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by voldacar 4y ago
Thanks for your insights here — is there any innovation going currently wrt phages either in academia or the startup world that looks significant from a practical point of view? I've also seen people claim that phages were never resear
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by voldacar 4y ago
Nicotine gives kids heart disease and glass lung? That's quite a claim.
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by voldacar 4y ago
I can't tell if this is satire
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by voldacar 4y ago
I'm not really sure, this resonant phenomenon already exists ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances ) and is pumped by global lightning activity. However this is not very efficient as most of the energy
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by voldacar 4y ago
The idea is that you treat the earth's atmosphere as a resonant tank, pumped by the coil at the tower. The inverse square law doesn't apply here. The real practical problem is that if such a system were scaled up, any metal object
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by voldacar 4y ago
I have used monero plenty of times. Speculators don't like it so it has a relatively stable price, unlike bitcoin.
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by voldacar 4y ago
Those are not multiple governments. There is only one sovereign government in a given location at a given time, assuming the conditions are peaceful.
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by voldacar 4y ago
Governments are at their core, service providers. Monopolies tend not to provide good services. And when the world government abuses you, you will have nowhere else to go.
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by voldacar 4y ago
Yes, this is a much better idea. might be hard to make such small actuators to get the vertical pinmovement once it's inserted, maybe you could use tiny pneumatic pistons or something
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by voldacar 4y ago
This actually might be unpickable. But the small space of keys (6^6 combinations) makes me think you could just fabricate every single key and test them one by one, if you were really determined
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by voldacar 4y ago
I generally agree with the second part of your comment, but it is still true that homeless people survive fine, their quality of life is just usually bad. This is very different from starving to death and needing to shoplift
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by voldacar 4y ago
You are actually proving their point by noting the plethora of homeless people who are surviving
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by voldacar 4y ago
If you think the average shoplifter is like Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread, you're deeply out of touch with reality
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by voldacar 4y ago
It's not clear to me that I should be punished for doing something that doesn't harm or affect others simply because they dislike it. It even seems a bit unreasonable, to be honest.
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by voldacar 4y ago
I meant what industry/application of course
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by voldacar 4y ago
What kind of work were you doing? They were several times the price of a highend PC at the time, right?
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by voldacar 4y ago
Truly a rarefied pleasure.
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by voldacar 4y ago
>"It is an illusion" is transcribed and recalled as an explanation for feelings that drive actions in the person who said it, because we evolved to be able to explain our actions with sophisticated language, and to judge the ar
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by voldacar 4y ago
>My personal experience is that consciousness, like free will, is a useful illusion An illusion to whom? It isn't meaningful to say that an unconscious thing experiences illusions.
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by voldacar 4y ago
I disagree regarding Euclidean geometry. Euclid never does any proofs by induction, which is enough on its own to disqualify Euclid as a good introduction to proof. What you want is a book that combines an introduction to logic with a bunch
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by voldacar 4y ago
>I'd still claim that there hardly ever was a better time for video games. I think it depends on your tastes. Certain genres like arena shooter and rts have definitely declined.
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by voldacar 4y ago
This drug (baricitinib) seems to be approved for use in the EU ( https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/olumiant ), but if EU pharmacies don't have it yet you might be able to order it on s
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by voldacar 4y ago
Neither could you sue if you had been struck and killed by an SUV. The end state of your reasoning is that nobody can ever do anything that involves risk because someone might die and be unable to sue. Sounds like an awful world
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by voldacar 4y ago
> it is not at all clear why one would multiply matrices I disagree. Matrix multiplication is the composition of linear maps. AB is the transformation you get by applying B, then applying A to the result of that. Furthermore this provide
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by voldacar 4y ago
This is some of the best non-rigorous writing about math that I've encountered. Far superior to the awful quanta articles that sometimes get posted here.
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by voldacar 4y ago
I'm not sure that this answers the parent's question. The Zariski topology is unusual, and in "some crazy topological shape" I think the parent is looking for a way to map the primes onto a smooth manifold in some fini
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by voldacar 4y ago
>You would often have dead obvious observations on one side which were very difficult to prove on another; eg 'This particular eigenvalue is a positive integer because it is also the dimension of a vector space. This is interesting,
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by voldacar 4y ago
"Environmentalists" have demonstrated for half a century that they are not credible on the topic of nuclear power. The NRC is probably responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths by retarding the construction of new nuclear fi
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by voldacar 4y ago
Could you stop commenting on this? It's making me embarrassed to be a Bayesian
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by voldacar 4y ago
You might want to disregard my comment then. But I had that other account bookmarked as his for some reason

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