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by drewvolpe 1y ago
4. Acceleron (muon catalyzed) There's huge advantages to muon catalyzed if they can get it to work. Plants would be orders of magnitude smaller and cheaper to build. [0] https://www.acceleron.energy/
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by drewvolpe 1y ago
It's an addiction and really hard to stop. Facebook spends billions designing it to be as addictive as possible. In this study, they paid people $25 to not use it for a week. I wonder if your wife would agree to that. It seems like for
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by drewvolpe 4y ago
When I was learning to code, programmers had to know about a lot of low level details like memory management, disk I/O, process scheduling, etc. Today, the average JavaScript programmer never thinks about these things. I could imagine
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by drewvolpe 4y ago
People are irrationally concerned about low-probability but high severity risks, which is what nuclear is. The chance of someone in the US dying from a terrorist attack is about 1 out of 3 million. It's a rounding error compared with h
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First look: Ambitious weather firm takes on new funding, makes bold claims(axios.com)
3 points by drewvolpe 4y ago|0 comments
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Latency is driving edge and serverless computing infrastructure(medium.com)
3 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|0 comments
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by drewvolpe 5y ago
That's fascinating. How popular are seed boxes? And does the consumer get them from their internet provider directly?
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Voice Lessons – How coaches get in athletes’ heads(harpers.org)
84 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|16 comments
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SEC Proposes Reporting Changes for Private Equity, Hedge Fund Advisers(ai-cio.com)
1 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|0 comments
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Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’(techcrunch.com)
5 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|5 comments
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by drewvolpe 5y ago
It's owned by banks but run by government appointees. Most Americans who watch the news and follow finance understand it's a public-private hybrid structure. As Lyn notes, this isn't unusual. Many national banks are not owned
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by drewvolpe 5y ago
Smell is such an odd sense. For example, I found this part amazing: > It is understood that certain chemicals block certain receptors, occupying their binding sites such that no other volatile molecules can reach them. These antagonists
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The Odor of Things – Solving the mysteries of scent(harpers.org)
29 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|11 comments
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by drewvolpe 5y ago
We like hackers and free thinkers. Communities like these are hacking modern society. Even if they don't work or aren't appealing to me, they're all interesting experiments that can teach us something about societies, group d
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Rhythm 0(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|0 comments
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Homescreen: Decentralized Front Ends for Web3(blog.sia.tech)
2 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|0 comments
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Engineering Career Series: How Yelp thinks about engineering management(engineeringblog.yelp.com)
1 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|0 comments
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You Pay for Facebook with Your Pocketbook(blog.sia.tech)
2 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|0 comments
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Particle Detection and Tracking with DNA(arxiv.org)
1 points by drewvolpe 5y ago|0 comments
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by drewvolpe 6y ago
Jack tweeted a link to the page where you can buy the NFT, so I think it's accurate to say he's selling it: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1367990471759306752
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by drewvolpe 6y ago
"You're Apple's customer and Facebook's product" is often repeated but completely true in this case. It's all about incentives. Apple makes money by selling more products which means they innovate by making Wat
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by drewvolpe 6y ago
Why start with a clean slate and develop a new plane? If the F-16 is still working, why not start with its design and upgrade the avionics and software?
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by drewvolpe 6y ago
NASA just successfully sent a helicopter to Mars. We developed two very effective vaccines using mRNA technology in a few months and had it through FDA trials in under a year. CAR T cell therapies (3 FDA approved and more coming) are changi
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The Treasury Yield Stress Point(lynalden.com)
1 points by drewvolpe 6y ago|0 comments
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Find the Right VP of Engineering for Your Company(hackernoon.com)
2 points by drewvolpe 6y ago|0 comments
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Through No Fault of Their Own(epsilontheory.com)
1 points by drewvolpe 6y ago|0 comments
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How to Create Blockchain S3 Storage with Filebase(hackernoon.com)
3 points by drewvolpe 6y ago|0 comments
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I am resigning as Associate Editor from Proceedings B today(neurochambers.blogspot.com)
3 points by drewvolpe 7y ago|0 comments
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What Neil Armstrong Got Wrong(technologyreview.com)
1 points by drewvolpe 7y ago|1 comments
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by drewvolpe 7y ago
Come work with us at Plex Research. A huge problem our founder ran into while doing drug discovery research was that there's tons of data in the world, but no one is using it because it's all in thousands of different places. As a

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