BariumBlue

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by BariumBlue 5y ago
I thought something similar when I found out that the "transparent wood breakthroughs" are, as far as I can tell, all epoxy based.
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
Pretty sure that "Malls are dying" is large part negativity bias - cities don't get "too crowded" with malls, so we never experience having "too many" of them, but we DO experience having them close down.
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
I am fairly certain I could "trick" my 2006 Toyota Camry into driving without anyone in the driver seat.
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Iran has military ties and grants aid to Hezbollah and Bashar Al Asad the Syrian dictator (both are neighboring enemies of Israel), has missiles that could potentially threaten Israel, and has publicly threatened death and hellfire upon Isr
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
This (and the recent ish attack on the IRGC ship) is most likely the doing of Israel to prevent the JCPOA from being reestablished and from Iran getting any sanctions relief. If Iranian lawmakers believe these attacks were by the US (they
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
It's a good step for Boeing to rebuild trust with the airlines
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Yes? I did understand that - you were saying that being broke can lead one to do and think things that they'd normally consider crazy or irrational. Are you thinking that I understood your statement to mean that being broke would perma
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
This is interesting - I read that statement exactly like the person who made the post that you just responded to, and thought it to be the clearly obvious interpretation. I would consider someone that has their rationality stripped (or &quo
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Million year old plant fossils were found. The real "so what": It shows that even without human-induced climate change with lower atmospheric C02, Greenland was completely without ice "just" a million years ago (not enou
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Congrats on a new release! I think it's a good project, and I too thought it was dead. ===== Personal experience: A few-ish months ago, I tried to get into 0AD (more than an exploratory 1-2 matches vs an AI). I like to watch videos of
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
There is a Kenyan Entrepreneur that is trying making bricks from excess and non-recyclable plastic: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-environment-recycli...
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Plywood was used for shields by the Romans, I'm fairly certain the Vikings, and wikipedia mentions the Greeks and Egyptians used it as well. From what I can tell from a quick google, it does seem to be a casualty of the Dark ages thoug
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Don't be afraid of feedback, and don't be afraid to criticize. Just ask for a certain time to do feedback, prepare a list of things to talk about, and then in a private space candidly talk about them. It's one of the things t
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
I think I know of an example: I work with some folks who use Brewlytics ( https://brewlytics.com/ ). It's basically a way to use logical modeling to automate tasks, actions, and pull and push data for said automation. It
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Do you think we should filter out astroturfers and Russian bots? What about human written Russian propaganda crafted to harm our society? What about a US citizen who crafts propaganda to spread intentional misinformation and harm society bu
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
> Perpetrators of lies will even hide behind this, and create a false image of rebellious heroism, instead of facing public discourse and the consequences thereof. Unfortunately, I think it's a bit of a classical liberal ideal that
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
I wonder if putting a semi transparent white dome or covering over a city could effectively cool it by reducing net sunlight. Kinda like permanent artificial clouds
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Agreed. One mental example I use is that imagine someone brought you proof of a ghost. Maybe it's a testimony from someone who is rational and wouldn't ever lie, maybe it's some unexplainable photograph or phenomenon. If you
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
My guess: running costs for electric vehicles are lower than for ICE vehicles, meaning either reducing payouts to drivers, reducing customer costs, or both. If I understand it correctly, Uber and Lyft currently have a problem where the cust
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
Bit of speculation here... The US has a cultural emphasis on delivering results, more so than other cultures. I think there tends to not be a lot of focus on how things are done, or on the process behind things, but instead more on how peop
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
When you fall, that is potential energy stored via gravity turning into kinetic energy. When you land, that kinetic energy is then turned into thermal energy. If you're interested, this would be physics. Physics 1 (usually kinematics)
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
I think it's a little unfair - you will always have jobs that are important in the immediate, short, medium, long terms. Society can function perfectly fine without teachers, engineers, scientists... For a bit. Some teams can function
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by BariumBlue 6y ago
If you assume there are plenty of suitors, then playing hard to get would advertise yourself to the folks on the higher end of the desirability curve, possibly giving you more selection there, and having reasonable fallbacks otherwise. If t
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by BariumBlue 7y ago
Raised intersections have also been found to be effective in these situations
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by BariumBlue 7y ago
I think what the topic gets towards is that if you view all possible actions as a multi dimensional array of (all nouns)*(all verbs), it makes sense to first choose the one of (nouns, verbs) that is initially the smaller set
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by BariumBlue 7y ago
Microbes require water, and there isn't enough for them on/in Venus
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by BariumBlue 7y ago
I'd be more inclined to think that richer people spend more time and money on their kids - a kid constantly left at home with working parents is going to be worse off than with parents that are home and read to and interact with them
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by BariumBlue 8y ago
A lot of people aren't aware of their options. That starting a business is super simple is something that I had no idea about, and even the prospect of dealing with bureaucracy and paperwork can make the whole endeavour feel daunting a
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by BariumBlue 8y ago
Inequality, but also mobility. A society with one rich person, or even an oligopoly, isn't going to motivate many people since there are only so many spots. The height of wealth doesn't have much impact either - a person isn'
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by BariumBlue 8y ago
I think the calculus should get a bit better with cheap renewables - desalinating only when more energy is produced than can be reasonably used. I think if we can find a bunch of things that can effectively use excess power but aren't

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