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by ridewinter 6y ago
My impression of physics is that space-time is like a field that emanates from energy/matter at the speed of light in a slight curve. When these fields overlap their curves compound - the more energy, the more overlap, the more curvatu
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by ridewinter 6y ago
I believe Sweden is the only EU country asking to actually do something about Hong Kong. https://www.politico.eu/article/josep-borrell-chinas-move-in...
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Do you also agree with the EU letting China slide over Hong Kong? Money more important than millions of people's freedom?
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Ahh the beauty of the Internet, where a 16 year old kid can create a platform more powerful than the most powerful people in the world...
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by ridewinter 6y ago
If anyone is curious on how qubits actually work, I wrote an article explaining from a multiverse perspective: https://medium.com/@dangish/the-quantum-computer-explained-u...
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by ridewinter 6y ago
One way to understand meditation is to just give yourself the time & space to experience & become bored with your repetitive thoughts. You don't stop thinking - you just become bored with it and settle down. It's immensely
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Yes, broadening the context is my whole point. 20 years ago it was the OS, 10 years ago it was search, today it's social networks, tomorrow? The monopolies from each era struggle in the next. Let Google solve & dominate search whil
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Couldn't this explain why children are at less risk? They are constantly catching various common colds.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
They said the same thing about Microsoft. Along came Google destroying them in an ancillary arena. Expect that trend to continue in the future.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
Good question. There there must be something material otherwise TSMC wouldn't have such a lead on their competitors.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
As the developer of an exposure notification app put on ice by Apple-Google, it's due time to take back the freedom of the internet that made it so powerful in the beginning. Is there anything happening around an all-web app phone? See
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by ridewinter 6y ago
It's incredible the amount of unknowns even at this point in the epidemic. Anyone who claims to understand what's going on is just frontin. That's my big takeaway so far.
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by ridewinter 6y ago
A variety of countermeasures can be used to keep the app awake in the background, including restarting services and (more controversially) location. And IMO, including a general/non-precise location of contact is incredibly useful for
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by ridewinter 6y ago
I built an exposure notification app that solved the backgrounding issue by simply using the backend to reconstruct the missing Android -> iOS piece: https://medium.com/@dangish/a-solution-to-iphone-backgroundi...
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by ridewinter 6y ago
If you can get clusters of people to use it, say everyone in a big office building, it's a lot easier to hit that 20-60% number than in the population as a whole. IMO these apps will be most useful as a tool to assist manual contact tr
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A Solution to iPhone Backgrounding with Bluetooth(medium.com)
1 points by ridewinter 6y ago|0 comments
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Not too long ago a headline like this would be absolutely massive news. Now it barely even registers. Crazy times...
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by ridewinter 7y ago
There was also a poll this week that showed only 37% trust what he says. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816680033/poll-americans-dont...
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Telling the truth ("anybody that needs a test gets a test"), taking responsibility ("I don't take responsibility at all [for the lack of testing]"), making tough calls instead of leaving states and cities to fend fo
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Paging Andrew Yang...
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by ridewinter 7y ago
And I thought it was only here in the USA... Almost good to know that we're not alone in our incompetence. At least next time around we should all be prepared like Taiwan was this time.
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Yes, true. The particle is a quantized excitation of the field that travels in a wave. The original point remains.
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Because there's only one particle that we can observe going through one slit. Cover up the other slit that nothing is going through and there's no interference. Edit: I think I understand what you're saying. The field isn&#x2
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Why should this electron be able to cross universes and talk to another one and interfere, while nothing else can cross universes? See "decoherence": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Place a detector in front of the slits. Only a single particle in a single slit is detected. There is no "splitting" of the particle that we can see. Edit: If you try to actually define "wave function collapse" and &quot
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by ridewinter 7y ago
The phrase "wave-particle duality" obscures the central mystery in quantum mechanics. You can visualize waves quantized into particles - that's not mysterious. But how does a single particle create an interference pattern whe
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by ridewinter 7y ago
SpaceX should put some telescopes into orbit for public use as a goodwill gesture here.
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by ridewinter 7y ago
The median income in the US has in fact been on the rise for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
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by ridewinter 7y ago
This doesn't seem to be something that's common knowledge. Can you point to information on how to use private health insurance like this?
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by ridewinter 7y ago
Thanks. You should've written this article :)

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