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by mhneu 2y ago
The key thing is time horizon. Bell Labs invested in research that would bring payoff 20+ years in the future. That's in part because they were a quasi-monopoly. (Also because there was less pressure back then on execs to focus on shor
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by mhneu 4y ago
Context: This is about the FCC. More from The Verge in Nov https://www.theverge.com/23437518/biden-fcc-gigi-sohn-fox-ne... Today, we’re just talking about a problem. That problem is the Federal Communications Commiss
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by mhneu 4y ago
There's also NIH which does lots of computational biology and medicine: https://datascience.nih.gov/ https://hr.nih.gov/jobs https://irp.nih.gov/
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by mhneu 4y ago
Yes. Abrams presided over the plea on Dec 19. Now Kaplan has the case. Abrams' husband works at Davis Polk, but Davis Polk (firm w/ ~1000 attorneys) has represented FTX in the past. It's pretty typical for these sorts of conf
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by mhneu 4y ago
The maximum total is not the realistic maximum that she would get if tried. Criminal offense category, concurrent sentences, and criminal history all need to be taken into account.
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by mhneu 4y ago
Before judge Ronnie Abrams, an Obama judge.
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by mhneu 4y ago
Duopoly. Plus cost of switching away once you sign up. Network effects and monopolistic (anti-competitive) features allow bad companies to survive today. Monopolistic practices are probably a worse problem today than in the 1920s. In the 19
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by mhneu 4y ago
the improvements have come in confinement and fuel if this approach works, you'll see laser innovation over time to improve energy per shot. You'll also see engineering to contain the released neutrons so everything in there doesn
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by mhneu 4y ago
Maximus / Squish Fido sysop here. Long ran on a 300 baud modem (I think it was one bit per transition!.) Upgraded to a 2400 baud Hayes smartmodem full-duplex (V22bis!) and eventually a 14.4k Zyxel running some strange proprietary proto
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by mhneu 4y ago
The context of when and why (and to who) asbestos causes cancer is simply ignored. Asbestos causes a very, very nasty cancer - mesothelioma - that causes almost certain death. Painful death. With a very bad prognosis. And mesothelioma is
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by mhneu 4y ago
Author is Arthur Brooks, longtime head of AEI. https://www.npr.org/2018/05/15/611199663/arthur-brooks-head-...
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by mhneu 4y ago
So great! Today, this wouldn't even be possible - Newsweek doesn't even have a print edition. (Also, just as bad: Newsweek is now a zombie publication who sold its name and trademark and has become a fairly right-wing operation)
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by mhneu 4y ago
Toyota just released their first EV and it was developed in a collaboration with Subaru. https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2021/06/29/at-last-to...
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by mhneu 4y ago
This is important work, and this award choice is a good one.
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by mhneu 4y ago
Dictators lie about everything. Modern (semi)fascism is built on lying. What we are seeing is co-option of liberal democracies by a minority of wealthy oligarchs that have to lie to voters in those democracies. By contrast, parties that emb
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by mhneu 4y ago
Yes, exactly. Toyota is refusing to take the L on this because Toyota is the market leader in gas-electric hybrids and Toyota is not the market leader in EVs. This is business strategy 101.
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by mhneu 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/climate/toyota-electric-h... "Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now It Works to Delay Them." The auto giant bet on hydrogen power, but as the world moves toward elec
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by mhneu 4y ago
Let's be clear. The reason Toyota isn't all-in on EVs is because Toyota is the dominant player in a rival technology: gas-electric hybrids. This is extremely clear business strategy: Toyota doesn't want to cannibalize its mar
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by mhneu 4y ago
It's not just the word liberal, which means something different for most Americans than its meaning in other countries. In Australia, the Liberal party is the conservatives who are allied with Murdoch. The word "neoliberal" i
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by mhneu 4y ago
Volokh is a conservative attorney who is intellectually aligned with the 5th circuit judges who wrote this opinion. A few other sources: - Lawrence Tribe, a very senior center-left constitutional lawyer and Harvard prof: https://
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by mhneu 4y ago
Agree (on sentence 2 and 3.) Gödel, Escher, Bach doesn't go very deep.
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by mhneu 4y ago
This was what Andy Grove wanted - more investment in chip manufacturing. Good news. Grove was a visionary in many ways and his writing on this back in 2010 or so impacted my thinking. https://prospect.org/environment/an
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by mhneu 4y ago
This is true for large digital integrated circuits. There's also analog fabs, MEMS fabs, LED/photo/laser fabs. Places like Analog still have smaller fabs like that. Those fabs also seem likely to create technological progress
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by mhneu 4y ago
Unlikely, because many states then cut those assistance programs when given the opportunity. It's more likely that the 'state' argument is a way to achieve their ideological ends (cutting the program.) That said, this bill is
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by mhneu 4y ago
Rupert Murdoch's WSJ. Just be a little careful as Murdoch has pressured/selected editors that will spin news in the way he wants.
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by mhneu 4y ago
Yes. The issue is that security and privacy are tragedies of the commons. Individuals rarely have the time or skill to improve the situation, and it's almost never rational for individuals to do so — the benefit to them is probabilisti
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by mhneu 4y ago
It's really been a mistake for the Python core team to not figure out a better way of integration with numpy. I'm pretty sure back in the 2000s the numpy team was ready to do work on this. Syntax integration would be great. It&#x
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by mhneu 5y ago
many, many people making good-faith, rational decisions which in hindsight proved foolish. Rational, yes, but rational only in the sense of "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid". My experience is many
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by mhneu 5y ago
Corporations like Facebook and Google do far more surveillance of any citizen than the government does. Surveillance capitalism. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-profe... Russia su
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by mhneu 5y ago
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” -Elie Wiesel Choosing to not discuss politics is fine. But if you do that, you’re making a choice: you’re choosin

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