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by hwillis 3y ago
You're oversimplifying. US residential power is currently supplied by a pair of 120 V wires, but most of the stuff in your house only uses one leg of that pair. That's alright because it's AC, and the ground wire doesn'
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by hwillis 3y ago
If you want to do any kind of text or diegetic UI in webgl, you are begging for DOM rendering to canvas (which is then sent to a texture)
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by hwillis 3y ago
It's an insincere argument It's not reasonable to connect vitamin D to anything 100k years ago when vitamin D is so heavily influenced by diet and weather, both of which changed wildly . Lactose tolerance, megafauna, fishing, th
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Havana Syndrome doesn't seem to have much to do with communism Of course, this is actually about Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party semi-presidential socialist republics, not communism. > so there are all sorts of radio beams f
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by hwillis 3y ago
> "A whole body exposure to UVB radiation inducing the light pink color of the minimal erythema dose for 15–20 min is able to induce the production of up to 250 μg vitamin D (10,000 IU)"[1] So when you expose someone to light u
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by hwillis 3y ago
A board can only really exert soft pressure. Their options are very limited outside trying to fully replace a CEO unless they have something to use as a stick. Apple in particular prints money unlike any other company on earth and its boa
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by hwillis 3y ago
That's just the opposite kind of naive. Companies are still for the most part run by CEOs, and many of those CEOs have tremendous egos and most of them have a tremendous ability to direct the actions of those companies. Look at Tesla
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by hwillis 3y ago
> it kind of feels like an infohazard. God, what a disappointing euphemism. Just stick with redpill, would you?
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by hwillis 3y ago
...You realize this "framework" is 181 characters long, right? <a> elements add to the history, it's what they're supposed to do. If you don't want them to do that, don't use <a> elements for UI.
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by hwillis 3y ago
Diamond's premise is that Europe's geographical layout gave it superior advantages to the rest of the planet. The paper found that Europe's layout is in fact not significantly better or even different from many other places o
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by hwillis 3y ago
> We keep looking for a physical property of matter than explains gravity No, the Einstein field equations actually wrap things up pretty neatly as far as why it happens (although not how). Energy, momentum, stress, and mass are all the
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by hwillis 3y ago
its open source. If you want to rerun it with a logarithmic cost function, go ahead.
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Early civilizations would settle close to rivers and travel on th rivers and along the coasts. It seems like this model does not take this into account. https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Diamond’s analysis was not single factor. Figure 4 of the paper shows 7 different factors, including sophisticated proxies like literally analyzing connecting paths.
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by hwillis 3y ago
You're misinterpreting what the paper means when it says homogeneous. They're using it to describe the exact thing you are: the corridors and connections between areas, specifically places where domestication originated. They fo
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Our analyses uncovered significant variation within continents in the magnitude of ecological barriers to cultural transmission, a finding that is consistent with the critique that Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis is poten
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Our analyses uncovered significant variation within continents in the magnitude of ecological barriers to cultural transmission, a finding that is consistent with the critique that Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis is poten
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by hwillis 3y ago
I think this is a better quote: > Our analyses uncovered significant variation within continents in the magnitude of ecological barriers to cultural transmission, a finding that is consistent with the critique that Diamond's axis of
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by hwillis 3y ago
> but our scientific model and measurements are inextricably linked. [...] This isn't a useful way to think for most practitioners, but it's the perspective that the next Newton or the next Einstein will need to consider. I to
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by hwillis 3y ago
> As sort of a vacuum in spacetime? Definitely not. For one thing, gravity isn't just mass. The gravity of a moving baseball is higher than a nonmoving baseball. The gravity of a charged battery is higher than a discharged batter
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by hwillis 3y ago
You don't even need that. The prediction he's referring to as most accurate is the magnetic moment of the electron, which is used in plain old MRIs. If we didn't have the quantum mechanical correction, all of our MRI images
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by hwillis 3y ago
> So many significant digits includes a level of self-consistency of the model No, that's incorrect. The specific measurement -the most accurate scientific prediction humans have ever made, the anomalous magnetic moment- is only to
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by hwillis 3y ago
no, the earth is actually big. 47 trillion times heavier than that mass. At 90% c that 160 billion kg would still be a small fraction of the planets (moving 10,000x slower, at 30 km/s) kinetic energy. 500,000x less. Of course that .
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by hwillis 3y ago
Hmm. I'm not sure how true that is, but that might be a perception thing because hoods have gotten longer and windshields have gotten more slanted. Being farther from the front of the car/windshield makes your view angle smaller
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by hwillis 3y ago
> Seems policies haven’t changed at all. Yes and no. CUI was created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Unclassified_Inform... The number of SCIFs increased a ton, especially in contractors being allowed to h
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by hwillis 3y ago
> But I'm surprised why this one too hasn't focussed a lot on rich-text block elements (like lists, tables & sections) This is where the real strength of crdts is, IMO. Tree-like structures turn into DAGs once you have mul
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by hwillis 3y ago
You're being silly. The majority of the world also doesn't have access to airplanes, but that doesn't mean they don't work . OP is certainly not in the ridiculous bubble you're describing.
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by hwillis 3y ago
> The problem is that a stockfish based bot knows some very strong moves, but deliberately plays bad moves so it’s about the right skill level. What are you basing this on? To me it seems like difficulty is set by limiting search depth&#
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by hwillis 3y ago
There is $254.20 billion in Toyota shares and they made 8.7 million cars in 2023. Tesla's market cap is $744.17 billion for 1.8 million cars, 14x higher per car. If Teslas price were based on the possibility that they could eventually
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by hwillis 3y ago
design for manufacturing is a part of engineering

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