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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm trying to model in my head as to why that would be the case, but I'm not coming up with much. Does anyone have any insights? Also, another hypercube law: Neuron firing rates go as temperature to the 4th power. So, a small chan
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by Balgair 3y ago
> the acceleration of the acceleration (jounce) Amazing. I had always learned it as the snap. Learn something new every day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...
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by Balgair 3y ago
Okay, now I'm curious. How would you go about raising four kids in the Bay? Not super detailed, but you know, just a sketch. Daycare? Food costs? Housing? Health Insurance? Those kinds of big ticket items. I'd love to know how to
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by Balgair 3y ago
Honestly, 10k/mo for four kids is on the cheaper side for the Bay. Just in daycare alone, they should be at ~8k/mo for four (~$500/wk/kid, daycares can't do bulk discounts). I have friends in TN that are at ~1k&#x2F
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by Balgair 3y ago
How much is the beer though?
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by Balgair 3y ago
> and shipping I want to mention that this would only be for heavier than air based airborne shipping. Liquid based shipping is unaffected by gravity. Archimedes' principle has the buoyancy force as the weight of the displaced liqui
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside: I know the post was partly an emotional exploration. But, as this is HN, I figure I can step into the pedantic. This is related to a 'Stopping Problem', correct? The trouble I'm having is I'm not all that sure whi
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by Balgair 3y ago
Noah Kagan says you should do it this weekend: https://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-Weekend-Surprisingly-7... While I have a fair few qualms about such an idea, I think the 'now not how' approach is correct. We d
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by Balgair 3y ago
The hilariously small whales in some of the pictures are really the best.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I had on old physics professor who said that by the second page of any math/physics/equation-heavy paper, assume all signs are randomized. I've discovered in the intervening years since graduation that he was wrong, you shoul
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by Balgair 3y ago
One fun thing to do with a swarm of bug near a light is to take out your keys and shake them. Keys will often ring in the ultrasonic and poorly mimic the frequencies that a lot of bats use. If you have a population of bats that hunt near yo
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm not active in prostheses anymore, but have done a smidge of work in them. The propioceptive positioning does occur in muscles, but, as far as I remember, it's mostly in the tendons. In that, your brain/spine knows the str
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by Balgair 3y ago
Nit picks from former vestibular researcher : > the liquid in your cochlea sloshes around The vestibules are not the cochlea. The cochlea is responsible for sound. The vestibules are just about the sensation of movement, the structures a
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by Balgair 3y ago
Got a link to the person?
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by Balgair 3y ago
There's really no 'liberal' person with Tate's reach. If there were, you'd know of them. I can assist with some non-political masculinity people/groups though: 1) Far and away: Brett and Kate McKay. They run h
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by Balgair 3y ago
For the other HNers out there not deeply into Figure Skating, the other comments here go into the 'new' scoring system very well. One thing that I think needs stressing is that the base value score is a pretty good system; it&#x27
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by Balgair 3y ago
Great to see a fellow lover of the sport here on HN. In Figure Skating, HNers should also be aware of the issues surrounding the current sport of figure skating: 1) Women's Free Skate is the marquee event in the winter Olympics. Not ot
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by Balgair 3y ago
Viruses? New understandings of mega-viruses have let us to believe that the line is really quite fuzzy. Some of these larger viruses have double stranded DNA, some have ribosome like functions, some have ERs, etc. Kinda like a cell, but mis
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by Balgair 3y ago
Nit-pick: > It's fascinating to me that the complexity of life always goes up Depending (heavily) on how we define complexity, this is not always true. If we define complexity as the number of genes an organism has (a big if there
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by Balgair 3y ago
> For me the beginning of the end was in the early 2010s or so It was February 11, 2011 in Tahrir Square. That, as far as I can tell, was the place and moment where 'tech' changed. Governments and other organizations were ver
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by Balgair 3y ago
Upping a cousin comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9FZ4igNxNA Adding that, again, optics is a difficult and frustrating field. Don't worry that you're struggling to connect it. It took me a few years in an
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by Balgair 3y ago
For HNers and CompSci people, optics is a notoriously difficult field and much more frustrating. If you break up the Nobel Prizes a bit differently, then the filed of Optics becomes the most dominant. So very many breakthroughs in science a
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by Balgair 3y ago
Arkansas too. Lots of places where the biggest and best export they have is their kids.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Good article! I'm struck by this man's wishes and the wishes of my late family members. They are so similar in that they built these monoliths, only to have them fade into the sand as well. Ozymandias. https://www.poetr
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by Balgair 3y ago
Oh man, I had a boss once that was really into dropshipping back in ~2017. He kept it professional at work, but once over beers he got on to how he was making all this money with dropshipping and how it was this great idea. Never pressured
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by Balgair 3y ago
I see that there are a lot of 'factors' that are not used to giving ground that are being set up against each other, and I don't think it's going to end well or be very predictable. 1) Money: The sports of football and b
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by Balgair 3y ago
As far as I knew, the plan for Cal/Stanford was to have all their non money making sports games (outside of their rivalry) at Southern Methodist in Texas. So the football and basketball games were to be played 'normally', but
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by Balgair 3y ago
The really real question is: why is OP not using the washing machine to mine bitcoins for themselves? / make their own DDOS botnet?
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by Balgair 3y ago
I have family that live in SF proper. I remember talking with them about the demeanor of BART's riders a few years back. They had mentioned that they had to move cars earlier that day because someone was smoking a very large joint and
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by Balgair 3y ago
There is not, it would just be general neuroscience. I'm unaware of specific labs either. Google would be your best friend in terms of trying to find specific researchers and in reaching out to them.

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