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by ncmncm 4y ago
Wondering how many learned the song as "pickin'em up the pawpaws" instead of "pickin' up the pawpaws".
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by ncmncm 4y ago
"Considering the vast abyss of our Galaxy, and sweep of our solar system and even just our wide world, it doesn't seem like I really eat much cheese."
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by ncmncm 4y ago
"if you're vegan, it means you're better than most people." "No vegan edge, no vegan powers!"
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by ncmncm 4y ago
If you believe this, I have some land on the Big Island to sell you. Note the weasel wording "averaged over". Nobody had "averaged over" exposure. Instead, the people who were most exposed were most exposed.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I am indeed.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Binary stars are so common, it surprises me to find so few phenomena that involve companions. It was gratifying to see suggested a neutron star diving through a diffuse neighbor. There are of course type Iä supernovas. ("Fhtagn!")
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I doubled my Patreon contribution to Denys this morning. Patreon offers no way to add a one-time boost, which sucks. Also added one for Suchomimus, who I assume has also been hit.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Off-topic, is this the David Chase who did all the original work on e-cash, decades before there was crypto currency?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
This explains (thank you) how they can provide real-time service and reliability, but does not explain how they cram all the GUI and browser functionality into 1.4MB.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Time to go back to torrenting, I guess. I thought they liked us subscribing, but evidently I was wrong.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I thought that algebraic geometry was really cool when I first encountered it. But people with a lot of experience insist that for computational processes it is slower than more familiar methods. So it is convenient and intuitive for one-o
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by ncmncm 4y ago
So now microcomputers are mainframes, but with all that extra hardware virtualized and emulated.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
AA is the worst. I would be here all day if I were to explain all the things they did on a single flight, NY to Akron. I rented a car and drove home, so not to expose myself to that again. Have not flown AA since. Now JetBlue codeshares wit
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by ncmncm 4y ago
This. Aloft, your phone sees many, many towers.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Is there anything about L4 to make make it worse in the role of that kernel?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
"Military" does not, by itself, imply nuclear weapons.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I have long wondered... How was it possible to construct this? Is it just extreme self-discipline, omitting everything not strictly essential? Or is there an underlying formalism that makes a very small amount of code do a very great deal?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Sam's project is not obviously fraudulent . But it also is not what the article was about. All fusion startups except Sam's are obviously fraudulent, as they all depend upon burning tritium that cannot be obtained, among numero
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by ncmncm 4y ago
"Rare-earth" metals, are not, in fact, scarce. Insisting otherwise is misinformed at best, or disingenuous in your case, because you have already been told otherwise.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I am not, in fact "thundering". You made that up. Stop it. I said nothing about "existential threats" or "threats" of any kind. You made that up. Stop it. Every last dollar going into fraudulent fusion startups
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Lots of universities have their own reactor. They are used for a variety of research activities almost all wholly unrelated to generating power. Sometimes you need samples irradiated, other times you need to synthesize custom radioactive is
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The civil nukes have all been massively subsidized by military usage. There is no way a purely civil program could have shouldered those costs. And even the civil program is, separately, massively subsidized. Again, no civil plant could aff
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Wars trigger emergency measures. It would be extremely foolish to project this as a trend.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
China announces plenty, breaks ground for less. Announcements are cheap. Likely, they will not end up fueling any they do build, because it costs too much. China's command economy creates perverse incentives that do not translate to th
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Seems like the concept would be more useful for emergency response, making e.g. hot meals for a sudden refugee camp.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
High inflation in a recession would be worse. The Fed triggering a recession for its effect on mid-term elections would be worse than that.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Could still be a loon. Certainly lying abt the 400 rounds daily, though. No mall would foot that bill, with or without adhesive.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Possibly sorting networks could get practical benefit from the Alpha treatment. I think the largest sorting network proven optimal is for a block size in the teens (13?). Analogously to matrix multiplication, it matters most where compariso
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Labor is adaptable, management less so.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Europe is in a war-driven crisis. Conclusions from activities of the moment would be foolish, at best, where not actually disingenuous and duplicitous.

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