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by philipov 4y ago
You can make really good conductive devices out of gold, and silver is used for high end solder and other things. Both metals have immense industrial value. Crypto is not precious metals, crypto is art bought at a hot auction. Have you fram
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by philipov 4y ago
Practically speaking, this means we couldn't use the cyclic process to do work, because that would require it to have excess energy it could transfer. If a time crystal's periodic behavior were to spin, you couldn't use the r
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by philipov 4y ago
What you've described is a repeating loop. What makes a time crystal more than that?
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You can't depend on shared libraries outside the wheel, but you can include the library inside the wheel. The applications all expect the shared library they depend on to be in a path relative the location of the application, which pre
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by philipov 4y ago
Suppose you're trying to distribute a piece of binary software that comes with different features, such as a build that includes only client applications, while another one also includes both client and server applications. If they bot
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by philipov 4y ago
My understanding is that theory has blasted way past observations and what we need now are more precise observations. And developing the technology capable of making such precise observations has immense utility outside of the particular ex
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by philipov 4y ago
This is explained in the article: In their numbers and variety, these documents put the debate over Chinese in a new context: They provide evidence that is impossible to ignore for politicians, business leaders and society in all coun
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by philipov 4y ago
That is how the school system fails, but it does not justify the mistaken belief common to so many victims of talent that understanding and intellect are the end goal, rather than a starting point. It does not justify avoiding practice. In
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by philipov 4y ago
Between 7th and 8th grade, I went to a summer camp where I learned logic and digital circuits by working hands-on with real components and building working devices out of them. Our final project was to design and construct a controller for
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by philipov 4y ago
> Being smart and understanding the material are the important endpoints. This statement contains a serious misapprehension and requires revision. My grandfather would often say that "understanding" swimming won't help y
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by philipov 4y ago
I thought so too, until I got to a point in my education where it actually required work to continue making process, and the discipline to do it wasn't there. Habits are hard to break, and forming healthy study habits early is as valua
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by philipov 4y ago
Not making a statement on what the true facts are, but I don't see an a priori contradiction between these two statements. People who are rich have wealth, and are therefore less reliant on their transient income. But income taxes targ
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by philipov 4y ago
I think you are conflating capital with "the capital-owning class" but they are not the same thing.
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by philipov 4y ago
Civilization is usually defined as more than just the development of permanent settlements. Permanent settlements existed in the fertile crescent during the neolithic for thousands of years before civilizations emerged in that region during
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by philipov 4y ago
The formation of ghettos, segregation of society either through self-selection or through the willful exclusion of immigrants by the dominant population, will lead to pockets of reinforcement. If you want people to assimilate into our socie
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by philipov 4y ago
While we may agree on a general principle, the details matter, and these things are complicated. The exponential growth phase is when that kind of influence is felt greatest, because the early adopters are greatly outnumbered by the influx
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by philipov 4y ago
When people join a community, they don't just adopt the values of the community, but they also come with pre-existing values. As a community grows, it will adapt to the people who are joining it, and this may alienate the early-adopter
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by philipov 4y ago
Any game that involves diplomacy needs to be played anonymously to prevent that sort of stuff. Not just pre-existing friendships, but people you play with frequently will learn your habits and tells, and will refuse to cooperate with someon
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by philipov 4y ago
While Penrose's specific theory is probably not correct, it does provide a conceptual framework to imagine how such clues might be possible.
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by philipov 4y ago
If you will point me to sources on those numbers you consider reliable, I'll take a look at them.
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by philipov 4y ago
I know blockchain enthusiasts claim that it solves some problems, but in reality it fails to solve them because they are not fundamentally tech problems. You could think of it as a performance art documentary of a group of people learning
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by philipov 4y ago
"Fixing the internet" == computers that mutually consent to communicating with each other are able to communicate with each other
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by philipov 4y ago
> But all those ideas solve real problems too. All of them, except for blockchain. That one can go die on the trash heap of history.
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by philipov 4y ago
Public school is not for training workers, it is for training well-informed citizens who can make voting decisions. Training workers has been, and should continue to be, the job of employers.
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by philipov 4y ago
Transaction fees can change while you're in the middle of a transaction that you initiated when the fees were lower, so no.
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by philipov 4y ago
They need to fire their loser NFT-deluded president and let YoshiP run the company.
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by philipov 4y ago
When waves overlap on a guitar string they are two different waves whose state covers the same area. A wave superposition in an atom is a single wave that has a position state that's more complex than being in a single location.
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by philipov 5y ago
I finally understand methane lifeforms ...
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by philipov 5y ago
back in the IRC days, this was called a babel loop, because the bot we had to do this used the Babel Fish translation engine.
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The public's memory is short, while spite's memory is long.

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