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by trhway 1y ago
This myth is documented in the EcoHealth Alliance publicly available NIH and DARPA grants documents among others. Wrt your link - Wikipedia unfortunately isn’t subject to the law like those grants.
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by trhway 1y ago
We’ve just had a virus - specifically engineered to be highly infectious for humans - escaping the lab (which was running very lax safety level - BSL2 instead of required BSL4) and killing millions and shutting down half the globe. So I’m
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by trhway 1y ago
>Land use is one of the sticking points of the energy transition, both for agriculture and biodiversity. it may be a plus for solar if it can be shown that the shadow from the panels is a good thing in those cases There is also probably
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by trhway 1y ago
Charlemagne empire wasn't an interconnected fabric of roads, trade, centralized administration and so forth, ie. it wasn't all that that Roman Empire was, and all that having gone is the fall of Roman Empire. Charlemagne empire wa
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by trhway 1y ago
And i have my own ideas why it fell :) My point though ins't about pure why. It is about why it went into such feudal fractal mode.
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by trhway 1y ago
i'd venture a guess - you've never seen "Fight Club" :)
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by trhway 1y ago
I lived in USSR, and know first hand that it means to be separated from common technological space. USSR wasn't that small, especially if one adds Eastern Block, yet it was falling behind the world becoming fully incapable to produce
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by trhway 1y ago
our knowledge (at least my knowledge of it) is much much smaller that that of Roman Empire, and in particular i don't know whether the fall of that civilization demonstrated the effect of splitting into multitude technologically inferi
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by trhway 1y ago
The infra today is internet and semiconductors which run it, as well as global shipping without each we end up without even necessities.
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by trhway 1y ago
I always wondered how the large unified world of Roman Empire with running water and sewer fell apart (and backwards) into multitude of small feudal pieces with no technology to speak of for the 1000 years after Roman Empire. I think our m
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by trhway 1y ago
For just 10% of those money a $100M mathematician can hire 10 $1M mathematicians or a whole math dept in some European university to do the work and the thinking for them and thus beat any pressure while resting and vesting on the remaining
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by trhway 1y ago
Difference with Gabors kernels (that are in our visual cortex and what the first level CNN kernels look to converge to) is the scaling factor 1/t instead of e^(-t)
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by trhway 1y ago
>executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad Just wait a year or two and it will become totally normalized. Remember those Cristie's stuffers which went to prison for closing bridge for several days in the
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by trhway 1y ago
Somehow government made distinction between a machine gun and a rifle in the context of 2nd Amendment, even though they are really the same thing in principle. Paradoxically, the same government fails to see the same distinction between an
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by trhway 1y ago
>Why would I not go for this guy for $1600, and attach an arm? https://www.unitree.com/go2 Quasi-Lego-style robo dog for RPi is $100-150 on AMZN
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by trhway 1y ago
Just now on NPR - Open AI has inked $1T over this year. Remember the times when $1B were a serious money?
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by trhway 1y ago
That war frequently goes very low tech (kind of COTS :) - plastic bottle as stabilizers https://youtu.be/dcsf5yuEHDY?t=69 https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/drone-dropped-anti-t... On the second p
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by trhway 1y ago
Such coincidences do happen. 20 years ago the plane which was carrying all the top brass of the Russian Black Sea Fleet as well as the Fleet’s accounting documentation for inspection to Moscow burst in flames and fell to the ground while tr
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by trhway 1y ago
>77,000 vacant lots in NYC: https://commongroundorwa.org/3019-2/ Not "vacant": "New York City alone has more than 77,000 lots that are either vacant or have a building that is less than half the size
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Florida student asks ChatGPT how to kill his friend, ends up in jail: deputies(wfla.com)
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by trhway 1y ago
We had more than half a century of for example sci-fi literature describing that future, and over all those decades nobody was able to come up with even half-good plausible/feasible idea of how to deal with that. That suggests that it
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by trhway 1y ago
radon radiation is primarily alpha. That is never good in any dose. >In this multicenter trial, researchers enrolled 114 patients with moderate-to-mild knee osteoarthritis across three academic centers in Korea. Participants were randoml
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by trhway 1y ago
ants of Theseus
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by trhway 1y ago
not surprising giving that in the internal fight the boring execs won, and the excitingly brilliant researchers lost and left the company.
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by trhway 1y ago
>But a traditional property tax incentivizes keeping a lot empty, Looking around, i think you're incorrect. >as soon as you create something on it, you start having to pay more tax -- regardless of whether the thing you created i
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by trhway 1y ago
People and goods aren't part of the car. Refrigeration equipment for example is part of the taxable value of the refrigeration truck, ie. basic truck + refrigeration equipment would be taxed higher than just the same basic truck. Simil
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by trhway 1y ago
> just tax the land as to the utility value of the land tax the car to the utility value of the car - force you to drive for Uber instead of the car sitting in the garage and you posting here :)
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by trhway 1y ago
A skyscraper can be built practically everywhere. Thus the same tax for everybody everywhere. Everybody can hang a Van Gogh painting on their wall, thus every wall to be taxed the same.
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by trhway 1y ago
>Side-by-side owners of physically/legally identical land will pay the same taxes regardless of what is built on their properties Do we really want this? It is pretty established that higher valued assets incur higher property taxe
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by trhway 1y ago
the embedded decoder may as well be closing on a full-blown SQL execution engine (as the data size tramps the executable size these days). Push that execution onto a memory chips and into SSD/HDD controllers. I think something similar

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