Mark Friedenbach 🏴☠️
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Hey everyone, I'm changing back to my real identity from the Bobby Draper pfp. If you were looking for
@fodagut
, that's now me :)
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@eric_xin9
@brianduffytweet
@opinonhaver
A lot? Just Google “mid-air emergency” for a slew of examples.
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@AlampayDavis
> I once accidentally found my professor's Reddit account and discovered
I was not expecting the wholesome ending to this tweet that followed!
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@vitocav
@noahsmark
@HKBradshaw
@MongeMkt
There is no tool that can even verify with 60% reliability. Colleges are being sold snake oil here.
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@nullpointered
Wtf dude, the point of engineering is to build stuff, not “upward mobility.” If you're just here for the money you're not gonna be a good engineer.
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LK-99 is quite likely a room-temperature superconductor, or if not it points the way towards building one. But LK-99 is not going to be as easy to synthesize as you have been told, and it's going to be a long, long way to viable applications. Unless we cheat...
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@CatSplotchy
@cheer_wine
I think you're missing the point that you could *easily* make $50M in those 35 years, by knowing what happened during that time. (Sports bets, investing, crypto, etc.)
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@NLRG_it
Here's an argument against: the retirement age is a (social/societal) contract between workers and pension. We shouldn't break contracts. Higher retirement age for new workers? Okay, if you think that's best. But someone 2 years from retirements shouldn't suddenly have to work 5.
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I will be giving a talk at
#ScalingBitcoin
on how a block size increase up to 3600x the present size and a change of proof-of-work can be achieved with a fully backwards compatible soft-fork—old clients see all transactions and valid SHA256 block headers.
#ForwardBlocks
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Pessimist: The glass is 1/2 empty.
Optimist: The glass is 1/2 full.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
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@mtracey
@alexandrosM
Imagine if the UN voted on such a resolution regarding the USA and Afghanistan after 9/11.
Read the room.
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It was really frustrating to see shirts with slogans like “Toxic Maximalist” as the de facto dress at
#BreakingBitcoin
. Why the urge to embrace negativity and celebrate bullying behavior? It is, in a nitshell, all that is wrong with this industry.
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As of last week, I no longer work for Blockstream. It's been a wild and eventful past couple of years, and I look forward to what the future holds. Today is still the most exciting time to be involved in crypto currency.
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@Noahpinion
Absolutely insane sound mixing, that’s why. If you turn it up loud enough to hear the dialogue, then the action/sound effects will be so loud and to rock the walls and generate noise complaints from neighbors. Dial it down and turn on the subtitles is all we can do :(
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@isaiah_p_taylor
Man what if there was some element that combined with FOUR hydrogens to make a gas like 8x as dense, but nearly as much potential energy?
What if we could chain these together to make something liquid at room temperature?!
🤯🤯🤯
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@AstroKatie
The problem with this is that the blue check is a significant factor on algorithmic ranking. It's a night and day difference, as if you had a massive ad budget promoting your tweets.
Because of this it stopped being about anti-spam a long time ago.
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This is the new "What happened in 1971?" chart.
Okay here's a ridiculous (but true) take: word processing is bad.
Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text.
After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts.
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@jnsyaaa
One parent, one language. He speaks Greek to the baby, she speaks Italian to the baby, and never break character. They speak English to each other. Get a German nanny or daycare for some exposure before school.
This can work, but they have to be 100% consistent.
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@larvitaaaar
@CkDexter15
@Robbiepierce
The logic behind this antisemitism is that Jewish religious leaders (allegedly) pressured the roman authorities to execute Jesus. The Roman governor Pontius Pilate wanted nothing to do with it, and famously washed his hands of the matter (where the expression comes from).
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@dwallacewells
Wow, imagine the audacity of growing up as a Gen X'er reading William Gibson's 1984 novel, “Neuromancer” and imagining the World Wide Web could be more than just an allegory.
Or Victorian readers of Jules Verne think aircraft and space travel could be real. What dorks.
