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by bostonpete 5y ago
That's correct. As you approach the speed of light, the elapsed time in your frame of reference approaches zero.
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by bostonpete 5y ago
I'm not really understanding the parent commenter's point, but your comment seems like a non sequitur. How does "residential real estate pricing" imply anything about urban vs. suburban?
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by bostonpete 5y ago
Pretty sure they're saying they switched to KeePass when 1Password introduced the subscription model.
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by bostonpete 5y ago
I've never emptied my pool -- in general you only need to empty a pool for certain types of repairs. The water is cleaned by the pool filter.
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by bostonpete 5y ago
That rule is simple to state, but damn near impossible to actually execute. I can't imagine the hoops you'd have to jump through to have a cell phone following this simple rule. I appreciate the push towards open source -- obvious
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by bostonpete 5y ago
What a strange article. I found it to be very unfocused and the part about their open marriage seems to be attempting to portray a couple's private, consensual arrangement as some sort of scandal...
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by bostonpete 5y ago
It's just etymology at this point -- a lot of words have a history or literal meaning that wouldn't make them a good choice if we were starting from scratch today.
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by bostonpete 5y ago
I probably wouldn't be too interested in taking advice from Hitler about how to find happiness
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by bostonpete 5y ago
How would they get manufacturer played on the vehicle...?
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by bostonpete 5y ago
...and yet, we dramatically sped up vaccine development.
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by bostonpete 5y ago
I think it would depend on pronunciation. Since "herbaceous" isn't a term you hear often, most people likely don't have a good instinct for how they "should" pronounce it. Seems plausible that the author conclu
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by bostonpete 5y ago
Has become more common in some communities though... Suicides among Black people doubled during COVID-19 lockdowns, while suicides in white individuals were cut in half during the same period. https://www.usnews.com&#x2F
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Sure, the benefit of base-256 is that a 0 maps to a byte with all 0's in the binary representation of the integer -- it's nothing specific to gzip. But on its face, 12345x256^8+71 = 1234500000071 is just wrong and only works once
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Just to be clear -- b/c I got a bit confused reading this -- this example seems to assume "12345" and "71" are base-256 numbers and "256" is base-10.
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by bostonpete 6y ago
> However, an electron traveling back in time would appear as a positron, so if that what was going on we should be seeing a fairly equal number of positrons as we do electrons, as the one electron rushes around to appear as an electron
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by bostonpete 6y ago
This is 2 years old, right...? https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/06/waymo-is-selling-lidar-se...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
They are easily mass produced, but the companies still limit the supply specifically so there is value for collectors
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Except those sorts of collectibles drive much of their value from their limited supply.
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Well there's also the allure of the physical object that the artist created by hand. People done go see the Mona Lisa rather than a replica for bragging rights. That's not there with digital goods.
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Should definitely say (2017). Looking at the Wayback Machine from November 2017, I don't notice any differences from the current page.
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by bostonpete 6y ago
I think they're talking specifically about printed maps. I'm not sure the hemispheres have been printed back to back like this. This feature of the map seemed particularly unique: "To measure distances from one side to the ot
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Serious question -- is it still called "reentry" if it's entering a different atmosphere than it started from...?
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by bostonpete 6y ago
AccessDenied/Request has expired
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Isn't the main attraction of AGI to enable systems to reason about and deal with out-of-domain situations? Can you get there with a purely data-driven approach?
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by bostonpete 6y ago
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by bostonpete 6y ago
I think you mean "precision" rather than accuracy. Other than that, I agree with your comment.
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Evaluating robots on whether they do what they're told and whether their timing is good doesn't seem too useful. That's the easy part. Pretty much any robot is going to be more precise/predictable/consistent in thei
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by bostonpete 6y ago
> I'm not sure why you're limiting your number to professionals. Because pretty much every one in Congress has a professional background? I guess this begs the question whether Congress should be more representative of the po
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Work schedules are often tied to all sorts of other schedules that limit flexibility -- things like school schedules, stock market or customer hours, published hours for retail or government offices, etc. If there's a practical benefit
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by bostonpete 6y ago
The link that the GP posted is suggests we're middle of the road as far as total tax burden, not income tax specifically.

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