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The Long Term Fate and Evolution of Astrophysical Objects (1996)(arxiv.org)
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by firebaze 6y ago
"This is not available to you"
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Measles(en.wikipedia.org)
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by firebaze 6y ago
That person would probably be one of a billion. The AI is singular. This should cancel out.
515.
by firebaze 6y ago
This is beyond ridiculous, even if compared to the energy to train a human mind at the age of, let's say, 35. Raise a child to the age of 35 and the spent energy will surpass the mentioned energy cost by at least 2 orders of magnitude.
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by firebaze 6y ago
Humans are 1-2 orders of magnitude more influenced by habit instead of genetic predisposition. There are plenty of sources for that argument. In other words: educate your children, peers and acquaintances how to escape emotional headlines a
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by firebaze 6y ago
Can't agree more. Any headline which invokes a "what, really?" response should not be clicked, instead the keywords (like $villain or $unflattering_third_person or $unique_despicable_action) should be searched (for pro's
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Ellsberg Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
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by firebaze 6y ago
Past discussion (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6145429
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We don’t know why the universe appears to be expanding faster than it should(quantamagazine.org)
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Elizabeth Holmes Wants Boies Schiller Documents Kept Secret(wsj.com)
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by firebaze 6y ago
My wife is of romanian origin, is a developer, very good at her job and her record contains surpassing and outcompeting principal engineers at her organization. I wouldn't even feel the need to explain this, as it is natural. She is
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by firebaze 6y ago
Clickbait headline as per textbook exercise. Next in line: 50 ways to improve your life. The article is substantially better than expected, though.
524.
by firebaze 6y ago
As quite a few googlers appear to read and write on HN, I'd really welcome an insider info on what's going on the last few days. Sure there will be some internal turmoil going on right now, but isn't there some non-confidenti
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Don’t be lazy, use [JUnit] Rules (2018)(ncorti.com)
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by firebaze 6y ago
Past discussion, 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25096877
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Former Austrian finance minister found guilty in corruption case(politico.eu)
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528.
by firebaze 6y ago
Adding to your points, CO2 is also consumed by biological and geological processes (plants, algae, absorption in water etc.). Expanding on this, we could support the natural CO2 reducing mechanisms by for example stopping deforestation and
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by firebaze 6y ago
> Cover every rooftop, every parking lot, every desert with solar panels as much as we can. Cover every windy plain with wind turbines You'd extract quite a significant amount of energy from the weather system, assuming we'd gl
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What is the purpose of having an empty pair base class? (C++)(stackoverflow.com)
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531.
KTRR (Apple A10 Kernel Memory Protection) (2018)(siguza.github.io)
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by firebaze 6y ago
Because it is opposed to flame wars :)
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by firebaze 6y ago
> In a short essay, W. V. O. Quine noted the interesting fact that the Library of Babel is finite (that is, we will theoretically come to a point in history where everything has been written), and that the Library of Babel can be constru
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The Library of Babel (Book, 1941)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by firebaze 6y ago
It is constantly being updated: > The percentage of in-use ICU beds in each canton (as at November 17th)
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by firebaze 6y ago
Raw data visualized: https://www.thelocal.ch/20201106/maps-switzerlands-intensive... TLDR: not an as dramatic situation as the twitter thread proclaims. But still really serious.
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America will collapse (by 2025) (2010)(salon.com)
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Artis Microbia (Deinococcus Radiodurans)(micropia.nl)
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by firebaze 6y ago
Not my field at all so please be forgiving if I mix this up, but aren't virtual particles a possible explanation of the Casimir effect ( https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/casimir.html )?
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Strontium-90 at the Hanford Site and its Ecological Implications (2000) [pdf](inis.iaea.org)
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