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My Mom Believes in QAnon. I’ve Been Trying to Get Her Out(buzzfeednews.com)
4 points by pmastela 6y ago|1 comments
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Elon Musk is offering to sell his tweet as an NFT(cnbc.com)
2 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmastela 6y ago
I agree. Some would even take it further and argue that there is _no_ way to stop the Bitcoin network. The technology is like, as Nick Bostrom puts it, one of those balls that humanity pulls out of the urn of invention which once pulled the
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by pmastela 6y ago
One of the memes in the Bitcoin community is that of Bitcoin eventually becoming a better store of value. One can argue that most people prefer their savings not be inflated away [1]. 1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series&#x
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U.S. physicists rally around plan to build fusion power plant(sciencemag.org)
215 points by pmastela 6y ago|236 comments
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by pmastela 6y ago
Like the old Arthur C. Clark quote goes: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” -- unless it might be cheating in which case throw them a curve ball. Kudos to the DeepMind team for making magic happen.
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by pmastela 6y ago
I agree. The main inhibitor of speed that products of this advancement will be deployed at will likely be determined by local policies. Though, given just how profound some of the impacts on medicine might be, the speed at which they can be
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Big Lie(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments
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Will America tear itself alart(ft.com)
1 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments
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Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene(sciencedaily.com)
9 points by pmastela 6y ago|1 comments
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by pmastela 6y ago
I did not notice until you pointed that out. I'd be willing to pay extra for a remote without the YouTube and Netflix buttons.
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The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by pmastela 7y ago|0 comments
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Fuggerei(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pmastela 7y ago|0 comments
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Scientists connect quantum bits with sound over record distances(phys.org)
1 points by pmastela 7y ago|0 comments
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by pmastela 8y ago
> Colleges, businesses, and online communities almost always simply believe the victim, and even if a trial should occur and the accused is vindicated, the accused has already been fired, expelled, or crucified by public opinion. College
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by pmastela 8y ago
Some scientists are putting your assumption to the test. Here's an HN discussion from a couple months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942744
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by pmastela 10y ago
My feelings exactly. For anyone considering subscribing, here's the link: https://store.laphamsquarterly.us/gifts/
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by pmastela 10y ago
Magic Leap's main product might be more than meets the eye. According to Quartz [1], there's probably more far-fetching tech that Magic Leap is working on that involves "deep learning techniques utilizing robotics," and
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by pmastela 12y ago
Japan, for instance, numbers blocks and leaves the empty space between them nameless.
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by pmastela 12y ago
Something like Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns [1] helps explain this ostensibly unbelievable fact. It reminds of a similar statistic about the number of years that passed before a country's GDP doubled. UK did it in 154 ye