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by dguest 8mo ago
What language will humans be reading in 10,000 years?
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by dguest 8mo ago
Does FB data count against your data quota in these countries? I've been quite a few places where it's impossible to buy a sim card that doesn't give you free facebook and WhatsApp. You can't use the real internet withou
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by dguest 8mo ago
Where do you get this from? From what I could see it applied to everything from cars to laptops.
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by dguest 8mo ago
cutting out quite a bit from section 11: A portable battery shall be ... removable by the end-user ... with the use of commercially available tools, without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless provided free of charge with t
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by dguest 8mo ago
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263v2 Note: I like arXiv links anyway, but in this case something about the page was killing my browser, had to reload a few times.
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by dguest 8mo ago
Also worth noting that if computing power scales with volume then surface area (and thus radiation) scales like p^2/3. In other words, for a fixed geometry, the required heat dissipation per unit area goes like p^1/3. This is why
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by dguest 8mo ago
The only way this makes sense for communities is as a kind of "finder's fee", i.e. you might argue that if BigTechOne™ knew that they'd have to bid against BigTechTwo™ they'd never even bother to scope out the locat
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by dguest 8mo ago
I think it's equal parts "who" and "how much". If Walt Disney wants to buy a bunch of random houses in Florida I think most people would sell them for market price. But if they all know that their specific house i
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by dguest 8mo ago
I think what you are talking about is called "tragedy of the anticommons" [1]. Who gets to decide if an airport or data center gets built is a complicated question. But there are other options to keeping one party in the dark via
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by dguest 8mo ago
I'd like to hear the argument for why this is needed. I can imagine a number of reasons, but this is all I found in the article: > If I’m a company considering making strategic investments... I don’t want my competition to know wher
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by dguest 9mo ago
I find it sad if they never have the opportunity. If they don't like to travel I put them in the same category as people who don't like fancy coffee, playing sports, wine, video games, or science. I like a lot of those things but
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by dguest 9mo ago
But maybe you will be able to soon! The ERC apparently allocated 11M € for a project to create "an olfactory equivalent of Google Street View" [1]. (yes, I know this wasn't the point) [1]: https://cordis.europa.eu&
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by dguest 9mo ago
Or you visit and then read the Wikipeida article. I mean even better as a double-decker wikipedia sandwich, but good as long as you read it. I spent my last 3 hours in Hungary reading about the 1957 revolution [1]. The whole city was out
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by dguest 10mo ago
But punishing ex-presidents is what happens in banana republics! We wouldn't want to become one of those! As long as we never hold leaders accountable I'm sure we'll be safe from that fate.
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by dguest 11mo ago
Weird that I couldn't find the paper on arXiv: in my field I just google the title prefixed with "arXiv" and it pops up. Some earlier articles by the same authors are there though (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs&#
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by dguest 11mo ago
Crazy what those kooky Europeans do. Now if I have a friend, I can - send a file to their phone - charge their phone if they visit me [1] (without a huge bag of accessories) - send them money [2] (without them giving some weird company thei
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by dguest 11mo ago
I agree, this might just be an interface design decision. Maybe telling it not to talk about internal data structures was the easiest way to give it a generic "human" nature, and also to avoid users explicitly asking about interna
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by dguest 11mo ago
You either believe that monopolies produce worse products or you don't. If you believe it, the "I know they are bad" -> "but we need to complete with the boogie man" -> "we need to build our own monopoly&
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by dguest 1y ago
There's HarmonyOS [1], which is developed by Huawei, and which has a similar mix of open (OpenHarmony) and proprietary components. I haven't used it, but it's supported by quite a few phones and sort of surprised it wasn&#x27
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by dguest 1y ago
Yes! The "pass through itself" criteria is the same as "has one shadow that fits entirely inside another shadow". If you allow "one shadow equals another shadow" then it's trivially true for every shape be
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by dguest 1y ago
good point: I'd fix the post but it's too old. Well hopefully it gets downvoted into oblivion soon.
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by dguest 1y ago
35 years ago South Africa had the apartheid, and now they outrank the US on a The Economist's Democracy Index [1]. So yeah, things move fast. Nitpick: The US Voting Rights Act became law in 1965 [2], which is more like 60 years ago.
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by dguest 1y ago
I didn't realize Amazon was offering payment plans for laptops. I'd only ever seen that for cars and houses. Which makes me wonder, what do they do when people default on payments? Do they have a kill switch they can throw? Or do
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by dguest 1y ago
My understanding was that they correct them either way. I assume random IRS employees don't have much to gain by allowing people to overpay taxes: they are just civil servants doing their day job.
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by dguest 1y ago
> and also I'm now in trouble I know people who mess it up every year and the government just sends the forms back corrected. In fact they started treating the government like a tax prep service. Do people actually get in trouble fo
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by dguest 1y ago
I agree, tax prep will probably be done by AI soon, for better or worse. On the other hand, there's a broader business model here: lobbying to obfuscate mandatory government paperwork so that a 3rd party service is practically a requir
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by dguest 1y ago
Maybe the AI will create a level playing field and make the tax prep / loophole industry collapse. Or maybe the free models will start responding with """ It looks like you're asking for help with tax preparation. I
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by dguest 1y ago
Ok so there should be "beams" coming from each "instrument"? I didn't see that, but some of the sites are inactive at the moment.
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by dguest 1y ago
There are "beams" and "instruments". Does anyone know what the distinction is?
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by dguest 1y ago
We have a few [0]. Some others have pointed out ISS, but there's also Tiangong which you can filter for [1] by looking for 48274 (the NORAD ID). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_stations#Operati...

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