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by bawana 6y ago
Dean Ing wrote a SF novel 'Butcher Bird' exploring this. Why is humanity stuck in the same story? We make something cool. We then commoditize it. We then militarize it. I think every tool/discovery/thing we invent/p
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by bawana 6y ago
Can this be used to control the massive magnets needed for nuclear fusion in tokomaks?
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by bawana 6y ago
So amazon could load 10 of these in a self driving truck and do same day/all night delivery 24/7. They'd only need to figure out a way to get the dogs to pick up and drop the packages. The truck could leave the 'procurem
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by bawana 6y ago
Why is race an issue in this story? Isn't the crime sufficiently egregious? Why is the NYTimes fanning the flames of racial hatred? Maybe we need to have a tiered police force-90% get whistles and mace, 4% get to carry pistols, 1% are
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by bawana 6y ago
It will be interesting to see what crime does in response? Or more significantly, how other societal functions affected by police ( like traffic, MVA management,etc) change.
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by bawana 6y ago
Does fixing sleep with medication prevent atherosclerosis? Does taking nonsteroidals have a salutary effect? It's too bad they did not tease out the effects of taking antiinflammatories as well as sleep aids like benadryl, quill,etc.
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by bawana 6y ago
Big sensor cameras are needed for 1). Low light work 2) printing 3). Dynamic range Stacking photos introduces artifacts- the subject moves in between sho5s
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by bawana 6y ago
No matter how much qe the fed does , there will be no inflation. The money goes to banks and financial institutions. They do not spend it on real goods and services. Rather they implement financial tools to get higher roi. Thus too many dol
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by bawana 6y ago
Gene editing worries me. A genetic makeup is tuned to an equilibrium in the environment. Just because we can change an organism to better suit human needs, we cannot predict how that mutation will affect the equilibrium. Though genetics say
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by bawana 6y ago
The pseudo-democratic silicon valley model of freemium is the problem. Seducing you into using something with the word 'free' but then trapping you with a changing API and cost structure. They should be up front with the realizati
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by bawana 6y ago
The ancient Greeks were distinctly different from the modern day Greek gene pool. For 400 years, Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire. During that time the Turks were benevolent rulers, allowing the Greeks all the customs and privileges th
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by bawana 6y ago
Is there a tutorial for dummies somewhere? I want to implement my deep learning model in an fpga to see if it would be faster.
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by bawana 6y ago
there will be no inflation because the money is not being spent. It is being invested. As for savings, no sane person would put their money into a savings account. Why lend your money to the bank (if you even have any to spare)?!
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by bawana 6y ago
No matter how much qe the fed does , there will be no inflation. The money goes to banks and financial institutions. They do not spend it on real goods and services. Rather they implement financial tools to get higher roi. Thus too many dol
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by bawana 6y ago
We should take turns. US, China, Japan, Russia, India, EU, even North Korea. Did I leave anyone out who has launch capability? How about those nations who dont have launch capability- They can buy a seat on SpaceX, BlueOrigin, or Virgin Spa
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by bawana 6y ago
The performance of financial markets represents an abstract value based on speculation. Stock prices derive from demand that buyers have for those equities. The basis of stock price from the fundamental performance of the underlying company
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by bawana 6y ago
Real indication of what we should do? Well I can give you my slant. The current monetary tools date back to the depression. The Fed uses two tools: the Fed Funds rate and the secondary repo market. That was fine back in the day when banks d
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by bawana 6y ago
What's wrong with blogger? You know https://www.blogger.com/ Also run by Google. Also subject to all their rules. But also robust with a simple clean interface. I wish there were a simple free way for me to enjoy free
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by bawana 6y ago
How does one model 4D gravity? Consider the 3D to 2D analogy. If the 2D person lived on a planet, that would be a circle. Then 2 planets orbiting each other would appear to the 2D person as two line segments oscilating up and down (because
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by bawana 6y ago
And the stock market is unfazed. So now you know where most of that money (trillions of relief for Covid) trickled to. The financial markets. We basically printed money to assuage the fear and anxiety of the speculators to whom the world is
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by bawana 6y ago
You can learn to hate anything by force feeding yourself too much of it too fast.
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by bawana 6y ago
Is amazon evil because it's big or because they compete with more evil abroad?
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by bawana 6y ago
Why does big always become evil?
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by bawana 6y ago
It’s not just insurers maximizing profits. My patient volume is down 50% but the hospital who rents me my office is not giving any break on the rent. Neither is my malpractice insurance nor any other vendor.
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by bawana 6y ago
Why bother with Leo? Jus build one on the moon (along w a moon base) The interferometry would be awesome when coordinated w a telescope in the atacama. And no worries about maintaining a spacecraft, no shuttle missions, no astronaut exposur
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by bawana 7y ago
EVERY ‘good’ thing starts out with ‘good’ intentions. And while it is small scale remains good. But as it scales up, it becomes evil. Even google, remember their motto? Now harvesting data like human bodies for its matrix. Even Facebook was
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by bawana 7y ago
I’m sorry but you used so many big words so close together, I could find no purchase with the things I know. Perhaps you could tell me what was the problem that Lie groups are supposed to solve. I read something about an infinitely symmetri
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by bawana 7y ago
+1. Depression affects 25% adults at some point. I am not talking about ‘sadness’ but a more profound condition whose symptoms are subtle at first, but pervasive and protean. And get a CT of your brain as well.
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by bawana 7y ago
Agree. It turns out that jumbo mortgage rates are higher than regular mortgages. Banks cannot find buyers for the jumbos because of the anticipated drop in real estate value from the COVID freeze. No one wants to lend to people who might fi
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by bawana 7y ago
Will they be the first to recapture business while the neighboring states are hamstrung? Is this another way they are cruelly removing poor people from their state because poorer people often have more COVID and more often die? Can a state

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