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What could possibly go wrong :-D
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This is only true in our existing software ecosystem, where no one bothers to prove any of their assumptions hold (if they even realize they're making assumptions). In a software ecosystem designed with provable correctness in mind, op
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1 MJ is enough to vaporize roughly half a liter of water that started at room temperature. That's nothing to sneaze at. Obviously you would need to do with a high rate (e.g. once per second) in order for it to be viable for power produ
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No, sorry. I don't remember where I first read about this, but it was a story about a perfume manufacturer successfully using IR gas chromatography to synthetically recreate an expensive perfume component (or something like that), wher
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> I don’t know much of anything about how smell works. Does it involve quantum mechanics in ways which don’t fall under “chemistry” (with chemistry being an implication of quantum mechanics) ? Arguably, yes. You could call smell a chemic
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The same could be said about sense of smell. And frankly any of the other senses. Even touch, if you realize that the atoms in your hand never really "touch" other objects.
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If not for EVA encapsulation, silicon solar cells can be "recycled" by a 30 minute forming gas anneal at 400C. I don't know if all panels have EVA encapsulation or not. If so, then I doubt these ZnSb would degrade any better
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Same on non-nightly
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This is quite fascinating, if true. Having studied solar photovoltaics fairly extensively in both undergrad and grad school, I'm a bit skeptical that he achieved such efficiency with such a simple design, but it's not completely i
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I can certainly see how they might be related, but the answer doesn't clarify how---rather it seems completely disconnected in the first and second halves, which is why I'm wondering if it's just an editing error.
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I'm curious why you think this. Is there some research to support this view? From what I've read, the placebo effect seems quite real, with quite physical effects. And the surgical placebo effect is stronger than the medicinal pla
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> Will Subtext be open source? > I hope not. Open source works best for software used by other programmers, because that is how the contributors get their cred. But the economics of startups conflict with the goal of liberating softwa
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Personally, I think our existing languages and tools are still too primitive to avoid rewriting considerable amounts of code as requirements change. At some level, rewriting is inevitable. We have developed some techniques for minimizing
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Global average temperature was 4C lower than pre-industrial levels during the last ice age. New York was a kilometer under ice.
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Quite a clever approach to quantifying and collecting evidence for a fairly intuitive hypothesis.
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Sigh As is the case for many academic initiatives and papers, this will never be commercially relevant. There's no need to make a flexible chip when you can make a half millimeter cube of silicon with far more computational power. It
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by smaddox 5y ago
It's perhaps worth noting that Starlink is about much more than network access in remote areas. The laser links between satalites should enable a considerable improvement in intercontinental transmission, both bandwidth and latency.
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AFAIK, Haskell requires explicit types for higher-rank types specifically because inference is decidable for them.
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F9 launch costs haven't decreased for customers . That in no way implies they haven't decreased for SpaceX. Why would Space X reduce the cost for customers below what they are willing to pay?
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> STAR is not easier to implement than ordinal voting methods in general, it may be easier to implement than IRV [0] in particular. Likewise, while IRV is not district summarizable, some ordinal methods are. Could you provide an example?
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No, it doesn't, but optimal voting under STAR is less dependent on other voters than in both Plurality and RCV systems. Under STAR voting, it would be far, far more practical to vote your conscience irrespective of how others are votin
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> The US will probably get better outcomes with a multi-party system, but moving to one will not change the tone of political conversation. (Which is what this thread is about.) I believe it could and would. There will always be extremis
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Arrow's impossibility theorem does not apply to STAR voting. STAR voting is strictly more expressive than Ordinal Voting systems (i.e. RCV), while simultaneously being simpler to implement (and explain/understand). STAR voting als
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RCV can have unexpected surprises, but STAR voting resolves all such issues with RCV.
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Or perhaps we need to change our democracy to stop enforcing a duopoly. I firmly believe that widely implementing STAR Voting ( https://www.starvoting.us/ ) would fix a large swath of problems in politics and public policy.
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What are the odds that this went classified and is already working and being used in the field?
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Why don't graphic artist just use hard links and ZFS dedup. /s
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This would be great. Perhaps it could be based on https://dhall-lang.org/
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Interesting perspective. What's your take on tools that use AI/ML to accelerate applying an interpretation over a full volume? For example: https://youtu.be/mLgKtmLY3cs
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How about: - give employees and managers enough context to understand the business goals and empower them to make intelligent decisions and affect positive change

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