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by yk 3y ago
The funny thing is, reddit had a really good crisis communication consultant when they had their outage earlier this year. (Everybody knows now that the wokerati made the servers gay, instead that reddits IT needs to be fired.) So why don&#
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by yk 3y ago
No idea if it is common, but for two or three communities the community threads became rather more interesting than the rest of the sub, so there I actually know some of the mods.
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by yk 3y ago
Thing is, I am much more loyal to the mods of my favorite subs, then I'm to reddit. And my guess is, that is the case with a lot of the power users.
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SETI scientists to devise plan for lunar listening station(supercluster.com)
148 points by yk 3y ago|113 comments
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by yk 3y ago
> Next week, the Directorate of National Intelligence is expected to release previously classified material, which may include the names of the three WIV scientists who were the likely among the first to be sickened by SARS-CoV-2. Why pu
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by yk 3y ago
> While attorneys swear an oath to set aside their personal prejudices, biases, and beliefs to faithfully uphold the law and represent their clients, generative artificial intelligence is the product of programming devised by humans who
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by yk 3y ago
For me doesn't open with a German IP but switching on a vpn, it opens with a US one.
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by yk 3y ago
Sounds like someone is getting an earful for not checking the branding guideline's spelling while "leaking."
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by yk 4y ago
The question is certainly naive, but the answers read like satire of the worst project managers I ever had.
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by yk 4y ago
The problem is to a large part one of attack surface, if we don't have anything to talk about we talk about weather because weather effects everything and everyone. Thing is, all our systems are tuned to how the weather is right now, i
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by yk 4y ago
The interesting plot is SPM.5 on p.23 of the summary for policymakers. There the emission scenarios are plotted and the thing is, the scenarios that limit warming to 1.5 K or 2 K assume actively putting greenhouse gasses back into the groun
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by yk 4y ago
Doesn't work from Germany right now. (Telekom if that turned out to be important.)
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by yk 4y ago
That blog doesn't read well I'm afraid. First of all, in the title it's something about climate, to then switch to Asthma. (And ctrl-F there is no mention of climate in the original paper.) Then there is some ranting about &q
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by yk 4y ago
No, you can have a fusion booster, like in the "Sloika" [0] design, but for a Teller-Ulam design, that is a H-bomb, you use a nuclear primer to ignite a fusion reaction and by far the most energy comes from the fusion part. [1] [0
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by yk 4y ago
Yesterdays news was that this result was leaked to the FT with apparently preliminary numbers. And today there was a press conference that had somewhat better looking numbers.
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by yk 4y ago
While I like the idea that a company has a duty to the wider marketplace, the construction using diversified portfolios is more creative than convincing. Problem is, that we can easily construct portfolios that react in a specific way to ac
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by yk 4y ago
Apologies for posting under Cory's somewhat clickbaity title, but I rather liked the description of how a quite reasonable company end up collecting license fees from a less reasonable but certainly not inclined to just give money away
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Adobe Steals Your Color(pluralistic.net)
7 points by yk 4y ago|1 comments
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By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Created His Own Nightmare(theintercept.com)
4 points by yk 4y ago|1 comments
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by yk 4y ago
The archeologists basically studied for the last year, what being buried in that climate and that kind of soil does to the structure. So they understand extremely well if reburying is a good idea or not.
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by yk 4y ago
If we meet someone identifying as a frequentest then we probably met someone who has thought deeply about philosophy of statistics. By contrast, if we meet someone who identifies as Bayesian, we probably met someone who read a blog post. Ba
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by yk 4y ago
My eee is remarkable how much the thing found uses, first as intended to have a computer while commuting, what 5 years later smart phones would do, then for a very long time it sat in my living room as a always on email terminal, in which r
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by yk 4y ago
No, or at least not in a field. From the field axioms you can directly proof that 0 x=(a-a) x = ax - ax =0, and therefore 0 doesn't have a well defined inverse. You can look at other algebraic structure, but those behave less like numb
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by yk 4y ago
A article reiterating a press release from a company that doesn't have a prototype is not exactly a good source. And at any rate, the article claims that > The small size and large surface area-to-volume ratio of NuScale’s reactor
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by yk 4y ago
Steelmanning is one of the ideas that sounds good in principle, but is usually a disaster in practice. In practice the only way I've ever seen it used was by building a straw man and then very loudly proclaiming that they're &quot
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by yk 4y ago
Some of these measures are not really convincing, most obvious Nobel prices/paper, the rate of Nobel prices/year is fixed so when the number of papers goes up, the rate of publications that get a Nobel goes down.
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by yk 4y ago
There was a reddit thread on these anti-cheating software the other day, the threat mostly reminded me that I used to stare at the ceiling during exams. And a bit more abstractly, they are trying to temporarily establish control over a spac
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by yk 4y ago
They are older, so they had less time to produce heavier elements. Additionally lighter stars live longer, so it may be that the heavy stars just burned out in nearby galaxies.
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by yk 4y ago
That makes assumptions about the language, for the languages I know: German has three definite articles, Latin doesn't have any, so it is not obvious what looking for "the" would result in either.
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by yk 4y ago
That paper is bizarre. > In this article an attempt is made to create a list of the possible sources of the signal assuming that, if it was produced by an extraterrestrial civilization, their exoplanet could be similar to Earth. Citatio

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