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by floxy 3y ago
"Why should I believe in a real number if I can’t calculate it, if I can’t prove what its bits are, and if I can’t even refer to it? And each of these things happens with probability one! The real line from 0 to 1 looks more and more l
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by floxy 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleon_magnetic_moment
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by floxy 3y ago
Is there a price breakdown somewhere with a costed bill of materials?
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by floxy 3y ago
Looks like California has the 3rd highest rate after Hawaii and Rhode Island: https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/
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by floxy 3y ago
"Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser Pushed Lightsails" https://ia600704.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24... "A one-way interstellar flyby probe mission uses a 1000 kg (1-metric-ton), 3.
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by floxy 3y ago
Anyone working on a libc in Rust?
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by floxy 3y ago
Could be
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by floxy 3y ago
So that prompted me to try and look up which countries don't have U.S. troops. Came up with: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-troop-... Which says there is no presence in only these countrie
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by floxy 3y ago
>"everyone above 40 is retired" ...does that mean that everyone over 40 gets a government check every month? How much is that payment (relative to say the minimum wage)? Presumably those payments not indexed to inflation? So
880.
by floxy 3y ago
Never used it, but you might find https://tinytapeout.com/ interesting.
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by floxy 3y ago
Found it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...
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by floxy 3y ago
I think I know what you are looking for, but I can't find it either. I thought it was a Scott Alexander / Slate Star Codex / Astral Ten Codex article that covered the Yanomami or similar group in South America which use a no
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by floxy 3y ago
Maybe final assembly in Mexico? (for USMCA reasons) https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2023/09/byd-is-considering-b...
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by floxy 3y ago
According to this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/did-neutron-stars-or-supernov... ...one supernova can produce 7.4e22 kg of gold (the moon's mass), while a neutron star to neutron star collision can produce 1.9e27 kg
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by floxy 3y ago
Here's an interesting house: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/336-N-Bridge-St-Gettysbur...
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by floxy 3y ago
So are high prices not an incentive for house builders to ramp up and build more houses? What is the breakdown of costs to building a new house between labor, materials, land, permits/inspections, construction loan burden, etc.? Is a
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by floxy 3y ago
>needing to drive 30 minutes to go to the grocery store. I understand that this is hyperbole, but in this age-of-big-data, is there a way to quantify this? I'd like to see a histogram of miles from nearest grocery store vs. number
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by floxy 3y ago
Hmm, I don't follow your assertion. For the case under consideration, there is no "seeing" at a distance.
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by floxy 3y ago
I also feel like there is a hidden assumption here, that people were interested in the one-way-speed to see if it is Newtonian additive, like it is "c +/- a tiny little bit from the earth's motion around the sun". It se
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by floxy 3y ago
Synchronize A & B in one location. Move A & B apart in a careful manner. Send light pulse from A and record time-stamp on A's clock when pulse sent. When pulse is received at B, record time stamp on B's clock. Return c
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by floxy 3y ago
You could bring clocks A & B back together again.
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by floxy 3y ago
He is just logging timestamps of when the signal arrived. It shouldn't matter if the timestamp gets back to the central location by carrier pigeon. But maybe the catch is that it doesn't matter how slowly he moves the clocks int
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by floxy 3y ago
Just for people outside of the U.S., we do also have some deserts with sand dunes. https://www.blm.gov/visit/imperial-sand-dunes https://www.blm.gov/visit/sand-mountain-recreation-area https:&#x2
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by floxy 3y ago
Seems like France has one of the highest total fertility rates in the developed world. Nearly twice as high as South Korea. (1.7 vs 0.9 birth per woman, with 2.1 as the population replacement level). If any country is too far down the pop
895.
by floxy 3y ago
Could you give us some examples?
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by floxy 3y ago
>I do believe that Americans are trained since an early age to display at all times that they're not a threat Interesting. Since I'm the fish who can't see the water, could you provide me with some examples of this?
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by floxy 3y ago
Cultural differences aren't limited to international interactions either. Here's an interesting thing about exclamation points. Apparently there are (at least) two cultures of exclamation point usage in English. Apparently one
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by floxy 3y ago
>it's part of the U.S.A. but not part of the U.S.A.? Doesn't seem too wildly different from the various former Dutch colonies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname_(Kingdom_of_the_Nethe... https:/&
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by floxy 3y ago
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201357/v...
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by floxy 3y ago
Is the most offensive part the idea of sanctions in general? Or just these particular sanctions on Iran? Or enforcement of these particular sanctions or enforcement of sanctions in general? It doesn't seem like the Netherlands is op

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