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by dluan 8y ago
Darwin ate all of them.
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I don't think many people keep screenshots of their livejournals around.
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It has nothing to do with popularity - it's a feature, not a bug of democratic capitalism: https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-53-welfare-titans
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Is the author actually trying to say that taxpayers paying or stadiums is socialist? As a Seattle sports fan, I am evidence that a lot of major American sports practice is not a democratic socialist exercise - we had a team and community an
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Opinion: Why we're closing comments(residentadvisor.net)
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just fyi, nearly all government projects are contracted out to your accenture's, deloitte's, and booz allen's. most government agencies don't carry out and execute, they just put up the RFP and take whichever one greases
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For those who would like to watch the world collapse, I really recommend the podcast Ashes Ashes: https://ashesashes.org/
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Did a quick skim of literature, and it seems accountability in structures is the check on two sets of rules. Whistleblowing, but also shorter terms, punishment, and trust seem like good strategies. Alas, defensive complexity should be the a
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What are the current tactics for labor to combat corruption or crony capitalism? Back in the summer, I was listening to a radio interview with the union head talking about their latest negotiations with Fiat, and I was surprised to hear tha
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This project was led by Thomas Gable at Northern Michigan University, and was funded by individuals on Experiment, and has produced several publications and outputs [1]. One of the cool highlights is that he found out that wolves tend to am
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Fighting In The Age Of Loneliness(youtube.com)
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NYPD Challenge Coins [pdf](researchdestroy.com)
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Has anyone ever done a study of free-market configurations eventually consolidating to a single standard? I almost feel like it's a quirk of capitalism that initial introduction of a technology results in an immediate mess of options a
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It's an odd and funny argument to make that your product is working well if it's always on fire or broken, which you would think an HN commenter like a sysadmin would understand. It just seems the margins for error get ever thinne
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Ah yes, the horrible take that is that you just feel bad because you care too much . The justified anger that you might be feeling is really what's making you sick, therefore you should just give up, accept the current situation, and
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Bioluminescence from the enzyme Luciferase evolved independently(elifesciences.org)
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Past economic studies have shown that by increasing the workers' wages, the company can also increase their own revenue and earnings, especially if the company is a sort of baseline goods provider like Amazon is.
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Cool is one thing I feel like robots will never understand. It is so hard to capture beyond just the physical vocabulary or syntax or body movements, or even black or white. Because when you see or meet someone, cool , you just know. James
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its not as fun when when you can kind of backwardsly induce how limited the training data set is, e.g. when I tried > a dog on a bun on dog on a bun on a dog on a bun on a dog on a bun on or maybe I've completely misunderstood it an
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Dunno! I think most larger dinosaurs then needed larger sources of energy. Look at the teeth of an ankylosaur or most ceratopsians - they're designed to chomp and scissor through large leafy kale.
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Last week I was in the field digging dinosaurs in Montana, when one of the dig leaders mentioned there was no grass back then, just lots of ferns, because grass hadn't evolved yet. It kind of blew my mind that for most of dinosaurs, th
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Until someone tries this and shares a sample with me, I would bet that it would taste great.
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IMO it seems the boom in various finishes is a response to NAS stuff being the norm and for producers to try and do something different with limited stock. I've had some wonderful wine finished whiskies - Leoville Barton Green Spot was
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It's kind of crazy just how much cheap swill gets sloshed around at minimum time just so that it qualifies the bond - only then to ship the barrels around to other producers for re-aging. IIRC most of barrels from Beam and Brown-Forman
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The n-person subgame Nash equilibria come from simple environmental constraints - the sheer number of people in India or China and the number of available seats in your commuter subway. The cost of not cutting the line is proportional to th
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155 people helped to fund the research team that serendipitously discovered a new bird species. Publication in PLoS One: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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New species of flying penguin discovered on 1km sand strip island in New Zealand(doc.govt.nz)
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In a way, programs have evolved, just very slowly because the evolutionary pressure was from developers, whose speed and effectiveness is a bit random. Most codebases are like little cells, with pockets of non-coding technical debt still in
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Back in the 90s there was a hilarious trend of winning the car in the mall by being the person to be in the car the longest. This was when SUVs were becoming a really big thing. People were sleeping in the car with 5 other strangers to see
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The following short segment is great. "What's swinging into place Max, is that we have great communication networks now coming about for the transmission of digital information. Now by digital we just mean symbols. There's th

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