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by glenra 12y ago
Having the option of getting biometrics when you stick something in your head doesn't prevent getting data other ways too. Me, I listen to podcasts for an hour a day or so while my phone is in my pocket and the only thing touching
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by glenra 12y ago
I have two use cases in mind: (1) Delivery-bot. A car that drives itself to drop off a package and only delivers on non-rainy days. (if you need delivery on a rainy day, you pay extra for a person-driven delivery service. Otherwise the pack
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The thing is that made-up or not, this is a really good idea . An idea whose time has come. Something like it is probably inevitable. Everywhere you go, you see people walking around with Apple headphones in their ears much of the time. Th
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by glenra 12y ago
You know how something gets studied? People try it. There are no "clinical trials" proving eating grapefruit is safe. Or hot dogs. Or bread. Or any specific cracker you find in the cracker aisle. Soylent is food. People eat food
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by glenra 12y ago
A car that only reliably self-drives in good weather conditions is still (a) quite a hard problem, (b) almost certainly a commercially viable product on its own (c) a pretty good start on a car that reliably self-drives in any weather.
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by glenra 12y ago
I can't speak to other areas but Silicon Valley was definitely like that. In the 1980s in Palo Alto, my high school AP Computer Science teacher asked parents to come in and give guest lectures in the last few weeks of class. Donald K
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by glenra 12y ago
In a market economy with strong property rights, complete resource depletion is extremely unlikely because prices telegraph in advance the information that the resource is becoming scarce. But what I'm saying is that even in a non -ma
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by glenra 12y ago
That's an odd take on it. No, I'd mainly say there's something about being invaded that can kill a civilization. A great many somethings. Though certainly some of them are environmental. It'd be harder to live there th
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by glenra 12y ago
Climate change is just one of the issues on which overactive editors of Wikipedia help create "verifiable reality" rather than merely reflect it. Which might be a bit of a problem. (The Wikipedia page for "climategate&quo
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by glenra 12y ago
> whether the population declined precipitously (no dispute here either) No, that is definitely one of the items under dispute. Lipo claims the population never reached that high a peak and did not substantially decline until after out
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by glenra 12y ago
On any contentious topic (eg: climate change, criminal cases, religion, politics, economics...) it is a HUGE improvement to not just read the main article but also skim the associated "talk" page to see what points of view are bei
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by glenra 12y ago
The Easter Island story told by Jared Diamond in Collapse is arguably a myth. Do you have any other examples? An alternate view of Easter Island includes these sorts of points: - Forests on Easter Island were largely killed by rats (an in
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by glenra 12y ago
> The usual strategies of sportswriting depend on the writer and reader sharing a set of passions and references [...] but you almost certainly don’t know as much about juggling as you do about football or baseball. Nope, I knew more a
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by glenra 12y ago
It's true that Seth tried all sorts of wacky self-experiments, but it's worth keeping in mind why . Most of them were inspired by the fact that he wasn't sleeping well. He tried all these odd magical remedies - standing on o
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by glenra 12y ago
I had a some luck with it for a while. The appetite suppression effect was noticeable at first, but eventually wore off - I was still taking the sugar water or oil but not losing weight. The diet is BILLED as "follow these steps and th
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by glenra 12y ago
The Libertarians were pretty dominant online in the age of Usenet but the Left seems pretty dominant on Tumblr and Wikipedia among others. I find this part of the intro puzzling: > If digital communication technology promotes leftist va
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by glenra 12y ago
Paranoia about the Koch brothers secretly controlling everything behind the scenes - or even their being particularly relevant and central to whatever specific political debate position you don't like - does seem like a direct modern d
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by glenra 13y ago
In a "retrospective" study, you look at the past - for instance, you interview people and ask them what they recall eating over the last year, and see how that tracks with their current health condition. But memories are faulty an
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by glenra 13y ago
The first CSS video says "the property and value are separated by a colon (which she pronounces "colin") as the head of some guy shows up in that position, then the narrator says "no, not that Colin". I don't r
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by glenra 13y ago
The CSS Virgin Quiz includes a question about Justin Timberlake and this True/False assertion: "The Big Lebowski is the perfect movie." I suspect all the quizzes are jokes or proof-of-concept placeholders.
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by glenra 13y ago
> should we be happy about the invention or mad because of another example of corporation grief? Happy, no question. Medicine this effective doesn't come along often and bodes very well in two ways: (1) a treatment that works but
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by glenra 13y ago
America had a privately built and privately funded transcontinental railroad. Without the option of government land grants there presumably would have been others, though their timing would have been different (they would have been built
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by glenra 13y ago
The private sector plants tree farms that aren't harvested for 40 years. So long as there are strong property rights, profitable investments can be made at just about any time scale. In fact, the main reason the private sector might in
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by glenra 13y ago
The key thing that distinguishes A* from BFS or DFS is that you use it when you want to make use of a distance metric to traverse a graph. What I mean by that is you have some way of objectively measuring whether you are getting closer
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by glenra 13y ago
The article claims loaned money is wasted in "useless pageants and tournaments" but pageants might be the opposite of useless in this context. Having regular events where people travel from near and far to show off their finery
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Of Corse it is.
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It's a competition to entertainingly find a best candidate. The core mechanic was the elimination round. Anyone who could consistently beat others given a random topic and limited time was likely to win regardless of what happene
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by glenra 13y ago
> There is a large social penalty for false alarms There is absolutely no social penalty for false alarms of that sort - not so long as the alarm goes in the right direction. Remember Schneider's "we have to offer up scary sc
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by glenra 13y ago
Sure, there's some overlap between assault, rape, and robbery. But the underlying point is sound. What makes a city dangerous includes one's overall chance of being victimized, not just the chance of being murdered. And if you loo
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by glenra 13y ago
Clearly in this case for him calling 911 was a mistake, because it made him more likely to be mildly beaten up, arrested, and thrown in jail. The outcome of this particular situation revealed that calling 911 has a bigger potential downsi

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