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@BeijingPalmer
I know it isn't true, but it sometimes feels like GRRM only saw the Peter Jackson films. Tolkien spent a TON of time talking about non-Hollywood aspects of feudal war like how on the way to Mordor they purposefully burn the fields in Minas Morgul to deprive the enemy of supplies.
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@sickofcrazyppl
@chx
@ThatDakari
Here's a simpler, cheaper solution: put a colored & numbered wristband on mom and baby IMMEDIATELY after birth, and don't allow either to be removed until discharged.
(This is what our hospital did.)
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There are two kinds of space fans: those who simp for SLS and those who despise it. But at the core this isn't about SLS (or HLS).
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You can tell these people really love artemis huh.
Them: Mad because they think HLS elevator has no redundancies.
HLS Program Manager: It does!
Them: 😡
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So why do Type A fans hate Starship so much?
Because it doesn't look like Apollo. More importantly, it doesn't *feel* like Apollo. It takes the heroism out of the program. With ginormous mass margins its more like car camping than it is Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica.
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@larvitaaaar
@CkDexter15
@Robbiepierce
But of course the elephant in the room here is that Jesus was a jew and preaching a form of revolutionary jewish nationalism.
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@EhmiJae
@sunshinenroses7
@jillylove
@Independent
"western way" lol. try traveling ANYWHERE in the Middle East or Asia.
(ps: Sweden is a "western" nation)
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Addendum: Type B fans don’t hate SLS, but rather the waste it represents. Of both National treasure and flight heritage reusable hardware dumped in the ocean. It’s a step backwards, so they don’t celebrate it.
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I welcome the day when working in space is a blue-collar job, looked down upon because of the risks and long time spent away from home, like oil workers today. And the way we get there is by building reliable, reusable, high mass spacecraft which far exceeds NASA's requirements.
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@Grochowa2
There's a guy that did this in California too. Went to school at UC Berkeley, lived with his parents in Los Angeles. Commuter flights every day, and came out ahead.
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Then there's the Type B fans. Raised on a steady diet of science fiction, they see NASA's human spaceflight as a means to an end, that end being the permanent settlement of the solar system. Space for you and me and everyone else, not just the best ambassadors mankind can find.
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RSK surprise launching with 85% of the hash rate merge mining is the most damning evidence of miner centralization so far.
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Forward Blocks: On-chain/settlement capacity increases without the hard fork.
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Type B fans don't need heroics. If space were made mundane, boring, and accessible to everyone, GREAT. Mission accomplished!
For Type A fans, Artemis *is* the whole point. For Type B fans, it is only a mere stepping stone on our way to a sustainable future in space.
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@EricAspling
This tweet is so wrong.
We physicists see ourselves as superior to mathematicians too.
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@larvitaaaar
@CkDexter15
@Robbiepierce
Obviously there's no records other than the gospels, the accuracy of which are highly questionable. If the sequence of events happened in any way like they are written down though, it makes sense that the jewish leaders would be involved. He made a ruckus on the temple mount.
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@antiquatedabbie
One contributing factor, though not the only one, is that your game plan has to change with the 3rd kid. With 2 hands / 2 parents, you can still helicopter-parent your kids. With the 3+ the strategy _has_ to change to zone defense.
And then you find out how easier that style is.
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@JoshuaRCanel
@BekahHW
Yeah, gotta agree with this. There’s a difference between “shy” and “introverted.” I’d rather choose my groups, and am comfortable being by myself otherwise.
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If your coin can be sued by the SEC, then it's probably not decentralized.
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But I don't even know if we should have an astronaut-led exploration program like we have today. Space is no longer a geopolitical dick measuring contest.
Space is a place, a place with desperately needed resources and energy to fuel our growing civilization, and new lands.
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@viemccoy
2001
Primer
WALL-E
The Thing
Close Encounters
Solaris
Moon
The Prestige
Alien
Aliens
Brazil
Minority Report
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ghost in the Shell (orig)
Dune
Planet of the Apes (orig)
12 Monkeys
The Abyss
Galaxy Quest
Dark City
The Man From Earth
Cube
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A giant mega moon rocket (be it Saturn V or SLS) throwing a small cramped (heroic!) lander and return capsule to the moon, for Apollo-like expendable exploration. A standing army of the smartest people on the planet in mission control supporting a couple of GS-13s on the surface.
