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Do you think there is a tradeoff in this case? If so, what is the best counterargument against making PACER records free? I think it's important to note, as the article does, that …

I recently saw an interesting criticism of this paper: That by the end stages of the disassembly of Mercury, the amount of heat generated would be so much as to melt the surface, c…

The title of this post seems wrong: seems they are claiming five thousand kilograms of gold per year in a Gigawatt scale plant. > power plants can generate five thousand kilograms …

Very funny to me that lecture 21 is one of the only lecture titles that doesn't reference the name of the originator.

I am looking at the last image in the article, captioned "The encrypted message instructs the viewer to appease the gods with offerings". The picture shows ... a person kneeling in…

Not sure I agree with the comment you're responding to. But the article discusses some of their funding troubles, and the main mage of arxiv.org itself has a donate link. So I thin…

> If there was enough evidence to demonstrate that he attempted to murder someone, why wasn't he charged and convicted of it? Wikipedia suggests this was because he was already sen…

I don't think this is right. From the Wikipedia page: > In August 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted the service, making it illegal for US citizens, residents an…

A lot of thoughts in this thread on what academic papers are or should be, let me give my own opinion as a person who tries to write papers. Papers should be structured like fracta…

He says in the very first paragraph: > I lost a series of pitched battles against Pytorch and biblatex, so I figured I’d just write a blog post instead. So I think your accusation …

What rubs me the wrong way about the mhils Github response is that it fails to answer the question that the commenter asked: Is there or is there not a target date for the next rel…

You can hardly say that they switched to a private channel because they knew "that they would get blasted for such a response in a public forum" when the comment they were respondi…

I disagree that this would have been the right thing to do. There's nothing wrong with explaining why something could be useful in an open source project - if the reason seems like…

Fun how you can hear the diffraction spikes.

For searching using search terms for theorems in mathlib, there is the mathlib documentation page (for Lean 3 https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_docs/ and Lean 4 https:…

They address this at the end of the article > Our calculations account for air drag and the effects of gravity. > While the return velocity is dependent upon a number of factors, f…

This is why I think network fees are a good metric. As long as anyone can become a block creator, you can’t pump it without losing money.

Anyone can see what amount of money one address has put into Tornado Cash, so it’s no surprise that we can estimate how much money North Korea has put in. The whole reason they do …

> In fact, someone would appear to be trolling the authorities by sending small amounts from prohibited Tornado Cash addresses to prominent people; those transactions cannot be dec…

Whoever made the first animation on the webpage seems to have been a bit confused. Looks like they were trying to show the Ruy Lopez but the positions of the king and queen were sw…

I would personally recommend Susskind’s videos on cosmology. Seems like the main ideas are surprisingly simple and I walked away feeling like I had learned something.

Not sure I would describe Scott Aaronson as "social justice-y". He's had plenty of other quibbles with "equity types", for example, over the use of the term "quantum supremacy [1].…

Not sure how the second example of buying a shiny new wallet is different from the first example of buying a shiny new cup. Seems like a better example for “wabi-sabi” would be con…

The two things I really want from a SSG for my blog are the ability to avoid indexing posts by dates and the ability to link from md files to other md or image files in the same di…

Whether or not there's an opportunity cost does matter, but why should this mean that the mining algorithm "paying off anyway" mean it can't be used? If the mining algorithm has an…