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by nwatson 4y ago
Data should be uncountable, like meat. Datum -> data point.
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by nwatson 4y ago
Awesome, thanks for the link!
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by nwatson 4y ago
What I'd really like to know: the approximate total mass of all the COVID-19 viruses/virii that have infected humans since the start of the pandemic; the volume (in a vacuum perhaps) these virii would take up if dumped into a cont
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by nwatson 4y ago
Religion is increasingly a political signifier in the USA now. Many MAGA Trump supporters who claim to be Evangelical don't even go to church on any regular basis. "Secular Evangelicalism" is huge in the USA South. This trend
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by nwatson 4y ago
There will be plenty of anti-semitic pro-Israel-for-the-purpose-of-bringing-on-the-apocalypse USA pseudo-evangelicals to support them. (I'm a USA evangelical.)
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by nwatson 4y ago
Weren't churches a huge factor in deposing Ceausescu and an end to the Soviet influence, as well as the support of populace in hard times before the regime's fall? I'd imagine that would put religion in some favorable light i
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by nwatson 4y ago
Incidentally, typical Japanese homes last 30 years and then are rebuilt: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
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by nwatson 4y ago
I used a Windows 7 or 8 license left over from an old MSDN subscription to activate Windows 11 on UTM/macOS successfully.
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by nwatson 4y ago
In years 2000/2001, as the dot-com implosion was happening, I worked for a company where we did patent disclosures (I spent a long time talking to a patent lawyer) discussing in depth ideas for billing systems, including a vendor &#x2F
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by nwatson 4y ago
UN World Food Programme. Absolutely meaningful. Some other humanitarian coordination too.
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by nwatson 4y ago
Not mentioned in the article at all: security. Unmanned airships over water at low altitude, and pirates with drones.
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by nwatson 4y ago
The West should give incentives to China to forego Taiwan for Siberia.
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by nwatson 4y ago
Reminds me of when I worked at Altavista (the "original Google") for all of two months in late 1999. They had rolled up many companies and I was assigned to work in one of the recent acquisitions, and the manager and I met twice i
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by nwatson 4y ago
I think that's Vacation Rentals By Owner.
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by nwatson 4y ago
This product purports to generate "life-force biophotons" that will improve your health. You place them under your bed to benefit from the healing effects. This is one of the most brazen money-grabs preying on conspiracy-theory-
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Tesla MedBed Generators: 2 MedBed Generators $19,999 [scam](teslabiohealing.com)
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by nwatson 4y ago
Also here, last photo https://www.google.com/amp/s/bernadetealves.com/2020/06/12/u... , the 700-meter Minhocão (Big Worm) at UnB (Universidade Nacional de Brasília). I started EE program there
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by nwatson 4y ago
Autonomous drone networks with integrated NFC credit-card payments to pick up 3am gasoline at local low-monitor gas stations will be a threat. A swarm will be hard to defend against, and probably can be deployed stealthily.
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by nwatson 4y ago
After ethics reviews, send some prototypes to Ukraine this winter.
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by nwatson 4y ago
That's for bond purchase and payback in Brazilian Reais with a bona fide government (with Lula back). To guarantee an 8% payback in crypto is a completely different game, and there's a significant downside for someone taking the d
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by nwatson 4y ago
In Atlassian Sourcetree you can stage the full current file, undo live changes in your editor, make different changes to your live document, and then reapply chunks of your prior changes from staging to live document (actually looks like un
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by nwatson 4y ago
Unfortunately, command and control for terrorist drone networks, sending coordinates to low-use credit-card gas pumps for night-time refills, and coordinates to targets. Give it ten years.
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by nwatson 4y ago
Here's another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2F7EaeDbHY&t=158s Got to wonder what the spectator body count is at an event like this.
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by nwatson 4y ago
If one were moderately skillful and wanted to hoax, I wonder what kind of setup would let one make this video as "proof". What kind of "funnel" would you need? A straight cone? I imagine the archer made several real-time
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by nwatson 4y ago
You can break your own record the next time and get more publicity. The hype dies down otherwise.
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by nwatson 4y ago
Microservices ... laptop user sets breakpoints on a Django/Python API/web server, a Java financial transaction processor, and a golang outgoing webhook queue server.
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by nwatson 4y ago
Magic Leap needs to do a second version of this "amazing" TED talk by Rony Abovitz ... https://youtu.be/w8J5BWL8oJY
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by nwatson 4y ago
China could probably just take Vladivostok right now. Less risky than Taiwan.
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by nwatson 4y ago
I lived in Brasília three years in my later teens in the early '80s. It was ambitious but fell short. The superblocks were cold and impersonal. There were many strange ideas such as ... all the hotels should be stuffed into two hote
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by nwatson 4y ago
All you need already is at Solid Financial at https://www.solidfi.com/docs/introduction (Developer Center). Recently raised $63M Series B.

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