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Type A fans are in love with the ethos of the traditional spaceflight program. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, heroic astronauts doing heroic things. They loved constellation because it was a
#ForAllMankind
-like throwback to the glory days, and a revival of the heroic age.
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Want to make Atomically Precise Manufacturing a reality? Full-on Drexlarian nanotechnology? Contact us.
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The Onion is on point, as usual:
“Jubilant Reaction To Trump Defeat Quickly Soured By News Of Biden Win”
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@Andercot
Why are you confident a room temperature, standard pressure superconductor will be found? Isn't it possible that there is simply no material that superconducts under those conditions?
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Want to make Atomically Precise Manufacturing a reality? We're assembling a team. Contact us.
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To be fair, Bitcoin Core doesn’t validate full histories either. It audits the supply, yes, but it doesn’t validate signatures. I don’t think bitcoiners should be so quick to criticize this statement.
@StopAndDecrypt
@PeterMcCormack
@Excellion
But why should I care about validating years' old history if I know that many thousands of other people have done so before me and none of them raised an alarm?
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@Andercot
Man I don't know what you're talking about. There are TONS of jobs for physics graduates. You can work buy side or sell side, high frequency trading, risk management, forex, bonds, hedge funds...
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I don't think these two camps are going to be easily reconciled. Or if there is a solution, I just don't see it. Perhaps if NASA transitions the lunar portion of Artemis to COTS procurement and pivots to Mars, that would be pushing the envelope, even with Starship mass margins.
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@Austen
And then they were like "oh that worked so well, let's get Mexico to invade the USA."
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@Kaju_Nut
Oh hell no. Three Body Problem is *not* hard sci-fi. Shoddy writing, cardboard characters, and nonsensical physics. So many better things to read/watch out there.
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Note to self: never accept money from
@a16z
They have demonstrably zero understanding of how cryptocurrency works. You want smart money for your venture, not investors that sabotage you.
Scaling a system past its limits by more than an order of magnitude almost always requires a complete re-architecture.
Layer 2 alone on top of immutable Layer 1s won't cut it. We will need Layer 1s that are better and upgradeable.
#InnovationMaximalist
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@trinoxol
@JoelWBerry
@Agartha693
*Minimum 2*, and close in age. Life ain't complete without siblings.
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@RokoMijic
@alexandrosM
@joe_zimmerman
Pretty much the whole history of human society is evidence that you shouldn’t try to create authoritarian structures for the greater good.
The dream of the enlightenment is to divest authoritarians of power and decentralize, or at least distribute it instead. Did we give up?
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@peterrhague
Man, you nailed it with that last line.
It's weird too having watched him in his early days on CNN Crossfire, where he was both more moderate (compared with today), and seemingly self-aware of the cynically partisan role he was playing:
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@Gabridome
@kurtwuckertjr
@lopp
@Blockstream
@loop
@BitGo
@TheBlueMatt
@ChristopherA
I am not and do not seek to be an authoritative voice on bitcoin. If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
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Now you may not know this, but bones are semiconductors. They conduct a small amount of current, within specific energy bands. It's part of how cochlear implants work. They are also anisotropic--the current moves along directional lines due to the alignment of the mineral. 3/33
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@realnickboltjes
@TamithaSkov
Not related for two reasons: (1) those predictions are based on computer models that don't include space weather; and (2) space weather does not meaningfully impact earth weather anyway.
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@hdevalence
"co-opted by"...? Dude, dismantling the financial system was the whole fucking point!
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@yishan
@rarelyquinn
@abcampbell
@hueykwik
@Noahpinion
“Which I will not argue because they don’t exist.”
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@chelscore
Being illegal doesn’t matter. In many businesses diversity goals translate directly into hiring quotas or role set asides. That’s a fact that most of us have experienced.
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@FoxxDoesThings
@poisonjr
He was concerned that someone at NASA would see it and rescind the offer. He was right.
