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by yummypaint 1y ago
This is still a common practice, the difference is ordinary people have mostly been cut out between the switch to first-to-file and routine abuse of the patent and trademark system. This is how apple got Samsung's phones forcibly pulle
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Demand isn't fixed in time either, though. Industrial processes that presently run at night to use cheap power will switch to daytime when it makes sense to do so. Summer mid-day also has the highest electricity demand all year in many
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by yummypaint 1y ago
That is why they are being targeted, for their commitment to truth. It isn't a pity, it's an outrage.
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by yummypaint 1y ago
We collectively kill billions of animals per year for food with little regard for their welfare, and much of that food is then wasted. There is probably more gained through such studies relatively speaking. Does that mean we should do them?
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by yummypaint 1y ago
Go to a library. It's like people have forgotten they exist. They certainly have Asimov and European classics. If they don't have something physically in print they can usually get it for you electronically. The worst library is s
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by yummypaint 1y ago
For some real examples of this, check out if your local university has a graduate music program. If so there will be at least one free concert per year where people's compositions are played.
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by yummypaint 1y ago
This should be the top comment on HN where most users claim to have some grasp of statistics. N=5 implies a statistical uncertainty of about 45%, so they measured what one would expect, which is essentially nothing. Also this is specificall
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by yummypaint 2y ago
When tariffs on goods are effectively doubling the price, that creates an incredibly strong incentive to smuggle and otherwise subvert customs. The result is poorer import control overall and a windfall for organized crime.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Technologically speaking, climate change, world hunger, poverty, peace, etc are all solved problems already. Unfortunately these aren't technical problems. They are social, political, and economic in nature. The world has had the means
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by yummypaint 2y ago
The closest thing to a 90s style affordable but good sit down meal I can reliably find in the US is from Mexican restaurants. The best ones are still locally owned and have lots of work trucks parked in the lot during lunch. These places ar
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Modern search engines are yet another case of the tech world refusing to learn from other domains and dragging down everyone's quality of life as a result. People have been searching and organizing information long before computers. Th
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Once Apple ends official support for a machine the user has to buy a new MacBook or use an increasingly compromised system. Apple hardware uses an arm architecture that cannot ‘dual boot’ Windows or Linux easily. Once macOS support dies fo
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Very cool will try this. Does the Navy reject people with red/green color blindness?
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by yummypaint 2y ago
This makes it sound more ad hoc than it is, it's not some polynomial where people just tack on terms. In its current agreed upon form it's just SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1). This gauge symmetry defines the lagrangian, which has 19 parameters
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Given that these trees may be intentionally attracting lightning to kill their neighbors, I wonder what the nature of their day-to-day interactions are like under the soil. Have other species evolved to attack these trees? Do they even know
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by yummypaint 2y ago
It makes a difference where the junk is. As you say low orbits clean themselves up slowly, but geosynchronous Kessler syndrome could last thousands of years, and geostationary orbits are pretty essential.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
This has been the story for 20 years now. It's a case study in what happens when a product has a guaranteed revenue stream and the company has 0 incentive to innovate or improve anything. However, managers still need to have "laun
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Gnumeric may be the answer for you. It was the answer for me. It's amazing how quickly both excel and libre office documents shit the bed and produce outright wrong behavior once they hit a few MB of data and/or a few dozen plots.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Yes, it's about attacking the means by which we collectively hold bad actors in check. Also other countries absolutely do delegate regulatory minutae to experts. If we can delegate law making to elected representatives, we can do the s
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Sounds like it's working out for them
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Reinventing certain wheels is arguably the only way to be sure you understand them. For example Monte Carlo sampling implementations. The logical conclusion of this mindset is mathematics, where people literally prove all of algebra and cal
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by yummypaint 2y ago
I thought the equinox implies that we are midway between summer and winter, so either is fair game. Given the climate crisis it's not unexpected to have massive swings in either direction either. Where I am is was 20 C colder yesterday
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Summer in the northern hemisphere = winter in southern hemisphere
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by yummypaint 2y ago
So you are pro-salvery then?
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by yummypaint 2y ago
There is too much momentum involved in this stuff for people who have no clue what they're doing to take the wheel. All it takes is a year of allowing emitting garbage on the market and we could cripple radio astronomy for a generation
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Back when the Bush admin was hyping this stuff they managed to get the media to talk mostly about electrolysis of water using solar power. They would talk about how only water comes out the tailpipe, and the symmetry of being able to reuse
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by yummypaint 2y ago
It absolutely was. In the event that breakthroughs happened and it became viable faster than expected, the backup plan was to get the hydrogen from fossil fuels to make sure the industry would still get its cut.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
About half of the US was too checked out to vote in the last election. They won't be boycotting anything on any kind of principle, but they may join a boycott if there is enough social pressure to do so. It's odd that most discuss
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by yummypaint 2y ago
I nominate removing every restriction on intentional and unintentional radiators This is quite an illuminating call to action, because it demonstrates the same process that lead to the current plague of anti-vax sentiment. Apparently it o
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Having read this guy's other comments, he's definitely a liar engaging in bad faith. Don't waste your time on him

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