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> At no point were the American public consulted by the intelligence agencies when they did these operations. That's exactly the problem! Once the federal government started conduc…

How stable is the entrainment effect they plan to use in their engines under high winds, rain, changes in atmospheric pressure, etc? Accelerating air by creating a low pressure reg…

I wonder if this is connected to the Russian military buildup on the Ukrainian border.

Haven't the Ukrainians diverted important rivers upstream on Crimea? Undoing that could be the concession Putin is hoping for.

From the Akoin white paper: >Akoin has chosen to only issue 10% of tokens in this public sale. To accomplish this, the remaining token supply will be used to drive adoption amongst…

Quite the opposite: such complicated games are an outlet for creativity and cleverness that's stifled by our repetitive, heavily automated society. Most people don't get to make a …

Nuclear definitely should be paired with energy sources like wind and photovoltaics. These sources are aren't consistent, so you need something to balance the load at night or when…

Three Mile Island and Chernobyl loom very large in the imaginations of the boomers and gen x, respectively. Nuclear plant meltdowns are world news on the few occasions they've happ…

The invention of credit scores and their use to screen people for renting apartments and getting jobs brought in a coercive system of similar magnitude to debtors' prisons. Credit …

Hmm, so it might be out of reach for me. I have a PhD in pure math, and no experience as a software engineer. I've coded for research, but never for production.

Thanks, that clarified it. Do you know how people typically get into that role?

What is the difference between data engineering and data science? The terms frequently seem to be used interchangeably, but apparently they're not synonymous.

How extensive a code portfolio would someone need for you to consider them? How much experience would they need? I got my PhD about a year ago and have been retraining myself to be…

If the image classifier it's training has learned that mailboxes and parking meters are the same thing, I wonder if there's any way to fix that without starting over! Now I'm wonde…

The relatively low energy density means it won't be replacing li-ion batteries in vehicles any time soon. Where I could see this technology shining is in low-power consumer electro…

Being able to steer the car effectively is only one part of an enormously complex engineering problem. A fully autonomous vehicle would need to: 1. Be robust to bad visibility, not…

> Companies should be paying for this directly: if pyca/cryptography actually broke on HPPA or IA-64, then HP or Intel or whoever should be forking over money to get it fixed or us…

The internet of lead.

>Nvidia immediately swept in and picked their carcass clean, mostly for their patents in this space, so they would have more ammo/leverage against competitors going forward. That's…

Aren't there lots of NP problems that have this property?

At the very least the proof of work ought to compute something useful.

I'm a little surprised no one has fought a duel there.

Given that carriers are increasingly boxed out from shore by anti-ship missiles and drones are a lot smaller than crewed aircraft, I wonder if this design concept is due for a revi…

Fascinating to see the highest state of the art of pre-digital cryptography, right before it was rendered obsolete. Very evocative that volumes 4-6 were planned but never completed…

I'm tempted to install Turbo Pascal for a deep nostalgia trip. I grew up in a small-ish town in Appalachia, and when I ran out of math classes to take in high school I started lear…