NFVLCP

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by NFVLCP 2y ago
In the Acknowledgements, Neal thanks the Blue Origin team for the time he spent with them in the 2000s. Maybe he didn't want to hurt their feelings.
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
Agreed. Apple's $3T+ is built on a colossal mountain of e-waste fueled by consumerism. Like bottled water companies saying their plastic caps are 30% smaller.
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
Totally. Same for Monsonto and their glyphosate. "Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide" https://foe.org/resources/merchants-of-poison/
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
For the record, we're already dumping hundreds of millions of kilos of poison on our food in the form of glyphosate and other pesticides, albeit not PFAS. Whereas the shock here is that we're already so full of poisons that our ow
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
Revolver is underrated.
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
What alleged company is this? (allegedly)
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
Previous thread, specifically a critical question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39137491 Also, if this data is for sale then it's a reasonable bet that other governments have bought it too (i.e., Russia, China
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
Related ~100 pg report from Dec 2022. We'll researched and well articulated, in my opinion at least. In history books it's appropriately shocking to see those photos of kids playing in clouds of DEET sprayed by trucks, 1950s and
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
Perhaps at least some of that "non-functional" DNA is so only after the completion of our nanotechnological self-assembly process, which is surely somewhat complex.
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
We'll all need Inception-style totems soon.
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by NFVLCP 2y ago
>> is simple and selects the single best candidate about 37% of the time Not a mathematician but 1 / e = 0.367, so is this just a way to ensure a 37% percentile of accuracy across normal distribution? Like Anchorman Sex Panther,
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by NFVLCP 3y ago
Therefore, so did China and Russia and anyone else.
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by NFVLCP 3y ago
1. glove knitting The dodecahedron Wikipedia article already mentions spool knitting [1]. This awesome video shows knitting for different-sized fingers on a 3d-printed replica [2]. An initial question could be whether 6 equally-sized holes