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by voldacar 4y ago
Energy is the ability to transform matter from one state to another. Food is a particular form of matter. Therefore...
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by voldacar 4y ago
>The Huntington is likely to draw a flood of requests to access the Pynchon archive, which it says will be open to qualified researchers after processing, which it estimates will take a year. “The kind of research this archive is going t
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by voldacar 4y ago
They can approximate any continuous map between finite dimensional vector spaces. Complex numbers are a finite dimensional vector space.
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by voldacar 4y ago
Some of Albert Speer's stuff is pretty cool. Certainly nowhere near the ugliness of anything Le Corbusier designed. Though it definitely does have a kind of austere bloodlessness that is also present in Italian Fascist architecture, so
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by voldacar 4y ago
A lot of people responsible for 20th century architecture believed more or less that beauty is Literally Fascism, so that's another component. The ugliness isn't always accidental.
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by voldacar 4y ago
Nice, I'll be paying attention. I've been planning on messing around with tdcs for a while now but I've never sat down and actually built the (admittedly really simple) device needed. Possibly a dumb question but do you have
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by voldacar 4y ago
This is interesting — could you link your research? And are these DC fields you're applying using electrodes across the cranium? Or AC using an external coil?
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by voldacar 4y ago
Your comment doesn't add much value here. Which parts do you find implausible? Note that they are referring to CRT monitors, which do emit a strong electromagnetic field
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by voldacar 4y ago
What effect does capitalization have on the model, in general?
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by voldacar 4y ago
This reads like a Borges story
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by voldacar 4y ago
Nah you are definitely trying to minimize this. At this point it is clear that you have political parties (let's be honest, it's really just one political party, coincidentally the one that receives >99% of twitter's polit
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by voldacar 4y ago
Do we get to read the actual files? Or do we only get them mediated to us by Matt Taibbi's summary + some redacted screenshots?
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by voldacar 4y ago
It is a serious indictment of our culture that we are not trying to clone von Neumann or even just sequence his genome. His genetic material is slowly decaying in some cemetery in New Jersey, I think.
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by voldacar 4y ago
>The same people that complain about the impinging government are usually the first to ask for a handout the moment something goes wrong Really? This doesn't seem to match my experience.
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by voldacar 4y ago
secure boot with keys outside your control, mandatory TPM chips, remote attestation, etc
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by voldacar 4y ago
It's my computer though, and I'm paying for the electricity to run it. Why is it any business of yours what calculations I run on it? What an absurd statement.
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by voldacar 4y ago
expensive houses require a lot more than 5 kw
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by voldacar 4y ago
It really depends a lot on the region. For example, price and quality don't correlate that much in Burgundy. It's easy to spend a few hundred dollars on a mediocre bottle.
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by voldacar 4y ago
My complex analysis prof was obsessed with the Joukowski airfoil. The derivation is surprisingly simple and elegant.
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by voldacar 4y ago
Where did he admit this
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by voldacar 4y ago
What world are you living in where popularity is somehow a way of judging quality? The masses love marvel movies and fast food
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by voldacar 4y ago
Yeah the reason is that Richard Nixon cancelled Project Rover, which had long since demonstrated that a safe and reliable nuclear engine was totally feasible
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by voldacar 4y ago
Monero is a superior currency to btc in every way.
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by voldacar 4y ago
It doesn't have to be a prime, it can also be a prime power
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by voldacar 4y ago
To me it's probably a combination of stress from dht exposure and mechanical stress that causes thinning and baldness once the total stress level around the follicle surpasses some threshold. You can't just dismiss mechanical st
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by voldacar 4y ago
The point of the protests is for the protesters to signal moral righteousness
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by voldacar 4y ago
How do you actually host something like this without being shut down, arrested, etc? Do you pay your server provider in bitcoin or something?
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by voldacar 4y ago
> malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) It's interesting seeing these concepts being created in real time. This seems like the sort of thing that will become popular in new york t
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by voldacar 4y ago
- Learn the memory palace technique. It's thousands of years old and really works. People use it to memorize tens of thousands of digits. - Take B. monnieri. It's not a huge effect but it does seem to have a real positive effect o
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by voldacar 4y ago
A lot of geometric results like trig identities come out most elegantly when stated using complex numbers. I always struggled remembering trig identites until I took complex analysis, and after that class they just seemed totally obvious.

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