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by dguest 1y ago
It's more complicated than that. Benevolent aliens are planting incompetent people in positions of power so that we are perpetually on the verge of self-annihilation. But this is all to save us from the malevolent aliens who would obli
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by dguest 1y ago
Which people curing diseases are making 400k a year? If you're talking about academic research I'd expect around 300k to be the high end.
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by dguest 1y ago
How long ago did net neutrality laws force carriers to charge for WhatsApp traffic?
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by dguest 1y ago
Mostly donations [1]. The yearly budget is around $30M, which is a lot but pretty tiny for an app so many people use. They only have around 40 employees [2]. Personally I think the small staff, donation-based funding, and security-focused s
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by dguest 1y ago
Starship is 1.2 kilotons, but I feel like quoting rockets in kilotons might cause some confusion.
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by dguest 1y ago
The issue is being framed very differently from IE and MS though. You have, to paraphrase: > Internet.org [1] is providing free internet to millions of people who didn't have it 5 years ago. vs > Free WhatsApp is harming market e
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by dguest 1y ago
In a lot of developing countries WhatsApp doesn't count against your data plan. Signal data is billed like any other app. It's not easy asking all your friends to pay for something they already get "for free".
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by dguest 1y ago
I think you're right, but it's not how I remember it for some reason. I didn't read the book "Bullshit Jobs" [1] as an attempt to quantify how many jobs were bullshit. The author was an anthropologist with no intere
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by dguest 1y ago
I love this: - Most of it is CSS, which when removed still produces a pretty functional website. - Most of the CSS is just one (commented out) background image - There are about 5 lines of java script, which seem to just exist to obfuscate
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by dguest 1y ago
Not to mention that it assumes assumes lying, cheating, and corruption is just the price you pay for quality products. Seriously, if people are framing this in terms of "what's good for industry" vs "what is the right th
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by dguest 1y ago
Yeah it's pretty essential that construction equipment be pretty easy to construct and deconstruct. There are some videos [1] which are worth checking out. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx5Qt7_ECEE
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by dguest 1y ago
Yeah, MIT-affiliation certainly doesn't imply good presentation skills, I agree with you there. I wonder about this too, but I think any academic institute asks a lot of PhD students. 90% of it isn't about giving a good public tal
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by dguest 1y ago
That's an optimization. See I'm thirsty, but I can drink the water later. And my grant proposal is due at midnight tonight (12:01 on Sunday, technically), and my PhD student is texting me to say that he can't log into the clu
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by dguest 1y ago
Don't confuse a polished TED talk from a practiced speaker with a seminar from any random person in academia. I'm sad to admit I've given talks (many recorded) that are much worse than this. These seminar-style talks in parti
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by dguest 1y ago
It's a histogram. Each color is a different simulated physical process: they can all happen in particle collisions, so the sum of all of them should add up to the data the experiment takes. The data isn't shown here because it has
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by dguest 1y ago
How do you feel about stacked plots on a logarithmic y axis? Some physics experiments do this all the time [1] but I find them pretty uninitiative. [1]: https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PUBNOTES&
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by dguest 1y ago
I discovered the feature accidentally a few days ago while I was trying to simultaneously write a presentation, book accommodations, submit travel paperwork, and brief my colleagues on what they should do while I'm away. And for the la
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by dguest 1y ago
Yeah that was my assumption as well. There's no custom of tipping that much at any of these places, but I feel cheap just clicking the lowest (no tip) of 4 options. Maybe all the time I've lived in the US plays a role here but it
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by dguest 1y ago
As a European have you noticed a recent increase in tipping in Europe as well? In Switzerland a lot of the restaurants that have moved to tablets for payment, and the payment screen pops up a "suggested tip" window with a few opti
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by dguest 1y ago
At the same time, it gives me some hope that humanity can still get smarter. Progress in science and technology oscillates between breakthroughs and consolidation: new ideas are exciting but the repercussions and formalism need some time to
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by dguest 1y ago
Glad to see this posted more! I was asking about this 9 months ago and it started quite a thread [1]. I remember learning about this in grade school, finding it pretty confusing, and wondering why a simple "newton's third law&quot
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by dguest 1y ago
original source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12267
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by dguest 1y ago
Depends on what you mean by "image". We might be able to capture blurry blobs with our current telescopes. Let's say you want to take a picture of Alien Manhattan 100 light years away, where you can see e.g. bridges and build
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by dguest 1y ago
also: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12267 (if you want a cleaner interface)
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by dguest 1y ago
As a left handed person I learned to write everything differently. I cross the t's going the opposite way that this font recommends, and I write some numbers (like 4 and 7) with some strokes going the "wrong" way. Most of the
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by dguest 1y ago
I appreciate the replies, and asking chatgpt is good advice. It took some prompting to get it to say "It's really not rocket science." though. https://chatgpt.com/share/67fa2c5f-d940-800a-bdad-b723e763e0.
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by dguest 2y ago
This is pretty much what I was asserting in my original post, my question was if there was some additional mechanism beyond simple market forces. It's not inconceivable (nor magical in any way) to imagine treaties that would allow an a
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by dguest 2y ago
Well, at your suggestion I did ask ChatGPT, and it pointed to one sort of magic trick: currency swaps between central banks. That is (kind of) a machine where one type of money goes in one side and the other type comes out the other. Ther
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by dguest 2y ago
> The Treasury is the machine you're looking for... In a sense, yes dollars are "destroyed" in that they leave that monetary system. So are you saying there's an procedure where the US treasury takes USD out of circul
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by dguest 2y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but how is the "single large rebalancing transfer" accomplished? I don't know of any machine where dollars go in one side, are destroyed, and euros are created on the other side. My assumption w

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