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by evo 4y ago
I feel like there’s a natural adoption curve to social media: 1. The growing social media platform balances the needs of two user groups: the consumer’s need for fresh content and the neophyte producer’s need for a slowly ramping trickle of
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by evo 5y ago
I actually wouldn't be surprised if it did have a direct VLF antenna system. If the Dead Hand had triggered, that suggests multiple Soviet C&C headquarters went offline due to a first strike, and at that point you can't really
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by evo 5y ago
Historically, I think the answer is even scarier: the Dead Hand system presupposes that a centralized power is necessary to start nuclear war, the American system has been to delegate that power to regional and even theater-level military c
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by evo 5y ago
The most consequential recipient of said orders is going to be a ballistic nuclear submarine deep underwater, and water is a terrific shield for the higher frequency radio bands a satellite will have access to. I'm guessing the command
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by evo 5y ago
I recall hearing a hypothesis that one consequence of global warming might be an uptick in opportunistic fungal infections. Warm-bloodedness might be largely an adaptation to make the human body uninhibitable by environmental pathogens, but
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by evo 5y ago
I suspect their primary advantage remains shelf-stability at room temperatures, which will make them stay relevant for military applications, e.g. you don't want a cryogenics facility in your submarine or cruise missile launch platform
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by evo 5y ago
That’s totally fair—I was thinking more like a small nation-state being able to leverage a relatively small enrichment program rather than a private independent program. I’m sure there’s all sorts of experimentally determined magic numbers
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by evo 5y ago
I find the proliferation concerns of this technology to be rather scary--if LLNL could cobble this together in a few rush months with slide rules back in the late 50s, what could an adversary with modern computational fluid dynamics and a p
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by evo 5y ago
Not quite--a conventional thermonuclear weapon uses a "tamper" surrounding the secondary, essentially a cylinder of uranium that's designed to eat the spike of x-rays coming off the primary and convert it into a compressive f
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by evo 5y ago
> What is actually different? They are the other party--a market maker isn't (outside of the "designated market makers" I referenced earlier) a special participant in trading, they're just like you or me. If I put a
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by evo 5y ago
Here's my understanding, starting with some background terminology: Everything that's tradable on an exchange (an "instrument") has a bid/ask spread that represents the highest price someone's willing to pay to
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by evo 5y ago
I wonder if this problem flows both ways. I suspect that at least housing and school (or the overlap, housing in good school districts) is to some degree a zero-sum game whose costs are set at the margins. In tech metros, where those margin
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by evo 5y ago
I wonder if there are learnings from this that could be transposed into the 1-D domain for audio; as far as I know, aliasing is a frequent challenge when using deep learning methods for audio (e.g. simulating non-linear circuits for guitar
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by evo 5y ago
There's a nuance here: it's possible to both want systemic change on the macro scale, but also meanwhile seek a local maximum for oneself given the current system dynamics at play. By proxy, I might advocate that income inequality
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by evo 5y ago
That’s a great callout as well: it’s optimal for maximizing your expected growth in the long term, but does carry significant volatility. That’s fine for an emotionless immortal robot investor, but as we’re human. If we’re close to an inves
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by evo 5y ago
It's useful as an upper limit--if you're leveraging past what Kelly suggests you're almost certainly overleveraged. In theory, Kelly is optimal--if you knew the exact probability density function of your returns, it would giv
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by evo 5y ago
I wonder if you could build some sort of deliberate reflector into a microphone housing to generate comb filtering that an analytic technique (or ML) could derive spatial data from. I know in the limit this is possible, since there's d
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by evo 5y ago
I always find these orphaned technological branches compelling, in part, because it's so easy to point to the success story and treat it like it was a singular invention. We hold up the iPhone as a miracle but forget the Newton and Pal
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by evo 5y ago
I agree with you 100% that "side projects as an antidote for burning out on your primary job" is a dangerous place to be, and I've been there several times in my career with deleterious effects. I agree with your recommendati
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by evo 5y ago
I think there's always inherent tradeoffs to specialization vs. generalization, and side projects/side hustles are more of a generalization technique. It feels rather akin to the "exploration vs exploitation" tradeoff in
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by evo 5y ago
As someone adjacent to this role, a lot of the time this sort of "hands off" behavior is incentivized; the reason the principal is not jumping in and taking point on making the final decision and implementing is because that sever
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by evo 5y ago
I feel like they're one of the only tools we have collectively as a society to counteract "tragedy of the commons"/negative externality situations. Is a tax that brings the financial costs of an action in line with its d
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by evo 5y ago
I suspect a lot of this sort of illiquid asset inflation is a bid to cache wealth in difficult to track forms. The last decade of interest-rate-driven income inequality has turned into a corresponding wealth inequality, but some combination
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by evo 6y ago
While I agree that an individual should look at it as a lottery ticket, as a society we should be careful about macro trends towards new lotteries. Many big tech companies arise from disintermediation plays--finding some market that has hig
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by evo 6y ago
I feel like there's two different skill-sets at play--the ability to learn a piece, as printed, and play it back accurately, and then this, which is more improvisational skills. The two skill sets intertwine but mastery of one does not
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by evo 9y ago
How do you disentangle the correlation, though? Is it not also possible that a driven person retires because, perhaps subconsciously, they recognize symptoms that both impair their continued performance and portend their imminent demise?
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by evo 10y ago
Not necessarily true, as the effort to miniaturize the package size for use in ICBM warheads proceeded, they've successively reduced from the "soccerball" style of lenses in the trinity device down to only a handful (it is a
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by evo 12y ago
I was thinking if it would be feasible to implement an OpenCV-style facial recognition script that could require sustained attention from the user to preserve an open session on the computer. If that user stops watching the screen or is phy
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by evo 12y ago
That wouldn't matter (at least as I understand the article explanation). There's 2^3 = 8 different stamp configurations, two of which (RRR/GGG) trivially have 100% match likelyhood. The other six are all equivalent, and they
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by evo 12y ago
The problem isn't solely in rendering fast enough--it's end-to-end latency. Keep in mind that if your eye is being tracked by a 120Hz camera, that's 1/120 =~ 8.3ms latency just from inter-frame time alone. Add to that al

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