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by fungicide 7y ago
Depends where it happens. The speed of light is quite slow relative to the size of the universe. So Higgs field collapse could happen a long way away and take millennia to reach us. Perhaps as the collapse propagates across the in universe
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by fungicide 7y ago
What the hell is water?
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by fungicide 7y ago
Surely you mean easier. It's easier for governments to control electronic money than cash. The government knows nothing about all that cash under that mattress.
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by fungicide 7y ago
I think it's probably virtue signalling rather than appeasement. Advertises probably welcome anti-vaxers as they are demonstrably gullible and easy to persuade.
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by fungicide 7y ago
Sure. But how would it compare to a CPU clocked at 3.5Thz?
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by fungicide 7y ago
If you think that's cool check out some cave movies. https://kottke.org/12/09/cave-paintings-were-stone-age-anima...
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by fungicide 7y ago
Plenty of info here. Enjoy https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node "Recent technology nodes such as 22 nm, 16 nm, 14 nm, and 10 nm refer purely to a specific generation of chips made in a particular technolo
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by fungicide 7y ago
Because "nm" doesn't mean nanometer anymore. Not in the context of CPUs anyway. Some time back, around the 34nm era, CPU components stopped getting materialy smaller. Transistor count plateaued. Moore's law died. To avoi
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by fungicide 7y ago
"The Fourth Industrial Revolution" is one of the most successfully lobbied and marketed instruments of our time. It has preoccupied governments and distracted them from addressing existing inequalities.
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by fungicide 7y ago
Where infant mortality is high, humans tend to have more children.
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by fungicide 7y ago
Tesla is a car maker, not a tech company. They don't sell Autopilot to other car makers.
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by fungicide 7y ago
They've been repeating the same message of doom now for 30 years and it always fails to materialise. Eg 1989 "The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, sa
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by fungicide 7y ago
No kidding. CERN takes in public money which it turns into research. It then gifts that research to businesses (frequently owned privately by CERN employees) who then sell products which generate billions in profits. Following the money at
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by fungicide 7y ago
"Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough" https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA
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by fungicide 7y ago
Where does he mention "Ancient Rome"?
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by fungicide 7y ago
Fun fact: The "oid" suffix in factoid means "like", or "resembling". So a factoid is not a true fact, but a statement resembling a fact. The word "factoid" was coined by Norman Mailer to mean "an