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by jpmattia 8y ago
As you might expect, this is more of an engineering press release and not a balanced technical discussion. Two things jump out at me: > The nanoscale air gap is less than the mean-free path of electrons in air, hence electrons can trav
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> and being middle-aged The rest I could take, but middle-aged? Truly hell.
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> We don't have any evidence Tether has hard currency backing its Tether. We have some evidence: The CFTC subpoena was about a year ago, and it is hard to imagine that they would not have 1. Subpoenaed bank statements to support
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To my knowledge, the concept was never used in product. I left Bell before any kind of prototyping etc, so don't have any idea whether it was pursued in my absence (but I'd guess probably not.)
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> Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this? Some subfields in physics have a specific culture around authorship. For example: In experimental particle physics, the authorship list can be similarly lon
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> it's more about wire length and capacitance At the fastest speeds, interconnect on crucial lines is engineered as a transmission line, where the inductance balances out the capacitance. When you look at the propagation in the
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> Does anyone have any insights as to what the current status is for transistors based on light? It's a good question, but there is something often ignored in press-releases about photonic transistors: How exactly does a speedu
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> They were skilled at handling explosives. The reputation for explosive hacks at MIT go back to the 1800's. It used to be that students had to participate in marching practice. Some wag got the idea to put a layer on the floor
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Taking over the Rose Bowl scoreboard in 1984 also ranks up there. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trbimg...
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MIT president Paul Gray asked Harvard President Derek Bok for the return of the apparatus, which was also a bit hilarious: ______________________ Dear Derek, Word has come to me that your campus police are holding some property which rightf
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Edited my original, it was probably that way on the one I mentioned too. I am a little surprised to find that CPAP use is considered non-serious though. (Being halfway to a BiPAP? Holy moly.)
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> unplug the machine, The only machine I've had experience with (a parent) had an alarm for power loss. Is that somehow not standard/a requirement? Edit: As I think about it, there was an associated oxygen machine, and that
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I think interrogators are missing the point: If your interrogation technique can't even produce information that is verifiably correct, then why on earth would you believe any information produced that is non-verifiable?
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It sounds like you're arguing that a lie detector only detects lies that the subject considers "meaningful". So now you have two problems: Detecting whether a subject believes a particular topic is "meaningful", an
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Every lie detector should begin with a game of high-low: The subject writes down a number between 1 and a 1000 and puts it in their shoe, the questioner needs to get the right answer. Since the questioner needs only 10 questions to get th
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> FT8 and other weak signal modes can work with more noise and less signal than conventional modes I'm a little surprised that FT8 is better S/N than conventional mode of morse code, but then I didn't think in terms of S&#
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by jpmattia 8y ago
Probably deserves a "2009" in the title. The 2015 HN discussion had only one comment, but that comment had an interesting link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397619
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Has anyone ever looked at his 2000 page tome?
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If interested, here is a link to the air quality index, as measured by purple air monitors: https://www.purpleair.com/map#11/34.0244/-118.4531 The map extends worldwide, but only reports data from those who have p
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> Don't you think your perception of the painting was perhaps colored by the fact that you knew it was an original Van Gogh? Not OP, but I doubt it. The originals I've seen have a thick layer of paint on the surface which ad
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Those were some show dogs. I Claudius and Claudius The God were the first books that made the Romans come alive for me. I honestly never knew he was known for poetry, and this article makes me want to go take a look.
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> In the end, we sold the house, How did the bank lien from the mortgage get handled in the sale?
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Scientific American was pounding this drum in 2011. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
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Some folks here may not be old enough to remember: Cable originally started without ads. The revenue stream proved to be too juicy to ignore. There's probably a prediction in there about Amazon/Netflix/etc.
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> 2.3 v 3 collaborators over 180 vs 130 days Yeah, that caught my eye too especially the missing RMS so we could see whether the difference between 2.3 and 3 is significant.
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The article neglects to mention: We are coming off of the lowest interest rate environment in around 400 years. As interest rates normalize, many interest-rate dependent markets are in for normalization as well.
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A bit OT, but there is a wonderful PBS/BBC series on the history of English on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XQx9pGGd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG7REAOG1kc https://www.yo
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He's the third-largest shareholder of Apple behind Vanguard and Blackrock. He waited until 2016 before investing, not exactly an early adopter.
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No one has touched on 1. Interest rates are at historic lows. Real interest rates have recently been negative. When this changes in the next decades, interesting things will occur. 2. It is time for the baby boomers to leave their house
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> I guess I'm just shocked that the surgeon could offer that level of assurance about something like that I'm not. That's been my experience with pretty much every surgeon, and even a fair amount of the non-surgical doc

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