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by dwiel 13y ago
I think its just convention in the US. They dont have per weight prices at the coop grocery I go to.
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by dwiel 13y ago
Just because they ask for access doesn't mean they don't already have it. It just means they haven't collected it in a way that can be used in a court case.
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by dwiel 13y ago
I was going to do this in the house that I am building, but the building department has very strict codes for how often you need 120VAC outlets (quite often to prevent daisy chained power strips and similar unsafe behavior). The relevant c
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by dwiel 13y ago
It was "SpaceX’s hexacopter."
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by dwiel 14y ago
This doesn't work if access to that information tempts those in power to do things that they wouldn't have if the the information didn't exist.
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by dwiel 14y ago
That, or you hold a different set of beliefs dear than the typical person. I'm not saying this is true about you, just that it is another possibility.
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by dwiel 14y ago
Do you mean to imply that the only thing we need to do is "stop having children like there's no tomorrow?" michaelochurch didn't say that outlawing factory farming was the only thing we should do like you seem to imply.
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by dwiel 14y ago
To some people money is the ultimate proxy for happiness, for some it is not, and of course there is a spectrum. It sounds like money is a better proxy for happiness for you then it is for the author. I actually had a discussion with my em
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by dwiel 14y ago
Your first points about how there are well known methods for manipulating democratic will are spot on. What truly democratic will is left in a world where politicians have power to mold the democratic will that is supposed to be controllin
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by dwiel 14y ago
Seems likely then that a lot of people dont like what Monsanto is doing, no matter how they sustain it. Also, its all a matter of degree, and it seems Monsanto goes to extremes, which gets people upset.
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by dwiel 14y ago
"That’s exactly what happened ... Quirky staffers took to the streets to protest ..."
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by dwiel 14y ago
Amount of fuel in a rocket necessary to send a mass X into orbit? I dont know the math, but i've heard the exact same feedback explination used.
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by dwiel 14y ago
Money is power and a person yielding large amounts of power which wasn't granted democratically can easily be seen as unethical as any other non democratic source of power. One can argue that a free market is kind of like democracy, but how
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by dwiel 14y ago
Does anyone have any recommended reading about computational efficiency of language he keeps mentioning? I've found chomsky, n (2005). Three factors in language design, but was wondering if anyone knew of anything else, or anything better.
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by dwiel 14y ago
The skilled carpenter may make the highest 'quality' table, the young one may make a more interesting or novel one.
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by dwiel 14y ago
I've also been working on something similar. I will get in touch.
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by dwiel 14y ago
$200 will get you a pretty nice refurbished bike from the 70s or 80s around here. Used parts are abundant and cheap. Unless you are racing the weight doesn't make a huge difference. Especially as you are just starting out.
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by dwiel 14y ago
Oh, I totally agree that unit cost right now is way way too high. That said it is many orders of magnitude cheaper to do a one off plastic part with a 3d printer than an injection mold. Also, 3d printers are just one small piece of the on
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by dwiel 14y ago
What about the ability for an AI to design appliances, furniture, etc for you based on what it knows anout you and the answers to any questions it thought relevant. Essentially your own personal architect, interior designer, industrial des
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by dwiel 14y ago
If this lifestyle is important to you, it seems natural that you'd want to find a lifelong partner that has similar feelings. One of the most common reasons for divorce is disagreements about money. My expenses didn't go up when I began my
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by dwiel 14y ago
Right, they would never even think of iy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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by dwiel 14y ago
We also use python in production at plotwatt for machine learning. We started by prototyping in matlab and then porting to c++, but have since found it much much easier to just do everything in python and numpy. When speed was an issue, w
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by dwiel 14y ago
... and that large swaths of the Earth receive new weather patterns completely disrupting nearly every ecosystem, with cascading effects including no food for us
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by dwiel 14y ago
Does anyone know why video conferencing is so poor now? Even on 30mbit/10mbit connections on both ends, we still get drops and lags a few times per 20 min call on both skype and google voice. It seems like latency is the real issue, thoug
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by dwiel 14y ago
Actually, growing your own is still illegal in Washington. Colorado limits each person to 6 plants. Will be interesting to see how the difference effects the markets.
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by dwiel 14y ago
We need to address the problem at its heart which is the separation of wealth. If there weren't huge players with lots of money to throw at the election (people and corporations), or if at least everyone had the same opportunity to do so,
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by dwiel 14y ago
You didn't ask for evidence in any of this posts' ancestery. If all you had said was "A scientific study regarding the connection between meditation and the ability to resist urges would be interesting and helpful to the authors assertions
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by dwiel 14y ago
If you are "cats" you are also "breathing". If you are "breathing" you are only "breathing".
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by dwiel 14y ago
kind of. A typical trailer park trailer is easily 800-1000 square feet compared to these which are 80-120 square feet. Similar relationship to neighbors though. Im actually founding a community similar to this right now. We have2.25 acre
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by dwiel 14y ago
Or something valuable that clearly requires your personal knowledge to operate. Like a fancy radio.

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