alphydan

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by alphydan 9y ago
Blind experiments in medicine were carried out a lot earlier. See for example the revolutionary work of Claude Bernard in 1865 [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard
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by alphydan 9y ago
Because every till assistant was listening in physics class and knows how to calculate the specific gravity of that ring people want to barter with in an emergency.
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Playing russian roulette with bash(commitstrip.com)
3 points by alphydan 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphydan 9y ago
You can already find "a complete, ready-to-go curriculum package for every course" on the internet. Unfortunately (1) it's fragmented into lots of sites ... but most importantly, (2) it's low quality, and typically not a
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by alphydan 9y ago
Why is it necessary to download the mobile app and register with it just to test drive the web app? You lost me there.
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by alphydan 9y ago
We can and we do, http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/24/us/florida-teen-wins-top-p... (following those outcomes would be great research indeed)
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by alphydan 9y ago
The siting of the tubine is indeed art. It will produce close to nothing at that height as air slows down near the ground due to friction. That's why turbines try to be located as high as possible (usually in a trade-off between cost
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Reasons Today’s Kids Are Bored at School, Feel Entitled, Have Little Patience(deeprootsathome.com)
15 points by alphydan 9y ago|14 comments
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by alphydan 9y ago
> The $5 transaction fee There is no such thing unless you are in a hurry.
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by alphydan 9y ago
Buzzfeed: 1 out of 5 men fired for smoking a joint!
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by alphydan 9y ago
There is a lot of ignorance in this post. But just to counter your litmus test, here's the first obvious example I can think of: https://www.edpannualreport.edp.pt/en/key-numbers with over 70% of renewable energy
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by alphydan 9y ago
The question has been asked in the past and modelled with some level of detail. For example: Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences [0]. At a higher level the question is easy:
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by alphydan 9y ago
All of them are correct without context. I could imagine a Boris Vian novel where "las moscas de la fruta son como plátanos"
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by alphydan 9y ago
He will be issuing the NG coin in an ICO ...
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by alphydan 9y ago
I assume using this? > Citibank, which offers free international wire transfers to other Citi accounts through the Citibank Global Transfers service. There is a major caveat. If you need to send money to someone who doesn’t have a Citib
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by alphydan 9y ago
Not me, obviously, but check for example: https://blockchain.info/tx/d977d0f521b2470d44a6222c3d8fa99da... ($400,000 transaction for $2 fee or a 0.0005% fee)
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by alphydan 9y ago
Good point. I assume you are talking about national transfers (within the same country) and during the week? What is your experience wiring $X0,000 abroad as a consumer?
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by alphydan 9y ago
Yes.
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by alphydan 9y ago
The article provides no evidence about why English, specifically, is great for puns. >> . It has a large vocabulary and a rich stock of homophones from which puns can be made Ok. What about the other 6000 languages? Do they have more&
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by alphydan 9y ago
I keep hearing about these high transaction fees but I've never seen them. When I send the equivalent of tens/hundreds of thousands of USD I pay a few cents of a dollar. It does take a few hours, sure. But what would it take in a
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by alphydan 9y ago
> Therefore they progressively were able to sustain larger and larger brains. As far as I know, that's not how evolution works. You don't get a feature just because you can sustain it. There's a random mutation and every
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by alphydan 9y ago
>> my ballpark guess would be that you get at least 10 times That's the problem with not checking and using your intuition. The difference between Florida and Toronto is only x2. Not x10.
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by alphydan 9y ago
What? That's clearly wrong. The answer is "sin", right? :)
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by alphydan 9y ago
>> they usually don't get unsupervised calls Does anyone? NSA and all ...
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by alphydan 9y ago
There is supporting evidence for your intuition. See for example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213...
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by alphydan 9y ago
It's solved just like poverty has been solved. There is enough food, energy and shelter for the 7bn people. It's just those pesky humans hoarding, cutting corners, cheating, fighting, using more than their fair share, etc. Becaus
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by alphydan 9y ago
The same could have been said of Brin and Page. Why were they not working for yahoo improving their search algorithm? Some people will have the hunger and drive to disrupt the incumbent.
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by alphydan 9y ago
Here's an idea: A team of coders in a basement combine lots of AI discoveries done by others (Think merging orthogonal approaches like Numenta + Google Brain + Vicarious + etc). With it, they crack the neo-cortex algorithm (or a rough
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by alphydan 9y ago
Yes, because the British, so versed in politics, language and philosophy never created concentration camps, starved hundreds of thousands of innocents, carried out chemical warfare, did summary executions, ... /s [0] https:/&#x2F
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by alphydan 9y ago
One of the arguments seem rather weak: > Throughout most of American history, kids generally didn't go to high school, yet the unschooled rose to be admirals, like Farragut; inventors, like Edison; captains of industry, like Carnegi

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