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I'd love the see the details of how they remove heat from that monster chip.

Here's a few things GNUnet replaces and why it's better:

Bittorrent is replaced by GNUnet "filesharing", it's trackerless, it provides a search function, users can adjust their level of anonymity for publishing, downloading, and searching.

DNS is replaced by "GNS", it covers the "decentralized" and "secure" points in Zooko's triangle, it a pet name system.

VPN is replaced by GNUnet VPN, which is just VPN over GNUnet so it can take advantage of the p2p network.

TCP/UDP/SPDY/QUIC is replaced by "cadet", takes advantage of the p2p network.

There's also a DHT.

And there's lots of other stuff that's in-progress.

If you want more solid evidence of unsafe driving, you could mount an ultrasonic distance sensor to your bike: http://codaxus.com/c3ft/c3ft-v3/

Do you mean the Drake equation? The relevant factor would be n_e "the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00545

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00545

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00545

Top of the HSBC building.

IDA Pro

The number of physical qubits is 2d^2-1 in case anyone was wondering.

I love how they published a picture of the keys[1].

[1] https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/bitmain_127.jpg

Are we heading toward a future where it's illegal to drive your car on the road if you have modified its software?

The website is one of the things we need help with. If you want something more detailed than the About GNUnet paragraph there's the key concepts[2] and user handbook[1].

[1] https://gnunet.org/user-handbook [2] https://gnunet.org/concepts

I'm working on GNUnet[1]. It needs a lot of help.

[1] https://gnunet.org

I'd like to see that stand up to mom vacuuming right next to the unit.

You're missing a cable I had to buy recently for my father-in-law: Laptop to monitor: mini display port to DVI (specifically DVI without analog pins or it wouldn't fit into the plug on the monitor).

Could you encode all untyped lambda calculus expressions by just numbering them and writing the number as the string of bits?

Maybe this enumeration is the "external collaborator" in this case, but it's a very simple one.

How does this compare to shlib.import?

https://github.com/major0/shlib/blob/master/doc/import.md

The article mentions the bacteria works at "a steady 86 degrees Fahrenheit." It may work slower or not at all at Pacific Ocean temperatures.

Here's Exodus's write-up on the vulnerability and exploit: https://blog.exodusintel.com/2016/01/26/firewall-hacking/

Sometimes you need a diode and all you have in your parts bin is a bridge rectifier with half the current capacity.

Is BMW operating my car when I turn on cruise control?

They didn't quite solve the cooling problem though ;)

It would be nice if you could specify the part of speech also. For example the verb and noun pronunciations of associate and attribute are different.

Sorry, I only know some XRF, I don't know metallurgy.

Looks like the Liquidmetal alloys are zirconium-based, the XRF showed that it was an aluminium-based alloy. So, no.

It's interesting that the new alloy was not recognized by XRF. In the video it looked like they had a large set of standards from which to build an empirical model. I don't know how likely it is that Apple created their own alloy, but I have experience with XRF analysis and I know it's easy to make mistakes preparing a sample. It's possible the tungsten came from the sandpaper used to remove the anodization layer or it might have been part of the anodization layer. Another tricky detail when analyzing materials is how the different elements adhere to the surface. The X-rays only see the atoms at the surface. If sanding the alloy removes more of a softer metal or smears it over the surface covering the other elements you may get inaccurate results.

I had joined Active Worlds back when it was called AlphaWorlds[1] and before that I enjoyed Worlds Chat[2]. It was an interesting universe to explore. I didn't build much since their library of pre-made objects didn't have enough variety and you saw the same objects everywhere. You could model your own objects but I had trouble finding free software I could use for that. I hadn't logged in to Active/AlphaWorlds for a while and when I came back to see how things had changed they started charging for accounts. I had forgotten my login info and I wasn't willing to pay for a new account, so that was the end of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_chat

Thanks for mentioning it. I love Eliezer Yudkowsky‘s writings on quantum physics. I look forward to reading this: http://hpmor.com/

"If some physicist wants to continue the tradition of naming quantum gravity theories using monosyllabic words for elongated objects that mean something completely different in computer science, then I propose the most revolutionary advance yet: thread theory."