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by nwiswell 5y ago
Do you think USDC is also a fraud? They're eating into USDT's market share at an alarming rate... If USDT is really insolvent, the collapse should happen pretty soon.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
What is implied by the GP is that the cost of ownership for regenerative brakes is lower per joule. That's obviously true when that joule is "reused" and not so obvious when it's dissipated. Mechanical brake pads have to
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Colorado School of Mines is public.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> In the United States, the level of professional dedication is no match to that in Taiwan, at least for engineers What does this even mean? That US engineers expect benefits and work-life balance?
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I think GP's point is this: 1) You cannot have cryptocurrency without the web, so it is web tech. 2) Computational cryptography long predates the web. It would be more accurate to say "the web is cryptography tech", if anythi
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I thought this was about thin film simulations based on the title :) There is a wonderful transfer matrix method library in Python for reflectometry simulation too, if that's what you were hoping to find. https://github.com&
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by nwiswell 5y ago
"I got 99 popcount but the parity ain't one"
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by nwiswell 6y ago
> Is it? I have access pretty much all the time and can’t name an outage (that wasn’t caused by me), ever. I think that's because the system is designed to be resilient to random failures (e.g., disgruntled beaver). Submarine cabl
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by nwiswell 6y ago
For what it's worth, that's exactly why it seems like something that is likely to actually happen. It's one thing to threaten mutual nuclear destruction and quite another to give the order to actually kill hundreds of milli
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by nwiswell 6y ago
What are the odds that [insert your favorite boogeyman global power] has already seeded every submarine communications cable with "robotic beavers", patiently awaiting an activation signal? It is frightening how fragile the physic
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by nwiswell 6y ago
There's something to be said for not sending the TV to the landfill, and I imagine these use less power than a typical incandescent bulb. But more importantly, there's some je ne sais quoi that you just can't get from an e-
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by nwiswell 6y ago
Wikipedia's editorial standards. The editors fight over language all the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Wo...
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by nwiswell 6y ago
So are at least half the people acquitted by juries. That's the whole point of the reasonable doubt standard. We believe as a society that it is far more intolerable to imprison innocents than to let the guilty occasionally escape just
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by nwiswell 6y ago
> the fact you want to "properly review them at a later point in time" seems to suggest a lack of confidence in the kernel review process. I don't think this necessarily follows. Rather it is fundamentally a resource alloc