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I just don't see how the fuel costs of getting things up to space winning out unless production is located up there. especially since rocket launches tend to be extremely static. M…

I think this is a step forward, but I think it is better to think of access in terms of what responsibilities a person or group has. When new access is to be given, it should be fr…

I found this little pocket mathematics notation book when I first studying undergrad in this used book store in Boston. it literally carried me through Calc, Linalg, stats, dynamic…

RIP Academia as a whole

reddit had a nice list of the pros and cons: https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/17k0wcc/natri... I understand the risks around sodium, but the "passive natural circulat…

probably anecdotal, but I live in a new apartment building can't wait for my lease to end.

this isn't even a software things. Its any production process. The greater amount of work in progress items, the longer the work in progress items, the greater risk, the greater am…

This is a standard technology company strategy. Isolate your customers, remove their options, markup the price.

Governments pay to keep food at the cheapest point possible to ensure stability. a fed population doesn't kill their governments. Agriculture is not a regular industry; its a natio…

a combined tax and subsidy to try to drive farmers into more sustainable practices in a fiscally neutral way isn't a bad idea, but I think it is just a very risky and necessary rol…

I am very conflicted on a carbon tax for the agriculture industry. It is going to sidle a cost to an industry of razor thin margins. The transition from regenerative agriculture is…

package.json does not capture all the technologies in a repository. just the JS ones. This seems to capture full stack technologies. This would be very helpful when evaluating exis…

I would perfect my video gaming art. Teenagers in their basement would fear me after school.

it seems to be Easy Task + increasing audience = doesn't really do much. and Difficult Task + increasing audience = improved performance which makes sense to me. 1 person is a dist…

per day though. I think others are right that it has applications in space. going with the butter example, 5 people on a year long mission is almost 11kg you don't have to bring up…

I have this little book that I cannot find right now that is pretty explicitly that. just a little math symbol dictionary. its small enough to fit in a pocket and was invaluable al…

hey this might be a stupid detail in implementation, but if the poisson simulation of arrival and completion are started cold, then random assignment of events could assign a compl…

you go to school for it. Stats, applied mathematics, operations research, industrial engineering. I went for industrial engineering. we learned the math as pure math, then the math…

I feel like any solution that replaces excel must solve a larger problem outside the scope of the spreadsheet. Data intake, preprocessing, solving performance limitations, executin…

I have a colleague in tech over there on the product side. They do a ton of very interesting work: https://open.nytimes.com/ They have a much higher bar for quality and boutique so…

Research.

my family has been getting into this very seriously in the last few years. There are several very serious challenges to the adoption of regenerative farming. 1. most farmers are st…

Nitrogen pollution compounds with heat stress, it makes the coral more susceptible to heat stress: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1915395117

the simple basic reality of statistics, a binomial distribution. 5 independent systems with 90% chance of success is mathematically as reliable as one that is 99.999%. 100x 90% sys…

what a tragedy, this person never learned how to read.