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> Here’s one answer: the historical role that for-profit biology has played is basically a single thing: developing drugs. Breeding new plant varieties, and new animal breeds, for agriculture, is also for-profit biology.
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> There's no quick fixes Sure is. Change zoning rules to allow building a lot more. Let people and corporations build using their own money. No need for government to use any money, just change the rules. Collect property taxes from
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> Sure it's overcrowded The Guardian (a left-leaning newspaper) estimates that leaving the housing crisis unfixed also fuels the far right parties. https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may&#x2
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Plants grow, but not very well. https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/scientists-grow-plants-...
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People have been growing plants in space stations since 1982. I don't see how growing plants in an isolated greenhouse on Moon would be much different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants_in_space#Space_station_..
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> it's not clear how short circuiting works It is clear if you read the docs. https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#compari... https://docs.python.org/3/reference/e
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The "AI rant": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725329
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> Could you write a blogpost-style article on how to model the shallow water wave equation on a sphere? Typically, Finite Volume Method is used for fluid flow problems. It is possible to use Finite Element Methods, but it is rare.
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> I thought one would/could define orthogonality of polynomials in terms of an inner product equivalent to the familiar K^n dot product, ie. sum of pairwise products of equal-degree coefficients Well, you can. But then you essential
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> the "growth mindset", and links some articles suggesting that the research supporting it has not been successfully replicated You can find the same criticism in Wikipedia: "Timothy Bates, a psychology professor at Edinbu
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You have mixed up these two concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_basis
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A basis yes, but not orthogonal.
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There is a book The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by a New York Times columnist, about his Chronic Lyme's disease. And how he increasingly checks out alternative medicine when establishment medicine has nothing to of
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Herbert S. Wilf (1990): Generatingfunctionology. https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/gfology2.pdf
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> if there is a force carrying "gravity" particle? There is not. Or maybe there is not. At least so far there is not. We have never observed one. "Graviton" particle is just a hypothesis. Outside of some people theori
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> I paste code back and forth There is this tool Aider. Takes your prompt, adds code files (sometimes not all of your code files but files it figures relevant) and prepares one long prompt, sends it to an LLM, receives the response, and
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"4K is for programmers" from 10 and half years ago: https://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7035030
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> Gr eat again
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I am sure somebody somewhere has tried to claim having had an academic position at a university, while actually they were working at 4 hours per week as a teaching assistant for one course.
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> I have written two peer-reviewed papers in a major meteorological journal (here) The blogger is Cliff Mass, a professor at University of Washington. He has written two papers on this specific topic (decline of US weather predictions)
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> If certain people cannot contribute to the Linux kernel because of a list maintained by the USG then perhaps it's time for Linux kernel development to no longer be dependent on US law. It is not only US-based organizations, but al
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In 2014 EU put sanctions on exporting certain goods to Russia, and Russia put counter-sanctions on e.g. importing European cheese to Russia. But Russian people still wantef higher quality cheese, so smuggling cheese across the Finnish-Russi
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Some context: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932923
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Opening scene of the 3 Body Problem tv-series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3giTYRttoRQ
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The Soviet Army occupied Poland in 1939, got pushed back by German attacks, re-entered and occupied Poland in 1944, and then Soviet Army kept presence in Poland until 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Group_o
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> No one in the West wants to do volunteer work any more because it pays a lot more to work at Evil Corp This post is about an engineer in the East, who apparently works for a company called Baikal Electronics. "BAIKAL ELECTRONICS
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Some context: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927838
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https://archive.is/kOL8M
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Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots?(nytimes.com)
3 points by sampo 2y ago|1 comments
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> Theoretical physics is highly mathematical, but it aims to explain and predict the real world. Theories that fail at this “explain/predict” task would ultimately be discarded. Still waiting for theoretical physics to discard strin

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