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by ivalm 6y ago
If you don’t like clocks then the nicest earth experiment are free electron lasers. They basically rely on length contraction to create coherent light waves (you accelerate electrons until magnetic undulators are spaced at target wavelength
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by ivalm 6y ago
Except sun hasn’t become meaningful hotter in the past hundred mil years. Also, we would need lots of sulfer dioxides to get emited, which isn’t happening. Will earth suffer over the next billion years and lose atmosphere? Sure, but that’s
783.
by ivalm 6y ago
Earth survived way higher co2 levels and we don’t emit nearly enough sulfides. There is essentially zero chance of Venus event happening. I’m more inclined that climate change can cause catastrophic war than runaway to ultra high temperatur
784.
by ivalm 6y ago
And yet America has shitty expensive internet relative to most European countries. So we are doing something wrong.
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by ivalm 6y ago
90% of going rate in bay is >>200k for senior dev. Check out levels.fyi
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by ivalm 6y ago
Omg, user story “decimate the binary by next release”
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by ivalm 6y ago
47% is a mighty big number (although not a majority) Samsung, second place, is 23% [0] https://bgr.com/2020/08/12/iphone-11-sales-coronavirus-pande...
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by ivalm 6y ago
I mean, in the US in 2017 after condensed matter Physics PhD where I did nanofab I could go work for intel/asml/lam and get like 110-140k starting. Or I could do data science/more SWE related and get 140-250k. The choice wasn
789.
by ivalm 6y ago
USSR did. My dad lived in Belarus during the time (I was born there as well but we moved to the US when I was a kid) and said it was a bit of cat and mouse game re exact wavelength to catch the American radio. Ofc my memory is post soviet a
790.
by ivalm 6y ago
They explicitly jammed radio free Europe , for example.
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by ivalm 6y ago
I think as a photo editing tool. The neatest nontrivial use i know is to “delete” objects. You can use segmentation algo to highlight an object and set its energy to 0 then seam carve out “naturally”.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Mozilla is a non-profit which, in my view, is valuable only as a chromium alternative. Why must it be big/etc? Being a megacorp shouldn’t be Mozilla’s goal.
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by ivalm 6y ago
It is not weird in that countries enforce what they see as antiterrorism laws outside their borders (US is a prime example). The problem here is that China is targeting essentially anyone with a strong critical voice.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Hopefully not forever, I do believe in change for the better, but for now CCP is an evil force of repression.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Not immediately, but life was worse for basically all participants (at least the major powers that precipitated wwi)
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by ivalm 6y ago
I mean, maybe he can help fine tune GPT-4 to dynamically output the dynamic JS every time Jira page is loaded. Probably would have less bugs/more features. Also, depending on how they sample the code it could be a new experience every
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by ivalm 6y ago
But feds argument was that they are not empowered to regulate ISPs. So effectively there is no regulation either way on Fed level and so the state isn’t going against anything.
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by ivalm 6y ago
LibreOffice also explodes (or at least did a few years ago) if you try to open a few hundred mb csv file. Definitely can’t do fast filtering on columns in large files. Should those things be done in sql? Yes... could this data be sent as SQ
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by ivalm 6y ago
CPI is fine...
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by ivalm 6y ago
In 2013-2015 sitting on my uni’s shuttle I didn’t hear about Bitcoin, in 2017 I did.
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by ivalm 6y ago
TDAmeritrade will extend no interest margin for transfers iirc. I haven’t looked at robinhood in a while, but I believe they will extend instant deposit beyond $1k. I remember I had maybe 70k with them a year ago and my instant deposit was
802.
by ivalm 6y ago
I hope the hackers are caught too. But from bitcoin perspective, I am not sure how traceable things are if the hackers use mixing services or convert to actually anonymous currency such as monero. The main problem is converting untraceable
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by ivalm 6y ago
Aren’t there mixer services for that or just convert to monero? This is off an exchange so lots of shenanigans to make things less traceable. I am guessing these people know what they are doing.
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by ivalm 6y ago
I mean, many brokerages will extend margin for free during ACH transfer (or any settlement event for that matter). So using a margin account and buying the ETF will save you one basis point in fees every year. If you have a 30 year horizon
805.
by ivalm 6y ago
Use a margin account if that matters to you, still cheaper than paying higher expense ratio.
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by ivalm 6y ago
No, nothing about destroying. It's just you cannot know something sufficiently at infinite precision due to uncertainty principle. It just depends if maximally allowed knowledge of all of person's chemical states is sufficient to
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by ivalm 6y ago
Note only the KP Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals are non profit. The med groups (which employ drs and a lot of other personnel) are for profit. I think both a strength and weakness of KP is that it is not really one organization, but
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by ivalm 6y ago
Something should pay for the bills and if the oss project creates lots of real value then I would prefer to live in a world where some of that value goes to pay the bills. The alternative world simply discourages oss since devs would have
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by ivalm 6y ago
It’s fine, after killbots kill enough people to fill up their fixed-sized arrays they segfault.
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by ivalm 6y ago
What is the difference between popularity weighted global vs local pool. As I understand it with global popularity. If 9 people watch A and 1 person watches B and C equally and each pay $10 then: Total money is $100. A gets $90, B and C get

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