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by mapt 4y ago
You get three tiers propagating at very different speeds: The machine intelligence - spread solely over the airwaves to receptive civilizations, which then get taken over to promulgate further spread. Laser launch telescopes have great ban
962.
by mapt 4y ago
You have a paved riverbed system to get rid of moderate rains which periodically occur. That will be insufficient for a 100-year flood (~1000 acres underwater by current mapping), and a 200-year or 500-year flood would put significant fract
963.
by mapt 4y ago
If somebody writes for you a long piece featuring many pages of text and references, quoting lawsuits and making numerous reasonable-seeming inferences throughout... The opportunity they have to lie to somebody who is unfamiliar with the su
964.
by mapt 4y ago
I ask three things of a meat substitute: Taste vaguely like meat, have macronutrients vaguely like meat, and be significantly cheaper than meat. No child knows or cares what goes into Chicken Fingers, but their parents sure care when the pr
965.
by mapt 4y ago
I'm not sure what the point is of linking to a reference that also features pieces titled: 'The media lied to you about COVID-19 – TAKE ACTION NOW' 'Critical Race Theory in schools, take action now!' 'Gender ac
966.
by mapt 4y ago
The author is in fact a frequent contributor on NBC & Fox News. https://www.wsb.com/speakers/marty-makary-m-d/
967.
by mapt 4y ago
What do you mean http://Fairandbalanced.truth isn't accurate? It says so in the title!
968.
by mapt 4y ago
All you need for progress is a sensible regulatory environment. "Some of you may not be in compliance. We start you off at a fine of $1. For every month this continues, the fine doubles." All you need for a sensible regulatory e
969.
by mapt 4y ago
"I gave you an open implementation of NAND and NOR gates. That's the core of this groundbreaking CPU. Just finish the job!"
970.
by mapt 4y ago
They don't outside of the US. A good portion of my eyeglasses (custom prescription, with astigmatism correction) have been <$10 drop shipped to the US from Hong Kong, frames and lenses included. The most expensive variations (Trans
971.
by mapt 4y ago
2014 adjustable liquid lenses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3933712/ Describes both a dial-based and a less mature fluid-based technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FpE
972.
by mapt 4y ago
> professors at research universities don't view teaching as their main vocation but as something they have to do (their "real" job is research/writing papers). Some of them view it this way, and end up being excellen
973.
by mapt 5y ago
Youtube's Content ID system is an artificial substitute for actions based on copyright law like DMCA takedowns, because actions based on copyright law have forms and procedures and you need to pay a lawyer to review them. Youtube&#x27
974.
by mapt 5y ago
Well that sounds illegal. Ever tried a citizen's arrest? (Last time the cops in NYC got angry at civilian oversight they kidnapped the Mayor's daughter and posted her mugshot on Twitter, and a Freudian slip of the SBA's annou
975.
by mapt 5y ago
Confirming or falsifying this and locating the potential impact crater seems relatively easy conceptually, but it requires that they go beyond the archeological approach and into statistical geological tools. Shocked quartz is characterist
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Getting GPLv2 Compliance from a Chinese Company- in Person(youtube.com)
5 points by mapt 5y ago|1 comments
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by mapt 5y ago
Yeah, I enjoyed this and the WTYP podcast. I disagree with Justin a bit on his favored idea of "De-commodification of housing", making it some type of individual right rather than a form of tradeable property, versus leaving the
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by mapt 5y ago
Recommended watching on the channel 'Not Just Bikes': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQUOHlAocY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI3
979.
by mapt 5y ago
Partial obstructions are not going to be rare for customers. While not a best-case review, this is arguably a more authentic review.
980.
by mapt 5y ago
There is no "recharging" an aluminum-air battery, you add the energy back through recycling (smelting) it. One of the big synergies is with renewables: With the right industrial process, you can treat this smelting process as a wa
981.
by mapt 5y ago
Small-market, heavily subsidized short-haul segments fly half empty, and have a low flight cadence.
982.
by mapt 5y ago
Yes. This is antitrust targeted at practical impacts to everyday life rather than at narrowly defined, hard to prove classes of "anticompetitive behavior", which is the route that the US has taken. An attempt at practical antitr
983.
by mapt 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manu...
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by mapt 5y ago
When you model this kind of befuddlement, assume that it's rational, strategic action intended to secure more money/growth in the short term than the "sane choice", even if that requires a worse user experience.
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by mapt 5y ago
The "Investments" made by private equity firms are not the same as investments made by you and I. Why? Because unlike for a public company, holding a managing stake in a private company in certain circumstances and controlling h
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by mapt 5y ago
That was before 40 years of billionaires largely controlling the agenda of government, with the past 15 years in particular seeing audit rates for this class drop below audit rates for waitresses.
987.
by mapt 6y ago
Neurons aren't allowed to vary independently of each other, and neither are pixels; A grayscale image with random pixels is static, not even recognizable as an image. The mind cannot decode those pixels in a seven-dimensional indexing
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by mapt 6y ago
I'm finding an ASTM spec - https://www.astm.org/Standards/F2115.htm And an ISO spec - https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:20957:-6:ed-1:v1:en But no indication if anybody's bot
989.
by mapt 6y ago
Wouldn't it be especially inelegant/inefficient to try and wire synapses for, say, a seven-dimensional cross-referencing system, when have to actually physically locate the synapses for this system in three-dimensional space? (and
990.
by mapt 6y ago
> Klein bottle shaped pastas can be constructed Can they though? At scale? With what mechanism? Slightly damp glutinous starch isn't as great a material as you might imagine.

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