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Most people around me are relieved. I only know one person close to me he bought into the "stop the seal" bs...
To impeach or not to impeach... ongoing coverage: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10457952
I agree with you.
Bitcoin mining doesn't exist to serve the green energy industry.
Very true. It's just that the green industry argument sometimes gets abused by the likes of Daniel Batten who don't add the necessary nuance to the discussion on the possible benefits of bitcoin mining.
You, and the article's writer, do add this nuance.
My knee jerk reaction when reading just the title was no shit, Sherlock.
Kinda interesting though they made rats drunk to test this hypothesis... And that effects were long lasting even after sobering up. I'm sure my heavy drinking as a student has permanently changed some of my intellectual abilities. Knowing now my brain is my primary tool at work, i wonder if I'd had done things differently at the time...
Science Advances is the fall back journal when you get rejected in Science. Above average, but not the best either.
Don't like him much, but he was just a fall guy in the end. He was just a small player with a dislikeable character, making it easy to go after him. The real big players in pharma were out of reach and will keep doing what they're doing. Lobbyists are too strong. Nothing changed by going after Shkreli.
100 blood donations! That's a lot. I used to give regularly but would be 2-3 times a year. One would have to do that consistently over 30 years. Commendable!
So, are these considered useful mutations?
Great minds think alike.
That, or the algorithm just thought we all should know about this around the same time.
Yeah. It's quite simplistic.
It assumes the choices can be ranked, i.e. you can clearly say one choice is better than the other. Also, you'd have to be sure you can perfectly time each time a choice is offered to you. Also, you cannot go back on an initial decision.
To buy a house:
- how do you decide which house is better than the other? Quite subjective. And your subjectiveness will be influenced by outside factors (government asking a friendly journalist to say rates are going up/down) that are time-dependent.
- you might find 37 houses on the market during the first 37 days, but only 3 during the next 63.
- you could change your mind and contact a previous house owner to ask if the house is still available.
- etc...
But all in all, it's just a fun number to highlight that you shouldn't FOMO and take your time to make a decision.
Luckily, I did not apply that formula when picking who to marry... wonder if she will ask tonight if I applied this rule when starting to date her~~
Trying to finish 2 back-to-back manuscripts with collaborators in Texas.
www.overleaf.com has really come a long way for collaborative tex file editing... Gone are the days of duplicate files in Dropbox due to syncing issues.
Pretty cool!
Though bitcoin is a volatile currency, some studies have shown that extra income from bitcoin mining can help renewable energy providers scale up. In Ethiopia, home to some of the cheapest green energy in the world, nearly a fifth of all electricity sold in the country last year went to bitcoin mining companies. The income will help develop the national grid.
But also...
Not all the signs are so promising, though.
Renewable energy will only really be able to replace fossil fuels when the technology exists to store and transport it. But energy companies selling to bitcoin miners next door do not have to find ways to store it, says Jona Stinner, a postdoctoral researcher at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany who studies the environmental impact of bitcoin mining. So there is no incentive to develop novel storage facilities.
It is “not very helpful for the long-term green transformation,” Mr. Stinner says.
Today. Helped 2 junior colleagues.
With one, it felt good as we reasoned together to a solution he could not have figured out on his own.
With one, it felt bad as she took away some of my own focused time for something trivial that she could have figured out herself without bothering me.
I don't know why we don't have full-on, complete embrace of silent payments.
Probably something to ask Ruben Somsen. Silent payments are his brainchild. He's not on SN, but he could maybe join for an ~ama? Not sure the topic would suscite enough interest from Stackers here though.
Well, that was something.
Caveat, this is really outside of my field of expertise. The closest reference that I can vaguely relate to in the video is when he says that the AdS/CFT correspondence may have some applicability in condensed matter. This has been discussed in this paper. It's 39 pages long, so no real desire to read it.
Still, it kinda amazes me how far people have applied mathematical theories to try to understand our reality. I'm sure string theory must be fascinating for the ones who study it (including a few old professors in my department), but the fact it cannot be tested, likely ever, pushes it into the realm of intellectual masturbation. I like to think my equations will lead to some practical applications in a near future (10-20 years, maybe, still near future at the scale of how people think in the context of particle physics, e.g. the next-generation LHC plans).
Here, the fact one cannot check if our universe is negatively curved with current tools also makes this whole video very abstract for me. Not only because the math is way outside my field of comfort, but mostly because those are just really abstract ideas.
I'm sure flat-earthers will be able to extract some buzzwords from this to show that their ideas have been confirmed by science~~
Didn't know about the exoteric ideas from Suskind.
Was gonna say, interesting pronunciation of the name 't Hooft, but apparently, that's the phonetic convention in English and Dutch. I always pronounced it without the ə at the beginning.