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by ummonk 4y ago
Why would anyone keep holding Tether? Why hasn't everyone just liquidated their positions?
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by ummonk 4y ago
But it did. Stealth, widespread adoption globally (resulting in a larger logistical support base and long term support), and low cost were all mentioned as features of the F-35 that made it preferable to its competitors.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Yeah I think they meant hobbyist or non-commercial.
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by ummonk 4y ago
It's not "impossible" to decarbonize the production of aluminum without driving up cost, as the page claims. Once green electricity and hydrogen is cheaper than CO2-emitting energy, this will be possible and even profitable.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Note also that the spread of infectious diseases is likely also highly correlated with lack of ventilation.
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by ummonk 4y ago
If we're talking about war, the BBC was an active participant in the coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Iran. Ample reason for any country that values its sovereignty to ban the BBC. https://www.bbc.c
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by ummonk 4y ago
The Indian right wingers I know think the ban is ridiculous either on principle or because it simply plays into the Streisand effect. There is some openness to banning BBC altogether as foreign state-funded propaganda (akin to how Europe ha
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by ummonk 4y ago
The study says "four possible meaning answers", but more importantly the article links to the quiz used in the study itself: https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/505CF355-CEF5-...
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by ummonk 4y ago
Actually only 4 possibilities in the provided quiz - it's multiple choice.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Without any controls (e.g. more distant apes such as orangutans, or even other expressive animals such as elephants), this study is completely meaningless.
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by ummonk 4y ago
My mother (quite the opposite of a techie) complains about how hard it is to find stuff on Google - especially unbiased stuff that isn't being promoted by a company or individual with a promotional / commercial agenda. I don'
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by ummonk 4y ago
They didn’t enter Taiwan’s airspace. They entered its self-proclaimed air defense identification zone, which extends well beyond its own airspace and even into mainland China. China’s recent actions have been increasingly provocative, but i
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by ummonk 4y ago
And he was murdered
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by ummonk 4y ago
These two locations are about 6 miles apart, and both squarely within city limits of modern Kozhikode. The research paper's history of the port seems to be largely plausible from what I can see, and it's plausible precisely becaus
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Google is pausing new green card applications(twitter.com)
4 points by ummonk 4y ago|1 comments
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Elon Musk's Appetite for Destruction(nytimes.com)
9 points by ummonk 4y ago|3 comments
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by ummonk 4y ago
It's unclear what kind of mathematical thinking and skills you want. "How to solve it," by Polya perhaps?
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by ummonk 4y ago
This is similar to the proof of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (from which the irrationality of the square root of 2 trivially follows): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithme...
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by ummonk 4y ago
Please elaborate.
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by ummonk 4y ago
You don't actually have infinitely many moves available in analog chess since you can only click on a pixel. But while check should be doable in reasonable time, checkmate / stalemate would be expensive to compute since you have t
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by ummonk 4y ago
I mean, Facebook ended up forking PHP and writing their own type system and execution environment to make it work after they had scaled up...
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by ummonk 4y ago
I had a pretty negative reaction to that title but completely agree with the post (and largely with the example choices). I think I'd rephrase it more as "choose proven technology", cause "boring" to me conjures up
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by ummonk 4y ago
I don’t disagree with the sentiment and point of the article. That said, I’d argue that if as a startup you believe you’re probably going to quickly and easily achieve product market fit, it is perfectly rational to focus on laying the righ
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by ummonk 4y ago
That would actually be a great idea.
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by ummonk 4y ago
It should be pretty apparent even from the start that that isn't a descriptive name.
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by ummonk 4y ago
How is a comment talking about whimsical content "only vaguely related"?
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by ummonk 4y ago
"policy-engine" is an example of a name that is neither cute nor descriptive
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by ummonk 4y ago
Snowpack is already at 85% of April 1st averages (and almost double the average for this point in the season). All of that snow will be melting in early summer. I expect they're going to keep the reservoirs less filled than usual in th
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by ummonk 4y ago
Englebright reservoir too
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by ummonk 4y ago
C# with the burst compiler in Unity is rather cool in this respect. Do normal scripting but have the option to use a restricted subset for C-like code that gets compiled or JIT’ed in performance sensitive jobs.

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