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by ry454 6y ago
I won't be surprised if FFT of tinnitus, if we could make one, reveals a very accurate picture of the patient's health.
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by ry454 6y ago
Ha, that's a good one. I wonder what a marriage of two high ranked VPs looks like.
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by ry454 6y ago
They should switch to logarithmic scale and just say "an order-21 time interval". These "zepto" prefixes are gibberish.
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by ry454 6y ago
Luckily, we won't have this problem with "SARS-CoV-2".
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by ry454 6y ago
This reminds me of what the Lincoln character said in the same named movie about the 13th amendment: "what you will be to our nation after this I don't know." Well, now we know.
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by ry454 6y ago
Eh.. this will cost me some reputation points on HN, but I have to say this. Why "Spanish flu" and not H1N1-A-18? That flu is called "Spanish" only because Spain's newspapers openly talked about the epidemic. The ac
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by ry454 6y ago
I believe that the debate around Section 230 is a sign of the growing consensus among the ruling class that Project Internet is complete, that it's successfully deployed a world wide surveillance framework, and that no further growth f
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by ry454 6y ago
Brave's business model is also about ads.
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by ry454 6y ago
Well, for a founder of a $40 bil company, the American dream is real and even got HDR colors.
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by ry454 6y ago
That's a rhetorical question, right? In any company, employees don't get to capture any value. In Cisco, even if he turned his unit into a $50 billion business, he would be lucky to get $50 million and a promo to SVP. Even Google&
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by ry454 6y ago
Troy citizens also believed that if something is called a horse and looks like a horse, then it's obviously a horse and can't be anything else, especially when it's given for free.
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by ry454 6y ago
Mozilla is almost entirely funded by Google.
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by ry454 6y ago
We'll have to run our own fork of Chromium, just to run uBO. And that makes sense: it's strange to call a browser supplied by an ad company a "user agent".
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by ry454 6y ago
In fact, it's a really simple app: a height map on a sphere approximated with triangles. With a bit more extra complexity, the app could do raymarching on a interpolated height map: this would remove triangle artifacts around "cli
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by ry454 6y ago
We can go even deeper and ask how we'd call sound-like gravity waves in spacetime? Some sort of oscillating system of heavy stars can produce a periodic gravity wave that we'd call sound probably.
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by ry454 6y ago
Here's an experiment. One cubic mile of space in a gravity free region is filled with tennis balls that freely float around and bounce each other from time to time. If we produce a wave in this medium by oscillating one of the walls, w
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by ry454 6y ago
Isn't it the same as the speed of light? If sound is an abstract wave-like signal, then it can be transmitted equally well with radio waves or molecules in the air. The paper should probably mention that it's the upper limit of so
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by ry454 6y ago
"management has been more receptive" - that's a corpspeak for "nothing has changed", i.e. a bunch of vague statements with no substance that lazily nudge the reader to attribute something (severance pay) to someone,
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by ry454 6y ago
Except that unions will bring their own non-compete non-negotiable agreements.
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by ry454 6y ago
So long as the software industry is expanding, the salaries are growing and software engineers have freedom to jump ships, I don't see unions coming. The recipe to make a union is to lock thousands of grumpy software engineers in a bur
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by ry454 6y ago
How much was that severance exactly?
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by ry454 6y ago
So how does it work for them? What's the typical pay rate in Kickstarter?
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by ry454 6y ago
Politics can be Luddites too? They see the world is moving forward, and as it's escaping the reach of their small grabby hands, they enact the "Earn IT" act as an attempt to return the times where their little grabby minds we
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by ry454 6y ago
Section 8.2.3.42. The bot's opinion are its own and don't represent the company's viewpoint. You waive your rights to pursue a legal action for any damage caused directly or indirectly by the bot's advice. You waive all
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by ry454 6y ago
Those 80 billions are the micro investments I was talking about. EU needs a 100-trillion-dollar project for the next 50 years + change some laws to improve competition. With 80 billions EU can build a wooden airplane at best.
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by ry454 6y ago
I believe Europe can create its own SV by following the USA's route: the Europe's equivalent of DoD (which has access to unlimited funds, tens of trillions of euros), needs to come up with a grand multi-decade project and invest i
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by ry454 6y ago
The way I like to think about it is people are like molecules of oxygen: in their natural state they are "free" and perform random Brownian motion. Society is about restricting the number of freedoms to a few, so all molecules can
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by ry454 6y ago
I've seen somewhere a clever trick that derives some QM with a small tweak in GR. I can't judge whether the trick makes sense, though. So the trick was to modify the ds2=c2dt2-dx2-dy2-dz2 equation to exp(a cos(wt))ds2=... That ext
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by ry454 6y ago
Here's a possible explanation that I'd seen somewhere. Up until very recently, humans had had weak ability to think, especially abstract thoughts, and the phrase common today "just think about it", would be meaningless j
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by ry454 6y ago
IMHO, Google & Apple are safe for at least 4 more years: the current and next US administration has no interest in changing the status quo in the corporate world. Maaaybe something will happen in 2030.

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