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> The base version with 230 miles of range starts at $39,974, while the 300-mile version begins at $90,000. This is a shocker to me. It costs an extra $50k for a further 70 mile range? More than double the base price to get 30% more mile
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I heard about this on the radio and was surprised I hadn't heard of Atomic Gardening before. Basically, farmers and gardeners would expose large quantities of seeds and plants to varying degrees of radiation, and look for useful mutati
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Atomic Gardening(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why did you need to grind the Lodge?
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Further - paired electrons can collectively form the spin-zero singlet state, or spin-one triplet state. In either case the two electrons, which are fermions independently, together act like a boson (eg, Cooper Pairs in a Superconductor). A
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by jeffwass 5y ago
Agreed, it's an unfortunate namespace collision. Spintronics is a really cool area of physics, with decades of research. Electrons have spin. Although 'classical semiconductors' exploit the electron's spin via the Fermi-
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I disagree. For example, I think the world is much better off with translations of 100 Years of Solitude and The Odyssey than without them. I know I’m glad to have read these English translations. And of course a good translator puts their
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by jeffwass 5y ago
Anecdote - 20+ years ago my colleague told me how his wife worked in the pharma industry. She was studying a potential product to 'cure' some disease or other. Apparently her initial tests on the company's product worked amaz
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I remember the NES game Zelda II, The Adventure of Link, was delayed. Nintendo Power or some other NES magazine had a quote from Link saying he was sorry but there was an issue with some chips. I forgot all about that delay until seeing thi
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by jeffwass 5y ago
I reread 1984 several months back, my first time reading it since 8th grade, I believe. It was scary as all hell, given the Trump presidency. But it's not just the surveillance that is frightening. Eg, the rewriting of history, and the
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I can’t tell if you’re being serious or sarcastic. Not sure if you’re seriously claiming that the “blurb” for any book or movie should never mention anything outside of the first fifteen minutes. Eg, would you promote Harry Potter as nothin
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I wondered about that comment too. But regarding Primer and the plot timeline, yeah, I'll just let this xkcd speak for itself : https://xkcd.com/657/
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Glad to see Primer as the first movie mentioned. Primer is perhaps the best time-travel movie I’ve seen.
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Back to the Future did introduce the general populace the proper way to pronounce the ‘Giga’ prefix :-) Edit - Wikipedia has a whole section on pronunciation, and its not unambiguous, but the original German language proposal for ‘giga’ s
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Wow!
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I think you're misinterpreting my point. I'm only referring to the particular style of visual artwork and audio in those clips and others from that era of Sesame Street, which connects to psychadelic imagery and music.
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That's a good point. They could have designed the overall vision for how and what to create while under the influence, for example.
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I've always wondered how many classic Sesame Street sketches were made by artists and animators while tripping on psychadelics. All the sketches below are ones I've seen when I was little. The legendery Pinball Number Count, with
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by jeffwass 5y ago
I’ve been doing the NYT crossword regularly the past year or so. NYT crosswords often have tricks, either in the clues themselves or patterns in the puzzle. Will Shortz commented on one of his favourite clues Q: “It may turn into another
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I sympathise with her. I had a copyright claim on one of my YouTube videos (I’m totally small potatoes, handful of vids with dozens of views). I made a video of myself playing my own unique interpretation of The Safety Dance by Men Without
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Summary for those that don’t want to watch the video : - Pianist creates YouTube video demonstrating how to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata - part of this video includes her playing Moonlight Sonata (of course) - YouTube has a new ‘featur
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by jeffwass 6y ago
Awesome!
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Fascinating, do you happen to have an example with Stevie's own fingerings of superstition? I'd love to see that.
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The old Hobbit and LotR cartoons were released in 1977 and 1978 respectively. So Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring came out in 2001, 23 years after the cartoon, and this version is a further 21 years (assuming a 2022 release) after Jac
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I’m curious how you feel about editing. For me, I do enjoy writing the first draft, even when I don’t know how or where many scenes will go. It’s definitely hard work, but enjoyable, especially when I get into the moment. But editing, on th
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“One driver allegedly cut her trip short after falsely claiming to have arrived at her destination.” Terrible
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Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind woman refused rides(bbc.co.uk)
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Very similar story here. I was in undergrad back then and worked in a part-time job with the high energy physics dept (we built front-end detector electronics for particle detectors at CERN, Fermilan, SNO, etc). One of the guys on our team
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You wouldn’t have white LED lighting or any of the mixed colours that include blue (eg cyan or purple) without his contribution. Don’t blame the inventor for the bad applications of companies. Just like you wouldn’t blame Alexander Graham B
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Wow, $24k for the program?

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