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721.
by beat 7y ago
That's fascinating. You don't see old-school imaginative solutions like that in F1 anymore. Now, it's all about tiny bits of aerodynamics at great cost.
722.
by beat 7y ago
I think looking for primary sources is only necessary at this level when there is good reason to question the credibility of the secondary source. "Not their specific field of expertise" isn't sufficient, especially when they
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by beat 7y ago
This is social media, not a peer-reviewed journal. I don't think primary sources are necessary to justify basic numbers. Pointing out that Pinker isn't a primary source isn't ad hominem. Bringing up that he's a psycholog
724.
by beat 7y ago
Why are you dismissing Pinker simply because he is "a popular science writer", and "not a primary source"? If you're going to refute Pinker, show your work. Otherwise, it's just borderline ad hominem.
725.
by beat 7y ago
Cal Newport on point, as usual. Deep Work and Digital Minimalism are essential modern reading if you want to improve the effectiveness of your thinking.
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by beat 7y ago
When talking about the potency of methane as a greenhouse gas, lifespan of about 20 years. CO2, on the other hand, has a lifespan of around 100 years. Interestingly, rice agriculture generates about as much methane as livestock, and burning
727.
by beat 7y ago
And screws will be refined to lose those hard-to-hammer threads and that unreliable taper.
728.
by beat 8y ago
Yeah, there's some differences due to different types of sugars, but for "bad for you" purposes, they're all basically alike. It's like blowing up a building with plastique instead of dynamite. Sure, plastique is te
729.
by beat 8y ago
This reminds me of Michael Pollan's comments about "magic ingredients", and our tendency to find some ingredient that either makes food magically healthy or magically unhealthy - see omega-3 for a positive example, or anythin
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by beat 8y ago
HFCS is sugar for insulin purposes.
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by beat 8y ago
I'm more concerned with plaintext passwords because most people use the same passwords over and over, so if you can break one system, you can break others.
732.
by beat 8y ago
Feel free; I stole it myself! It's from the Polish scholar Alfred Korzybski, who made many interesting observations about how language itself limits our understanding of the world.
733.
by beat 8y ago
It's a fair question, something we should be asking ourselves as a society. But as I suggested earlier, we're still stuck with a society where a lot of people, perhaps even a majority, find corporate capitalism to be morally righ
734.
by beat 8y ago
Additive meter just shows where the concept of "time signature" breaks down The pulse of the music is not apparent from the notation. So it doesn't even fully explain Western music, much less non-Western music. (That said, wh
735.
by beat 8y ago
Yeah. The loss of long-term customers over privacy issues, addiction issues, and general creepiness is probably a greater concern to them than a fine. I quit using Facebook because I realized it's actively unhealthy for me, and I'
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by beat 8y ago
Soundslice is pretty awesome!
737.
by beat 8y ago
The map is not the territory. Furthermore, the language of the map limits how the territory can be described. So "better way to annotate music" depends, at least in part, on the kind of music you're annotating. This really ca
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by beat 8y ago
Because he has one of the coolest toys in the world. Really, isn't running one of the biggest companies ever created a better retirement hobby than collecting stamps?
739.
by beat 8y ago
I've worked for multiple Fortune 25 companies, and that excuse does not fly. Not in banking or healthcare, where breaches of privacy/confidentiality are actually illegal, rather than merely distasteful. Small teams and careless
740.
by beat 8y ago
Finding the right fine for actions like this is hard. On one hand, we (as a society) want it to hurt, to cause the company real pain. On the other hand, we don't want to actually destroy the company. This leads to a "cost of doing
741.
by beat 8y ago
I doubt the judge was thinking about politics. Courtrooms aren't the internet, thankfully.
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by beat 8y ago
Those same Muslim scholars were the ones who preserved and promoted Greek texts that were destroyed by early Christian fanatics.
743.
by beat 8y ago
Is it, though? I think it's clear that "Great Leap Forward" was China-specific, but "Dark Ages" isn't really taught as specific to western Europe. Which is the problem.
744.
by beat 8y ago
It's not that simple, though. A lot of people - a lot of people - have no idea that during the "Dark Ages", huge swaths of the rest of the world (larger than Western Europe) were going through a Golden Age. It took me rathe
745.
by beat 8y ago
"The Dark Ages" is also a Eurocentric view of history. What was going on in the Islamic world? In China? The Dark Ages of Western Europe were the brilliant Tang dynasty in China; and the explosion of Islam across the Middle East a
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by beat 8y ago
I would have recommended Blindsight ! Along the same lines, I really loved A Fire Upon the Deep , by Vernor Vinge, and its "sequel" A Deepness in the Sky has aliens that remind me in many ways of the Trisolarans. But A Fire U
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by beat 8y ago
The Three Body Problem , by Cixin Liu. The scene is actually from the second book in the trilogy, The Dark Forest , but they are really meant to be read in order, and I don't think The Dark Forest would make much sense without read
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by beat 8y ago
I thought you might enjoy this last verse, too... Sixty thousand years to get there Five ships waste fuel you need to stay alive Eden's just another word for graveyard So kill and steal, leave Eden and survive Light a candle in the dar
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by beat 8y ago
I've heard some criticism of that series of "Can't relate to the characters". I suspect that it's because the perspective is so strongly Chinese, rather than American. The situation of the scene isn't something
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by beat 8y ago
You weren't.

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