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by mikhailfranco 9mo ago
It's not too difficult to know or calculate inches in a mile: 12 * 3 * 1760 = 12 * 5280 = 63,360 A few Americans may know how many cubic inches in a US gallon: 231 But I don't believe anyone (apart from rainman&
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by mikhailfranco 9mo ago
Live out of a suitcase, travel the world, hang out with a wide selection of excellent mathematicians, write joint papers with many of them, when you get bored or stuck, pack the suitcase and keep moving - for your whole life.
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by mikhailfranco 9mo ago
Presumably this reduces the beam footprint on the ground, hence increases the bandwidth available to individual users in dense urban environments (reduced sharing).
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by mikhailfranco 10mo ago
China is the world's second largest producer of silver, after Mexico and ahead of Peru. It is introducing licensing for export of silver starting on 1 January 2026. There is speculation that the new regulations will favor a few large c
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by mikhailfranco 11mo ago
Geoneutrino surveys show the Tibetan plateau and western China are full of uranium and thorium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoneutrino Economic recoverable reserves are another matter, but there's plenty there.
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by mikhailfranco 11mo ago
For peat's sake!
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by mikhailfranco 11mo ago
The lowest value coin still in use is the Uzbek Tiyin (0.01 UZS). So 1,200,000 Tiyins to the USD.
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Khara Khoto appears to be on or near the extension of the 'Gobi Wall' into present day China, presumably as part of the same system. https://cms.interestingengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/20... The na
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Note Abu Musa, Greater & Lesser Tunb islands are attributed to the Emirates. These were occupied by Iran at the formation of the UAE and remain contested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure_of_Abu_Musa_and_the_Gr
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Turkey claims sectors of the field all around the island of Cyprus. Egypt has some small hope of reversing its economic decline. A direct pipeline from the field to Europe, via Greece and Italy is contentious. Israel invades Gaza to claim o
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
"moved from Germany to write here " So missing the good German bread. Doesn't say where 'here' is.
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
The usual handwaving for entropy v. information/complexity is to observe that our universe goes from simple low entropy state (Big Bang) to a simple maximum entropy state (Heat Death). Both have low information. The complexity rises an
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Westland-Augusta-Leonardo helicopter company in Yeovil. RNAS (Royal Naval Air Station) Yeovilton in nearby Ilchester, which has also a fascinating museum of British naval aviation and an old Concorde. [Fun fact - Yeovilton and Westlands a
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
In an episode of the The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski narrates the seasonal migration (transhumance) of the Bakhtiari tribe of SW Iran. When they get to the raging river, an old man can't make it, so is left on the bank to die. ht
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
But Lex interviewed Terry! Maybe a voice-recognizing silence-skipping adaptive rate.
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
https://www.axiomofjoy.com/2019/02/19/genome_part_i.html
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Some people exercise to get fit. I exercise to work up a thirst.
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
There is a podcast from Sean Carroll about cocktails, if you like your mixology from a physics & philosophy guy: Mindscape 307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSmrdzistc
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_syste... The length ranking seems to be something like: Riyadh - 176 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Metro Dubai - 90km, first operat
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Digital monad - doing PLT in Bali?
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
I only read Shakespeare in C: Ox2b | ~0x2B
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
There's recent evidence from mouse DNA, sheep shit silt and pollen, that the Vikings reached the Azores some time around 800 AD: https://www.science.org/content/article/vikings-paradise-wer...
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
It would seem possible to create an economic index for climate change. For example, consider low lying coastal property that might be vulnerable to sea-level rise (chronic trend), storm surges and hurricane/cyclone damage (acute episod
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Terence Tao briefly discusses this problem in the first chapter of his talk with Lex Fridman: Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472 https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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Japanese Castaways of 1834: The Three Kichis(historylink.org)
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Some fascinating background about early Japanese trade with the Americas, and other wrecks on US/Canada west coast: Japanese Shipwrecks in British Columbia, Grant Keddie https://staff.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content&#x
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
In my limited experience in Arabia, the women wear black, optimized for losing heat inside, and men wear white, optimized for reflecting direct light outside - at least that was my instinctive explanation.
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
One report said the drone attack was sequential, not swarming. So perhaps only one remote operator per truck, with about 2-3 minutes between each drone launch, depending on how far the previous one had to go to reach its target.
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
Support for the Palestinian cause is to be expected in an Arab country. But perhaps the reported strength of feeling is correlated with the history of the PLO, who moved there after being expelled from Lebanon by the Israeli invasion in 198
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by mikhailfranco 1y ago
This is not surprising at all if you know: 1. Cryptic crosswords (1920s) - the only interesting crosswords. 2. "Metaphors We Live By" Lakoff & Johnson (1980), or perhaps just "Roget's Thesaurus" (1805) lon

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