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by bsmitty5000 2y ago
https://archive.ph/6wx1R
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by bsmitty5000 2y ago
I started watching the video linked at the top and the first anecdote is about Elon Musk using first principles to determine he could be rockets cheaper than current companies. He compared $130m to the price of raw materials of a rocket at
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by bsmitty5000 4y ago
Yes this was my thought when he implied not knowing the proxy settings, or even that you must connect to a proxy, to get internet was a sign that someone “doesn’t know computers”. It’s like a mechanic making a blog post complaining that peo
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by bsmitty5000 4y ago
I just started swimming with a local Masters group a few months ago and can definitely notice a difference in my mood if I miss a couple practices. I thought it was just my imagination but didn’t even think about the breath aspect of it.
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by bsmitty5000 4y ago
My first job out of school was final test for a semiconductor in Phoenix that had a small fab in Gilbert. I remember we took a rabbit suited tour there as part of the new hire orientation, it was pretty neat. The one thing though that stuck
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by bsmitty5000 5y ago
Do you have any sources to recommend if I wanted to learn more about this thought?
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by bsmitty5000 5y ago
> “Something we may learn from this research is: although our loved ones have their eyes closed and are ready to leave us to rest, their brains may be replaying some of the nicest moments they experienced in their lives.” Note to self: d
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by bsmitty5000 5y ago
I'm not trying to justify not acting on climate change. That original comment is really just a snippet of some internal thought trains I've had with myself after we decided to grow some of our own food- where the price of deciding
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by bsmitty5000 5y ago
I'm raising pigs for the first time at home and I'm having a similar dilemma with the slaughter date just a few days away. They're like 300lbs dogs- playing with each other, running to me when I come out (although this might
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by bsmitty5000 5y ago
This is an off-the-cuff response so maybe I'm completely wrong, but I recently started baking sourdough at home with my own starter. The starter is simply flour and water, but after a while of refreshing with new flour and water eventu
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by bsmitty5000 5y ago
I’m hitting the paywall so I can’t read the article, but the headline reminds me of something Andrew Huberman talked about in one of his recent podcasts- https://youtu.be/rW9QKc-iFoY It’s a small segment at the beginning, a
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by bsmitty5000 5y ago
> 5) Reusable launch technology. The world still doesn’t grok this. They will. It (long term) enables access to orbit comparable to really long distance airfare or air freight. I worked at ULA for a year about five years ago. At that tim
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~toh/spectrum/IntroToSignalProce... https://allsignalprocessing.com/category/lesson-categories/ https://www.digikey.com/en/resources&#x2F
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
I just found this blog post a couple days ago that seems relevant to your post: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/12/14/think-better/
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
Wow this is the first time I've ever seen a contrarian opinion on this book. I've never read Why We Sleep but I see it pop up in threads really often.
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
Pretty old but I read them for the first time in 2019: Microcosmos by Lynn Margulis and Full House by Stephen Jay Gould. Both of them really blew me away and changed my worldview. I also started on The Vital Question by Nick Lane but haven&
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
> And for nitrogen fixers, it's not at all clear that the nitrogen they fix is available to the plants around them. It might not become available until they die back and rot. Do you mean it’s a question of if they provide more nitro
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
Thank you for this, I love good book recommendations.
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
If by microbes you mean bacteria. Maybe we also contain fungus as well though. And actually, if you're looking at cell count our cells are outnumbered by about 10:1, it's incredible!
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
This seems to me like someone criticizing introductory physics courses because they're not taking into account air friction and all the other minutiae from the very beginning. If someone progresses to the point where these misconceptio
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
This article doesn't mention the declining insect population at all but I would think it's clear that a quickly declining food source would be a major cause of population decline. I wonder if there's a similar decline in othe
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
I'd never heard of Erik Naggum before but his wikipedia entry makes him sound interesting as hell- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
Can anyone speak to the different translations? My local library doesn't have this book and the cheapest Amazon version is the 1973 translation of the German translation of the Polish original. But I wonder if it's worth getting t
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
I think this is the first place I've seen recently that says steady-state cardio is better than HIIT for anything. It does seem odd that they study they cite compared equal times for steady-state vs HIIT; I thought one of the main bene
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
Maybe you meant to say Earth is anti-human. Earth is incredibly life friendly. There's been five previous mass extinction events and each time life has rebounded amazingly.
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
There's also immediate benefits, like helping to alleviate some of the current issues with our mass-produced food chain, eg less concern w/ salmonella in your romaine if you grew it yourself, higher quality eggs and meat if you co
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
I'm a bit more impressed with this article. This person posted the project to reddit 14 hours ago [ https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/bw6xs7/lyricsr... ] and already here's this profe
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by bsmitty5000 7y ago
That's amazing and I can't believe how much this sounds like what I'm trying to go for! I got my first two hives setup on Saturday and we finally moved our first group of 12 chickens out of the house and into the coop yesterd
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by bsmitty5000 8y ago
Maybe this- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-pale... ?
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by bsmitty5000 8y ago
Ironic because intelligent people should know correlation != causation? Well, I think sometimes correlation could indicate the cause, you just can't prove it. And in the case of myself I choose to believe!

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