Exo_Tartarus

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Ask HN: How will we be getting people and payloads into orbit in 50 years?
3 points by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago|1 comments
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
That's exactly what I've been thinking. Of course the inflation target would be arbitrary, but once agreed upon and baked into the blockchain logic it could maintain itself based on some parameter or set of parameters
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
I wonder how that train it? The network is built into the silicon so I don't see how training could occur after its creation... But maybe they build a simulated network and train it then construct a faithful hardware representation
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
People need to work not because of inflation, but because they get a fixed amount of money and spend most of it on things they want. Not only that, but wages largely track inflation so your argument fails.
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Inflation can be properly managed by responsible central banks. It's not really a problem. Also "wage slavery" is perpetuated by private companies not governments, so not sure how you aim to eliminate that by killing governme
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Have efforts been made to produce a cryptocurrency that is compatible with monetary policy? Such that supply can increase or decrease either on command or naturally?
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Governments should make it illegal because governments need to have control over the money supply. We need taxation. We need monetary policy. The Bitcoin obsessives think these are bad things. No. They are very important and good things.
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Well the author starts out by saying 15% of Economics Professors are women. Then says "Across all the years, only 18% of the authors are female. This disparity between male and female authors alone exemplifies the gender gap." Whi
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
I worked in the administration of a flagship state university. Instead of spending millions of dollars on salaries for bogus administrative positions like 'Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives', put that money towards gr
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Ask HN: Which open mathematical problems block immediate technical progress?
4 points by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago|5 comments
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
These are just words that don't mean anything without a concrete implementation plan. Owning a piece of America... What is America? Is it US based companies? Is it physical property and capital? These things are already owned by people
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Scale Invariance as an Alternative to Dark Matter and Dark Energy(sciencedaily.com)
14 points by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago|6 comments
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
That may be true, but wouldn't that not affect my argument?
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
The assumptions I'm making are that most people drink water and non water, and the non water they drink is not going to be more than 3 to 4 drinks (cups/bottles) per day, and that people drinking coffee are already filling their q
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Just like milk, there is probably a sub population of people whose body chemistry is not compatible with caffeine or coffee. You may fall into that category.
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and state a theory I've been considering for a while that could explain these coffee health benefit results... The liquids I and everyone else consumes can be placed in two classes: pure water an
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Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”(sciencedaily.com)
160 points by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago|152 comments
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Agreed. And I'll go one further: there is no free will. But the point holds
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
What's their fair share? You think you're worthy to determine that?
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Maybe they don't want to be anything other than retail or factory workers? Many people don't have ambition, or they have limited ambition.
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
I'm not exactly sure what the point of the article is or what the author is trying to say. It's pretty much an abbreviated biography bookended by some attempts at philosophizing. It is interesting to hear how much easier the autho
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
I own an original Pixel XL, it's an amazing phone. The Pixel line is just getting started.
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New Species Can Arise in 2 Generations(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago|0 comments
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
I notice that when I begin to procrastinate, I actually am thinking about the task intensely. So intensely that I believe I overwhelm myself and subconsciously decide to put off working on the task. When I silence my mind prior to starting
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by Exo_Tartarus 9y ago
Accumulate more concrete knowledge. Our brains develop abstractions when we identify patterns in disparate phenomena. Can't identify those patterns if you don't study the concrete phenomena themselves. As you learn more you'l