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by mabbo 4y ago
The holy grail here is to figure out a way to not just boost it, but start doing some part replacement work on Hubble. There's wonky computers, gyroscopes, and likely other parts that just need a swap out. Hubble is designed to let peo
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by mabbo 4y ago
I am looking forward to Matt Levine's next 'Money Stuff' so I can learn why this filing is actually juicy as hell.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> The Onion intends to continue its socially valuable role bringing the disinfectant of sunlight into the halls of power... And it would vastly prefer that sunlight not to be measured out to its writers in 15-minute increments in an exer
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by mabbo 4y ago
> and now it’s the dominant smart watch. Apple won't release sales figures for it. It's such a small market, compared to everything else that Apple does. Being the biggest fish in a very small pond doesn't add up to much.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Apple will just wind up like Amazon: cannibalizing the customer trust now that they have market power. Consider: Amazon has the majority of e-commerce sales today in the west. This is largely in part of decisions makes 20 years ago to allow
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by mabbo 4y ago
The shame here is on my country, Canada, for not putting a stop to this as much as the UK. Why are we granting logging licenses to foreign companies that will simply burn the wood? Because the logging industry is huge money for British Colu
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is exactly why the 2016 election was interesting. Silver called it about 33% chance Trump would win. And then he did, and people said "AHA! You were WRONG!" But he gave Trump a higher probability of winning than just about an
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'll always celebrate stories like this, but I also don't take some kind of anti-AWS lesson from it. This company saved $800k/year. Perfect time to go in-house with this solution. But when they were 1/10th this size, the
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by mabbo 4y ago
> In 1940 the famous logician Kurt Gödel proved that, under the commonly accepted rules of set theory, it’s impossible to prove that an infinity exists between that of the natural numbers and that of the reals. That might seem like a big
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Shopify, hired like mad during the pandemic boom knowing full-well that they would end up laying off a bunch of those new hires once things got "normal" again. You should read Tobi's post about what happened. That's
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by mabbo 4y ago
> How am I going to charge at an apartment? Do you think they will spend millions converting every parking lot into a charger and maintaining it? I live in a condo actually. I'll tell you how: we passed laws in my province that say
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the problem is that you are thinking of things purely in terms of how gas stations and gas powered cars work. You need to step back and re-think. For almost all EV owners, a level 2 (240V 20amp) charger at home is all that's ne
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think part of the problem with that is just how far away Neptune is. Getting a probe like New Horizons to do a flyby requires a massive rocket. But to also have it be capable of slowing down to enter orbit and stick around means either it
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by mabbo 4y ago
That suggests a fun strategy for Magnus or anyone else playing Niemann: do lots of moves where there would be ambiguity in which piece was moved. Now however Niemann is entering the moves, he's got more to type and more places he might
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by mabbo 4y ago
Yeah, we'll need them to don tight spandex clothing and walk through a sensitive metal detector on the way to their chairs.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the simplest answer to all of this is a cage match. Specifically, a Faraday Cage. Magnus believes that Niemann is cheating via communication with a computer. Fine, let's completely remove the ability to communicate with a compu
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think it will be important as we transition to EVs to have more energy available. In Ontario, the typical family home uses something like 750 kWh/month on average. If you estimate 5km/kWh (roughly right?), and presume a car is d
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by mabbo 4y ago
Perfect. At long last my country will take it's rightful place as ruler of the world: we'll start a massive global cooling project and threaten to end it in a termination shock if we aren't properly compensated for it.
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by mabbo 4y ago
What's interesting to me is that there's nothing stopping one country from deciding to do it. Canada, USA, Russia, even Denmark (via Greenland), Finland, Norway, Sweden or any nation near the south pole. It's a logistics prob
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is a large part of why I feel this way. I grew up near Ottawa, and had a lot of friends whose parents worked at Nortel. They were compensated with a lot of stock, which they held onto (it keeps rising, after all). Their pension plan wa
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by mabbo 4y ago
In no way do I speak for my employer, but on a personal level, this has been amazing for me and I'm so grateful the company did this. I'm very conservative about investing, and don't want to have a large amount of my portfoli
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by mabbo 4y ago
As the parent of a 6.5 month old, this is very interesting. We had figured out that once she falls asleep, we wait 8-10 minutes for her to get really deeply asleep before putting her down. But the transport to calm crying, that is really go
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by mabbo 4y ago
The trouble is when the government starts asking where you got this money from.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Ah, that's a good point. It's sort of the opposite: now the option holder can wait longer to decide if this is a worthwhile investment, vs "You have 30 days to exercise this or you get nothing".
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by mabbo 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but since the equity is all options , doesn't that imply that they're making it easier for people to give them money ? Yes, sure, they have to dilute the company a bit by creating more stock
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by mabbo 4y ago
But the thing is we ran a massive experiment on this called "The covid-19 pandemic". What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized. Seems like the
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by mabbo 4y ago
> On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while resistance to Candida albicans decreased. It sounds to me as though the tradeoff
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by mabbo 4y ago
That should certainly help maintain a 'pure' source for further training examples.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Yep, and I truly believe that they've made something great. But the onus is on them to provide evidence that they did so. Otherwise, I can stand up and say: "this font makes reading slower and causes more mistakes " and
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by mabbo 4y ago
I feel as though there should be a standard set of tests that any or all fonts run through to demonstrate the various properties they want to claim. Don't tell me "better", tell me "Scored an 8.6 on legibility in the sta

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