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by ema 9y ago
I think the difference is that wearing a new suit and having a shaved face signals that one cares enough to make the effort to appear neat. Dying ones hear (with a natural color) however is a modification of one's appearance that one w
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by ema 9y ago
Reading (not even) between his lines it seems that it was the increased hostility of online discourse that stopped him from writing more. I'm sure he hasn't run out of ideas and wouldn't mind sharing them if there was less sc
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by ema 9y ago
I went to school from 7 to 9 and then again from 15 to 18. It depends on the subject but on average the depth should be in the same ballpark. He definitely knows more math and physics than I do, maybe chemistry as well, I think I'm bet
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by ema 9y ago
My older brother has a master in physics, I spent less than 6 years in any kind of formal education. We both work as software developers and I do think my education is as well rounded as his. So on these fronts I don't think it makes m
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by ema 9y ago
Hey not so fast, some of us who were 5 in '97 still managed to share in the "joy" of configuring X11. Gentoo and the endless learning opportunities it provides be blessed.
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by ema 9y ago
A lot of stuff is objective[1] but not everything is and there we can't really do better than "personal taste". A coherent vision by one person might rub me the wrong way but a design by committee will certainly do so. [1] in
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by ema 9y ago
Many of the people who started the protests in East Germany did not have the aim of reunification either. Their goal was to reform and open up the system. Only later when the protests had swelled up in numbers did the slogan of "Wir si
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by ema 9y ago
Eyeballing that chart though it seems to have slowed down in the last half of the year. Also interesting the pattern of slowed down adoption in the beginning of each. I wonder what's up with that.
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by ema 9y ago
Looking at the graphs in the article the difference between oldest and second oldest is much bigger than between subsequent ones.
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by ema 9y ago
I find it highly unlikely that this could produce an effect this big. If anything I would expect the effect to be in the opposite direction motivated by defiance. (though then I am a second born who did respond to the survey (without giving
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by ema 9y ago
IIRC at the time of the first video they had already worked on it for around a decade. Personally I'm hoping that just means they have enough stamina to see it through and not that they'll never finish.
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by ema 9y ago
There is still variable timing depending on whether the needed data happens to be in cache or not. Not sure how hard it is to code in such a way that it is predictable what data is gonna be in cache at which times.
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by ema 9y ago
I think Chile would be the first country for "first contact". Why? it's an elaborate pun in their alien language and the alien bureaucrat in charge of that decision really loves puns.
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by ema 9y ago
How would that help? It's not exactly rocket science to open up yet another reddit clone for the untouchables afterwards.
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by ema 9y ago
You brought up the question of why people are interested in the mill and then discussed the question of whether the mill is viable. They're not completely unrelated but still distinct. Being a software guy I can't say much about t
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by ema 9y ago
Hydrogen in low concentrations isn't dangerous and it's gonna be slowly bonded into water again whenever there is a flame or lightning strike.
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by ema 10y ago
Pilots know that, but I bet a sizable portion of the passengers don't.
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by ema 10y ago
same as the infinite number of zeros in front of a positive number.
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Nothing to be done(medium.com)
2 points by ema 10y ago|1 comments
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by ema 10y ago
The cameras of the self driving car of course. I assume converting these inputs into maps that are usable enough for this purpose is much easier than driving a car in city conditions. So _if_ we get self driving cars we also get live update
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by ema 10y ago
You plan the path on a high resolution map on the center console. When decision speed is a non issue this is a quite nice interface because you can double check the entire path before the wheels turn.
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by ema 10y ago
I think the choice of music is quite clever, makes it seem jolly and approachable, instead of the connotations of solemn futurism that self-driving usually has.
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by ema 10y ago
Don't you feel at least a little bit curious on why someone could adopt a position that is so obviously wrong to you? Remember, these are people too, not that much unlike you. Some of them might even have the same favorite movies as yo
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by ema 10y ago
Sure more variability means stronger selection, but bigger mutations are less likely to be positive mutations so more selection events need to be spend to get them out of the gene pool again.
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by ema 10y ago
> On the other hand, sending life to Mars, due to that radiation, would make it evolve much faster, right? The bottleneck in evolution isn't mutations but selection events (~= number of organisms).
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by ema 10y ago
I don't think that is quite what he's looking for, the Mill is not exactly RISC. Though it is an awesome architecture and I recommend anyone to check it out.
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by ema 10y ago
We inherit the genes of our parents not completely mixed but in large chunks. So someone who is first generation mixed race while have large continuous regions of their genome from one race or the other. If two such people have children the
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by ema 10y ago
While ultimately all people are of African origin it is still interesting to see whether there were later migration waves out of Africa. (Or even back into Africa for that matter)
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by ema 10y ago
To which correct German sentence does "Let's go by Jeremy" correspond? Closest I can come up with is "Lass uns bei Jeremy vorbeischauen". Though in this case 'bei' has more of the meaning of 'at'
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On road repair and the placebo effect(medium.com)
2 points by ema 10y ago|0 comments

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