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The Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Warren Buffett and the US Treasury(theatlantic.com)
7 points by jeffwass 3y ago|1 comments
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by jeffwass 3y ago
BASIC was ideal for introducing a generation of school kids to programming. Back in the 80’s you fired up your computer and you had a readily-available interpreter for which you could immediately do ‘real’ stuff like printing characters any
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by jeffwass 3y ago
> I would love to see a film set in the 80's that gets hacking/phracking right. War Games
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by jeffwass 3y ago
I’ve done this with movies sometimes, it can be a fun experience.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
I’ve also seen this with the two sentence blurb about TV series episodes on streaming and broadcasting services. Eg, I was really pissed off seeing Sky TV spoil Game of Thrones like this. I browsing TV schedule one night to see was on, and
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Seconding your at two bullets. Have had several incidents with dangerous cyclists ignoring zebra crossings (where pedestrians have right of way), even when I’ve been pushing a baby in the pushchair. Seems to be getting worse now with the e-
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by jeffwass 3y ago
I demonstrated 3D printing of metals using dynamic stencil deposition in a thermal evaporation chamber during my PhD about 18 years ago. Separate comment has details.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
During my Physics PhD I essentially built a nanoscale 3D printer using a piezo actuator mounted in the vacuum chamber of a thermal evaporator. I made a “shadow mask” of a suspended silicon nitride film through which I punched a hole using a
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Thanks for this. “New Wave” as a genre has never really felt well-defined for me, similar to the “Indie Rock” genre back in the 90’s.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
My chemistry teacher was good like that. Sadly my HS physics teacher often gave us unreasonable values on homeworks and exams so you couldn’t sanity check easily. Eg - a kangaroo jumps 245 meters high, or the barrel of a gun is 1.5 kilometr
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Ooh, you could have gone one further and done hertz-per-diopter.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
I had some fun back in College in the 90’s cutting out articles from Weekly World News and tacking them to the bulletin board just outside the physics library. This board was full of cutouts of interesting real science articles, regularly
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Elon Musk threatens to sue the ADL for lost X sales(cnn.com)
20 points by jeffwass 3y ago|4 comments
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Do you have an example of when 130 digits of calculator precision are needed?
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Just to respond to your city charging comment, I live in London and had my Model Y for almost a year. We have many on-street charging stations around town, which I use regularly. Sure it’s not as convenient as having either my own home char
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by jeffwass 3y ago
I’ve been wondering about this and real video evidence (eg dashcam or cctv) being refuted in court for inability to show it’s not deepfaked.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Amazon’s not unique here. I once rented a car and after returning it the guy who inspected the car was very excited to tell me there was no damage so I get my full deposit back, and I should be thanking him. But was no damage at all, so it’
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Why does this particular discovery merit an exception, but every other Nobel does not?
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Now it can be PeeWee’s ghost who gives Large Marge a ride. RIP Paul, thanks for all the laughs!
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Facing a Future of Drought, Spain Turns to Medieval Solutions(nytimes.com)
10 points by jeffwass 3y ago|2 comments
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50 years ago, teenagers partied in the Bronx – and gave rise to hip-hop(npr.org)
3 points by jeffwass 3y ago|1 comments
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by jeffwass 3y ago
The $2.92 price you mentioned as closing the year 2000 is almost certainly split-adjusted.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Looks like you’re double-counting the splits.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
What model and year do you have? My 6 month old Model Y has a dedicated button for hazard lights on the ceiling. I can flash lights by pulling the left stalk (I forget if forward or backwards). Wiper interval I do miss but what I usually do
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by jeffwass 3y ago
One time a single student clapped a few times at the end of my one of my TA sessions, and it really made my day! I was a TA for many classes during my Physics PhD program, and this bit of clapping was a singular occurrence, in the middle of
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by jeffwass 3y ago
On a similar note I’ve long thought that larger heavier vehicles should pay more for insurance, as a sort of “danger tax” to cover the greater damage they tend to cause in collisions.
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Can’t read the article behind the paywall. But recently I showed the original Zelda to my 11yo daughter. After a minute or two she lost interest and said “this game is so violent, you’re attacking these creatures and stealing their gems.” I
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by jeffwass 3y ago
It’s not about tricking the child, it’s about helping them manage their non-negotiable task by giving them some choice(s).
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by jeffwass 3y ago
I’ve found much leverage by giving a choice to my kids in an orthogonal dimension. Eg : “I don’t want to eat broccoli with dinner!” “Well, would you rather eat it on the pink plate or the blue plate?” Maybe I’m missing something or likely I
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Thanks for the suggestions waboremo! I never would have even thought to film myself practicing, I would have thought it would be way too boring for any of my subscribers to want to see. Honestly I feel fairly camera shy, and in life I manag

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