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"The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project" https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

I really like Immich, although recently their android app randomly decided to go out of sync with my library and stop backing up automatically :/

I built mine around an N150 board off of aliexpress. 6 SATA slots, 4x2.5G ethernet, 2x m.2 slots. Find a cheap second-hand case, a bit of RAM and you're ready to go. It's got hardw…

Theranos famously didn't manage to raise VC money, the funding all came from people like Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family.

It's bad on purpose to make you click.

I completely agree with this evaluation, I dropped it as well fairly early on.

People with aphantasia are actually _better_ at mental rotation tests! Lack of visualization is no obstacle to the brain, which of course has all sorts of interesting implications.…

All psychological traits are highly heritable. See eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/

Everything search is the most befuddling one. The delta between Everything and the built-in Windows search can only be described as monumental. A vast gulf. They do not even deserv…

Nature, uh, finds a way.

You know what, I _would_ download a car.

Seems like a straight-forward CFAA violation, no?

From Stella Maris: >Cantor, Gauss, Riemann, Euler. Hilbert. Poincaré. Noether. Hypatia. Klein, Minkowski, Turing, von Neumann. Hardly even a partial list. Cauchy, Lie, Dedekind, Br…

Having read the Di Giovanni translations, I find them inferior to the Irby/Yates ones. Hurley is the worst.

Without a second offer in hand, you're always going to be in a very bad negotiating position when it comes to salary. Avoiding the stress of multiple interviews is almost certainly…

If a third alternative existed that would be a meaningful objection.

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A ~1sd difference in average g at the national level is the difference between not having stable electricity, and being an uber-rich technological wonderland. That suggests that ev…

Are you equally surprised that it's legal to go long and then talk your book?

The distortionary effect of VAT is much better than taxing income. If you're worried about its relative impact on poor people you can just redistribute more (which EU countries obv…