ls-lah_33

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by ls-lah_33 2y ago
Not sure what you mean, are you talking about ER = EPR? I think that's mostly a way of accounting for entanglement between particles, but it doesn't create the particles to begin with like in LQG. But my string theory knowledge is
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by ls-lah_33 2y ago
I'm surprised Sabine doesn't mention the way fermions are treated in Loop Quantum Gravity [1][2]. My understanding is they are treated as "non-local" or open loops of gravitational force, and thus entry and exit points i
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by ls-lah_33 2y ago
> I don't see why we shouldn't be optimistic here because historically speaking things have gotten much much better! To me, a gradual and consistent ramping up lvt would be probably the most progressive policy a country could p
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Josephson Voltage Standard(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ls-lah_33 3y ago
Worth noting that the company they work for is called Sama, which if I'm not mistaken, derives its name from the word 'equal' in Sanskrit. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-08-03-samasourc...
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by ls-lah_33 3y ago
Bible time! When you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony. Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive. - The Book of Proverbs In my experience rich
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by ls-lah_33 3y ago
Don't know about regulation, but the development of the internet was initially subsidised by the US government [1]. AI research has also been subsidised in the past. The famous MNIST handwriting dataset being a good example here [2]. [
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul#Roswell_incident
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
Good to see I'm not the first one to notice. Some of the author's points are super vague: > Use Postgres for caching instead of Redis with UNLOGGED tables and TEXT as a JSON data type. > Use Postgres as a message queue with
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
> in 1994 when the Apartheid government handed over power to the ANC, basically everything the government had in the pipeline was scrapped It's worth noting that under the Apartheid government energy in SA was completely dependant o
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
Can't cooking solve this problem? Rare meat is problematic for this reason. Also my understanding is that some traditions in Judaism and Islam even for allow insect consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomo
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
It's worth considering that IVF fertility treatment often has discarded zygotes.
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
Nicaragua is not such a good analogy since US foreign policy had a deliberate negative effect on Nicaraguan politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States . A better analogy would be a country that w
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
Recently the fed has been buying corporate debt etfs[1]. Not an expert, but I assume that must increase the money supply in the general economy? QE also pushes down the interest rate, making it easier for banks to lend to the general public
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by ls-lah_33 4y ago
> You are the boss of a company of one Nitpick, but companies have limited liability, natural persons do not. It's for that reason that I would probably never get hired if I actually was an employee of a "company of one" (
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
> When unions get involved with promises of higher wages, it disincentivizes the business from growing in that area because it has effectively no benefit over the higher cost areas. Say the Alabama workers decided to unionize, I don&#x27
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
Not just denialism, but travel costs could also be an issue. I know in more highly vaccinated countries the government had to basically pay people to take the vaccine.
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
> I'm older, so I have 'habits' that don't tend to change. > So what is the government reporting? In addition to CPI, the government also reports CPI-E for elderly consumers. It is generally higher than the more wi
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
The US was founded as a rebellion against aristocracy. However, in 1825 Jefferson noted that, much like today, the country was becoming increasingly controlled by what he termed 'monied in corporations' and therefore seemed to be
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
> Many companies don't have sufficient margins to raise wages. Not too sure how you came to that conclusion. Profit margins for many companies in the UK seem to have actually gone up [1]. You probably assume that companies are subje
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
It's worth noting that their search and other services rely on something similar: https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of...
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
Yeah, I had a laugh there as well. The author's equivocation between cancel culture and Stalinist censorship does seem like a bit of a stretch. I think a better analogy would be the explicit promotion of 'patriotic education'
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
The US government once made a microblogging service called ZunZuneo [1] for Cuba in an attempt to encourage political change there. It failed to achieve its intended outcomes, but is nevertheless quite interesting because the it shows that
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
Not to mention that one of the largest maximum security prisons in the US is actually a repurposed antebellum plantation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
Most electrical transmission is cooperatively owned in rural areas of the US. https://www.electric.coop/electric-cooperative-fact-sheet
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
It's apparently possible [1] to use an android emulator like anbox [2] to run whatsapp in a sandbox. I'd like to know if anyone here has experience with this approach as as a long term solution? https://anbox.io/
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
What's even more strange is that at one stage even some high ranking members of the Israeli military saw the benefits of the nuclear deal. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-militar...
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by ls-lah_33 5y ago
Yeah, the debate between the left and right in the US [1] is basically irrelevant to the well-being of the average person. Though, I think the distinction between authoritarian and libertarian definitely does matter. Power tends to corrupt
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by ls-lah_33 6y ago
The BBC gets roughly a quarter of its income from commercial sources https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2021/j...
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by ls-lah_33 6y ago
I agree that the government's hard lock-down was excessive, but just one nit-pick: most of what's called 'looting' in the SA press is actually what's technically referred to as 'irregular expenditure', whi

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