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by icapybara 5y ago
My issue is: can this model make testable predictions within our lifetimes? It doesn’t seem that way. Even models of the far future and the distance past of the universe are held to standards of evidence and testability. Why shouldn’t this
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by icapybara 5y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This statement, with absolutely no hard evidence, is asserting that aliens exist and in fact control 40-50% of the universe. Furthermore it is also fundamentally untestable as it includes
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by icapybara 5y ago
On top of the arcing issue already mentioned, it's a lot easier to control a current than to control a charge distribution. So electromagnets win.
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by icapybara 5y ago
Might not be from MS, but automating MS Office document generation is a solved problem: https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://www.python-excel.org/ https://python-pptx.r
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by icapybara 6y ago
> China is suspected to engage in bioengineering for their soldiers and it's not a stretch to speculate they also seek such synthetic advantages with their vast armies of engineers and scientists. This would lay fertile ground for s
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Windows '98 vs. Windows 2000(eurogamer.net)
2 points by icapybara 6y ago|2 comments
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by icapybara 7y ago
Yeah I work in photonics (phd student in a lab that does optical microresonators). The problem is that photonic structures are massive (10s-100s of um) and waste a lot of space. Photonics will never beat electronics in terms of density on t
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by icapybara 8y ago
Today with a population of 7 billion? Sure. 700,000 years ago? There weren't many hominins back then though. Not enough to throw a bunch in the ocean and hope some of them survive the trip.
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by icapybara 9y ago
What is this other than a really wordy, slightly narcissistic "how I got phished" story? My mom falls for these all the time, and she doesn't feel the need to go writing pieces for Wired about it...