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by phreeza 6y ago
I guess I should clarify that I mean scepticism relative to what early proponents of bitcoin were suggesting would happen. So by taken off I mean things like replacing fiat currency in everyday use for a large number of people. Edit: Compar
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by phreeza 6y ago
Doesn't the fact that bitcoin hasn't taken off yet kind of validate the reservations that HN has? If Dropbox was still at 100 active users 10 years later, would someone be complaining about the dismissive comments HN had at the la
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by phreeza 6y ago
Why not buy something useful like real estate?
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by phreeza 6y ago
So basically to calculate the stationary distribution (distribution over a long time of evaluation) of a markov chain, you have to calculate the eigenvectors of the transition matrix. And these take into account the graph structure, so I th
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by phreeza 6y ago
Why the traffic cone?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Needs a (2017) tag?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Graham Hancock always gave me a strong pseudoscience vibe, do you think he should be taken seriously?
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by phreeza 6y ago
On the contrary, I explicitly remember this effect making the rounds in many outlets in April: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-...
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by phreeza 6y ago
The sad reality is that many of these actual applications load faster than pages that could really just be pages but still load vast amounts of JS...
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by phreeza 6y ago
I was curious as to how much energy the enthalpy of fusion corresponds to. Turns out it is less than one day of solar irradiation: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=333.55+kJ%2Fkg*28+tril...
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by phreeza 6y ago
Just as a side note, its not that people are terrible at perceiving brightness, it's just that brightness perception (like loudness) is logarithmic. So if a person says it is 2x brighter outside, and a linear measurement instrument say
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by phreeza 6y ago
It's impossible to say without knowing actual prices and doing the math. If a profit can be made, most likely someone will do it.
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by phreeza 6y ago
I think this is quite a rose colored view of the past. Rendering with many graphics techniques was out of reach for hobbyists for a long time for example.
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by phreeza 6y ago
If that etymology of mandarinas is true it is especially funny because it already comes from spanish/portuguese mandar for "telling someone what to do", because mandarin was the dialect of the ruling caste in China, if I reme
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by phreeza 6y ago
Apache Beam seems to be an implementation of this idea. It works well when the things you have to do matches the logic, but it gets tricky if you need to do stuff iteratively or recursively.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Genuine question, why is this a problem? Sure, someone may be able to generate thousands of real-sounding fake news articles, but it's not like they will also be able to flood the New York Times with these articles. How do you worry yo
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by phreeza 6y ago
I know it's easy for me to say, but shouldn't nobody be building their business to be critically dependent on some other business, regardless of whether cloud provider or other class of service? Especially when the balance of powe
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by phreeza 6y ago
There were 4 people in the experiment at any given time, but the point about even numbers holds.
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by phreeza 6y ago
I wonder how this compared to the Biosphere 2 experiments conducted in the 90s. It seems this is a much more artificial environment, and thus probably closer to an actual moon mission.
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Establishment of a closed artificial ecosystem to ensure human survival on moon(biorxiv.org)
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by phreeza 6y ago
SA is a powerful inside voice against anti-US measures by OPEC (post 73 at least), and promotes other US-friendly aspects such as the Petrodollar.
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by phreeza 6y ago
McCain was not portrayed as dumb if I recall correctly, he was cast as a kind of super-hawk, IIRC. In that election cycle, Sarah Palin took the role of the dumb republican.
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by phreeza 6y ago
We don't have the counterfactual, so it is impossible to say. But I think it is generally accepted that US policy, including wars, is very supportive of Saudi Arabia and against any other potential regional powers like Iran or Iraq, an
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by phreeza 6y ago
I kind of agree that the oil argument is stupid, though I would not say it is baseless, it is probably overly reductive though. Fracking is what lead the US to rebound as the largest oil producer, and IIRC that became big after the invasion
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by phreeza 6y ago
They both clearly have to be (way) above average in some dimension, but I don't think it is what would traditionally be described as intelligent.
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by phreeza 6y ago
I wonder if the same effect could be used in reverse to build a solid state wind "turbine"/generator without any moving parts.
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by phreeza 6y ago
I bought a house with a mortgage, and while that is not the primary reason for buying it, I suppose it is an inflation hedge of sorts.
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by phreeza 6y ago
By your definition, has there ever been a crash? If so, which periods in history would you count as actual crashes?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Whats the failure mode with bad kerosene? The rapid loss of height doesn't sound like a failed engine or similar.
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by phreeza 6y ago
The question specifically included sci-fi.

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