bullfightonmars

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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
War? Chill with the historonics. Surveillance is not war.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
This is very cool and would massively simplify how I build my dotfiles. Is there any way this could support macOS?
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
Ha! Have you read Peter Watts's Blindsight and Echopraxia?
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
The fermi paradox is a question, not an answer. The answer may indeed be one of probability of timing.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
E.g. paying for it with taxes or raising the miney with bonds.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
Incorrect. This is a fundamental property of the molecule CO2. CO2 absorbs infrared radiation. In the atmosphere this property of CO2 prevents infrared radiation from radiating back out into space. > While transparent to visible light, c
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
These are orthogonal concepts this is an attempt to create a carbon neutral hydrocarbon for energy use, the other is an attempt at carbon negative sequestration.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
… those 15 cabinet secretaries employ more than 4 million people.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
This is mostly irrelevant for considerations of the effect of rocket launches in the upper atmosphere, e.g. anything above the troposphere. This paper is mostly about the upper atmosphere. Global warming gases like CO2 accumulate primarily
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
Wow! These are all real things! I thought they were photoshop mockups, but no they seem to all be physical devices. I am not convinced that all the switches and dials actually function, but still these are beautiful.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
Gay rights and gay marriage equality was one of the top culture war issues that Republicans were fighting against from the late 90s until Obergefell. It’s a best hit. They will definitely bring it back.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
That was such a great demo of Leopard. I think that was the first demo I watched back in 2006 and I got my first Macbook Pro a few months later.
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by bullfightonmars 4y ago
My all time favorite piece from NPR is a story about sightings of “The Lord God Bird” near Brinkley, Arkansas back in 2005. It interleaves interviews from residents about their community with a song by Sufjan Stevens made for the piece. It
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
I am not sure if I understand this claim. It looks like this setup has the same density of information as a typical 27in 4k monitor.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
Don't forget that the market was heavily distorted in favor of sprawl. Massive federal investments (subsidies) in: * interstates and highways that made sprawl development possible. * oil infrastructure and automobiles. * suburban hou
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
I really appreciated the insight into the KPI's they are using to measure the impact of Intent Search: * counted cumulative gain - a measure of ranking quality * query reformulations - a measure of search friction * complaints about se
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
Yep, and those neighborhoods were all built before the 1940s.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
Check out Spintronics, it's a game/kit for building mechanical analogs for electric circuits. It's coming out sometime this year from the same team that made Turing Tumble. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
The Audubon Society guide books aee excellent. We have one on marine mammals that is really fun to read.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
This a parallel and independent ecosystem for numerical computing with equivalent libraries: * pandas - explorer * numpy - nx * statsmodel - Not sure this exists yet The article answers this pretty well. However, our goals are also to: * ma
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
It is all about incentives isn’t it? Google gave all the power to these SEO websites by making it difficult to get your content listed as a search result on the first page. Google could start incentivizing high quality unique content and we
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
Seattle does not bus students to school unless your house is > 1 mile from the school and then only if you are in the zone for that school. I live in a NW Seattle neighborhood that doesn’t even have sidewalks that you could walk to get
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
The problem is that banks totally ask for codes when you call them to do things like password resets.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
I thought the examples were just for illustration about how iteration works in Ruby.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
Basecamp worls really well for this. It has team and project based message boards with tight access controls that help to keep boards focused. I have used this to great effect in my teams.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
I have definitely felt this pain when navigating i to the past to investigate the origin and evolution of changes.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
This might also be a great way for the original creator to identify that people still find their software useful. It might help in handing off the project to an active community.
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
I am a big fan of the approach Mazda has taken. There is a nice sized cetralized screen with no touch controls. All climate and car controls are physical. All infotainment controls are physical and driven by a console dial and shortcuts. It
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
Maybe youtube will finally get a “back” button on ios!
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by bullfightonmars 5y ago
That sounds like the worst of both worlds! A codified two tier underclass. With one part in an unemplyed malaise, angry at having no purpose, and blind to the benefits they recieve. The other part an exploited class with no rights or benef

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