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by slwvx 1y ago
As an alternative, I like the idea of splitting SpaceX into three companies (Falcon 9, Starlink, and Starship), and requiring Elon to give up voting rights in at least two of them. I think this has some foundation in anti-trust law, and ha
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by slwvx 1y ago
Not sure I buy the idea that linguistics says that the specific language is important. Mb a reference?
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by slwvx 1y ago
link gives 404 error
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by slwvx 1y ago
I'm all for an internet of consent, but it doesn't have to be binary. Cryptography allows things like "Let the developer know the statistics of how their app is being used, but not the details of any particular user".
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by slwvx 1y ago
Some questions: * Were the students motivated to take the 20 minute session seriously? It sounds to me like they wanted to get done with it as soon as possible or otherwise didn't care about the outcome. * I vaguely remember that some
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by slwvx 1y ago
I always get nervous when the author is the one who is posting a link to their work on Hacker News. I find humility to be very appealing. The abstract in the research gate page is garbled (equations are duplicated), and don't match the
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by slwvx 1y ago
Yeah, I think so, though my recollection is that a baked potato's glycemic index is kinda high. For more authoritative list of details, you could listen to the following podcast with Inchauspé: https://overcast.fm/+AA
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by slwvx 1y ago
Jessie Inchauspe [1] created a business (she's the "glucose goddess") and wrote books around the different blood sugar responses she and others have to meals, exercise, etc... I don't recall all the ideas, but here are
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by slwvx 1y ago
John Siracusa is an icon in the Apple community. It is significant that he's calling for new leadership. I also would like to see a new CEO. Even so, I don't see it as necessarily leading to better treatment of customers or deve
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by slwvx 1y ago
no link, no text; nothing useful
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by slwvx 1y ago
Archive version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01460 Looks like the first author is a postdoc at Aalto University: https://research.aalto.fi/en/persons/mikko-partanen
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by slwvx 1y ago
I guess the title would better be "Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia at TUM". I.e. the "TUM" in the title does not mean that there's some new "TUM" version of Julia, rather that the class is at the
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by slwvx 1y ago
From the last section, "Implications", we read > The lower long-run return of cryptocurrencies, relative to equities, is inherent to the asset class, because cryptocurrencies do not generate any cash flows. Ether and other proo
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by slwvx 1y ago
https://archive.ph/HZCO2
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by slwvx 2y ago
I have heard two of my conservative-leaning family members describe the government as corrupt. My impression is that this was used as justification for voting for Trump. I.e. I don't know that convincing people who voted for Trump tha
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by slwvx 2y ago
A more sceptical view: https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-based-solar-power-2667878868
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by slwvx 2y ago
I want to see the list! :-)
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by slwvx 2y ago
This is a bad look for wealthy people. It looks like a modern version of the high towers built by wealthy medeivals described in another current HN article [1]: "Signs of wealth and prestige, these all-stone buildings were also firepr
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by slwvx 2y ago
It's macOS re-enabling Apple Intelligence [1] and bluetooth [2] everytime I update the OS that annoy me. [1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/21/ios-18-updates-... [2] https://di
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by slwvx 2y ago
"DOGE now has at least 10 staffers working inside the SSA, six of them are involved with the death data. The first started work on February 13 analyzing 'improper payments' and 'the death master file,' according to
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by slwvx 2y ago
Ahh, ok. Got it. Of course.
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by slwvx 2y ago
From [1] and [2] we read that the CMB was created around 380 million years after the Big Bang, and that hydrogen atoms were created at the same time. The original article above [3] says that this galaxy was created when the universe was abo
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by slwvx 2y ago
First they came for green card holders, but I was not a green card holder. Then they came for the journalists, but I was not a journalist. Now they're coming for the Democrats...
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by slwvx 2y ago
Love it!
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by slwvx 2y ago
That is a very start-up-focused analysis and does even mention why a country would want a wealth tax. I would like an analysis that shows how a wealth tax (or a long-running progressive income tax) can keep the (statistical) distribution o
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by slwvx 2y ago
I'm not sure HN is a good template. For example I saw one commenter in the past year or so effectively encouraging suicide. Even so, maybe it's not the worst example either... Good luck, I hope you find or create the site you wa
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by slwvx 2y ago
The actual title "People with psychopathic tendencies are more likely to gamble with other people’s lives during a pandemic". If you're going to shorten the damn title, why not at least make it gramatically correct?
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by slwvx 2y ago
Though it wasn't directly mentioned in the article, the relevant context is that the Trump administration is in the process of cutting foreign aid by the US; see the link below for a few details. Looks to me like the OWID article is sa
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by slwvx 2y ago
Looks like that link is dead, but here's another with a similar title "ELON MUSK SAYS HE MIGHT BE BIPOLAR, MENTIONS "UNRELENTING STRES"" https://www.inverse.com/article/34948-elon-musk-bipolar-d
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by slwvx 2y ago
I wouldn't trust Musk. He's a loose cannon and an unreliable partner

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