ironchief

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by ironchief 2y ago
More info on the PM-3A reactor http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/
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by ironchief 4y ago
Fascinating that High Performance Computers had export controls in the 90s as dual use technology but little restraint until recently. How would we apply this today? Instead of MTOPS use TFLOPS FP16?
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Was Apple’s 1999 Power Mac G4 Classified as a Weapon? (2014)(techjunkie.com)
4 points by ironchief 4y ago|2 comments
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by ironchief 4y ago
I thought your comment was a joke until I read the link. Wow "District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China."
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What if A.I. gets 100x better in a matter of months?(interconnected.org)
10 points by ironchief 5y ago|8 comments
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by ironchief 5y ago
Every org that hired Alan Kay as a fellow was closed - Apple Advanced Technology Group - Walt Disney Imagineering Fellows - HP Advanced Software Research - VPRI
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Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google utilities(protocol.com)
4 points by ironchief 5y ago|0 comments
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by ironchief 6y ago
Do you have the link to the documentary?
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Tech Startups Say New Pay Rules for H-1B Visas Are Unaffordable(wsj.com)
9 points by ironchief 6y ago|10 comments
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by ironchief 6y ago
This hardly meets the definition of brief description, let alone a "Deep Dive".
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by ironchief 6y ago
I recommend reading this blog post and drawing your own conclusion. My conclusion is PG's "I can lay out what I know to be the right thing to do, and still not do it."
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by ironchief 6y ago
Yes.
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Why Zig When There Is Already CPP, D, and Rust?(github.com)
1 points by ironchief 7y ago|0 comments
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by ironchief 7y ago
“To boost sales in India, Apple has started to assemble several iPhone models locally and reached a stage where it can begin to export to overseas markets phones produced in India. Assembling phones in India allows Apple — as it does to oth
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by ironchief 7y ago
Apple - We can't make iPhones in the US and tariffs don't work Also Apple - Tariffs made us move production to Brazil and India.
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by ironchief 7y ago
"Men are chronically lonely and unable to express their pain. Women hardest hit." - @olivertraldi
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by ironchief 7y ago
"I wonder if the so-called developed countries should be careful of their own premature deindustrialization. The US industrial base has faltered, but there is still so much left to build. Until we’ve perfected asteroid mining and super
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by ironchief 7y ago
It is not. This is another example of "looks like, but doesn't work like". You often see people print noses, ears, whatever that have cells in them. That doesn't make it functional tissue. Source: I lead a tissue enginee
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by ironchief 7y ago
Former Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the safe injection site bill saying "enabling illegal and destructive drug use will never work." Doesn't look like "the Republican Party at the national level" to me. https:&
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by ironchief 7y ago
Misleading. This is another example of "looks like, but doesn't work like". You often see people print noses, ears, whatever that have cells in them. That doesn't make it functional tissue. Source: I lead a tissue engine
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Automated Reconstruction of a Serial-Section EM Drosophila Brain(biorxiv.org)
2 points by ironchief 7y ago|0 comments
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by ironchief 7y ago
These Mozilla blogs are some of the best edited, articulated and illustrated explanations I've seen on the web. I wish more people could put in the resources to help communicate their mission like this.
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The Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program, and Federal Energy Technology R&D [pdf](fas.org)
1 points by ironchief 8y ago|0 comments
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by ironchief 8y ago
It is the same reason why Taleb does not accept prizes and Peterson reminds us that "you are not the wave" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjAVZjLQr8
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Heterosis(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ironchief 8y ago|0 comments
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by ironchief 8y ago
Altman (YC) leans into SF Thiel leans away Will be interesting to see the winning move
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by ironchief 8y ago
Malthus is wrong and "more people" = "lack of environmentalism" is zero-sum thinking. Instead consider the positive-sum "We need more people to solve bigger problems" that follows from Esther Boserup's the
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Anxieties of development: emerging voices in Chinese social media(chublicopinion.com)
33 points by ironchief 8y ago|14 comments
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by ironchief 8y ago
Wow, he called the HelloSign acquisition in 2015. His other two suggestions (native search and messaging) are still in limbo.
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Why Teams?(medium.com)
1 points by ironchief 8y ago|0 comments

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