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Comment · 3 years ago
The tractor beam effect could be from the black phosphorus impurities in the sample. That's ferromagnetic so you have two kinds of forces on the flake. Earlier I joked to my friend that this Beijing expert doesn't understand what he was seeing and we shouldn't laugh at his predicament.. an x-ray of his sample probably showed that there wasn't a lot of lk99.
Comment · 3 years ago
The problem is that we dont have a net outflow of heat. Fossil fuels would not be a problem if we could dump that previously scurried away heat of ancient suns into space. The solution is to follow the modern greeks and paint every space facing surface in infrared window white. Barium Sulfate, brothers! And sisters! Even jungles are best grown under barium sulfate roofs. If barium is too rare, iridescent metasurfaces will do
Comment · 3 years ago
Ditto for Indonesia
Comment · 3 years ago
It's not just everywhere, it's said to be a dominant form of government, acracy (as opposed to mere anarchy)
Comment · 3 years ago
Comedians and (great) sci-fi authors: apex disruptors, intermittently disrupting the self-styled disruptor-disruptors (i.e., philosophers, or maybe more accurately, epistemologists)
Comment · 3 years ago
They didn't misquote, that was copy-pasted directly from Wikipedia. Maybe raise the issue with Wikipedia?
Comment · 3 years ago
Love the parallels people these days draw between OpenAI and Oppenheimer (ok, the Manhattan Project, but maybe thats part why OpenAI call themselves that, to alliterate)

Especially the part where Sama is trying to gather in one place the most talented, uh, anti-fas?

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Comment · 3 years ago
You can check out the french wikipedia they leave out the de too unless disambiguating from his relatives, when they go de Tocqueville comte

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