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by dguest 2y ago
The worst is a market facade for a government service. Examples in the US: - Weather apps: various governments do the (very expensive) computing and provide the data for free. Private companies insert adds, or charge you. I use Yr, which is
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Is there anything preventing a merchant in e.g. the US from using Pix?
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Everything I see is moving to Discourse [1] now. The experiment SW is a lot like the buildings and labs in every physics department I've been to: everyone is on a separate 3-5 year grant cycle and as such is contractually obliged not
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Interesting that there seems to be a shift toward Linux, if a slow one. Within my experiment (which has a few thousand collaborators) every paper is written in LaTeX and has to build in a linux environment to be submitted for publication. A
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by dguest 2y ago
The CERN experiments and CERN IT have contributed quite a lot to open source. Part of this is necessity: when your experiment draws thousands of collaborators from hundreds of institutions and dozens of different funding agencies it's
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by dguest 2y ago
Very interesting, thanks! So the "emergency" is a possible war with China? But how does that justify taxing (for example) Canada, or Mexico (or Lesotho)?
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CERN (also in CH) made a half-effort to switch away from MS a few years ago. MS had started charging them a crazy amount of money. They got a few people working on it and even switched a few of the back end services. And actually the open s
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by dguest 2y ago
Here's a simple explanation for what is going on in the US. I'd love to know if people think this is sufficient. There are two types of taxes: - Domestic taxes are levied by congress - International tariffs are controlled by one p
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Except it seems like the president has more control over tariffs. Taxes are approved by congress, so this was surprising to me. Does the president essentially has full reign to tariff whoever they want (for whatever reason) until the end of
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Polar orbits have to go west, because they have to counter the earth's rotation if they aim to cross over the pole. Further north means less rotation to counter.
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Newspeak phrase of the day: Conglomerate Discount. Some inverters believe they suffer from "conglomerate discount" [1]: that their whole conglomerate can be worth less than the sum of its parts. Who decides what the parts are wort
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Some defense lawyers have a flat rate (a few thousand USD) for drunk driving cases. They call up a few "experts" who can brandish a threat of paperwork at the prosecution and reliably get charges dropped to negligent operations or
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You forgot that the prosecution will go over the top on charges, as bargaining chips for a plea deal. None of these would ever stick in a real court, but if you're facing sexual assault charges (and a lifetime on the sex offender regis
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I did scoff a bit when the response to "it's hard to keep up with what's actually important in AI" with "just read this summary of the 10 most relevant papers every week ". Unless you are really working on the
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There was a great article about what would happen if Canada were a state: https://abcnews.go.com/538/trumps-push-canadian-statehood-hu... basically, assuming the US continues as a democracy in the same way it is now, t
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Is the frontend treadmill responsible for making browsers so expensive to maintain? Sorry for the incredibly naive question. I've only ever worked on "backend" projects. A few times I've made simple read-only pages in ra
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I'm guessing it will close less regularly if they need it open.
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Have we crossed the threshold where more "Graphics Processing Units" are sold for ML than for graphics processing? I remember thinking it was funny that gaming ultimately subsidized a lot of the major advances in ML for the last d
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That's a good point. You also need consistency in the chirality on asteroids (also with earth). If we find one asteroid with chirality that doesn't match earth, it's good evidence that self replication just happens spontane
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There's a weak connection, but to me it reads like clever marketing. Actually finding chirality in space would be extremely cool in that it would mean one of two things: - the panspermia hypothisis is correct, or - some non-biologica
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I sort of thought that was the whole point of the show: the humans live in a liberal utopia according to western progressives and the aliens are everyone else in the world they have to get along with. It let the writers comment on contempor
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My guess: they are the same update rate. The lens flares have blurrier edges and move less across the screen. This makes the jumps less obvious. CGI animations also add blurring, and even your eyes have an integration time that will make fa
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This is an interesting case of the "revive the economy" argument. If you really don't see a benefit, to you or your employer, to returning to work, you are being forced to waste money (spending implies you get something out
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One of the figures in the article [1] adds something to this point: military engines have much shorter lifetimes. So it seems it's not just "trickle down" technology, there's also some redesign for reliability. A commerc
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The the single best way to drive science and technology: teach everyone to format a json string share it via a URL. The people on the bleeding edge of science and technology aren't just sitting in futuristic labs, surrounded by hologra
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I feel like there's some fundamental fallacy in the idea that "a declining rate of scientific advancement" is a sign that the field is somehow being corrupted or rotting out from the inside. Science isn't like other comm
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Awesome to see yet another open source computational physics tool. The website scrolling is a bit awkward, I would prefer a quicker jump when clicking on links.
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Points about Russia or partisan politics aside, there are now at least 10M people living in the US who have a very strong incentive to hide all their data from the executive branch. That's to say nothing of the countless millions who m
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I'll take the risk that I'm missing a joke here and ask something very ignorant about linux. Why would you need a regional linux distribution? The base is all open source, and I'm guessing the merges originate from everywhere
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The precision (of the observed trajectory) increases. If the probability increased in general we should recalibrate our probability estimates.

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