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by powera 5y ago
A good deep dive on interesting technology. As a "solution" to global warming, we need a lot more development before this works. Or at least different economic incentives. $800 to remove a ton of CO2 from the atmosphere is very e
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Don't send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement(twitter.com)
272 points by powera 5y ago|145 comments
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by powera 5y ago
Everything about this movement is rotten. SFUSD claims their reforms pushing algebra to 9th grade decreased the algebra re-take rate from 40% to 7%. However, the drop in re-take rate was actually caused primarily by the removal of the requ
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by powera 5y ago
What would it take to start a factory in the United States making lithium-ion batteries to sell to consumers (for a PowerWall-like usage)?
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by powera 5y ago
Title (and perhaps the pay-walled article) is misleading. Iodine is the propellant (which is shot out the other way for Newton's Laws propulsion), not the source of energy (which is solar panels). Better discussion at https:/&#x
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Cryptocurrency, Part 2(yevaud.substack.com)
1 points by powera 5y ago|0 comments
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by powera 5y ago
This seems to subscribe to the "bulb theory" of technological advancement; that if we have ten times as many physicists we will make physics advances ten times as quickly. That's just not true. And the various "lapsed p
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by powera 5y ago
Yup. This article is neither new nor neutral.
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by powera 5y ago
As far as I can tell this "Meta company" isn't even a real company, it's just a shell company that claims to own never-used trademarks.
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by powera 5y ago
Scoring 55% on a test like this should not be considered a great accomplishment. A sign of progress, yes, but not an accomplishment by itself. This is still simply a system that is good at guessing . It does not know anything.
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Container Monitoring and Supply Chains(yevaud.substack.com)
2 points by powera 5y ago|0 comments
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by powera 5y ago
It's a minor point, but I will stand behind that philosophers need to know algebra. Calculus, possibly not, but algebra yes. Algebra skills are too closely related to formal logic to be skipped. And trying to reason about utilitarian
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When Will They Learn Algebra?(yevaud.substack.com)
4 points by powera 5y ago|3 comments
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by powera 5y ago
This seems like it's just a re-branding and downsizing exercise. Which isn't a bad idea. An old joke is that Alitalia = "Always Late In Takeoff, Always Late In Arrival".
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by powera 5y ago
If you're as big as Facebook, and your outage is this bad, the only type of communication to do is having a Vice President talking directly to CNN or the New York Times.
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by powera 5y ago
There's "separate infrastructure" such as separate domain names, and then there's "host the status page on AWS". Normal "separate infrastructure" would have failed here. And an AWS-hosted status page
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by powera 5y ago
Facebook has to make some public statement; the shareholders will demand it. I expect the detail level to be roughly "an automated system pushed a broken configuration"; that is to say, there probably won't be any interesting
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by powera 5y ago
This is a lazy apologetic for the Soviet Union, with no particularly interesting content about women or chess.
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by powera 5y ago
Very interesting. Apart from the UBI angle this is too political to discuss here. And until specific UBI plans are announced there isn't much to discuss there. My thoughts, in long form: https://yevaud.substack.com/p&
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by powera 5y ago
Maybe call it "The Mathematics of Relativity"? It works well as an outline from my point of view, but I think you have to assume the reader already understands the Lagrangian in classical physics (which is a stretch for even the c
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by powera 5y ago
I'm not sure who this is supposed to be useful to; I'm not sure how anybody can understand it unless they have completed an undergraduate degree in math AND already have a solid conceptual understanding of relativity. It is extre
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by powera 5y ago
Brave New World hints at this phenomenon. Mustapha Mond smiled. "Well, you can call it an experiment in rebottling if you like. It began in A.F. 473. The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and
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by powera 5y ago
Definitely. There's even a public query service ( https://query.wikidata.org/ ) which can do a lot of this (though SQL is not good with searching for chains).
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by powera 5y ago
I'm saying that if the researcher is incapable of using any of the reputable ways of publishing research, we have to consider it possible there is a reason for that. Why do you think the historical document is legitimate, other than th
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by powera 5y ago
There are many better ways of doing research. The obvious speculation is that this person did not use any of those better ways because the document is a forgery. If it is a forgery, the author would be promoting neo-Nazi propaganda.
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by powera 5y ago
I've done my own "literature review" [ https://www.notion.so/The-Cure-for-COVID-19-e052c9d829d34bc4... ], and "Inconclusive" is correct. It's astonishing that after 18 months of COVID and 12
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On Various Writing Platforms(yevaud.substack.com)
1 points by powera 5y ago|0 comments
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by powera 5y ago
They also don't include The New York Times, iHeartRadio, or Twitter. But sure, if you ignore everyone else, 6 companies control everything.
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by powera 5y ago
Well, there are two separate problems here. The first is that top-level classical time-control matches are draw-ish; there's really no solution to that other than playing some other game. If neither player blunders, often chess is jus
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by powera 5y ago
If you haven't interacted with anyone on Earth in 10 years and don't plan to do so in the future, why do you care? You have a blockchain, that much you can be sure of. If you want the blockchain used on Earth in 2021, you won

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