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lil_dispaches
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Comment #31249949
When only criminals care about privacy, privacy becomes criminal?
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Comment #31248549
Explosives are surely up in revenue now (double, triple?) and the world is using about every drop of production for both (as with every supply chain). So, a +/- of $3B is a 16% sho…
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Comment #31248249
AFAIK, without going nuclear, the biggest booms come from organic chemistry.
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Ask HN: Could the fertilizer shortage be caused by weapons manufacturing?
Not a chemist, but I know that fertilizers, gunpowder, and explosives all use the same chemicals.
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Comment #31231819
Why are fertilizer prices rising? Could it be that fertilizer is the same stuff as gunpowder?
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Comment #31195013
Why is this world so backwards? Humans have musical ability , and cognition requires training (that's opposite of OP). You don't train on music, you train on technique (and practic…
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Comment #31179334
I really hope that the U.S. sending these weapons to Ukraine is a clearance on outmoded military technology, not a strategic failure.
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Comment #31054570
If this isn't misinformation, I don't know what is.
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Comment #30979417
Lungs? Do they have a buyer in Wuhan?
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Comment #30978129
What is the name for people who call you a heretic? This forum is full of them.
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Comment #30965323
I wish. This is my fifth heretical account. They all end up in the ghostbin thanks to anonymous downvotes. Yet I have never cursed, sworn, or made any false allegations, only drawn…
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Comment #30964258
Yet "physicists" are staring deeper into the paradox with the notion that the image is perfectly logical.
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Comment #30964045
When you look through a lens, you will get diffraction around the perimeter. This is the kind of thing you try to reduce, i.e. as an astronomer or optical physicist. But it is ther…
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Comment #30949531
My feeling is that the cosmetics industry has a lot to do with micro-plastics. Where does the glitter go?
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Comment #30900546
Thanks. What reason do they give that these network weights cannot be computed? I am pretty hip to modern AI workings, and that is what I assumed they meant by compute. What I know…
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Comment #30892503
6. Today, automobiles are housing a lot more people than any "homeless" numbers give. 7. While there is enough room on every street to build a row of houses.
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Comment #30888055
See also "break a leg".
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Comment #30872134
"AI will design AGI" People like to talk of very smart AI but what about the brute force kind? That is what we are making in this era. AI designing AI sounds like a way to make cru…
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Comment #30872093
It is terrible, they literally can't explain what they mean. They don't say what it means to "compute the A.I. network". Makes me think it is a bogus story, some academic runoff.
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Comment #30864562
Maybe you were looking for 2c-d "the tofu of drugs"? I would be >_> https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal023.sht...
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Comment #30860465
Was the answer harmonics?
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Comment #30822683
Did you notice Google's monopoly over online ads? Competitors can't make money. It's literally called anti-competitive.
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Comment #30769494
I know how to build a dream catcher.