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4. Acceleron (muon catalyzed) There's huge advantages to muon catalyzed if they can get it to work. Plants would be orders of magnitude smaller and cheaper to build. [0] https://ww…

It's an addiction and really hard to stop. Facebook spends billions designing it to be as addictive as possible. In this study, they paid people $25 to not use it for a week. I won…

When I was learning to code, programmers had to know about a lot of low level details like memory management, disk I/O, process scheduling, etc. Today, the average JavaScript progr…

People are irrationally concerned about low-probability but high severity risks, which is what nuclear is. The chance of someone in the US dying from a terrorist attack is about 1 …

That's fascinating. How popular are seed boxes? And does the consumer get them from their internet provider directly?

It's owned by banks but run by government appointees. Most Americans who watch the news and follow finance understand it's a public-private hybrid structure. As Lyn notes, this isn…

Smell is such an odd sense. For example, I found this part amazing: > It is understood that certain chemicals block certain receptors, occupying their binding sites such that no ot…

We like hackers and free thinkers. Communities like these are hacking modern society. Even if they don't work or aren't appealing to me, they're all interesting experiments that ca…

Jack tweeted a link to the page where you can buy the NFT, so I think it's accurate to say he's selling it: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1367990471759306752