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   by tmp10423288442 1y ago

   Well, these ones are RFID chips, so they don't need to be connected at all - they are read wirelessly.
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   by tmp10423288442 1y ago

   Only as a brief aside (don't have the timestamp right now) to talking about Smalltalk, which he mostly discusses to argue that Smalltalk was not different from C++ in seeking (most of the time) to model programs in terms of static hier
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   by tmp10423288442 1y ago

   @gwern, did you mess up your inflation calculation here? > I couldn’t get all the ones Nguyen highlighted from LuckyScent and some sampler packs were sold out, but I settled for 39 samples total on 8 February 2021. (Which cost $153 [2021
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   by tmp10423288442 1y ago

   Modern Egyptians are primarily Arab. If anyone is a descendant of the Ancient Egyptians, it’s the Coptic Christians, who still use a descendant of the Ancient Egyptian language as a liturgical language and mostly don’t have any Arabic ances
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   by tmp10423288442 1y ago

   - In a steady state where you're spending the same amount every year, the tax burden of amortized vs. unamortized accounting makes no difference. It only matters for R&D - i.e., new products. - I read once, although I have no idea
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   by tmp10423288442 2y ago

   > Yes we did build steam engines before understanding thermodynamics but we still understood what it did (heat, pressure, movement, etc.) We only understood in the broadest sense. It took a long process of iteration before we could creat