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by jl2718 5y ago
This seems like an argument over semantics. Just just show the DNA in a phylogenetic tree: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fixation_index_i...
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by jl2718 5y ago
My concern is that “the law” is incompetent in this domain.
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It does have a lower melting point than diamond. The bond strength is determined by the electro-negativity of the bond pair. In this case, it is between silicon and carbon.
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by jl2718 5y ago
GaN is only really good for applications requiring direct bandgaps like LEDs and extremely high electron mobility like plasma micro-antennas. I believe that SiC will eventually replace the photonic applications with direct-band gap strains
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by jl2718 5y ago
Order of magnitude cheaper, not as efficient for photonics, can be integrated with Si through epitaxy.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Good answer. One step further, this makes me wonder about what is covered by their insurance policy.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Why would they need an excuse to close a store?
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by jl2718 5y ago
And then there’s companies like Coinbase that buck the trend with astounding success. I think this has to do more with individuals than “organizations”. Simply put, everybody in the organization has nothing to gain and a lot to lose by doin
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by jl2718 5y ago
I hear you. My uncle is disabled in the legs and I’ve admittedly had a hard time finding a recumbent arm bike that he felt comfortable enough to actually do his commuting on.
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by jl2718 5y ago
We need a new acronym for this. Candidates: AaaS: anger as a service PoaaS: pissed-off as a service We could try other emotions, but this seems to be the biggest addressable market.
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by jl2718 5y ago
It’s amazing that Bitcoin still isn’t Bitcoin yet.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Bookmarked for review later. Can’t wait to get all steamed up about something some guy said.
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by jl2718 5y ago
October 17, 2008 Today I write not to gloat. Given the pain that nearly everyone is experiencing, that would be entirely inappropriate. Nor am I writing to make further predictions, as most of my forecasts in previous letters have unfolded
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by jl2718 5y ago
About 15 years, although rarely since lockdown. When I started working, I noticed that the only healthy old people were the bike commuters. Other people had fitness routines by convenience, and they didn't last to old age. Bike commuti
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by jl2718 5y ago
This is correct. Daily street commuters can expect to get hit. I took some observational statistics at the place where I started commuting, and there were about 20 people that biked to work every day, and one got killed on average every 2 y
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Recumbents are great for all body types.
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Miners have to sell.
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But some things have no potential for harm, and they should be recommended with higher priority than something that could be harmful at the same likelihood of efficacy. It seems to me that the recommendations are mostly based on how well it
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by jl2718 5y ago
Future people: “You mean they just dumped their used air and everybody else had to breathe it in?”
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by jl2718 5y ago
My cadet trainee became a 71 pilot. That thing is a work of scientific art. Here’s another fun flyby story: http://www.usafa68.org/History/ch5.htm
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by jl2718 5y ago
Stop driving. Bike everywhere. That’s all you need to know.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Sorry; not getting into flame wars about the unknowable details of an unrelated topic. It’s an epistemological black hole. But you can find plenty of examples from your favorite brand of fringe on a book site that truly doesn’t censor, such
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by jl2718 5y ago
> banned books … local library. Hmmm… those evil censors must have been working overtime to stop you.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Do you mean banning books containing well-researched facts, which is commonly practiced in silence, or promoting fantastical fiction books about your political agenda by convincing kids that the evil censorship boogeyman is after them?
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by jl2718 5y ago
The “Banned Books” movement is clearly only about any books that have faced even minor protest from “the other side” of the political spectrum. They frame the censorship debate in terms of provocative, but otherwise meaningless fiction. Rea
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by jl2718 5y ago
I heard this story in 5th grade. I remembered it again at DEFCON 22. That guy, Stephen Watt; that’s him. That’s the guy the story was about. https://youtu.be/TWzvXaxR6us
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by jl2718 5y ago
Giant ball of water / human aquarium. It will be ice on the outside like Europa, and a nuclear core heating the whole thing (also possibly like Europa). There’s no other practical way. This will be obvious once the majority of humans a
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by jl2718 5y ago
Where exactly is he getting all of this prognostication?
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It seems to me like a candid factual account of something that is both surprising and unknown to most people.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I started coding in the disconnected/RTFM era, and had a hard time with the poor documentation, bugs, and general over-complexity of most modern programming platforms. StackOverflow seems to fill the void, but not efficiently. So, mayb

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