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by hammock 1y ago
Required for success at games like Jeopardy. Guess the answer before you read the whole thing
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by hammock 1y ago
>Surreal to hear him describe working for Fermi and Oppenheimer and his reaction on hearing about the Hiroshima detonation. What did he have to say?
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by hammock 1y ago
Unihertz Jelly
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by hammock 1y ago
How do they find you and how would they know to look for you?
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by hammock 1y ago
How recently were stamps with glue invented?
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by hammock 1y ago
Seems like a valid critique and I appreciate you offering it
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by hammock 1y ago
In this paper she presents a novel, testable theory. It doesn’t have to be peer reviewed to be reliable. It has to be tested.
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by hammock 1y ago
And same logic applies to all masses, not only black holes. It’s just nearly impossible to calculate for anything besides a black hole, for a variety of reasons. Also, the reference to “known links between the solutions of Yang-Mills theory
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by hammock 1y ago
You hit on it. The harms of surveillance is an externality, like air pollution. We think they are SELLING surveillance to us in the court of public opinion, but they aren’t. We aren’t the customers! They’re selling it to political donors, m
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by hammock 1y ago
That’s tautology. Why are people apathetic about it?
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by hammock 1y ago
Who says that the purpose of surveillance is to fight crime? Seems like you introduced a premise out of nothing. (Downvote me for “being obtuse” but I’m pointing out unspoken assumption that’s worth considering)
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by hammock 1y ago
Dunno where parent said anything about democracy. Democracy and voting aren’t the same thing also they rejected the idea of voting on every law (democracy). It seems inherent in your worldview that you lack faith in people to self govern (t
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by hammock 1y ago
Personally I would still call that leading/being led*, nonetheless that is a great reframe and I agree. It also helps make the point of what it means to say “society is breaking down” or “democracy is at stake” or “faith in institution
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by hammock 1y ago
All at once is what explains the isotopic homogeneity (e.g. in oxygen) between the earth and the moon
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by hammock 1y ago
What is the temporal resolution of the ice cores or whatever else is being used to measure when the last “hot house” periods were? Because today we are measuring CO2 with minute-level resolution. But I feel like an ice core might be a year
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by hammock 1y ago
Keep Ebola in Congo! /s
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by hammock 1y ago
What kind of car do you drive? It’s highly likely if your vehicle is low-slung that the pickup is not using high beams, just its regular lights, but the height difference means they shine straight in your eyes. Similar to the effect when an
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by hammock 1y ago
Most people have never seen a visual of earths layers to scale. The crust, even when thin, is usually not to scale
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by hammock 1y ago
Which websites are these listeners on? I saw the list of third parties but not the websites themselves.
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by hammock 1y ago
As someone who can answer all of those questions about the workout plan in depth, it’s not a bad plan. It’s actually quite good. Missing a little detail but that’s OK. Wasn’t a good example for me.
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by hammock 1y ago
Lovely way of looking at it
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by hammock 1y ago
There is a reason everyone zips around in them on Wall-e. Wait until we have full self driving and drone delivery. Then even when you are in traffic you can get your burger, soda and TV in without wasting any time!
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by hammock 1y ago
Car-centric does not mean driver-centric. Even driver-centric is less anti-human than car-centric. Maybe we need a “People First” movement in this world. I know the climatists and PETA won’t like that, but it’s worth considering as some sor
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by hammock 1y ago
> Tesla has a variety problem. If we converge the split between midrange and premium, their lineup consists of a midsize sedan, a midsize SUV, and a niche truck I don’t know if you have checked out other OEMs lineups lately…Ford doesn’t
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by hammock 1y ago
He’s talking about spiraling or virtuous/vicious cycles, as relates to your hormones.
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by hammock 1y ago
The original rumble packs you plugged in were more powerful and they moved more weight, if I recall correctly compared to modern controllers. Would be cool to make a jacket or bodysuit + headset today you can wear that rumbles in the part o
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by hammock 1y ago
19th century victorian britain was the richest country on the planet
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by hammock 1y ago
> We already live in social credit but I fear the ones maintained by companies might be better for the consumer. Seems to me to be dependent on how the incentives line up. A credit bureau WANTS you to part with any money you might have
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by hammock 1y ago
There are zero Asian countries on this besides Russia and India. Thereby missing about 2 billion internet users
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by hammock 1y ago
Why are there no Asian countries measured besides India and Russia?

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