Tossrock

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by Tossrock 10y ago
It always kind of amazed me as a pick for a company name. Like, they realize palantirs are a tool of the bad guys, right? They're not a good thing! It's like naming your company "Stormtrooper", or "Dementor".
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by Tossrock 10y ago
Well, the grandmother hypothesis actually suggests that among humans, living healthily into old age to help rear one's grandchildren has evolutionary benefits, even if one stops reproducing.
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by Tossrock 10y ago
Obscuring the subject to force a click. "This disease" instead of "Sudden oak death". The idea is that person will read the scary part, want to find out which particular disease it is, and click through. It's headli
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Man, I'm not one to judge on appearance, but Jürgen Mossack has got to be the most stereotypical "I-am-an-evil-Nazi" face I've ever seen. I feel comfortable saying this given that his father was in the Waffen-SS. "M
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Quite a few for-profit industries, really.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
That's not an assumption, it's a fact. There are a finite number of arrangements of protons and neutrons which can yield atoms. Each sequentially increasing count of protons is a new element. Adding neutrons to a given count of pr
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Classically there are 5 (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Incorrect - the 0.6 number is purely for personal survival. They cite the number when including plant maintenance, regolith processing, etc, as 1.2. See the article: > "The amount of water needed for extended human survival is aroun
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by Tossrock 11y ago
The .6 kg/hr/person figure for water is pretty generous - that works out to 3.8 gallons/day/person. As any burner could tell you, you only really need about 1 gallon of water per day for survival. Spending 2.8 gallons pe
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by Tossrock 11y ago
imgix offers a solid solution in this space nowadays
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Sorry, I was going off the transcript, not the video. In the transcript he talks specifically about the benefit of the domestication of dogs for old world peoples[1], while ignoring the fact that new world peoples also had domesticated dogs
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by Tossrock 11y ago
This argument is not very sound. It ignores eg that native Americans had domesticated dogs (like the Hare Indian), the domestication of caribou in the north, the presence of mountain goats and bighorn sheep, etc etc etc. It's like the
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Yeah, it's definitely the puppeteer tasping the kzin
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Thank you for sharing these, I enjoyed them.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
...like the way no one uses TCP/IP?
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by Tossrock 11y ago
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied. "
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Looks like they left debug=True on in their config :( http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/946382
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by Tossrock 11y ago
It's pretty standard when you're developing a web application. Your backend runs on your machine, your frontend requests stuff from within the browser.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
> (imagine what would happen if there was a rape or robbery attempt by an Uber driver) This has already happened: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34578477 They did some really incredible PR on it (adding th
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by Tossrock 11y ago
ULA is already trying to imitate them with their announced 'Vulcan' concept, where the engines eject and parachute back, but that's (many) years away from actually happening.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Thanks, this was really informative. Makes me glad I live in California.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Why are they using lead pipes? I understand that they may have a legacy system put in place before the dangers of lead were fully understood, but when your water distribution system is literally made of poison, I don't understand how r
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Liquidity. You can't buy a house with stock certificates.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Nice to see we've brought back the stocks and pillory as a valid form of punishment.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Disappointed no one brought up the regulatory hurdles involved when discussing the resistance of the industry to disruption. When the cost to bring a new drug to market is over 2 billion dollars [1], it's hard to see start-ups competin
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Even if a business has real revenue and real profit, there is still danger depending on the source of that revenue and profit. If there's a large downturn in the startup world, b2b/SaaS companies which profit from startups will su
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by Tossrock 11y ago
In fact, methamphetamine is prescribed by doctors for serious cases of narcolepsy, under the name Desoxyn.
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Perhaps counterintuitively, but I actually find this somewhat reassuring - another example of regular soldiers declining to initiate a nuclear war. Yeah, the magnitude of the mistake is awful, but the final failsafe (ie, human conscience) s
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Galileo's father was essentially a famous renaissance rock star. Newton was the son of a wealthy farmer. Leibniz's and Lord Kelvin's fathers were both professors. Maxwell's father was a baronet, and Werner von Braun&#x27
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by Tossrock 11y ago
Unless you're a practiced dissembler, I think tone is much less likely to be misinterpreted in person. This is the phenomenon where someone nods and says "yeah" in a conversation even though they didn't actually hear &#x

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