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by bmcusick 9y ago
This is wonderful news for humanity, in the long term. Bezos is dedicated to expanding humanity into the solar system in a more sensible way than Musk is. O'Neil cylinders are really the way to go for a lot of reasons, and that's
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We'll see, I guess. I've also been making resistance exercise a regular part of my life and am building up muscle mass. I'm hopeful that a larger lean body mass when this is all over will make weight maintenance easier.
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> Do you eat your breakfast at 4 AM? No, I eat when I sit down at my desk at work at 9 AM. It's part of my routine. I'm just busy in the morning so while I'm aware of being hungry I just do my stuff and my commute until I
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by bmcusick 9y ago
"Calorie restriction is proven to help you live a longer life." This is essentially false for anyone reading the article. The studies that showed mice living longer lives from calorie restriction were restricted from birth , and
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Despite all the rules? My friend, who do you think the rules are for ? Compliance departments are EXPENSIVE, which means that only big banks can afford them. Which means less competition. Which means higher prices and profits for the few
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The bank I work at employees 70,000 people and has ginormous computers too. You should see our resource usage.
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The blockchain is an accounting ledger that no one has global write-access to, so you don't have to worry about your bank/broker being hacked, going out of business, or freezing your accounts. It solves the problem of financial in
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Americans are dying because our healthcare is too expensive. Not the insurance but the actual tests and procedures. They're all crazy expensive compared to anywhere else in the world. Graphics that really show this clearly could genera
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Non-Chinese shouldn't kid ourselves. Our governments want to do this too, and probably will. Drones with gigapixel cameras hovering over metro regions. Security cameras and police cars that continuously scan the faces of pedestrians an
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I wonder what the archival properties of this paper are like. Is it fully inert? That would be useful.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Basically still correct it's just taken longer to get scaling solutions like SegWit/Lightning into production. One the Lightning Network is up you just pay one BTC transaction to establish a channel with the network, then all subs
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It's not weird at all. Lyft (like Uber) wants to be the universal middle-man, not an in-house captured app of General Motors. They want to be the marketplace where consumers of transport call up the nearest self-driving resource, wheth
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by bmcusick 9y ago
This is good news for the USA, but it's GREAT news for countries where the government regularly cuts off and controls the Internet for political purposes. If receivers can be as small as a personal laptop, expect a thriving black marke
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by bmcusick 9y ago
There are two inflection points for renewables: 1. Cheaper than NEW CONSTRUCTION of coal or gas 2. Cheaper than OPERATING COST of coal and gas We have passed inflection point 1 in the last couple years. That's why the predictions were
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by bmcusick 10y ago
> Could anybody here comment on the differences between spacex's engine, and the engines on the space shuttle? It's sort of apples vs oranges to compare the Shuttle main engines vs the Falcon 9 engines, because the Shuttle main
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by bmcusick 10y ago
Except that my rule makes it easier to sue Google if you have a good case . The whole point of "Loser Pays" is to filter out the frivolous, weak, and marginal cases. But it also makes it easier to file the strong and meritorious
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by bmcusick 10y ago
And … this is why we get strategic lawsuits. I'm not assuming any such thing. I'm an attorney and understand the tradeoffs and I think society would be better off if these sorts of cases didn't waste everyone's time.
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American courts should have a "Loser pays" rule, and stricter standards for determining what is a frivolous lawsuit warranting additional penalties for the filer. American jurisprudence has always favored making sure "everyon
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by bmcusick 10y ago
What level is "makes a website that's usable on mobile"?
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by bmcusick 10y ago
The SENS Research Foundation ( http://www.sens.org/ ) has identified the seven ways that the elderly are different from the young, and hypothesizes that the aggregate damage from these seven things is what we call "aging
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by bmcusick 10y ago
The Korean car companies really broke into the market by providing unheard of warranties on their powertrains. I'd love to see a new entrant to the white goods market try something similar. Guaranteed to last 10+ years; engineered for
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by bmcusick 10y ago
There should be an "or" before the word "packing" if "packing for shipment or distribution" is a single phrase (rather than two alternatives). The Oxford Comma debate is a sideshow. It's all about where yo
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by bmcusick 10y ago
While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. It's crazy that the law put UC Berkeley in the position of having to choose between bearing the expense of close-caption
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by bmcusick 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. That's why the Apollo capsules and the Dragon spacecraft don't have them. The loads and heat involved are enormous. Even the Space Shuttle had pretty stubby wings, and the special tiles those wings needed to prote
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by bmcusick 10y ago
"Rutan won the X-Prize" Yes, he did, but he did with an architecture incapable of doing anything more impressive than win the X-Prize. I'll give you another example from the self-driving X-prize. There were always two teams t
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There's no indication that they've figured out that Virgin's real problem is their architecture. They're still trying to use wings to get to space. The Germans and NASA back in the 50s understood that "mass is mas
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Not even carbon nanotubes are strong enough to make a space elevator on Earth. Individual CNTs (the molecules) are just barely strong enough, but you cannot make a macroscale fabric out of them that's just as strong as the individual m
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by bmcusick 10y ago
Well I don't care about all you naysayers and negative nellies. I'm psyched as hell by this. 1/ Does humanity need to stop screwing up Earth? Yes. Does Elon going to Mars make that job any harder? No. Is claiming that people
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How does your perceptual recognition technology distinguish piracy from Fair Use? Given the impossibility of knowing with certainty which jurisdiction the end user is in, which Copyright scheme are you assuming? Can works be registered as P