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by tirant 2y ago
You can increase throughput by adding repeaters around the solar system, but latency has a hard limit due to the speed of light. Also throughput could be increased by changing or updating the modulation and coding schemes. AFAIK Pioneer and
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by tirant 2y ago
Or in other words, the $3.57 in savings will allow the product to compete in a lower price segment and increase sales significantly. It is the behavior of the buyers that drives costs down. People are extremely cost sensitive in the mid to
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by tirant 2y ago
This is the same Oxfam that published a report almost a year ago claiming that the 5 richest people in earth got richer than anyone else by comparing their assets value from March 18th 2020 (rock bottom level during Pandemic) to the top in
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by tirant 2y ago
That is something I don't really understand exactly why. 3D Models provide in one dataset the whole geometry information of each part, making it easier to learn and recognize that part in the real world, wouldn't it? Is it because
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by tirant 2y ago
It does, to the point that even the sun has a barycenter outside of itself (1.07 radii), so I’m sure they have consider Jupiters interaction.
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by tirant 2y ago
Electric vehicles have extremely precise traction control due to the nature of their motors so even with higher torque they keep traction much better than their ICE counterparts. EVs are also heavy and might wear tires quicker in braking si
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by tirant 2y ago
In general, the requirement is the following: a) Check for the possibility of the maneuver; b) signal the maneuver; c) perform the maneuver. However the signaling needs to be done in a way that it helps other road users to read and act acco
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by tirant 2y ago
Back in 2009-2010 I was responsible for deploying 8-16 core servers to customers to run large databases and ERPs. I had the idea of doing some burn in testing to stress the components for around a week for each server. Back then I was aware
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by tirant 2y ago
> The problem, I guess, is that a museum is not there to be profitable Well, the most democratic way we have found in the West to understand if a product or an initiative is relevant for the population is to see if it’s profitable (via s
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by tirant 2y ago
Well, trying to infer entropy of a password by classifying it into the lowest possible low entropy system actually works well against brute forcing because brute forcing usually works exactly doing that.
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by tirant 2y ago
These are old news for those of us that grew bonsai kittens in the late 90s. https://web.archive.org/web/20050203111131/http://bonsaikitt... Obviously it was a hoax, probably one of the first ones reachi
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by tirant 2y ago
In the same way you are also paying corporate taxes in the stocks you own…
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by tirant 2y ago
Even by Spanish colonial standards? Those colonial standards were not at all low, they were more advanced than any of their equivalent European counterparts. Any native people were considered children of god, due to their Catholic view, and
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by tirant 2y ago
Trading glass beads for gold can only be a scam if seen by a simplistic perspective. Gold was abundant in America and not worth much for those tribes, but glass beads or mirrors were products of a technology not available to those natives,
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by tirant 2y ago
How many hours or actually years of evolution have been needed until reaching walking capability? If first life is believed to have happened 4 billion years ago, and first walking animals started 450 million years ago during the siluariab p
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by tirant 2y ago
I was still a kid when everyone (well, only women, men were working in the fields) in our village was going to the irrigation channel in the street with a piece of wood, a bar of soap and the dirty clothes to do the laundry. It was social a
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by tirant 2y ago
I guess no one with loud music considers themself an asshole, so this should be actually giving the information on exactly what you mention.
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by tirant 2y ago
Parallel to Munger’s “Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome” which I think all of us have or will realize for ourselves at some point in life.
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by tirant 2y ago
What that study does not take into account is that Scott was traveling around the world for 6 months giving interviews. I would have also expected a decline in that context. Also his mental abilities recovered back to baseline some time aft
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by tirant 2y ago
Gambling, in the same way as consumption of drugs can be indeed harmful for individuals and the people surrounding them. But the solution is not forbidding them, but educating people and families on how to deal with them. Alcohol consumptio
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by tirant 2y ago
Even if you don’t like it, idiots do have as much right to speak as any Nobel Prize winner. Not only that, the more they speak, the better, as the chances of stopping being an idiot increase. All Nobel Prizes were at some point also idiots,
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by tirant 2y ago
The potential risks to humankind do not come from the development of AGI, but from the availability of AGI with a cost orders of magnitude inferior to the equivalent capacity coming from humans.
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by tirant 2y ago
What do you mean if we survive? We are already surviving and actually doing quite well. So basically you are proposing to forcedly seize money from 0,01% of the population to fulfill your view of a multi planetary future for human kind. I d
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by tirant 2y ago
There’s an online emulator for the Lander on the Acorn. Not easily playable in a phone due to the control scheme though. https://archi.medes.live/
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by tirant 2y ago
What really endangers the development of children is the lack of adult-free outdoor play. They need to learn by themselves to assess risks and solve conflicts without any adult supervision.
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by tirant 2y ago
The average price of a new car sold in Germany for private individuals is 42.000€. Around $47,000 in USA. Prices are even higher if you include company or fleet purchases. A RWD Model 3 and Model Y with around 500km range is even less than
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by tirant 2y ago
According to whom? I am also an environmentalist and burn some fuel from time to time, I’m not a zealot. For me to operate and support the environment the best I can I also need to be mentally fit and have life enjoinment. And riding my old
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by tirant 2y ago
Fortunately the definition of wrong is very personal. We still have at least 40-50 years of ICE vehicles running on the Earth. Making them even more efficient and cheap is a valuable feat for many millions.
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by tirant 2y ago
Not even that: We have managed to extract some dense and flammable black oil hundreds of meters deep under the ocean soil, transport it thousands of km again to remote countries where it is processed and again transported and distributed da
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by tirant 2y ago
Interestingly it is a very different situation in Germany and other surrounding countries. I've been driving electric since 2022 (non-tesla) and I have never charged with a tesla Supercharger. They have been either more expensive than

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