Guess what, if you want to work at the world's most brand-conscious government agency, you'd better watch what you say and how you say it online.
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Also one more point: I'm assigning people into Type A or Type B based on core motivation. But obviously people are complicated and many ppl's interest in space is a combination of both factors, even if this triggers some cognitive dissonance.
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@antiquatedabbie
Giving your kids a chance to explore the world themselves also gives you a chance to focus on your own needs, which is a win-win for everyone.
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That's why I'm working to make atomically precise manufacturing a reality. With this core manufacturing capability we can deliver as much RTAP superconductors--and other products--as the world needs, radically transforming the global economy. 32/33
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@ashishkjha
Running wild, like the US *STILL* is doing. My state, California, is pushing for reopening again now that the ICU beds are opening up.
They still haven’t figured out that we need to remain in lockdown until the virus is near-gone.
This is insanity.
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@sun_girlxo
Need a fake MLM where your girlfriend invites all her friends over for a party and peer-pressures them into buying low-cost index funds.
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The conventional bet is on CVD. But there's another possibility: synthesize the material by building up layers ion-by-ion by placing reactive feedstocks molecule by molecule with atomic precision. This is mechanosynthesis AKA machine-phase chemistry. 28/33
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People hear human embryo gene editing and they freak out about Nazi or Gataca eugenics, or freak mutants. But in reality it’s about letting couples that are both carriers of deadly diseases safely have kids or removing predispositions to cancer.
I am in favor of human embryo editing, and against the baby drama. It's up to parents.
#GeneEditSummit
#crisprbabies
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@peterrhague
@BenHenke1
Maybe ask them if they'd consider swapping topics to questioning the Holocaust instead. If not, ask them why.
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@cliddle
@remote_wander
@ChrisTheeRed
@hairtoucher
@constans
Because you need the money for something else? 40% of the population live paycheck to paycheck. A significant percentage of those have student loans.
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This is the enabling technology for first-generation atomically precise manufacturing.
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The problem is that this linear superconductivity requires a strictly alternating sequence of Pb-Cu-Pb-Cu atoms, but crystalizing in an oven is an inherently disordered process. You can't use thermal energy to create strained structure and expect orderly results. 26/33
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@subboor18
@RichardDawkins
@SamHarrisOrg
@danieldennett
@ChrisHitchens
Because the west is among the few places it is safe to be loudly and proudly atheist. *That* is the problem that needs fixing.
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One logical solution is chemical vapor deposition. This is a process already used in semiconductor fabs to create alternating layers of material. To do so with minerals in an oven, and with atomically precise alternating layers is not impossible. But it won't be easy. 27/33
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LK-99 is a variation of lead apatite, a mineral. Calcium apatite is what your bone and tooth enamel are made of. Lead apatite is the same mineral, but with calcium atoms replaced with lead. It is also a scaly mineral that forms in lead-contaminated pipes. 2/33
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@B36Peacemaker
@GarrettPetersen
@JajaLiao
@helimarum
The one child policy was mostly limited to city dwelling elites. The poor provincials always had larger families. They’re the cannon fodder that will be conscripted for war.
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@LachlanSneff
@DrPhiltill
The signal is 982.002Mhz. That’s within error bars of 982.000Mhz on the dial, which is a very surprising human-centric number.
It’s also the second harmonic of 491Mhz, which is UHF channel 17, and some FPGA wireless protocols.
I wouldn’t bet money on aliens.
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@iacobusstudies
@tavjas
Neopagans aren’t very conservative, generally. I think it’s more that dominant organized religions tend to have conservative leaders interested in preserving the status quo. Minority, non influential religions, not so much.
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@justinamash
The worst thing I saw from my years of government service (though a contractor) was the prevalence of waivers. Every time a roadblock came up, the question was a“how do we get a waiver?” not “how do we avoid doing something illegal or unsafe?” It’s poisonous.
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@eyezcreems
@SexProfSofia
The morning of. It was absolutely obvious to everyone paying attention to world events at the time. There was basically no one else it could have been.
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