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811.
by SamPatt 7y ago
The book "The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley goes into depth about how men and women choose their mates, based largely on evolutionary biology. People treat it like a character flaw for a woman to choose a man based on wealth and statu
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by SamPatt 7y ago
True, but considering how long ago the designation "high frequency" was made, it's understandable. AM was extremely low frequency (~1 MHz), but that was what they were comparing against when they started using higher frequenc
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Probably yes. In fact, a censorship-resistant marketplace that allows for asynchronous trade already exists built on top of IPFS. It's called OpenBazaar. https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
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by SamPatt 7y ago
If you like these books I'd highly recommended two more. Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley. More from Less by Andrew McAfee.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Wrong Pinker book. Taleb took issue with Better Angels of Our Nature, which is Pinker's book about the decline of violence. Enlightenment Now is different. Taleb might also have opposed that book (he likes to pick fights) but that&#x27
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Yes very common among people considered "bookworms" as children. Learning vocabulary through reading not hearing. Can sometimes be embarrassing but it's better to know what a word means and pronounce it wrong than to not know
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by SamPatt 7y ago
I'd say even 200 years ago. No electricity, no antibiotics, no cars or planes or trains (maybe early ones, but not widespread). No thank you!
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by SamPatt 7y ago
I learned with GW-BASIC and made a text based adventure game. I wish it was still floating around the internet today but alas I believe I wrote it before we got online and it didn't survive.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Even more pedantic: There is an exception to the broadcasting rule. >Communications directly related to the immediate safety of human life or the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for disseminatio
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by SamPatt 7y ago
The parent comment is still accurate. IPFS isn't a blockchain and shouldn't be dismissed for this use case, which is more or less what it was designed for. Filecoin is just for incentives, but IPFS has been running for years witho
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Onionshare has this feature, but the website is only accessible over Tor.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
That is entirely subjective.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
I've seen 17 and even 16 year olds treated as adults in court, but 14 year olds?
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by SamPatt 7y ago
"We should pressure government officials and entities to more zealously monitor and adjudicate such internet abuses as cyberattacks, data breaches and piracy." Considering governments are the main perpetrators of internet abuses,
825.
by SamPatt 7y ago
Rich countries do indeed adapt better to climate change than poor, but the point about GDP is to show that in the future all countries will be rich countries (compared to the present). If wealthy nations today can adapt to rising sea levels
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by SamPatt 7y ago
It's my favorite Stephenson novel, and he's written so many excellent books.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Why on earth does anyone use Medium to share their content?
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by SamPatt 7y ago
That message would take about one minute to send. But it could be sent with very low power and received well below the noise floor. I'm not suggesting JS8 is the ideal communication mode for dissidents, only that it's far better t
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Probably JS8Call instead. It's an FT8 fork that allows for arbitrary text. Worth checking out.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Alstom did only a few years ago, I assume they're still in that business today but not sure.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
I use syncthing across various devices and organize a group of folders with markdown files in them, then view / edit them with a markdown editor. Super simple, free, and the best note system I've used so far.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Open carry seems less scary to me than concealed carry. If you're advertising the fact you have a weapon you almost certainly aren't going to need to use it, whereas who knows which person might have a concealed weapon, and for wh
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by SamPatt 7y ago
The first two citations are NPR. Not libertarian by any stretch of the imagination.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
"Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades." This is almost certainly false. The paper released earlier this year only looked at other studies which report
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by SamPatt 7y ago
"Starting in 1990s, the growth in global methane levels began to slow down, and global methane became relatively stable over the period of 2000-2006. A resurgence of global methane was not anticipated and came as a surprise." If
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Kite building is actually fairly easy, and can be very inexpensive. With just wooden dowels, fabric, simple sewing and simple rope & knots you can have something flying in a few hours. Takes a while to get the hang of troubleshooting th
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by SamPatt 8y ago
Syncthing is a great free tool. So is FreeNAS. Definitely not for mainstream users though.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
You can no longer profit mining Bitcoin with a CPU or GPU. ASICs are needed.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
There is a major hurdle in getting people to install their own servers though. We've seen this with OpenBazaar. It makes p2p pretty simple out of the box but if it's not in browser or a mobile app many won't even try it once.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
The article mentions XX and XY as differentiating sex, but rejects it because "some individuals" aren't XX or XY. I would think those numbers are vanishingly small enough that for athletic categorization it would work well en

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