SamBam

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901.
by SamBam 4y ago
I just wanted to say that the experiment at the end where you had half the moon and the whole moon was brilliant, and perfectly illustrated the problem in a single picture. If anyone hasn't seen that they should.
902.
by SamBam 4y ago
People can simultaneously believe they're in a bubble and still be buying. They may believe that they'll be able to sell before it pops. Or they may believe if it keeps growing long enough it won't matter that it's a bub
903.
by SamBam 4y ago
Reminds me a little of the fact that "vegetable" is not a botanical term. People who say "tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables" are guilty of performing an incorrect hypercorrection. Tomatoes are vegetables just as cucumb
904.
by SamBam 4y ago
Precisely. Everyone is telling you that camping wouldn't be in the rules of the challenge, but the point is that the challenge seemed like an odd solution to the problem. Obviously a person can just choose to challenge themselves with
905.
by SamBam 4y ago
> It's not a big deal with only a few people on the grid, but if every house were doing this, "Renewable is great, but if we're already generating all our power by renewables then..." This argument is silly because we
906.
by SamBam 4y ago
The article assures me that ChatGPT will answer with the most common "dumb" answers to the sample questions, but it didn't at all: --- > This is not a joke. What's brown and sticky? The answer to the classic riddle is
907.
by SamBam 4y ago
That second one, poking fun at the BBC for saying that Twitter "can't protect users from trolling," was really the BBC shooting itself in the foot with a laughable headline burying the lede of the article: > Twitter inside
908.
by SamBam 4y ago
> onto a sucker with more sense than money. I think you have that phrase backward.
909.
by SamBam 4y ago
Massive catastrophes are averted by people with institutional knowledge correctly adding to the hardware/codebase over time, with new features that integrate well with old one, knowing how to scale hardware correctly, patches being app
910.
by SamBam 4y ago
This is very appealing to me. I'm going to assume that the camera sucks, but I guess I could get back to carrying a point and shoot. (Does a point and shoot camera exist that has the same smarts as a phone camera? Obviously a real came
911.
by SamBam 4y ago
To be clear, the conclusion of Bowling Alone was that the cause was "technology 'individualizing' people's leisure time via television and the Internet, suspecting that 'virtual reality helmets' would carry t
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by SamBam 4y ago
Around me (Boston USA area) there are ebike grocery deliveries (Getir) wizzing down every street. It's a great idea, although clearly the incentives are set up so that the delivery guys need to complete as many orders as possible, the
913.
by SamBam 4y ago
Is there a place I can find, say, 15-minute versions of Premier League games?
914.
by SamBam 4y ago
Totally hijacking this cool product to say something else I wish AI would do for us: better highlight reels for sports games. Sure, the news can give us the 30-second version that has all the goals (or touchdowns or whatever), but I'd
915.
by SamBam 4y ago
I do think that old bikes are generally just better. I'm finally on a modern road/commuter bike, after two decades of only ever being on 19070s/80s steel road bikes, and it's just not as good. I paid more than three time
916.
by SamBam 4y ago
I know, I'm enjoying the excerpts too. This whole thread seems to be split between readers of literature, and those who want to most-fully embody Sam Bankman-Fried's philosophy that every book ought to have been a "6 paragrap
917.
by SamBam 4y ago
I loved it too. Then again, I read a lot. I imagine this kind of thing is like exercise. This morning I followed along with a 20 minute "beginner yoga" video, and hated it because it felt painful and incomprehensible to my stiff,
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by SamBam 4y ago
And how do you radar-shield all these balloons to prevent the enemy aircraft knowing about them 100s of km before they enter that airspace?
919.
by SamBam 4y ago
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
920.
by SamBam 4y ago
A public person who broadcasts public statements to the world, as part of his audience engagement strategy, no less, can very much be dropped by editors who don't want those views associated with their newspaper, and who don't wan
921.
by SamBam 4y ago
This study shows that occupational lifting (moving heavy things as part of a job) increases testosterone and sperm counts, while previous studies were looking at lifting weights in a gym. Yes, the earlier studies would certainly imply the l
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by SamBam 4y ago
> when they look up what he said and see “it’s okay to be white” But that's not all he said at all... He said: "Black America is a hate group" "the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from
923.
by SamBam 4y ago
> Dilbert is/was still stuck in the early 2000's office culture and had really nothing to do about crypto or any of the other crazy. He actually wrote a comic designed to shill for NFTs, and also keeps writing comics wading int
924.
by SamBam 4y ago
> We've, as a society, decided long ago that private and professional lives are generally distinct. We accept that the alcoholic... A public person who broadcasts public statements to the world (as part of an audience engagement str
925.
by SamBam 4y ago
Right, I was saying I somehow missed that because it wasn't a salient part of the article, and also (more importantly, probably) I read the first half assuming something else, so my brain probably skipped over something that didn'
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by SamBam 4y ago
I actually thought that part was perfectly clear. > In general, the letter combination ال should be common. So if your text has more than a few words, you should be able to look though your text and see that somewhere. I can't read
927.
by SamBam 4y ago
What confused me initially was who was paying him. I went into the article assuming he was pacing for a specific runner or team -- a bit like the teammate cyclist who is tasked with being in front so other cyclists can draft behind him the
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by SamBam 4y ago
This could be the world's biggest Where's Waldo game. Someone should dress as him the next time this takes a photo.
929.
by SamBam 4y ago
No, Massachusetts, so probably warmer than you, depending on where you are. Even in Canada, though, I'd look into whether heat pumps with resistive auxillary heat are economical. If it only ever goes below -20⁰F for, say, a week a year
930.
by SamBam 4y ago
I think that's less and less of a problem. We just installed a Mitsubishi Hyper Heat, that's supposed to work down to -20⁰F without any auxillary heating. Many other units have auxillary resistive heating when the temperature are

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