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by j1vms 5y ago
What might be interesting to consider is quality control in the various eras of Apple (e.g. 70/80s Steve Jobs, 80/90s Sculley, 2010s Cook). Of course, keeping in mind that Cook-era Apple is operating on a more massive scale (produ
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by j1vms 5y ago
Source information (without animation/links): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_satellite_navi... Previously submitted by another HN'er (in 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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Comparison of several satellite navigation system orbits(upload.wikimedia.org)
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by j1vms 5y ago
> economists think that we need central bank policies to control the whole thing (...) but it just doesn't work in the long run. Roughly speaking, a central authority might work in certain scenarios, for a short time, to prevent sit
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by j1vms 5y ago
Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled... David St. Hubbins: What? Ian: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town. - This Is Spinal Tap
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Niall Ferguson: The Next Global Disaster Is Already on Its Way(bloomberg.com)
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The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (1997)(wired.com)
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by j1vms 6y ago
Here's [0] a bit more thorough explanation of this concept for those who are interested. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU&t=504 (Veritasium on Youtube: Why Gravity is NOT a Force @ 8:24)
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by j1vms 6y ago
Gravity is not a force. The surface of the Earth is moving up to the object in free-fall at an acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2. The force pushing the surface, and the pressurized atmospheric shell, upward is a result of the processes occur
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by j1vms 6y ago
> "The lack of experience played right into the government’s hand. Instead of portraying a leader in control of his domain and confident in his case and his company’s legal and ethical righteousness, the courtroom videos showed a si
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Logical vs. Analogical or Symbolic vs. Connectionist or Neat vs. Scruffy (1990)(web.media.mit.edu)
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by j1vms 6y ago
Looking at it in terms of one of the "golden ages" of recording music - back in the 1960s, think the Beatles - this would mean only returning to what has already proven possible before. Some artists in those previous eras were ab
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by j1vms 6y ago
This is an age-old domain of thought known as philosophy of science [0]. Although, by prepending your post as "meta", perhaps you are already aware of it. I should add: As a human being, it is probably impossible to separate the
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by j1vms 7y ago
The role of this "era" may be in reformulating quantum physics and, separately, general relativity in new ways that make the ideas more accessible to more people, and earlier in their lives. The goal could be to make of modern ph
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by j1vms 7y ago
> "The Air Force had to convince Sony to..." To be a fly on the wall during that discussion. I'm sure money wasn't an issue for the Air Force, or that Sony had some balls of steel.
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by j1vms 7y ago
Somewhat related to some of the questions that have been raised here: - for the set of matrices that possess them ("transformation matrices that only perform stretch/contract"), eigenvectors (with their associated eigenvalues
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by j1vms 7y ago
I'm sure even you'll admit that they have a rather cute looking cockroach as a logo.
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by j1vms 7y ago
> This is nice but I would have expected “probability at an advanced level” to mean the measure theoretic foundations of probability. Fair point, though with no intention of being too literal, might this qualify as the difference between
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by j1vms 7y ago
> Why is there a wikipedia article about this? A sort of incomplete answer would be that the article is covering an important historical fact regarding the sixth-largest miltary in the world (by active personnel). [0] [0] https:/&#
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by j1vms 7y ago
He might just need a static-site blog from this point on.
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by j1vms 7y ago
> same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity. Currently at a much greater cost in time and space, which is why they are saying "can be performed" not "has been performed&qu
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by j1vms 7y ago
By the currently accepted definition of Computer Science (at the nexus of its core basis in mathematics and philosophy), I would say “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” by Alan Turing, without any close
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by j1vms 7y ago
> > To this day, industry insiders still joke, “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.” > That's commonly said about the Apple-NeXT acquisition too — NeXT paid a negative $429 million to take over Apple. (...) I
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by j1vms 7y ago
> But comparing it to manned flight or the first nuclear reactor (...) this experiment changes very little as to how probable it is that we will soon have useful quantum computers, or even that we will ever have them. Not a lot of people
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by j1vms 7y ago
Philosophy is the study of knowledge, including the idea of "knowing", and furthermore even being in a position to know (existence). It is indeed more fundamental, as it was probably the discipline in which first useful breakthro
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by j1vms 7y ago
> zero has many properties that other numbers do not In particular, zero is the additive identity [0] in almost all the "usual" number systems in which it appears. That is roughly speaking, it is the only A such that X + A =
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by j1vms 7y ago
> It feels like there's no real goal or direction of the protest except to exist Reading this makes me think a very little bit of the Paris Commune [0], well in its early days perhaps. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by j1vms 7y ago
Thank you for putting this together. The writing quality and comprehensiveness are excellent. It's amazing to think that vim's lineage stretches back over 50 years (older than UNIX, display terminals, and Apollo 11!)
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by j1vms 7y ago
> famously screwed (over) infamously is what you mean, particularly considering "screwed (over)" is very much an understatement in regards to the sombre culmination of that legal case. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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Quantum Machine (2009)(en.wikipedia.org)
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