scirpaceus

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by scirpaceus 2y ago
In the case of Herbert Nitsch's accident, he went so deep that even the short bottom time was sufficient to cause DCS on the ascent with just the standard air he was carrying. N2 diffusion is a function of both time spent at depth and
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Quilibirum: A peer-to-peer multi-party computation (MPC) platform-as-a-service [pdf](quilibrium.com)
2 points by scirpaceus 2y ago|0 comments
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by scirpaceus 3y ago
This is also an argument that didn't sit well with me when I heard Guillaume Verdon / Beff Jezos on his recent Lex podcast state that the universe wants to produce more entropy, and that life evolved the way it has because it&#x27
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by scirpaceus 3y ago
It's true, though, and in fact 30% is a conservative estimate. The percentage of English words that come from French varies from 29% to 45% depending on whether you count derivatives of those words. A very non-exhaustive overview of th
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by scirpaceus 3y ago
> It's thought that you can avoid this by subbing out the helium for hydrogen, but nobody so far has been insane enough to try. It's reportedly been done very recently using a rebreather ( https://gue.com/blog&#x
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by scirpaceus 3y ago
And conversely, nobody loses to cancer. It's a draw at best, considering that the cancer dies with the host.
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by scirpaceus 4y ago
I find the controlled ditching hypothesis less psychologically puzzling, not more, for at least three reasons: ego, agency, and practicality. First, successfully ditching an aircraft at sea is the ultimate test of piloting skills, and possi
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by scirpaceus 4y ago
Not trying to evangelize you, but you may not necessarily see the value in gathering random notable ideas somewhere until you put in the effort of documenting them and then see the network effect in action, i.e., new meta-ideas and patterns
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by scirpaceus 4y ago
Born and raised in Monaco here. The article paints a very incomplete picture, told from the minority standpoint of mostly wealthy socialites and residents. There are also about 50K people commuting into Monaco daily from neighboring cities