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by peter303 6y ago
16% of the US qualifies. Not a very high threshhold.
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by peter303 6y ago
I had been going to legal gyms for two months. The intense focus on hygiene seems to be working since none of the 600 outbreaks inmy state has been traced to a gym.
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by peter303 6y ago
You'd have a 50-50 chance of dying from an accident in 960 years in current US society. My guess is government would get more serious about safety if we live less than percent of our lifespan.
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by peter303 6y ago
36% of Supercomputer 500 list use IBM power CPUs, including top two supercomputers. https://www.top500.org/
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by peter303 6y ago
Note in the last election a couple of candidates would have said the the US unemployment rate was 56%, not 11%. They counted everyone who wasnt working as unemployed, including 1 year olds and 90 year olds.
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by peter303 6y ago
56% of US population was not working in July 2020 according to BLS numbers. US population is 328M. 144M are working civilians. Add 2M for military employment. 44% employment rate.
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by peter303 6y ago
This is not a scientific paper, i.e. reproduceable result. It is a speculation. PLOS is becoming a junkmjournal.
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by peter303 6y ago
SpaceX using $3.6 billion investors money to build Starship. It will probably circle the Moon before NASA SLS.
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by peter303 6y ago
China and India are seeking capture a good fraction of their population. The US military types every soldier, but claims to remove data when you separate. In contrast the US and Europe have purchased testing by volunteers at levels that bea
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by peter303 6y ago
Some matches can made at one person, or fourth cousin. You could have a lot of them.
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by peter303 6y ago
I miss browsing the new books shelf at our library (closed to in person access by covid).
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by peter303 6y ago
Good! I made more troll posts in usenet days.
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Twitter hackers caught via cryptocurrency trail(tampabay.com)
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by peter303 6y ago
Interesting article in NYTimes a few minutes ago that several Trump advisers had to talk him into the MicroSoft compromise just before he was to sign the banning order. The advisors were horrified they'd lose an angry generation of new
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by peter303 6y ago
Ironically, the talking computer HAL was introduced in the same year as English's mouse. (Though the Star Trek oral computer beat this by a couple years.) Of the various human-computer interfaces- keyboard, graphical, oral- I suspect o
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by peter303 6y ago
Letters are phonograms with strong clues about pronunciation. Numerals are pure ideograms with no clue about pronunciation. Modern English is a mix of phonograms and ideograms, with more of the former. Its very likely they trigger different
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by peter303 6y ago
I hope SpaceX officials and astronauts get a fete at the White House. In the old pre-virus-gathering days they might have merited a parade. Although I dont like the current occupant of the White House, I do like their interest in space.
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by peter303 6y ago
OOP is perhaps not the best abstraction for distributed computing where you want maximize data flow and minimize distributed state. The slowdown of Moores Law for a single core/node means performance improvements will distribute comput
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by peter303 6y ago
Perhaps you could evolve another mobile OS out of TikTok that is not Android or iOS. MicroSoft failed to get traction with its two previous mobile OSes (perhaps because they were basically offering reworked Windows).
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by peter303 6y ago
Its the other way around. A classic study from the 1960s found that color words and the correlated perception were pretty similar among a large number of languages. That suggest something physiological about color perception. What is curiou
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by peter303 6y ago
I couldnt wait to escape the pre-internet dreariness of suburbia and attend college (MIT).
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by peter303 6y ago
Mozart occasionally received commissions from Maries brother, the Emperor Joseph. Beethoven also. Joseph appears in the play Amadeus.
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by peter303 6y ago
A kilogram of gasoline has over 5 times the energy density of a kilogram lithium-air battery. Fuel weight will control air travel range for the forseeable future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_
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by peter303 6y ago
Tao a rare person with 200 IQ
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by peter303 6y ago
I a medium size vertical software company I worked at no more than 20% were software engineers when it reached the mature stage. Some were software support people like program managers, testers, technical writers, Training. Some were compan
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by peter303 6y ago
Memory circuits were relatively easy entry points for low cost Asian countries. So about 90% of that business migrated out of US and Europe to Asia.
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by peter303 6y ago
This was just before (1977) computers were used to design chips (Mead & Conway 1980). So you see some irregular hand drawn parts here. I did a fair amount of hand tape circuit design myself in the 1970s. Pre-computer designs were prone
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by peter303 6y ago
<insert your favorite dad-bod joke here /insert>
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by peter303 6y ago
Painter/workman jeans with a second set of pockets at the knees came into fashion when cellphones shrunk to pocket size.
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by peter303 6y ago
Internet daytrading in the 1990s was an early version of Robinhood. You no longer needed to place trades with a broker intermediary. Commissions dropped from 3% to $8 a trade. I know people who retired into daytrading, grad students who in

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