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by simplicio 3y ago
Eh, NASA has been losing interplanetary landers for as long as its been launching them. The original Surveyor program, the pre-Apollo effort to land robotic probes on the moon, lost 2 out of 7. I don't think there's any evidence
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by simplicio 3y ago
Good PR for Apple, less so for Boeing.
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by simplicio 3y ago
I mean, the dog angle is legitimately interesting. I've never heard of police dogs being used to sniff out things other then drugs or people.
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by simplicio 3y ago
To some degree it probably doesn't matter. If you send $ on carbon offsets that don't offset carbon, you're still imposing an extra cost on releasing carbon and thus incentivizing yourself to release less. Basically a self-
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by simplicio 3y ago
Partially historical inertia, partially the fact that commercial Fortran compilers have had decades to optimize numerical code to within an inch of its life. Also, for at least the older versions of it, its a pretty small language. If you
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by simplicio 3y ago
Nitpick: Lithium was produced in the Big Bang, though in a ratio of something like one per billion compared to H production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_lithium_problem
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by simplicio 3y ago
The no ID thing is interesting. The article mentions that as a major issue as well. Seems like it'd be a pretty cheap intervention to just issue all out-going prisoners a gov't photo ID on their release.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Seems like a good idea, but from the article it sounds like a lot of the difference between Maine and his earlier prisons was the culture that existed amongst the prisoners themselves. Obviously prison officials can try to influence this (
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by simplicio 3y ago
I mean, if he was doing all kinds of smarter types of fraud, one would think they wouldn't have gone broke.
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by simplicio 3y ago
"we shouldn't lock people up for non-violent crimes except for ones similar to the one I was a victim of" seems like kind of a..limited view? I don't think there's anything particular about SBF that makes him more l
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by simplicio 3y ago
Glancing at a few graphs of death rates/year, they show, if anything, the opposite of what he claims. And note the effect he's claiming would be huge, the drug was on a market for a few years, so 500k would be on the order of 100
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by simplicio 3y ago
Why? Chris Collins was convicted of insider trading while in congress just a few years ago. I don't think there's any special protections for Congress-folk from insider trading laws.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Rather the opposite. Current international law forbids countries from claiming property rights on the Moon.
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by simplicio 3y ago
I think the problem is that, historically, leagues claim to self-police but then the amounts of $ involved ends up meaning enough individuals can be bribed/threatened/etc. that "fair" matches end up fixed. In the best c
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by simplicio 3y ago
Yea, I've played the location only version of this, and was surprised how good my intuition was at guessing where different photos were taken, even without any explicit clues in the photo. Though my first try here was a picture of a la
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by simplicio 3y ago
Just pick a unit as the "standard" for that type of quantity.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Think a spoke/hub type thing would be a lot easier. Just convert inputs to SI, then from SI to the output.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Seems the fastest way to clear this up would just be for the original team to send a sample to some other scientists for testing. That would solve any issues regarding other teams reproducing the material incorrectly, and at a first pass,
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by simplicio 3y ago
Think the x.org foundation has the better claim, since they pronounce the name the same way (think OS X is "OS ten", from what I recall), and their logo is closer.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Eh, I imagine people will just keep using the old nomenclature. Still, while the social network was presuambly the most valuable part of Twitter, gotta figure the brand was a non-trivial part of the 44 billion Musk paid to buy the company.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Yea, kinda feels like X.org would have a decent trademark case if they wanted to pursue it. Both the name and logo are really similar, and it seems like both companies are operating in similar enough categories that its not too hard to ima
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by simplicio 3y ago
Also people less likely to assume its the brand for a pornography site? Feel like people have developed a habit of avoiding (or seeking out) anything with a prominent "X" in the name on the Internets.
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by simplicio 3y ago
Some of it is just normal "popular thing sucks" backlash. But it had a weird cultural moment in the early 2000s where the press went kinda nuts with some of the psuedo religious themes, and there was a brief cottage industry for
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by simplicio 3y ago
Think they're just people making math mistakes (one of the reasons why we don't usually implement shaders by having people compute values by hand). If you compare them to nearby "correct" pixels, they usually just have o
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by simplicio 3y ago
How can you start with a non-sequitur?
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by simplicio 3y ago
Hard to imagine limiting the ad views of your non-paying users is going to help fix your revenue short-fall.
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by simplicio 3y ago
This isn't really prohibition though, just restrictions on sales. The point isn't to make it impossible to get a drink, just make it more difficult, so that some margin of drinkers will be incentivized to do something else. As a
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by simplicio 3y ago
Hence my including "a diet lacking essential vitamins". But nutritional science figured out stuff like "preventing scurvy" pretty well several decades (or in some cases, centuries) ago. It's further attempts to re
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by simplicio 3y ago
Alternatively, I think the idea that outside some extremely broad parameters (not eating a diet lacking essential vitamins, under-eating to the point of malnourishment or over-eating to the point of severe obesity, etc) there are no particu
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by simplicio 3y ago
Average May Humidity in Hanoi is ~75%, versus 20% in Phoenix.

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