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by moultano 6y ago
One unfortunate side effect of this is that methane leaks are growing due to the switch from coal to natural gas, and we don't know how much. The impact of that natural gas may make this switch net negative in terms of its climate impa
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by moultano 6y ago
This trend among other things is one of the inspirations for writing this essay that was well received on here a few weeks ago. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/the-defaults-dont-... I really feel li
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by moultano 6y ago
When I was first looking into buying Lego sets for my kids I felt the same way, but I've completely turned around. Legos are way better than they were when I was a kid. Check out the 3-in-1 line. They're brilliantly designed. A
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome, Climate Change, and Covid-19(vox.com)
2 points by moultano 6y ago|0 comments
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Britain invented the steam engine.
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by moultano 6y ago
Sergey Brin and Andy Grove were both immigrants. If the people creating US technology weren't permitted to move here, the center of mass of the world's tech industry would shift somewhere else with sane immigration policies, proba
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by moultano 6y ago
This paper is really shoddy work. It doesn't even account for the fact that most H1B workers are early in their career and thus more junior employees.
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by moultano 6y ago
The H1B program is the only reason the US has a tech industry at all. 75% of silicon valley tech workers are immigrants.
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by moultano 6y ago
That isn't why they're removing grandfathered. The word "grandfathered" exists because of laws in the south that kept black people from voting by saying that you were only allowed to vote if your grandfather could vote.
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The Defaults Don't Work(moultano.wordpress.com)
86 points by moultano 6y ago|30 comments
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I don't have any post graduate education. I'm ok at math, but not exceptional. I managed to publish a paper a few years ago that is mostly a math paper that I'm really proud of. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809
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by moultano 6y ago
It claimed that they significantly increased the chances of death.
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by moultano 6y ago
The game I've found with the most cross-generational appeal is Kingdomino. I've played it with 3 year olds and teenagers at the same time, and both enjoyed it. They only change we make to the rules for the younger kids is removing
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by moultano 6y ago
It may have just seen that phrase before though. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22flakes+of+fire%22+leaves
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by moultano 6y ago
Does anyone have a sense of how much the idealization of circuit design limits people's imagination when designing real circuits? Are there fruitful possibilities that could be explored but aren't because the abstraction doesn&#x2
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by moultano 6y ago
Maybe, but photogrammetry is a waaaay cheaper way of producing assets, and being able to directly ingest high res models from a scan could actually drop the art costs of games a great deal.
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Experts’ 7 best ideas on how to beat Covid-19 and save the economy(vox.com)
2 points by moultano 6y ago|0 comments
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by moultano 6y ago
Yes, they should quarantine until they're able to get a test and test negative. We have a lot of evidence of asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread.
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by moultano 6y ago
I can imagine in a future iteration of this, writing a song, recording it with your phone, and then letting this turn it into something that sounds like a high quality production performed by a famous voice.
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A New Fossil is the First Known Swimming Dinosaur(nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by moultano 6y ago|0 comments
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Something I learned from reading "The Future of Life" is that a third of the world's landmass is enough to preserve a healthy representative sample of all of the world's ecosystems. If the world were a third smaller than
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Why we can't build(vox.com)
7 points by moultano 6y ago|0 comments
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by moultano 6y ago
> It's going to happen by carefully understanding the context and motivations and knowledge that led to the current laws, and only then setting out change them, hopefully for the better. If you go case by case through all the nons
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by moultano 6y ago
Ya'll might be interested in this paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13528 > in particular, it shows clear insensitivity to the contextual impacts of negation.
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by moultano 7y ago
The Jacobian is used all the time, but where do you end up needing the adjoint?
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by moultano 7y ago
If your quibble is with the precise definition of "the end of the world" and not with the rest of the statement then I think we're well outside of what concrete facts can resolve. The impacts of 1.5C are going to be horrific.
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by moultano 7y ago
http://moultano.wordpress.com I write accessible articles on technical subjects when I have some particular insight to share that I haven't seen written about before. That ends up meaning that I don't post very much, b
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by moultano 7y ago
You don't appear to have read the things you linked. The argument Ebi is making is that we shouldn't give up if we don't hit that 12 year deadline, because it's continuous, and things keep getting even worse . She'
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by moultano 7y ago
>The world is going to end in 12 years..." " is a recent famous quote by a prominent Democrat. This isn't true, and you should probably cut whatever source told it to you out of your life. The world is going to end if we
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by moultano 7y ago
You aren't giving any indication in what you've written that you've read and understood the article.

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