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by greesil 6y ago
Only because of Elon and team, and a huge brick of money that NASA gave them.
842.
by greesil 6y ago
Yeah, but most of those with living memory of ww2 are dead now. I'm sure having huge graveyards around everywhere plus unexploded ordnance may keep it in the national psyche, but idk I'm just an American.
843.
by greesil 6y ago
Anyone living in the US after September 11th 2001 can tell you how the jingoist button was switched from off to on in the space of a month.
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by greesil 6y ago
Didn't they try to do this as Google Health > 10 years ago?
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Lower-Income Americans Get Cheated on Property Taxes(nytimes.com)
78 points by greesil 6y ago|59 comments
846.
by greesil 6y ago
If you lose someone it hurts. But wouldn't trying to create a simulacrum of your loss just prolong the hurt?
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by greesil 6y ago
Supposedly this impacts crop yields. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/08/reflecti...
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by greesil 6y ago
I first encountered it for deriving finite element methods for structural analysis, and later as a general method for PDEs. Sadly this treatment is about as inscrutable as my grad level PDE course.
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by greesil 6y ago
Robots that achieve OKRs.
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by greesil 6y ago
According to the website below, the DP solution is O(n^2 * 2^n). That would be a big speedup. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/travelling-salesman-problem-se...
851.
by greesil 6y ago
The post was a real eye opener for me as well.
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Spartan School (2019)(acoup.blog)
172 points by greesil 6y ago|154 comments
853.
by greesil 6y ago
How did the bees fare?
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From Crypto Art to Trading Cards, Investment Manias Abound(nytimes.com)
3 points by greesil 6y ago|0 comments
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by greesil 6y ago
Testimony: https://www.c-span.org/video/?126036-1/presidential-commissi...
856.
by greesil 6y ago
An object killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Sometimes it helps to have a sense of scale on how things are worded. Also, marketing.
857.
by greesil 6y ago
Ah, financial innovation.
858.
by greesil 6y ago
This is like a namecoin for digitally produced content. This doesn't seem like anything new.
859.
by greesil 6y ago
I'm not an aerospace engineer, but IMO this is the most innovative thing in aviation I've seen in the past 20 years.
860.
by greesil 6y ago
There is a slow rotor variant of an autogyro that has the same efficiency as small single engine plane, which is pretty cool. They also claim it can take off and land vertically. https://verticalmag.com/news/carteravia
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by greesil 6y ago
https://www.bu.edu/jostl/files/2020/08/3-Lee.pdf I don't do business in China, so I'm not speaking from personal experience. It seems forced technology transfer is a thing.
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by greesil 6y ago
As far as I understand it SBIRs are a way to get seed rounds, maybe a series A, in silicon valley parlance. I'm sure there's an ecosystem of people in the know who get them regularly, and it's not a meritocracy. It's jus
863.
by greesil 6y ago
Success in business as a foreigner requires making friends in high places, plus some IP transfer.
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by greesil 6y ago
Could you provide some context to what you just wrote? I know it seems like spitting in the wind commenting here, but it sounds pretty random unless you talk about details. By opportunity do you mean academic, business, or something else? W
865.
by greesil 6y ago
Nice strawman argument.
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by greesil 6y ago
I'd like to sell you a car, since you're not the negotiating type.
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by greesil 6y ago
Very clever!
868.
by greesil 6y ago
It's hard to browse Twitter when your battery is 296 mAh and the screen is very small. I have found this is good for my mental well being.
869.
by greesil 6y ago
What about under age 40? Or 45? Or 50?
870.
by greesil 6y ago
What I'm trying to say is that it's rare in the general population. Maybe it's common enough in the population of people that have certain symptoms, like blood in stool, that it really does deserve a strong response and not t

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