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by goodmachine 6y ago
I agree. But please, let us never use 'lateral' as a verb ever again.
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by goodmachine 6y ago
I had to look up the "organ kundabuffer" "In his most important book, BEELZEBUB'S TALE TO HIS GRANDSON, Gurdjieff talks about an organ that was implanted into humanity called the "organ kundabuffer". It was pl
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by goodmachine 6y ago
Insults are feedback, like it or not
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by goodmachine 6y ago
Interesting - almost identical to the idea of not overwhelming relatively inflexible health services with spikes of new cases, only within a single human body? [Mumbles something about hormesis.]
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by goodmachine 6y ago
> We’d love the luxury of lots of coffee shops, start-ups, self-employed fringe service gigs, but at a moment’s notice you can take all that away and it’s fine. Those weren’t ever really real jobs, just floating “good times” jobs already
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by goodmachine 6y ago
Before the "We hate Electron" crowd gets here - congrats to all involved on this release: so far it works great, the UX is simple enough for anyone to use, it's open source and most importantly - it isn't Zoom. Good enou
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by goodmachine 7y ago
>"clueless academics" Spoken like a true cult member, that's one of Taleb's personal favourite sayings. For everyone else, why you should ignore him https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article&
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Basalts Turn Carbon into Stone for Permanent Storage(eos.org)
1 points by goodmachine 7y ago|0 comments
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by goodmachine 7y ago
Agreed!
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by goodmachine 7y ago
Cf the 'Alipay Health Code' now in use in China “Green code, travel freely. Red or yellow, report immediately.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/business/china-coronaviru...
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by goodmachine 7y ago
A New Kind of Science, S. Wolfram (2002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity" http://bactra.org/reviews&#x2F
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by goodmachine 7y ago
I believe the authors are aware of this.
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Losses soar at SoftBank-backed Improbable(ft.com)
1 points by goodmachine 7y ago|0 comments
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by goodmachine 7y ago
To be fair he was attacking a) Forbes, and b) the messenger's curious credentials: not the messenger directly. The message itself is naive at best, so I wondered the same things.
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Google's OpenSK lets you BYOSK – burn your own security key(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by goodmachine 7y ago|0 comments
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by goodmachine 7y ago
> Twitter regularly switches you back to garbage mode Right. The other problem is that garbage mode is two-way. I don't want to see other people's likes etc, and I don't want to have my own garbage jammed into anyone else&
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by goodmachine 7y ago
> the entire enterprise is a license to print money Correct https://www.google.com/search?tbm=fin&q=NASDAQ:+QQQ&stick=H4...
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by goodmachine 7y ago
Personal Blocklist by Google has been forked and reimplemented by a number of people: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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GPU-Accelerated Signal Processing with CuSignal(medium.com)
3 points by goodmachine 7y ago|0 comments
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by goodmachine 7y ago
Pity the guy stole the name from Storm Thorgerson's design studio. Kind of a dick move. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipgnosis
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The National Coin Flip Lottery(improspectives.com)
1 points by goodmachine 7y ago|0 comments
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Optical Communication Using LEDs Alone(hackaday.com)
2 points by goodmachine 7y ago|0 comments
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by goodmachine 7y ago
The geometry, hence tiling, of the concrete blocks used is quite interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvUG6VNcNR0
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by goodmachine 7y ago
The latter, I think.
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by goodmachine 7y ago
Acid blobs http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/?cat=acid+blobs
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by goodmachine 7y ago
The notorious Millennial Pink somewhat over-used here? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2017/mar/... https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/what-is-millennial-pink
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by goodmachine 7y ago
Fascinating stuff, although obviously bananas. Reminds me somewhat of Elliot Waves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_wave_principle
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by goodmachine 7y ago
This is not the astrology paper I was looking for.
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by goodmachine 7y ago
Flagging helps here because the author (with whom, fwiw, I basically agree - let's have more nuclear power!) cannot be trusted to supply reliable information, ie not to distort data whenever it suits him. https://www.wiseint
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by goodmachine 7y ago
"The group has not yet settled on a name for the mystery material. Jena calls it U-carbon—U for unusual. But Therrien, inspired by medieval alchemists who sought in vain for “adamant,” an unbreakable lodestone, is calling it adamantia.

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