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Its a great way to allocate scarce money by having researchers rank themselves each decade. I was recently heard several decadal proposal talks. Its the post-docs dream machines "what I would build if someone gave me a billion dollars&
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"Faceverse"
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Pokeman GO was an earlier killer AR app. Made Niantic a boatload.
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The return of "boom boxes" is ruining areas of US parks. This is facilitated by some smart phones with loud volumes or attachments to smart phones that turn them into boom boxes. I dont want hear other people loud music at times.
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I saw a documentary a few years back analyzing why hydrogen vehicles havent caught on yet. All the major auto companies had working fuel cells of internal combustion prototypes for 20 years. One villain was Obamas energy secretary Steven Ch
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Hydrogen can be either fuel cell or modified internal combustion. Fuel cells are more economic for larger vehicles like trucks, ships, planes than cars. Fuels cell systems have potentially lower maintenance costs due to fewer parts.
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Carbon capture is much easier at a single hydrogen refinery than at thousands of vehicles or buildings.
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The IRS option Free File Fillable Forms has online forms that compute internal arithmetic and self-efile. This eliminates many hand math errors. However this system isnt good at telling you which forms you need to file. You could miss an im
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The IRS wanted to automate your tax filing by filling out the basic tax forms from your W2s, 1099s and family size. (Other countries do this) However a strong tax accounting lobby canned it. They substituted with free federal filing for tho
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The 6 degrees experimental result was based on snailmail. In social media its 4 degrees, probably due occasional supernodes- people with over a thousand connections.
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Isaacsons new book Code Breakers about CRISPR has a couple positive chapters on Zaynor. (Isaacson interviewed Steve Jobs in his final months for the definitive biography.)
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It would be 28.8% including the NIT for Obamcare. Plus state taxes to 12.3% in California.
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Play Funny Thing Happened on Way to Forum used lots of these jokes. Still funny.
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Two important tenants of Stoicism include (1) the world can be understood through reason- this presages science and the enlightenment. And (2) live life moderately, between wealth and frugality.
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In Plato's Republic, the ideal rulers were philosophers. However in Plato's era philosophy encompassed science and law, i.e. a philosopher was an educated person.
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More courses are "flipped" these days with viewing the lectures out of class and solving exercises in class.
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Non-coding DNA may also affect its shape. Most of the time when not in mitosis, DNA appears to be jumbled. Thatbshape might be intentional for sone yet unknown reasons.
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Since sedatives dilate and stimulants constrict, I just imagine various trips Ive been on to change pupil size.
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Generally open-access charges the author. $1000-$2000 an article is typical. Research grant applications include modest conference and publication costs.
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Sort of like the so-called Afghan Army, where 80%-90% of soldiers were fake. Their commanders pocketed their salaries.
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The Russian and Ukraine bank routing numbers should be a clue. Along with the payment in cryptocurrency.
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Or Dumb and Dumber
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Marcus may have been cremated because he was an early Christian. In early days some Christians believed in not damaging remains because the Second Coming was imminent. Christianity had arrived in Rome by 79 AD. But its doubtful if it spread
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Very Long Baseline radio astronomy has been around for decades. One of its early accomplishments was the realtime observation of plate tectonics motion between telescopes. These days that is observed routinely with high resolution GPS. One
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I live near and visit Aspen often. Many of their properties are occupied as little as a month a year- a period around July 4 and another around News Years. Their uber-wealthy owners have no great interest in monetizing the unused 90% of the
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Which have more exclusions than a Republican health insurance program.
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But the aggregate value of crypto is comparable to the US currency in circulation: two trillion. https://futurism.com/the-byte/cryptocurrency-worth-more-than... Crypto has a muchlower velocity of trading than currency.
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A class project would be to use machine learning on these graphs to spot trends. HN has lots of data examples.
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The version I read on Pocket had several audio clips of whistled English. It is understandable. Once you learn the conventions for representing fricatives as whistles, you can pretty much whistle English.
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Much of current cognitive science is neo-phrenology: geography = function. This article shows thats too simple.

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