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It's dolphins, duh. Notice how 100% of the credible sightings are over the ocean.

The article mentions "Because ferrofluid adheres well to glass, special treatments were required on the glass" but doesn't go into details

tried this recently and found "beta" to be an extremely optimistic description of the state it's in

It's a matter of trust. Do you trust a robot to make decisions of life or death? You can't empathize with the robot, you know it can't empathize with you, and you instinctively don't feel like you can understand or predict the actions of agents that you don't empathize with and don't think empathizes with you. Humans make mistakes but they're understandable or comprehendible mistakes; with a robot you don't know types of mistakes to expect. You don't have a theory of mind for a robot.

young people use instagram constantly

I'd rather have quad tracks. easier to keep things running 24/7.

waiting for the gaming console announcement

desolder the speaker or piezo.

a piezo is more like a capacitor

they prefer USD in parts in SE Asia because the local currency has experienced hyperinflation in the past. the problem is there is no easy way for them to exchange overly worn bills back to the Federal Reserve, so they have like rotting old falling-apart $1 bills that look like they're on the verge of disintegrating.

strong taboos on some somewhat arbitrarily chosen psychoactive substances but not others is pretty culturally universal

this. Subscription software models extract more money from the pro market but cut out the casual market completely.

imagine being able to talk to GPT-3 in your brain. It would make you superintelligent although without being completely sure that anything it said to you was actually true.

incidentally you can get leds with clear, clouded, or colored+clouded encasings. Only with the latter can you tell what color they are when they're off.

One time I had some red leds in clear encasing in a parallel configuration and they inexplicably would not light up... it turned out one of the leds was actually infrared and it was invisibly on and sucking up all of the voltage

They could also just call it "uses less gas"

it follows then that we should consider blowing up the ship

there's speculation that he was spelling badly on purpose to make it harder to compare to his real-life writing style

The Fed only owns some percent of Treasury bonds. It's never been anything close to a majority. It's about 16.5% at the moment, which is unusually high.

they hold the bonds. the fed has a balance sheet with whatever assets it holds. the fed just doesn't hold cash. any money it spends is created, any money paid to it ceases to exist.

the fed buys bonds from the treasury department, which must slowly repay them as if the fed were any other bondholder.

this provides a mechanism to reverse the creation of money, when bonds the fed holds are redeemed slightly more money than was created will be destroyed. Or they can destroy money by selling bonds on the open market earlier than that.

5. Because in 1956 William Shockley moved there, for somewhat arbitrary reasons

I know at least 4 people who lucked out on a rent control unit and have essentially moved away but don't want to give it up, and so keep it as a second residence. Or in other cases, rent it out to someone else at market rates.

confirmed: https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1362944639624388610

from the author of that software https://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/1362508150507790343

> This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.

They're probably still processing the whole video

Star Trek calls them "quakes" I noticed

would dust stay in the air longer or shorter than on Earth?

also is it technically correct to call the Martian atmosphere "air"?

pro-tip: your phone's magnifier app can be used as a perfectly good digital scope, you just need something to hold it up with.

ios: Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls > Magnifier

That's why they call the big tax avoidance move "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich"

nvidia has a competing service that supports that title, and it honors your steam account instead of needing you to re-buy it

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/games/

the dialogue sometimes feels like it's disproportionately characters barking or hissing at each other, even if they're in a very formal or very familiar environment where that level of rudeness and overt hostility seems out of place.