe, sun's coronal temperature, mature galaxies in the earliest times after the big bang...
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They have a new (since 1990s) classical model of atomic structure that is superior to the electron probability cloud model. It models the electron as a thin fluid shell that spins around the nucleus along all great circle paths. It allows c
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There have been a well documented series of engineering solutions to problems in the implementation that have taken time to solve. Melting electrodes due to too much power - solved by molten stream electrodes C 2016. Melting holes in the re
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by dave333 2y ago
There's a better way to get power or heat from hydrogen that is 200 times better than burning it: https://brilliantlightpower.com/shareholder-meeting-presenta...
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by dave333 2y ago
What are you going to do when ageism catches up with your technical ability? I made it to retirement at 65 as a technical individual contributor but the last 10 years were a struggle trying to learn a new framework every 2 years. What does
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Google US Open 2024 Search Omits DeChambeau(google.com)
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On Sunday evening Google search results for "US Open 2024" was showing a table with DeChambeau omitted from 1st place and had him T58 lower in the table. Later early on Monday the table was moved below the fold but still shows inc
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by dave333 2y ago
Maybe create a Google translate language that is only the monosyllabic words in English so output would be monosyllabic but understandable. So propaganda might become lies. The demo text from the Glish explorer page: Type a sentence or para
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I worked at Aim Tech (of Aim benchmark fame) on a performance management tool Sun contracted with us to build for its servers that had a physical view - photorealistic images of the rack and each board with component level highlighting of s
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The location of the 3 northernmost sites is on existing geographic features that predate Christianity so there was no choice of location for those. However the church may have noticed these three were in a straight line and extrapolated fro
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by dave333 2y ago
Remove tax breaks above $1M or above local median price + 2 sigma.
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Government policy is hugely biased towards homeowners and against renters. It would be more equitable to help renters more, perhaps by helping them become (first-time or partial) homeowners. Two schemes: 1) Government could put up down paym
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by dave333 2y ago
Hosted a few small but profitable web sites on Hostgator since 2005 - cheap and no need to worry about infrastructure beyond hosting files. Only problems have been wordpress sites getting hacked.
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Have govt mandated living standards - medicare for all, minimum wage. Make corps revenue neutral - they fund all the services for their employees. Govt fund unemployed including UBI. Make corp tax rate = base + misery index = base + inflati
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by dave333 2y ago
Thank you. Maybe have a solution graphic that user can get by clicking on a solution button or that pops up after X failed swipes.
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Bumping my thread since it got hijacked by the downward swipe vs scroll business.
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Got stuck on the first swipe diagonal example - tried about 25 swipes but not the correct one. Need a hint or even solve button until I get how these work. Then after I went to the daily puzzle I couldn't get back to the training examp
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by dave333 2y ago
Fifty years ago there was a big debate about whether or not pocket electronic calculators should be allowed in exams since they would enable people with poor arithmetic skills. Slide rules were allowed since there is some skill using a slid
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Construction paper quilts - have precut shapes and examples to give them inspiration. Teaches about geometry and symmetry in a very informal organic way.
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The most equitable way to fix this is instead of reducing benefits to 83% of normal across the board, they should reduce the benefits for the rich who do not need it anyway.

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