Victerius

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by Victerius 4y ago
Who are our modern J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, John Von Neumann, and Stanislaw Ulam?
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by Victerius 4y ago
Sorry, but I think it's you who are out of touch here. Requiring 15-20 years of experience? Just... no. Software engineers are so well paid that many of them retire from the job market permanently after 15-20 years. You might as well
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by Victerius 4y ago
> Once you are at the stage of looking for tenured faculty jobs, your publication record is everything If a university thinks a PhD student's publication record is good enough to grant him or her a doctorate, it should be good enoug
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by Victerius 4y ago
I don't understand your sentence.
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by Victerius 4y ago
With the news stories about overseas Chinese police stations, I wonder why they didn't go after him directly in Italy. Maybe they lacked his home address. But that could be obtained by a cyber infiltration of the Italian government or
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by Victerius 4y ago
> Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter I think that may change in the future. Many politicians, including prominent ones, have done AMAs. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a semi regular
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by Victerius 4y ago
I don't mind having to conform to some norms. I would even go so far as to argue that close-knit communities are impossible to maintain over long time horizons without these gatekeeping attitudes and insider values that outsiders must
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Coinbase CEO slams SBF: 'This guy just committed a $10B fraud'(businessinsider.com)
5 points by Victerius 4y ago|0 comments
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by Victerius 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of a line by Boromir (Sean Bean) in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring . "It is a strange fate we should suffer so much fear and doubt… over so small a thing. Such a little thing." Where t
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by Victerius 4y ago
I wish society in general worked like this: less formality, more informality, more relationships..... .... I could move to a small town. I've always lived in a large metropolis and, to be frank, I'm tired of it. I can't move
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by Victerius 4y ago
Impressive. Now do it without using a computer, the old fashioned way, with books, paper maps, star charts, slide rulers, sextants, compasses, and pens. I'm sure some people would be able to.
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by Victerius 4y ago
I didn't know Prof. Wien had a HN account.
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by Victerius 4y ago
Let's have some fun. Here's a basic special relativity problem from John R. Taylor's Classical Mechanics . A space explorer A sets off at a steady 0.95 c to a distant star. After exploring the star for a short time, he retu
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by Victerius 4y ago
By his logic, an object moving at 0% of the speed of light would arrive instantly.
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by Victerius 4y ago
I want to bring my family with me on a two week summer trip to Hawaii onboard a military C-130.
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by Victerius 4y ago
It's 8.5 billion light years away. It would be like aiming a water hose at Mars from low Earth orbit.
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by Victerius 4y ago
You're right, but my point is more about uniformity. Society seems to have tacitly agreed that there's only 3 beautiful looks for everything. You can be beautiful - and by "you", I also mean buildings and inanimate objec
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by Victerius 4y ago
It's come to the point where I find some conventionally attractive individuals not particularly interesting. For example, men who look like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8c7xV... There ar
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by Victerius 4y ago
The C-130 Hercules platform says "Hello there!"
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by Victerius 4y ago
> Don't fool yourself; we're not overpopulating ourselves to global economic and environmental meltdown; Yes we are. Yes. We. Are. Let it happen. I'll start panicking if the human population is still decreasing at 100 mill
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by Victerius 4y ago
I respectfully disagree. In the 12 months following a nuclear war, Americans would still need to file their taxes before the April 15 deadline, the federal and state governments would still have to pass annual budgets, software vendors like
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by Victerius 4y ago
This raises a tricky question: Should the United States open or reopen a production line for nuclear weapons in order to avoid losing their manufacturing know-how, the way we do with M1A2 Abrams tanks? The United States once produced thousa
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by Victerius 4y ago
> After a month at a Zen silent-meditation retreat, Heller went back to his job at Goldman Sachs as a commodities trader in oil and gas. That sounds pretty successful to me.
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by Victerius 4y ago
"And this, as I imagine, is the reason why the forwardness to take office, instead of waiting to be compelled, has been deemed dishonourable. Now the worst part of the punishment is that he who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by
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by Victerius 4y ago
That's me. I log into my brokerage every few weeks to have a quick peak and make any necessary tweaks. And then I log out and don't think of it. I don't keep an app on my phone because I know it would distract me.
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People Cheering for Humanity’s End(theatlantic.com)
6 points by Victerius 4y ago|2 comments
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by Victerius 4y ago
How do we get the Chinese needle snakes under control once they're done with the rats though?
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by Victerius 4y ago
Arizona is actually a good choice. It is geologically stable, doesn't suffer from natural disasters, is somewhat close to Silicon Valley, and has a large enough talent pool to staff TSMC's facilities.
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by Victerius 4y ago
I had several thoughts while reading this article. > Cambodia is contaminated with millions of unexploded ordnances dropped as cluster bombs by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. In addition, millions of land mines were buried throughout t
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by Victerius 4y ago
> the private property owner retains title even as the land’s assessed value plummets to zero. I was told by my accountant friends that land couldn't be depreciated.

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