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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
You have to understand that after the cultural revolution, most all Chinese understand that internal rebellion can be very bad (leading to mass famine and death). Hence they largely support strong government regulation, even on speech. Amer
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
The mating process of the drone male bees (with suicidal semelparity) maybe has a more obvious (but similar?) answer in that they have served their role and want to maximize their reproductive effectiveness. Certainly attaching your venom p
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AST SpaceMobile Deploys Largest-Ever Phased Array in Low Earth Orbit(businesswire.com)
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Expected to now be the brightest object in the night sky other than the moon.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Exactly, that seems underappreciated. It seems you'd want to block infrared where most of the thermal energy is transferred, while letting the shorter wavelengths through for plants/plankton.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
In control theory, something can be observable without being controllable
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Wouldn't these sunshade concepts all reduce solar energy available to plants as well as total thermal radiation?
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
full body hives (about 2% of population has allergy to ibuprofen)
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Might be able to make an argument based on Regression Towards the Mean and the fact Cramer picks are "extremes".
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Cramer's advice is a decent guide if you always take the opposite opinion.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
By reducing gate count on the processor, they effectively will make the programs longer (more instructions to do the same thing), but it doesn't seem like they are counting memory here..
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Social media could learn a thing or two from Wikipedia--scalable collaboration that is actually constructive.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
>> They [engineers] claimed never to have used anything beyond Excel and eighth grade level mathematics; never a trig function or even a log or exponential function! As a counterpoint, I use math on a daily basis as a principal engine
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
This is a hard one to trade off, as the engine does need maintenance even if it isn't used and still limits the lifespan of the PHEV. Even for commuting, having an oversized battery extends lifespan because of the reduced charge cycle
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
The view is not much different than at the 20 miles easily reached by high altitude balloons.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Rent has also gone up
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Bill entered the short position some time in 2020 (or earlier), so still not in the money.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
In China, the cultural revolution was largely seen as the destruction of their culture and the greatest blunder in their 3000yr history. They now look at mob and revolution mentality as the most dangerous thing to peace and prosperity. Tha
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Or use those resources to support all people across the world so they don't feel the need to resort to violence. Use it to investigate and reveal abusers (eg., oligarchs), to strengthen education and mechanisms of peaceful resolution.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
History became irrelevant after nuclear weapons. Words like 'enemy' are the real problem.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Putin is on the way down. At 70, time will surely sort him out. But the rest of the world needs to support the Russian people in building a more stable and inclusive political system. Change is possible. And we all have a vested interest.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
This mindset doesn't apply anymore. Nobody to wipe up the blood after total nuclear extinction. Nobody to imagine a future. Nobody to wish we made a different choice. Nobody left.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Agree--Humanity loses because of this posturing, well before the bombs are flying.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Different Merlin Engine
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Worth remembering the scientific method relies on some sense of repeatable phenomena for idealized "experiment". Social science, medicine, astronomy, geology, earth science, each have their own axioms for what that means. (E.g.,
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
Kuhn and Popper may have something to say about that.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
I suspect Elon wants Twitter data to train an AI/GPT-3. Also if you look at how he uses Twitter, he believes in the tweet resonance idea of being able to signal certain group or individuals with memes. He thinks that may be a key eleme
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
You can get an exponential growth if the time until the next technology decreases linearly with each technology. For example the time until the next technology is 1/n, then the technologies per unit time increase exponentially. This i
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
May be relevant to theories about the Earth's core and magnetic field.
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by mrtnmcc 4y ago
By choosing someone who died in 2019, you've implicitly chosen from the lucky group of survivors. This is not representative of everyone born in 1939. That is the discrepancy. If you add the current age to the remaining years of life,

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