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Global Extinction Rates: Why Do Estimates Vary So Wildly? (2015)(e360.yale.edu)
1 points by gloriousduke 9y ago|0 comments
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How a giant tree's death sparked the conservation movement 160 years ago (2013)(theguardian.com)
1 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|0 comments
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Guardians of the galaxy: the unlikely politics of Star Trek(newstatesman.com)
4 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|0 comments
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
Still working through the article, but it reminded me of the presumable fact that everything that happened before the first conscious entity existed in the Universe was essentially instantaneous. Same goes for time's forward direction.
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
Sometimes I feel like work is the meaning life. From a certain (simplified/badly poetic) view, living existence exists just to, and because it can, battle against the 2nd Law of Thermondynamics, and that sort of just trickles all the w
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
> The consequences of Zuckerberg’s inaction are now clear. On December 4, a North Carolina man brought a loaded weapon into Washington, D.C.’s Comet Ping Pong to investigate a conspiracy theory called #Pizzagate in which Comet is the hub
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Congress Bans Ticket-Scalpers' Tool Blamed for Quick Sell-Outs(npr.org)
3 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Battle in Court Over Lucrative Patents for Gene-Editing Tool(npr.org)
12 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|5 comments
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
With something like flowtype.org.
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Can the Denver Post Survive Its Hedge-Fund Owners?(westword.com)
2 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|0 comments
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Why Your Facebook Habit at Work Makes Economists Worry(npr.org)
2 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|0 comments
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
Valid points, but they won't stop the average less self-analytical person from trusting Big Data, just as many are susceptible to altering their behavior because of some "study" they read about in the paper. Due to our (the m
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
It looks like the link to part 2 is broken, so: http://www.salon.com/2001/03/26/wizards_part2/
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Death to the Minotaur (2001)(salon.com)
1 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|1 comments
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
I think this will be a growing trend for all social networks among the more thoughtful crowd (or at least a large curtailing of usage). What value does signing into these platforms many times per day really bring, especially considering the
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
A related issue is the coworker who knows you are working with technology X and provides links to tools to make your technology X toolchain better, particularly in a public forum like stand-ups. Such recommendations are fine when the intent
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
A libel case resulting from a situation like this could be important in setting precedent for how responsible companies need to be with (for?) their AI.
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
> For quite a bit of software these days, the correct program and the description of the correct program are pretty similar artifacts. My brain was going mental mobius strip when I was originally responding and thinking of something alon
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
Would you say it's easier to spec out hardware than software? I don't work with hardware, but from a layman's perspective it seems like you can (and have to be) utterly exacting when it comes to product matching designs, with
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by gloriousduke 10y ago
Hawaii island is dealing with a fungal pathogen that impacts the most abundant native tree similarly: http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/disease/ohia_wilt.html .
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Alien ‘Wow’ signal could be explained after almost 40 years(theguardian.com)
4 points by gloriousduke 10y ago|0 comments
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NOAA completes weather and climate supercomputer upgrades(noaanews.noaa.gov)
2 points by gloriousduke 11y ago|0 comments
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by gloriousduke 11y ago
> An entire human development up to the age of intelligence you are looking for I've also found the lack of development time consideration a weakness in the AGI literature I've read. We can create intelligent humans now, but it
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by gloriousduke 11y ago
> If the best and the brightest of you are drawn to building addictive apps rather than making great journalism, important films, or literature that survives the test of time, will we as a society be ultimately impoverished? The opportun
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by gloriousduke 11y ago
http://student.vub.ac.be/~clvidal/writings/Vidal-Starivore-B...
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by gloriousduke 11y ago
Using arrow functions also lexically binds the this value in the anonymous function, an important change for many. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by gloriousduke 11y ago
I feel as if this comment is an exemplar of Microsoft itself.
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by gloriousduke 11y ago
If existence is deterministic in a Laplaceanly demonic way, we should be able to unravel etiology more and more effectively as our technology improves. Perhaps this is a harbinger of the possibilities of the forensics of ontology.
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by gloriousduke 11y ago
Wheelerian thought should never be down-voted.
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by gloriousduke 12y ago
Just think, a member of the group is probably reading this thread right now...

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