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by grkvlt 5y ago
wait - does this mean that some super capable civilisation could link the various galaxies in their inter-galactic empire with a space-railway (i.e. using actual physical tracks between them in space) assuming they have the staggeringly vas
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by grkvlt 5y ago
also, lying requires intent - saying somthing you know to be false, and is not the same as making mistakes, errors, etc.
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by grkvlt 5y ago
not exactly modern, or dystopian - see also paper money, for instance, which may be owned by you, but is controlled by another entity and contains features making it hard to modify or duplicate. the analogy is flimsy, i suppose (paper thin,
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by grkvlt 5y ago
the first twitter video link in a comment above looks like dashcam footage?
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by grkvlt 5y ago
i thought the same thing as go comment - remember "it's" is an abbreviation for "it is", reading the article it looks like the author intended the title to be "Disinformation: Its History" - or am i readin
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by grkvlt 5y ago
taking a page from Carl Barks and Scrooge McDuck, the trick is to collect as many pennies as your can, melt down almost all of them and sell the remaining, now incredibly rare, few for a larger amount of money. see [0] for further details,
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by grkvlt 5y ago
in the UK, the term RTA (meaning road traffic accident ) was used by the police to describe a car crash in their reports. this has now largely been superseded by RTI or road traffic incident [0] in order to better convey the idea tha
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by grkvlt 5y ago
But even with the same cut of meat, fat cointent, etc. the USA style of cooking burns it to a crisp, which ruins the taste of good bacon...
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by grkvlt 5y ago
100% agree; and as an alternative, for only GBP 0.45 you can get the Sainsburys own-brand equivalent which is just as good - and then go one better with their Hot and Spicy [0] variant, which is my suggested replacement for anything baked
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by grkvlt 5y ago
i simply listed my perfectly ordinary residential flat's address in the uk. and, as far as i can tell from the text in the link i gave above, they are giving these away to anyone who wants one as an educational public service, hence th
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by grkvlt 5y ago
and here [0] is where you can order it. you can ask for paper copies of the poster to be mailed to you (free) from the roche philanthropy department! it took about a month for mine to arrive, i think, but they're really awesome looking
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by grkvlt 5y ago
what you are missing is that there are two sets of graphs, since there are two ways of measuring performance: number of calls (scales as n^2 with no backoff) and time to completion (scales linearly with no backoff) and an unjittered backoff
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by grkvlt 5y ago
this introduced me to the awesome 凹 and 凸 kanji characters in japanese/chinese, meaning concave and convex respectively; plus 𠱂 which apparently means 'to rebuke/retort' i.e. a 'sharp' response (lol?) - see ht
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by grkvlt 5y ago
If you only care about fission weapons, a practically viable weapon is easy, and does not require testing. This was demonstrated by South Africa, who developed a fission weapon, using an indigenous and entirely novel isotope separation tech
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> flight regimes that have only been done one other time (intentionally anyway) in commercial aviation TIL the Tu-144 was designed, built and then operated commercially entirely by accident...
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> lockpicks are regulated you think?
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by grkvlt 5y ago
finally? imaging a silicon chip has never been a problem and home-build STMs are not needed.
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by grkvlt 6y ago
not an engine, but (in the name...) a transmission - a mechnism for transmitting power from the engine to the wheels. normally cars use a gearbox (automatic or manual) and possibly a driveshaft (to connect to the wheels that are at the othe
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by grkvlt 6y ago
> uninterpretable therefore (as i assume is the tradition with all archaologists, alien or otherwise) classified as 'for ceremonial or religious purposes' - and, since it was for a presedential inaugiuration, they're not
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by grkvlt 6y ago
So, is car insurance a tax, then?
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by grkvlt 6y ago
> the unique nature of how the BBC is funded. of course, other funding sources are available...
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by grkvlt 6y ago
didn't stross also work as a programmer at digicash, which admittedly entirely failed as a digital currency, so there's that...?
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by grkvlt 6y ago
Well, their website claims "90% lower emissions than a vessel with a diesel engine" so evidently they use some form of engine, or they'd be claiming 100% lower! i would guess it's like most sailing boats, and it has a sm
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by grkvlt 6y ago
> I don't need to be able to short his inventory that's because it wouldn't do you any good. if, however, the used car salesman is engaging in fraud and selling expensive cars way under their market value while buying inve
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by grkvlt 6y ago
3 PHz is way into the UV part of EM, near IR is about 30 THz so 300 Gbps max on a NIR channel using your numbers?
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by grkvlt 6y ago
Instructions unclear - I got a bunch of threatening letters from the alleged 'owners' of the twitter.com domain. Do you have some more details on how to uninstall someone else's website, please?
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by grkvlt 6y ago
Not strictly true, you must sample at 2x the frequency and at sufficient resolution in the amplitude domain, i.e. an ADC that samples at 44 kHz but with only one bit of resolution (outputs a 1 for positive input voltage and 0 for negative
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by grkvlt 6y ago
Moore's law was stated originally as the doublinkd of the number of transistors per integrated circuit per year, later modified by him to a doublingevery two years. Reading the article where he first proposed the rule (cited in the wik
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by grkvlt 6y ago
I'm sure there are many people who are going to jump at the chance to finally be able to loan their USD 75000 worth of computer out to a throwaway HN account...?
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by grkvlt 6y ago
their website has an online shop [0] where you can purchase the things and have them shipped to you, to (ab) use as desired - so hardly 'only (carefully orchestrated) tech demos' any more. 0. https://shop.bostondynamic

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