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by fogof 3mo ago
Do you think there is a tradeoff in this case? If so, what is the best counterargument against making PACER records free? I think it's important to note, as the article does, that these records are already "public" (that&#x27
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by fogof 5mo ago
I recently saw an interesting criticism of this paper: That by the end stages of the disassembly of Mercury, the amount of heat generated would be so much as to melt the surface, calling into question whether the mass driver system could wo
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by fogof 1y ago
The title of this post seems wrong: seems they are claiming five thousand kilograms of gold per year in a Gigawatt scale plant. > power plants can generate five thousand kilograms of gold per year, per gigawatt of electricity generation
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by fogof 1y ago
Very funny to me that lecture 21 is one of the only lecture titles that doesn't reference the name of the originator.
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by fogof 1y ago
I am looking at the last image in the article, captioned "The encrypted message instructs the viewer to appease the gods with offerings". The picture shows ... a person kneeling in front of a throned figure, offering something wit
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by fogof 1y ago
Not sure I agree with the comment you're responding to. But the article discusses some of their funding troubles, and the main mage of arxiv.org itself has a donate link. So I think perhaps the media presence might be motivated by a de
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by fogof 2y ago
> If there was enough evidence to demonstrate that he attempted to murder someone, why wasn't he charged and convicted of it? Wikipedia suggests this was because he was already sentenced to double life imprisonment. Clearly prosecut
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by fogof 2y ago
I don't think this is right. From the Wikipedia page: > In August 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted the service, making it illegal for US citizens, residents and companies to use.
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by fogof 3y ago
A lot of thoughts in this thread on what academic papers are or should be, let me give my own opinion as a person who tries to write papers. Papers should be structured like fractals - that is, they should be "self-similar". The m
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by fogof 3y ago
He says in the very first paragraph: > I lost a series of pitched battles against Pytorch and biblatex, so I figured I’d just write a blog post instead. So I think your accusation of his burying the lede on the lack of experiment is unw
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by fogof 3y ago
What rubs me the wrong way about the mhils Github response is that it fails to answer the question that the commenter asked: Is there or is there not a target date for the next release (and if so, what is it)? It's fine to charge money
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by fogof 3y ago
You can hardly say that they switched to a private channel because they knew "that they would get blasted for such a response in a public forum" when the comment they were responding to was the one that suggested the switch to ema
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by fogof 3y ago
I disagree that this would have been the right thing to do. There's nothing wrong with explaining why something could be useful in an open source project - if the reason seems like something important that a lot of other users of the s
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by fogof 3y ago
Fun how you can hear the diffraction spikes.
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by fogof 3y ago
For searching using search terms for theorems in mathlib, there is the mathlib documentation page (for Lean 3 https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_docs/ and Lean 4 https://leanprover-community.gith
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by fogof 4y ago
They address this at the end of the article > Our calculations account for air drag and the effects of gravity. > While the return velocity is dependent upon a number of factors, firing angle is extremely important. Bullets fired at a
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by fogof 4y ago
This is why I think network fees are a good metric. As long as anyone can become a block creator, you can’t pump it without losing money.
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by fogof 4y ago
Anyone can see what amount of money one address has put into Tornado Cash, so it’s no surprise that we can estimate how much money North Korea has put in. The whole reason they do put that money in, though, is so that they can have a differ
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by fogof 4y ago
> In fact, someone would appear to be trolling the authorities by sending small amounts from prohibited Tornado Cash addresses to prominent people; those transactions cannot be declined, but receiving such a "gift" is technical
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by fogof 4y ago
Whoever made the first animation on the webpage seems to have been a bit confused. Looks like they were trying to show the Ruy Lopez but the positions of the king and queen were switched.
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by fogof 5y ago
I would personally recommend Susskind’s videos on cosmology. Seems like the main ideas are surprisingly simple and I walked away feeling like I had learned something.
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by fogof 5y ago
Not sure I would describe Scott Aaronson as "social justice-y". He's had plenty of other quibbles with "equity types", for example, over the use of the term "quantum supremacy [1]. [1]: https://scott
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by fogof 5y ago
Not sure how the second example of buying a shiny new wallet is different from the first example of buying a shiny new cup. Seems like a better example for “wabi-sabi” would be continuing to use a wallet even after one of the flaps breaks,
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by fogof 5y ago
The two things I really want from a SSG for my blog are the ability to avoid indexing posts by dates and the ability to link from md files to other md or image files in the same directory. I’ve tried maybe 8 or so of the most popular option
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by fogof 5y ago
Whether or not there's an opportunity cost does matter, but why should this mean that the mining algorithm "paying off anyway" mean it can't be used? If the mining algorithm has an independent payoff whether or not you m
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by fogof 5y ago
They are slightly different in meaning. Cease = Stop doing it. Desist = Don’t do it again.
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by fogof 5y ago
For what it’s worth I think that if people were downvoting you because of your position, they would be downvoting the parent as well. They’re downvoting you because saying “I was going to say the same thing” doesn’t contribute to the conver
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by fogof 5y ago
What if you met someone carrying their phone in their breast pocket, with the camera facing outward? Would you ask to see their phone to see if they were recording you?
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by fogof 5y ago
Your comment was literally "#America", certainly this implies you think it's different in other countries, otherwise, why would you highlight the Americanness?
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by fogof 5y ago
> If you ask a Python developer about [private instance variables], they’ll respond with: “don’t access the instance variables of another class, lol”. > only in Python will the difference between tabs and spaces cause the interpreter

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