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by frongpik 6y ago
12,000 B.C. was a major cataclysm that erased the last few pieces of the previous civilization, so it's more or less okay to call 10,000 B.C. as an early period of [this] civilization since people had to start from scratch.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Sounds like an episode from The Office.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Those quantum models are just more obscure and more accurate abstractions. Otherwise we wouldn't have copenhagen and other interpretations. The fact that abstractions are accurate doesn't make them more real. Example: navier stoke
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by frongpik 6y ago
This is what I meant by a thought-terminating answer. Magnetic field is not a "vector field" because a "vector field" is a math abstraction, while magnetic field is real. Just like water is not a diff equation with bound
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by frongpik 6y ago
I've just watched a movie with him, about that PFOA stuff. If he's aiming at a class action lawsuits, I'd sign up.
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by frongpik 6y ago
What is it made of?
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by frongpik 6y ago
The article is a pain to read: it's a word salad with just a few bits of information. I can see how such articles will be generated by GPT with a prompt like "voyager crossed the heliosphere boundary and found weirdly turbulent sp
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by frongpik 6y ago
It's the lack of interesting new information that drives humans to look into these portable screens. Humans aren't cats to be content with the 4 walls around them.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Regarding flying spheres, there's also electro(static) lift caused by Earth's electric field pointing upwards. The drag is microscopic, but some tiny insects have figured how to use it for flying. I wonder if a light sphere could
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by frongpik 6y ago
Unless you use carbon fiber or other super light materials. In other words, weight is more or less disconnected from size.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Sounds like a new field of software engineering in the near future. And I like how the author casually mentions that there's an unexplained "linker" code in the AAA sequence that controls the number of copies to be made, with
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by frongpik 6y ago
Who's going to provide the most successfull data collection platform (Android, etc.) for CIA/NSA? Not only people around the world carry a device with a mic and a gps tracker, they voluntarily and with enthusiasm report all their
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by frongpik 6y ago
That stable neutron can be a stable tetraquark with zero electric charge, or something of that sort. It has been eluding lhc experiments for the same reason dark matter has been eluding them: detecting neutron like particles is extremely di
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by frongpik 6y ago
Ads are inherently immoral and it's ok to watch a movie for free as nothing is stolen in that case. Ads are immoral because the website gets access to the biggest distribution channel in history - the internet, access to the financial
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by frongpik 6y ago
Your interviewers rarely have real world consulting experience, meeting with clients and solving real problems tied to real money. What they mean by that "1 hour delivery" is a system design question that must be answered along th
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by frongpik 6y ago
If you aced the technical questions, then it must be the behavioral part. One big trap there is the question about conflict resolution. The naive answer "I avoid conflicts" is a mistake: according to the trendy big five personalit
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by frongpik 6y ago
Dark matter made of neutrons would take more time to form a disk. Ballpark estimate: neutrons are 50e3 times smaller, but we need 5x and of them, so dark matter is 10e3 slower at forming disks. In this model, neutrons aren't decaying:
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by frongpik 6y ago
Wimps seem to be exotic particles of unknown structure. My guess is that regular neutrons are enough, so long as they are "fixed" to be stable.
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by frongpik 6y ago
We aren't stagnating. We're moving dangerously fast: in the past century we've made more technical progress than in the past 10 thousand years. If anything, I'm worried that we'll make more progress in the next 50 y
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by frongpik 6y ago
Neutrons visibly interact with matter, but only when there's a lot of that matter, e.g. reactors use neutrons to heat water. I'm yet to read the two links you provided, though. The story is different in the interstellar space. The
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by frongpik 6y ago
Iirc, we'd only need 10 neutrons per each hydrogen atom to explain the dark matter gravity. OK, if neutrons would be observable, are there any weird visual effects in galaxy cores that could be attributed to such neutron clouds?
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by frongpik 6y ago
Restrictions and punishments always have concrete beneficiaries - dark, broken personalities with a blind lust for power and money. On the other hand, freedoms don't have concrete beneficiaries, so it takes a Lincoln-caliber person to
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by frongpik 6y ago
We've been given an illusion of choice between a few carefully preselected candidates. Most of positions in today's ballots are like this: a really bad candidate and a bunch of lunatics or outright fakes as an alternative.
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by frongpik 6y ago
These clowns have been trying so hard the entire year that I wonder if they're trying to distract us from something really important. Given how coordinated the entire world is, it must be no less than an alien spaceship.
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by frongpik 6y ago
How would they bonk onto anything? A neutron is a tiny particle 50000 smaller than a hydrogen atom. Without an electric charge, it would float straight thru anything and we wouldn't know.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Interact enough to drop a noticeable shadow? Iirc, a neutron is 50e3 times smaller than a hydrogen atom.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Are there neutron-like particles that are stable?
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's my perception as well, but iirc, time was slow for me when I was 25. I'd attribute this acceleration to neurons wearing out and thus needing more time to conduct signals, as well as growing apathy when there's less &qu
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by frongpik 6y ago
Not exactly a plateau. More like a singularity threshold.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Is it possible that dark matter is a cloud of slow neutrons? They wouldn't be able to firm electron clouds and without those they would be invisible.

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