aalleavitch

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Does galactic evolution approximate the distribution of the prime numbers?
1 points by aalleavitch 3y ago|0 comments
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by aalleavitch 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_space_obser...
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by aalleavitch 4y ago
The degree to which science has advanced since the Webb project started can't be understated either. We have a fundamentally better understanding of the technology available and what we even want to look at. Much better to simply move
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by aalleavitch 4y ago
What if he's not a genius and actually he's just some guy, and his wealth is actually arbitrary. Absolutely chilling thought, eh?
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by aalleavitch 4y ago
Those are both things you can just hire someone else to do.
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by aalleavitch 4y ago
The only two things that matter for success in entrepreneurship are who you know and who you decide to trust. Both knowledge and attitude only matter insofar as they influence those two things.
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by aalleavitch 6y ago
We're closer than you'd think. Chlorophyll is only something like 28% efficient at absorbing sunlight, we have experimental solar panels pushing 45%. Collecting wavelengths the plants don't use and then lighting them only in
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by aalleavitch 6y ago
Yes, soil, temperature, and weather control are huge, as is the lack of need for pesticides. Hard to over-state how much controlled environments can improve yields and crop quality and reduce costs of maintenance (in return for large initia
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I'm not sure you actually understand how legitimately scared we all are.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
A great way to get rid of outrage culture, btw, would be to get rid of all the systems generating the outrage.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
This is not a one-in-a-million event, this is not something that no one could've predicted, many people predicted it and we blithely ignored them. This is the direct consequence of our consistent policies and behavior. This is like sta
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
> Well, this was a one in a million thing. Nobody could have predicted the world to just shut down for six months, and it's not productive to plan for it. This is the most shocking hubris I've witnessed in a long time.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
> And taking on debt to do it isn't inherently irresponsible. In fact, it's just a wise financial decision when interest rates are low. New revenue streams aren't required to be generated -- it's just shifting a subse
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
> If eugenics doesn't work then how come every single Border Collie is smarter than every single English Bulldog? This statement is worse than wrong; it's nonsense. Even if you come up for some very specific metric of intellige
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Centralization is great, isn't it?
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
If the company could not possibly get that $1,000 in any other way, then yes the employee is worth $1,000. Without the willing participation of labor, a company cannot produce. If labor is fooled or coerced into working for less than it&#x2
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
This is all very self-indulgent. People don't get paid what they're worth, they get paid the smallest amount someone can get them to accept.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
To be fair, all that is really required for human extinction is for us to start firing our nukes. Geopolitically destabilizing events increase the potential for that considerably. That's not in any way to say that climate change must n
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Yeah, honestly, that sounds exactly like a Berkeley student to me.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
We don't have the luxury of eating the investment on a "dry hole" when this is a global phenomenon. How is the path of highest caution not warranted here? What exactly are we losing by aggressively switching to renewables? Th
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Even if this is the case, addressing the issues caused by CO2 emissions would reveal that there were other sources of environmental damage at work. I just cannot see any incentive in not directly addressing CO2 emissions except to protect t
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
How much money do you think is in the "university industry" as opposed to the oil industry? Hint hint: one lives on charitable donations from the other. Seriously, the idea that environmental activists and professors could ever ho
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
That's just stepping up tactics: most bots aren't engaged with, you hook someone then you use that opportunity to make yourself appear valid. You only need one person doing this for a sea of bots.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
This is nonsense. The only agenda here is money. Those bots are all twisting discussion towards climate denialism and in support of fossil fuel companies. You can draw a straight line to mass disinformation from the budgets of major oil com
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Do they need to be so complex? Would it not make as much sense for Intel to be broken up into a large number of individual autonomous entities that then cooperate with each other on their own terms?
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Worker-owned co-ops are a cure for all of this.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Is perplexity related to the Shannon entropy? Seems like this might make sense, with the exception of social niceties the point of human communication is to transfer information that was hitherto unknown.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Yeah this might not turn out good for us.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Isn't it because in Hebrew (and other ancient languages) the letters are also numbers?
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
This would be a nightmare, the average consumer has absolutely no capacity to make informed judgments on their own healthcare, they would get eaten alive, and historically they have been.

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