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by eutropia 7y ago
"Let’s say such a line was made of a cable witha0=10−7m2: its total mass would then be around 40,000 kg. This is about twice the mass of the original lunar lander,and would make transporting and constructing such a cable completely pla
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by eutropia 7y ago
Pick up heavy things with your hands so that your arms and wrists don't atrophy. I started developing random elbow pain as a young developer ( with years of sedentary lifestyle already ) and it persisted for some time until I started
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by eutropia 7y ago
I mean, I guess the tradeoff is "keep bananas cheap" vs "keep banana industry alive in Australia". Unless all those growers had cyclone insurance, in which case, yeah, probably should have let in the foreign bananas, rig
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by eutropia 7y ago
Two ~planetary sized balls of nucleonic plasma orbiting one another inside an area the size of saturn every 7 minutes. That's mindbogglingly ridiculous.
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by eutropia 7y ago
I hate the autotrailers. Please let me disable them. I used to really enjoy taking my time exploring the catalog, even if I saw many choices I wasn't in the mood for at that moment, I would go ' oh cool I didn't know they h
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by eutropia 7y ago
> Nasa's announcement on Friday is part of a move towards full privatisation of the ISS. US President Donald Trump published a budget last year which called for the station to be defunded by the government by 2025. I had no idea th
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by eutropia 7y ago
I sometimes think that programmers come in two types: mathematically inclined or linguistically inclined. Think sorting vs parsing. I only realized this after testing out of and skipping all English and writing requirements easily, but hav
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by eutropia 7y ago
I liked the map[1] of all the places my phone has been. I mean, my damn telco and various three-letter agencies already have this info for wherever I have my smartphone -- so its nice that at least I have it too. I can reminisce about the
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by eutropia 7y ago
I'm sure that very smart person thought of problems in 5 minutes in an internet comment that the engineers who just put 60 satellites in orbit with didn't consider about their total addressable market...
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by eutropia 7y ago
Movie plots are not reality and don't make for compelling arguments. As someone who plans to adopt kids rather than adding another human to an overcrowded planet, people who act like life is meaningless without reproducing strike me in
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by eutropia 7y ago
With sufficient software and computational horsepower, a single whole-body MRI could replace most diagnostic imaging systems, I'd wager. Computer models regularly outperform radiologists in diagnosing several conditions involving stru
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by eutropia 8y ago
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-event-horizon-telescope-is-about-to-make-a-hyuuuuge-announcement That url is foolish.
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by eutropia 8y ago
Recently bought my first home without an agent on either side. If you were able to take away the complexities of applying for a mortgage, then the transaction would be as follows: buyer and seller sign a purchase contract(which defines what
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by eutropia 8y ago
Did they control for age? We have an unprecedented number of older people now, too.
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by eutropia 8y ago
I'm not personally familiar with those critiques and I haven't exhaustively read anything close to all the content from LessWrong, but I can point out that Yudkowski himself has a number of criticisms of Traditional Rationality.
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by eutropia 8y ago
> But the takeaway is clear enough: Just because something is expressed in numbers doesn’t make it right, or even rational. And rationality itself might not be quite what it’s cracked up to be. I'll grant something the first half of
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by eutropia 8y ago
They even have an essay about _cultish countercultishness_: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBma88LH3CLQsqyfS/cultish-co... I think some of the feeling of cultishness might stem from a homogeneity of expression, b
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by eutropia 8y ago
the James Webb space telescope was originally supposed to only cost 1 billion, but now is around 10 billion USD. Still, we could build two more of those for the price of a new LHC. And the JWST is going to give us insights about galaxy for
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by eutropia 8y ago
If you wanted to be the "honest" review site ideologically then you'd have to run it super cheap like craigslist and do something like have paid job postings, but it would have to be a small operation with a lot of automation
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by eutropia 8y ago
This is a common misconception thanks to the term "survival of the fittest". Evolution is a blind dumb statistical optimization by virtue and ONLY by virtue of creatures managing to reproduce. Anything that changes relative rate
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by eutropia 8y ago
There's a reason those guys were selling classes for 4 grand instead of quietly becoming rich following the advice they're selling people.
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by eutropia 8y ago
Yeah the press release and subsequent science journalism is all annoying and breathless and overblown -- totally agreed. But to say that its unconfirmed by experimentation and "not how science works" is a bit silly, don't you
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by eutropia 8y ago
True. I'm not a physicist, so help me understand -- we've only ever observed fermions with spin 1/2 and bosons with spin 1 (and recently, Higgs at 0). We've postulated that gravitons would have to be spin-2 because of h
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by eutropia 8y ago
Tone of this blog post is extremely pedantic and comes across as if the author were personally insulted by the paper. But her argument is basically "You didn't understand the math, and you misunderstood the work that you cited&quo
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by eutropia 8y ago
Sorry, edited my question to make more sense. I didn't really put enough effort in the first time.
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by eutropia 8y ago
Seems like an interesting take on peak energy supply -- charging it up for "free" from renewable sources and discharging instantly when needed. Edited for clarity: For people that are in the know regarding grid-level energy: is th
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by eutropia 8y ago
I think you meant to say that the mass accelerates opposite to forces acting upon it. An idealized -M + M = 0 pair of particles (one normal, one negative mass) could experience runaway acceleration. Author touches on this in the paper as a
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by eutropia 8y ago
Reading the paper, the author addresses this: "Firstly, the theory of positive–negative mass particle pairs provides clear rules that govern such interactions. The mechanics of these interactions are governed by the usual physical laws
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by eutropia 8y ago
So that's why I had so many extra things to firewall in glasswire!
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by eutropia 8y ago
(10/24) (100/60) (100/60)=1.1574 Our biggest revolution yet: extending the length of the day by 16%!

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