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by Tomminn 9y ago
So right now I'm 63 hours into a fast, which I just decided to do on a lark. I've been intrigued ever since hearing an interesting podcast on fasting ( https://tim.blog/2017/05/04/smart-drugs-fasting-
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Capitalism is an efficient mechanism for serving dollar weighted people. This is the central problem with massive inequality.
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by Tomminn 9y ago
I commented on the first one that humans could easily make the mistake the Tesla made. This, however, is a scarily bad fuck up.
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Synthetic sapphire is a trivial example of a transparent ceramic made with aluminium. Its formula is something very close to Al_2 O_3.
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by Tomminn 9y ago
That video is damning-- no doubt. The Tesla should recognize the big barrier and stop or adjust lane well in advance. But what is equally damning is that I can't tell that the Tesla has done anything wrong until it's moments away
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Or, to be glib, you now program programmers, and so code in the highest level programming language of all.
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by Tomminn 9y ago
I love how much I can't tell if you're serious.
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Historically, I had the classic problem of instinctively holding on to some stream of thought which I subconsciously felt the need to unwind before I would let dream consciousness take over. I figured out a nice trick to fix this. I close m
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by Tomminn 9y ago
How do we know that this footage hasn't been artificially darkened by Uber before they gave it to police?
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Honeypot?
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Seems kinda crazy to me that you'd put down a rhino that is the last male of its kind. Even one in pain. Why not induce a coma, and keep those gametes alive?
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Seems kinda crazy to me that you'd put down a rhino that is the last male of its kind. Even one in pain. Why not induce a coma, and keep those gametes alive?
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Repl.it looks awesome. So often the biggest obstacle to trying out a new language is the activation energy of setting up the corresponding coding environment. Sometimes you just think, "eh, probably don't really need to try it&quo
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Yeah, but that's always the best you can do without an external note. And if there are no external notes around, you could argue it's all that matters;)
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by Tomminn 9y ago
I noticed an interesting resonance just yesterday on my guitar. You can actually tune a guitar by playing, for example, an A note on the E string repeatedly, and moving the tuning pegs on the A string until the A string starts vibrating. Th
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by Tomminn 9y ago
You're right that "sure" is too strong a word- I should have said "I have a hunch". The hunch is because stories like this https://www.quora.com/What-is-known-about-Elon-Musks-long-ti... about Elon
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by Tomminn 9y ago
I'm not sure a having a brain scan that shows you're chronically underutilizing your empathy centre makes you a psychopath. I'm sure Elon Musk's brain scan would look similar to the writer's. If we are going to cont
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by Tomminn 9y ago
I've seen this account ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1729Nv6pc ) of someone after a 40 day fast that I think is 100% legitimate, judging by the amount of fat it looks like he's lost since posting this video (
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Is that.. decilitres?
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Spite House(en.wikipedia.org)
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If it's poisonous, killing is considerably easier.
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This seems absurd.
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I think anyone who looks at bitcoin thinks "what we need is a proof-of-work scheme with positive externalities". But when you look at the actual constraints of the proof-of-work-- unpredictable, unsolved problems with automatic di
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Actually this raises an interesting point (gah), how is "1,25" vocalized? Do they say "1 point 25" like non-Europeans do? Because if they do a case can be made that "point" more naturally corresponds to the sym
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New Zealand Police Recruitment Video(youtube.com)
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Ha, this would actually totally work.
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Nursing? I don't understand.
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Ask HN: What is the best way to buy US stock from outside the US?
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Get rich slow scheme: take out a patent for clothing embedded with adversarial objects. Fashion which confuses our robot overlords is almost certain to become chic one day in the not too distant future.
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If it's not fighting decoherence then it's not what we mean when we talk about quantum computing. Otherwise I can start saying "technically, you're using a quantum computer right now".

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