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by edoo 8y ago
Things like this are how Soylent Green will happen without anyone actually realizing it.
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by edoo 8y ago
Is quantized inertia still a movement? Last I saw it accounted for the galactic spin without dark matter, which I thought was an ugly plug for an obviously incomplete model.
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by edoo 8y ago
I was a regular user of Expedia until some genius got the idea to disallow pasting into the password prompt. That was a few years ago and I couldn't tell you to this day if they fixed it or not. It was probably a short lived experime
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by edoo 8y ago
On youtube now you can find flight simulator reenactments of most every crash and air incident. They are quite fascinating and much much better than TV style dramatizations. Here is this incident: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by edoo 8y ago
I took another look and it looks like the PRU can also use the peripherals, so you might be able to have a simple realtime component utilizing the CAN peripheral. I used it for a proof of concept for a project and ended up taking a differen
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by edoo 8y ago
It is basically a raw MCU without any peripherals. I think the main purpose is so you can implement just about any basic peripheral and novel ideas in code, so it is essentially a bit bang but like most MCUs you can read/set an entire
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by edoo 8y ago
If you need a little bit more determinism the beaglebone has a PRU (programmable realtime unit), a separate processor that can pass data back and forth to the main RAM. http://beagleboard.org/pru I was able to use one to re
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by edoo 8y ago
Nowadays they have blood clot kits you just pour into the wound. It solidifies very quickly stopping most external blood loss but has to be surgically removed by the attending physicians.
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by edoo 8y ago
I hope I live to see the day I can read a news article about black market cybernetic chop shops.
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by edoo 8y ago
High fructose consumption has its own set of health problems. There is still a lot of glucose in fruits. There is usually a large difference in glycemic index for whole/juiced fruits. Soda being mostly high fructose corn syrup still
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by edoo 8y ago
It is not abuse, it is biochemistry. Your body is extremely efficient at absorbing carbs because in nature they only appear mostly encapsulated in fiber which gates their abortion. If you absorb a large amount of sugar your body has to im
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by edoo 8y ago
The problem is the sugar load. No amount of nutritional value can justify it. You can get those nutrients elsewhere without the insulin response.
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by edoo 8y ago
Juiced fruits should be considered the same as full sugar soda and self regulated as such.
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by edoo 8y ago
If a human would have gone to jail for the crime the company should have its charter revoked for at least an equal amount of time. Even the giants. Usually at best a corporation gets a fine and it just becomes a cost of doing business. Ev
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by edoo 8y ago
My adwords account was terminated after 7 years of inactivity for some violation regarding how I used my original $100 free credit to experiment with click metrics. I got a similar letter when I appealed. I didn't realize it until a
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by edoo 8y ago
Cross compatibility is a poor excuse to not use your own engine. You can use cross platform libs that give you exactly what you need, for example SDL for basic graphics or QT if you want GUI support.
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by edoo 8y ago
As far as I understand it there has been a few legislative pincher moves since inception. The 17th amendment might qualify as one. It allowed for a populist instead of representative vote of our senators and basically created the modern s
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by edoo 8y ago
I define a 'just' society as one in which initiating violence is forbidden and you must only use reason to persuade people to action. It is in line with the commandments "Thou shalt not murder/steal", which would be
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by edoo 8y ago
I think the original success of the US was due to the paradoxical government we created. The entire purpose of the government was to protect people from the government.
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by edoo 8y ago
In a just society the only way you can get rich is through voluntary interaction by adding value to world. In our society you can get rich through legislation, which has created the wealthy parasitic class that earns a living by preventing
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by edoo 8y ago
After 30 years the market is finally prime for a managed IRC service.
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by edoo 8y ago
They've built an incentive system to prevent people from actually defending themselves in a court of law. Only 3% of federal cases go to trial. Imagine having the option of 2 years in a minimum security or possibly face 10 years in a
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by edoo 8y ago
In some places if they run out of public defenders they hire a private attorney to act as one and they get paid a straight fee per case, no matter if the defendant pleads guilty on day one or it takes years. There is no better way to incen
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by edoo 8y ago
True, I would qualify that with 'fiscally speaking', or also 'given regions you would be willing to live'.
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by edoo 8y ago
A lot of people only see gross salary and forget the only thing that matters is how much money you net at the end of the year. For most in the middle class if you compare the cost of living index to a less desirable place to live, even with
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by edoo 8y ago
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Einstein Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion. - Feynmann
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by edoo 8y ago
The real secret with low effort outsourcing is to give them a week and if you aren't impressed moved on, or hire 3 at the same time and do the same thing. There are people that are very suited for low input remote work and tons that a
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by edoo 8y ago
In case you didn't know why, it was industrial espionage that did that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
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by edoo 8y ago
I want to see a browser plugin or web service that uses natural language processing to highlight both the claims of fact and opinion in different colors on the article you are reading.
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by edoo 8y ago
I really loved xkcd 2059.

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