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by bulletsvshumans 6y ago
"Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community.[9][17] In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in
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by bulletsvshumans 6y ago
Just to be clear, those numbers aren't directly comparable. The market cap is the total value of the company, whereas the yearly budget is the cost for a single year.
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by bulletsvshumans 6y ago
Arcosanti was discussed recently on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066193
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by bulletsvshumans 6y ago
Wouldn't YOU like to know?
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by bulletsvshumans 6y ago
In some ways CLIs are great for discoverability, because they force everything into the familiar "list of commands" paradigm. GUIs can be either much better or much worse for discoverability, because the layout techniques that let
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by bulletsvshumans 6y ago
This episode [0] of "This Week In Virology" describes in detail the pharmacokinetics of Ivermectin and the issues with this study. [0] https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-599/
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by bulletsvshumans 6y ago
Ivermectin is approved by the FDA, but not (yet?) for treating COVID-19, and not at the doses shown to stop the virus in experimental conditions. The dose shown to be effective against COVID-19 is much much higher than the dosage approved b
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by bulletsvshumans 7y ago
Growth only matters to the degree that it will eventually lead to higher dividends though, from the perspective of shareholders. At some point companies (or the companies that acquire them) need to yield a dividend or else it's all a P
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by bulletsvshumans 7y ago
Buybacks directly cause dividend yields to go up because they reduce the number of outstanding shares, causing the remaining shareholders to receive a greater stake when future profits are distributed amongst fewer parties.
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by bulletsvshumans 7y ago
The flip side of the coin is protecting truth or useful ideas from ultimately less true or useful ideas. Or just simply avoiding the overhead of exhaustively vetting every idea without regard for its apparent merit. It's just like gene
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by bulletsvshumans 7y ago
Well, for starters, it might incentivize governments that want to reduce crime to reduce pollution.
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by bulletsvshumans 7y ago
Proposing coordinated action is different from taking individual action. For instance, if the intent is to pay more taxes without reducing your wealth relative to your peers, this strategy works, but writing a check to the IRS does not.
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by bulletsvshumans 7y ago
Why predict the next letter when you can just predict the whole sentence? https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA?t=62
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by bulletsvshumans 7y ago
Every generation owes the next generation a world that is in as good of condition as when they received it. Anything else is taking out a loan in the next generation’s name.
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
It's worth remembering that Microsoft had an explicit strategy to abuse standards in order to undermine competitors [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
Does this tech bring me joy?
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
My wife has a conventional car, so we use hers for anything requiring an especially long drive, which only really happens maybe four times a year. I never hit the ~72 mile range of my 2015 in the course of my normal day. I feel like having
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
The Nissan Leaf is a fairly well regarded all-electric car. I've been very happy with mine.
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
Sketch for UI/UX design.
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
The other stockholders are almost never your adversaries. Their interests are in alignment with yours: to vote in such a way that it maximizes the value of the stock. The only exception would be some kind of action that is specifically disc
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
I don't want to vote for each of the thousands of stocks I own indirectly through my index fund. I want Vanguard to vote on my behalf such that it proportionately replicates the votes of the non-index shareholders. This strategy is jus
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“Real developers don't use UIs”: The value of web UIs for CLI-oriented users(medium.com)
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by bulletsvshumans 8y ago
The subtle thing that I think the notion of 'illegal prime' misses is that it's not actually the prime number that is illegal. To complete the 'illegality' you need three pieces of information used in tandem: 1) the
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by bulletsvshumans 9y ago
If folks really want to make sure they come back from the dead, they might also think about setting up proper incentives for performing the potentially highly laborious process that resurrection might entail even 100+ years from now. It mig
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by bulletsvshumans 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War Estimates appear to vary widely, with most in the hundreds of thousands range, but there's one estimate as high as a million deaths in the Iraq War (from th
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by bulletsvshumans 11y ago
Law Enforcement Officer.
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by bulletsvshumans 11y ago
This idea was proposed in a popular reddit/4chan post a year and a half ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/2ccixc/anon_has_a_st...
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by bulletsvshumans 11y ago
Quote that explains their finding: "Researchers claim that microseismic activity from long ocean waves impacting the sea bed is what makes our planet vibrate and produces the droning sound. The pressure of the waves on the seafloor gen
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by bulletsvshumans 11y ago
I'd start with the DSM-V criteria for ADHD [1]. [1] http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html
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by bulletsvshumans 12y ago
How about a tax on AI that goes towards unemployment benefits of some kind?

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