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by rapjr9 5y ago
Interesting idea. I did a search for Latin words that have no known meaning and found this: https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/4683/what-is-the-m... which suggests a corslet being stiffened with "pale
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Vermont has essentially banned some kinds of public ads. No billboards allowed alongside roads. Business signs must fit in with the surroundings and rural character of the area.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Linda Nagata is another author worth reading for ideas about sensors, nanotechnology, and autonomous aircraft.
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Supply is also an issue, see this article by Dr. Eric Topol: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/21/paxlov... It seems strange that large scale manufacturing appears to have not even been
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I wonder if this means they will try to discourage students, particularly graduate level students, from studying overseas. Could have a big effect on western universities if true. Or they might offer incentives for graduates to come back
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This seems like a very interesting approach to creating an AI that can continuously learn new things by just updating its database. Maybe a first step towards a general purpose AI? It would be interesting to create a personal assistant ba
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Dartmouth College used to have a collection of Aruba access points in RF monitor-mode to collect statistics on usage of the campus WiFi network: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/project/wifi-mea...
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Create a localized field that disables the phone except for 911 calls when the car is in motion. If the car is not moving the phone can do anything. Once the car starts moving everything except 911 calls is disabled. Now this can't
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Too often "no evidence" means "no evidence that I know of" which really means "I don't know". Doctors in particular use "no evidence" this way all the time because they are trained to show confi
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>Unfortunately this time, we've used up the irreplaceable (even on geologic time scales) coal and other fossil fuel deposits, so we would be out of the running, forever, as a multi-planet species. I would take this further. In the
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I take some guidance from this quote from the movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth": "This is 20th century America and we're going to keep it that way" The powerful will resist change that threatens their power. So cha
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The problem with interference with radar altimeters was known a long time ago. Someone (FCC? FAA?) decided to go ahead with 5G anyway because the RF spec for RA's was ignored by the makers of RA's. If all the RA's obeyed th
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Does dark matter move? If so its gravitational effect should move also. I would think that would be detectable somehow, especially if there was a whole galaxy of it moving together in the same direction or all rotating around a center. I
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by rapjr9 5y ago
While I agree that fancy packaging is a waste of resources and time I see one main thing driving it that the article hints at but doesn't go into, that this seems like a case of pure Pavlovian conditioning. Every time you open a packa
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Right, lots of people have ongoing fantasies, which is basically the same thing, imagination. The only difference here is people are talking in public about their fantasies and enlisting others to help create and maintain them. And even t
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>if you want to duplicate a universe, there's all that matter in the second copy to make, which you've got to pay E=mc^2 for. This bothers me also, it's like every tiny quantum event creates a Big Bang in a new dimension.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Not saying we are there, but if inflation is due to worker shortages and logistics problems that are long term (say due to long covid), then at what point do you stop calling it just inflation and start calling it some kind of shortage cris
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by rapjr9 5y ago
"Confronting Our Next National Health Disaster — Long-Haul Covid" https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2109285 "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more th
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by rapjr9 5y ago
From the article: "About 60% of Putrino’s patients have had to change jobs or stop working as a result of their illness." Long covid seems like a possible explanation for at least some portion of the worker shortages in the USA.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I worked on research in electronically herding cows for a while: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/animals_robots/cow_herding/... The collar you see there had a Zaurus PDA which ran the herding algorithm and m
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by rapjr9 5y ago
I've been expecting a lot of lawsuits to materialize once people had a chance to start thinking rationally again. There have been so many corporate and government screw ups during the pandemic.
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Wow, there really needs to be a review of policing at all levels and a redesign of the whole system. It is just so broken.
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From the article: "But the Fed is now putting a great deal of faith in the idea the wages soon will be constrained by rebounding participation" If you look at the St Loius Fed's FRED economic data web site at the graph for &q
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I worked on a project called Bikenet at Dartmouth College that used bicycles for sensing carbon dioxide: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sensorlab/pubs/BikeNet-SenSys0... http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu
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by rapjr9 5y ago
Disclaimer, this is not medical advice, experiment at your own risk! I once tried an "energy shot" called GungHo that was popular with gamers and that claimed to enhance cognition and reduce fatigue and was really surprised that
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Lately I've been thinking of VR/AR as simply a 3D UI for computers. We are already built to handle a 3D world, it is natural and intuitive to us. So VR/AR could be the next popular UI for computers, something anyone can use
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Another set of reasons that it is rising is because governments, central banks, banks, and Mastercard are taking it seriously and are developing plans and rules for cryptocurrencies. They see a benefit in lowered costs for big transactions
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See Milorganite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite At scale, in Milwaukee. There have been concerns about contaminants though. Still production and sales have been ongoing since 1926.
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And if you read those papers and articles you'll find there are still a lot of open questions, for example a couple of quotes from the first paper: For viral infections generally, little is known about the dose-response relationship be
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>So far most of the emphasis has been on the spike protein and its cleavage mechanisms. This is something that bothers me about science, why has most of the emphasis been on the spike protein? Has that prevented many researchers from lo

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