gnatman

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   by gnatman 3y ago

   If by "we" you mean Washington, DC - I guess I could believe that since it's one of the highest per-capita income cities in the world. But park sweeping robots are nowhere near reality for most cities in the US, let alone the
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   by gnatman 3y ago

   On what timeline do you believe this circular AI/robot reality will come to pass? 10 years? 100? Either way this is a fallacious argument.
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   by gnatman 3y ago

   I don't think that an accredited university science department is going to commit fraud to win $10,000 USD.
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   by gnatman 3y ago

   Here's turbine in Denmark that lost its brakes and disintegrated in 2008. The description says the tower was 60m tall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nSB1SdVHqQ
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   by gnatman 3y ago

   How do anabolic steroids, which make me big & strong, also kill me?
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   by gnatman 3y ago

   I'm sure the commenter above has seen this but for anyone who hasn't: Andy Gavin talking about pushing the envelope of the Playstation for Crash Bandicoot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
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   by gnatman 3y ago

   You can get a cool vintage Vostok for <$100
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   by gnatman 3y ago

   I’m far from an expert and don’t own any cryptocurrency but I can’t imagine buying a hardware wallet from a “popular classifieds website”, i.e. ebay.
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   by gnatman 4y ago

   About 10 years ago I started seeing writing as a creative practice very similar to playing an instrument. If you want to get good at playing an instrument there's no shortcut to replace playing a LOT. I found that when I wrote on a com
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    There's a great episode of NPR's Hidden Brain about the placebo effect called "All The World's A Stage—Including The Doctor's Office". https://www.npr.org/transcripts/718227789
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    The CEO, Rishi Shah, was a major rising star and was profiled by the Wall Street Journal in 2017. The journalist on the story thought something seemed fishy and started pulling threads, leading to an expose published in October of that year
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Awesome pic- looks like a 70s sci-fi paperback cover
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    And in fact they’ll thrive as more and more detritus rains from above!
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Some interesting discussion here: http://forum.nanfa.org/index.php/topic/12401-spontaneous-reg...
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Pretty funny if this is common practice!
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    I liked his interview with numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Sounds like you're telling OP not to chase "someone else's dreams" and instead to chase YOUR dream.
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Add in a trash bag and gloves- now you're getting exercise AND maintaining your neighborhood!
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    I thought those fuel bladders were pretty cool! Never thought about transporting volatiles in anything other than a rigid tank. Also had to look up what AN-8 Fuel is: "AN8 is a special fuel blend unique to the Antarctic and Arctic. It
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    >More flares are expected from this region as it moves across the sun creating occasional degradation of high frequency (3-30 MHz) communication. that's short wave radio, right?
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    I found this perspective on the Bob Lazar story to be extremely compelling: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang... Spoiler: he's basically full of crap. And the "UFOs" were parti
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    >Source? My impression was that alternatives were already being developed prior to widespread ban. A quick wikipedia search confirms this. The montreal protocol was signed in 1987 and came into effect in 1989, but by that time alternativ
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Whoa... Flashback to me trying to launch Oregon Trail or Lemmings from a beat up 5.25 floppy.
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Toyota MR2 in french is pronounced Em Air Deux, very close to "merde" which means "shit".
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Here's one of the best audio "pictures" of the grateful dead's mammoth PA system, The Wall of Sound, designed by engineer and chemist Owsley Stanley for the 73 and 74 tours. This is a famously good audience recording and
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    2nd video down on this page (first is the introduction): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/szostak/lect...
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Charmed and amazed by how lucid and lively he is recounting this story at 101 years old!
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    It's pretty easy to imagine both of these things being true, and the one fulfillment center you visited having substantially less than 13k disciplinary notices. I worked 7 years in industrial staffing for a variety of large distributio
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    Yeah I wonder if, after seeing how the sausage is made on payment processing (and making $95B of sausage himself), he doesn't want exposure under some other (to him) shitty system. It could also be some petty competitive instinct to st
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    by gnatman 4y ago

    They saw it as problematic enough that AT&T was broken up in the 80s.