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by civilian 8y ago
I want to add to saal's point-- Carbon is _fantastic_. It easily forms bonds in 4 directions, but can instead form bonds in 3- or 2- or occassionaly 1- direction if need be. If you are choosing an element to be the "lego backbone&
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by civilian 8y ago
Sorry, it's not clear to me, what exactly is the con that these bots are running?
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by civilian 8y ago
Yeah, I was thinking it was that or my probably-unneccessary flippant attitude. (And btw, I truly do appreciate HN's habit of trying to explain downvotes.) I just get triggered at low-effort skepticism. Tomsaga read the word "stab
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by civilian 8y ago
Well then, let's try "relatively stable" rather than "stable". These are scientists who probably have some idea of how to measure variance. You're some rando on the internet shooting from the hip. ¯\_(ツ)_/
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by civilian 8y ago
We, as a society, decided that 0.08 is the limit. And we have no idea how much marginal error are on these machines. If you want a different standard, try to get the legal limit changes to 0.06 or whatever! What you're doing right now
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by civilian 8y ago
Another option is pyImgui. Imgui is C++ based. pyimgui isn't on the latest imgui version, but it's coming along. https://github.com/swistakm/pyimgui
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by civilian 8y ago
I found an easter egg or a WIP! There's an item with `display: none` on it. :]
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by civilian 8y ago
But what about early retirement? I don't want to work until I'm 65. I'd rather work hard now, and be aggressive or "greedy" about my salary, so that I can retire earlier and fund things for my future family. That&#x
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by civilian 9y ago
I wasn't being smug, I was being curious.
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by civilian 9y ago
Right. But what transportation costs does she have when she doesn't have to work?
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by civilian 9y ago
> In contrast, Fossil users only need to think about their working directory and the check-in they are working on. That is 60% less distraction. Every developer has a finite number of brain-cycles. Fossil requires fewer brain-cycles to
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by civilian 9y ago
I mean, the guy putting forward this theory is an expect in fluid dynamics. So I expect the answer is "yes, animals do make a big impact on oxygenation of the ocean". Here's another study from 2014 that talks about the link b
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by civilian 9y ago
Obviously yes it matters. You got rights, and self-defense is infinitely easier if it's not the government coming after you.
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by civilian 9y ago
Whaaat! I never heard about the galaxy arm transit coinciding with mass extinction events. I'm about to google, but do you have a favored source?
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by civilian 9y ago
But, the arms don't rotate either! There are some great animations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_wave_theory The article was about stars on the edge of a galaxy. > “But regardless of whether a gal
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by civilian 9y ago
The observation is for stars at the _edge_ of the galaxy. Sol is not on the edge.
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by civilian 9y ago
Yep. This has way higher priority than even most other charities too. Sometimes I compare the policies of "homeless maintenance" in the US to what it could be done in the third world. I would re-allocate funds in a second if I was
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by civilian 9y ago
I have a random related question-- will product management pay as well as engineering? Or is the OP implicitly asking for a loss in pay?
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by civilian 9y ago
We don't violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. We're still increasing entropy, but we're processing so much fuel that the equations are still balanced when we locally increase order. Comparing lifespan to the bonds of a mole
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by civilian 9y ago
Oh shit, do you mean that just maybe, maybe, that a more nuanced view of politics is more likely to be correct? Conservatives aren't a monolith, they come in many flavors. And comeon, this is great news! Just be happy and hope that we
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by civilian 9y ago
I don't think you understand currencies? There will always be some level of currency-to-currency trading, but the hope is that it will be minor compared to the major purpose of a currency--- using it as a easy way to exchange value. (W
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by civilian 9y ago
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Even though humans are limited in our senses, we've built machines to see and monitor every frequency of light. And we're also really good at finding patterns. If there was an acti
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by civilian 9y ago
No, I've just done a lot of CBT. Killing yourself for a chance at a NYT article is flawed thinking, plain and simple. I graduated at 2009, after the recession, with a degree that wasn't particularly useful. I was unemployed for a
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by civilian 9y ago
"People can't help themselves" lacks so much persuasion. You'd be at home in puritan Massachusetts, where all fun is banned.
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by civilian 9y ago
One of my close friends killed himself. I don't wish suicide on anyone. I'm sure Doug Schifter's fallacies are obvious to us. He was committing the CBT cognitive distortions of "Personalization" and "magnificat
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by civilian 9y ago
On the plus side, Netflix is saving children from hundreds of hours of commercials a year! Snapchat does add the metric of conversation streaks, but _that isnt the point_ and it's honestly not enough to keep me using it. I like snapcha
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by civilian 9y ago
Another thing to do is one of the bike tours here: https://www.fattiretours.com/berlin There are different tours but they have a lot of overlapping content. It was really cool to have a bike trip weaving back and forth betw
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by civilian 9y ago
Sarcasm is a great tool. But there are a couple of people I know who never turn off their "Sarcastic tone", and it becomes impossible to tell what's genuine and what's bullshit. I try to tell them that their noise-to-sig
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by civilian 9y ago
Michael Malice is great. He had an interview that also covered North Korea on the Rubin Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmaPdyqGUU
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by civilian 9y ago
Strawman harder! I want the government-granted local monopolies to be ended too. The risk I'm avoiding is not "slightly worse consumer product". The risk I'm hoping to avoid by lobbying for anti-NN is China/Singapor

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