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by martinpw 8y ago
> a return to bricks-and-mortar competition That's not what is happening at all. Amazon dominates the ecommerce market, is still growing like crazy, is even still growing faster than the overall ecommerce market, and the ecommerce m
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Mention of both Y2K and 2038 in that article made me realize that we are now closer to the latter than the former.
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Another factor is that the rapid population growth combined with subsidised oil prices means their own population uses a large and increasing amount of its own production - around 1/4 of total production is already consumed domesticall
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Not quite. This is FP16, supercomputers are typically benchmarked using double precision flops, so FP64. So roll in a factor of ~4 there, or a couple of years.
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There was incentive for delaying it as long as possible, for example you could evade tolls that were charged based on license plate readers. It looks like as of this year (in California at least) there is now a requirement to have a tempora
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Title is unfortunate because missing mass is often equated with dark matter. However, as the article itself makes clear, this research is nothing to do with dark matter, instead it is referring to 'normal' baryonic matter that is
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I think one of the frustrations is probably that the tone, and level of nuance and confidence expressed seems to be inversely correlated with level of expertise in the field. So for example from the current thread: (someone with training in
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It seems like both political leaning and age are about equally significant: https://news.gallup.com/poll/243908/two-three-americans-supp... Support levels (October 2018): Democrats: 75% Republicans: 53% Under 35:
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> The only way to reduce per capita energy consumption is to ban people from doing things, or tax them until the poor can't afford it any more. Per capita energy consumption has been dropping in Europe, but also in North America ove
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> CO2 is heavier than air, so concentrations may be higher closer to the floor in a closed room with little movement How significant is the gradient? Would it make a noticeable exposure difference to sleep in a high bed versus a mattress
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> The other angle is one of the recently discovered side-channel attacks that can occur when hyper-threading is in action. By disabling hyper-threading on the volume production chips, this security issue is no longer present. This line
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Several satellites, including the first X-ray telescope, Uhuru, was launched from a former oil platform off the coast of Kenya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broglio_Space_Center
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There is Kurzweil's reponse to this piece linked at the bottom of that article. Since 7 years have passed, there is some opportunity to reflect on the two positions. Kurzweil makes this comment: IBM is now working with Nuance (a compa
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I've been in an Uber that had a iPad rigged up to play ads to the passengers in the back seat. Good thing you get to rate at the end of the trip, which would (hopefully) put a stop to that.
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Worth pointing out this trend is only unambiguously evident in the Western world, identified as U.S., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Other parts of the world do not show a statistically significant trend, although the article suggests
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Interesting snippet in that article - anyone know more about these new power standards? Intel's recent 300-series chipset refresh found its new chipsets coming to market with the 14nm process, which is necessary to meet California&#x2
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Also: The Cascadia subduction zone remained hidden from us for so long because we could not see deep enough into the past. It poses a danger to us today because we have not thought deeply enough about the future.
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The federal government is trying to take away California's right to set their own vehicle standards. Is anything similar happening with these other energy efficiency standards? I believe there were moves to roll these back too at a fed
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Same in LA: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-del-mar-sea-leve... Herb Montgomery and his wife, Janet, have lived in Del Mar's low-lying Beach Colony just east of Camino Del Mar for 20 years. He kn
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by martinpw 8y ago
I'm reminded of the chart in this article showing the number of leading edge foundries dropping with every generation: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/240901-tsmc-announces-pl... and now one more step down. (A
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> Maybe the noise can be removed by other methods, maybe the noise doesn’t matter, but magic doesn’t solve the noise issues. The noise definitely matters. When you are observing with a telescope you are almost by definition working at th
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Another benefit to reading a weekly news source versus a daily is that the average quality is higher, since the most important N stories in a week are going to be a better overall sample than the most important N/7 stories each day int
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Reader view in Firefox cleans up the Medium cruft nicely on mobile.
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That was the size in 2012. On my current Debian system it is 31k. So I guess the bloating continues.
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Can relate. Bought a brand new notebook but am still scribbling notes on scraps of paper instead because I don't want to sully the pristine pages. Something about the unlimited potential of an empty notebook - it could be the place for
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I don't think we are disagreeing. I'm just pointing out that the phrase was deliberately pushed out into the wider public discourse for specific political motivations, and it is ironic that this phrase is now being used by those s
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What would you propose for a zero value on the Y axis? The only number that actually makes sense is zero Kelvin (since 0C and 0F are just arbitrary numbers). At that scale you will not see anything. But that doesn't mean nothing is hap
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You are correct, but the point of the article is that the people manipulating the data deliberately avoid these types of corrections. They see a cooling effect in the raw data and say the scientists who apply corrections are the ones who ar
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> Given that a large segment of the climate change advocacy also “coincidentally” support far left economic policies as a “remedy,” how can it be a surprise that people like me have a deep skepticism of the whole human-caused global warm
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The irony is that the phrase "climate change" was actually pushed initially by a Republican advisor (Frank Luntz) as it was considered less frightening to the public than "global warming". The other irony is that this ph

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