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by gpsx 5y ago
That is a good point that it is not like many other factors that affect evolution. I think there could be an evolutionary impact if the high cost of resources for one tribe, in tribe versus tribe competition, or a family, in family versus f
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think this is a noble idea. One thing that makes it difficult is that a computer is designed to execute arbitrary programs. People will always be tempted to "improve" whatever the specification is for this forever computer. A re
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by gpsx 5y ago
OK I get it, rounding error in calculating the square roots.
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by gpsx 5y ago
I must not be understanding the problem here because this seems pretty simple. If someone told me to add two lists of numbers (the square roots) and then take the difference of the two sums and the sums were potentially too big for the comp
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by gpsx 5y ago
I would like to see more about work-fare, where people are given jobs if they are unemployed. I think it is very important people have work to do, and not all people are as self motivated as the hacker news crowd. Secondly, this would hopef
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by gpsx 5y ago
I have been warned of this before. Technically it seems easy enough. I do not treat it as a scare tactic but would be interested in hearing opinions on it from others.
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think one problem in the US is that we have a medical system that is paid to medically treat people. We need a health care system that is paid to keep people healthy. In this case, advancement would mean more people are healthy. It might
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by gpsx 5y ago
I don't know about your first sentence. It seems more likely animals and humans would evolve to eat what they needed. That certainly seems like it would be evolutionarily preferred. But I do agree junk (which didn't exist through
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by gpsx 5y ago
Warning - opinionated non-expert here. I don't buy that it is as simple as the writeup implies. (I didn't read actual research it is based on however.) Is energy balance true? Yes. But as the paper implies, we don't have dire
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by gpsx 5y ago
You mentioned transaction fees, the other is "inflation" or mined coins. As mentioned above, this is the same as gold and many other things. I guess it is just a matter of definition if you want to say that is a negative sum game.
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think you are a little unfair in your comparison of bitcoin and gold. Gold has advantages over bitcoin, but bitcoin also has advantages over gold. Storing gold is more expensive then storing bitcoin. Transacting gold is much more difficul
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by gpsx 5y ago
I've had one of these forever. Great purchase. (I am sure it still works great but I never print anything anymore.)
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by gpsx 5y ago
I get your point that a node in the network can transfer a different packet. But I think people will have to be more creative with the protocol. For example, other nodes can hear both your transmission and next hop and can detect the packet
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by gpsx 5y ago
I don't know what is going on in the ham radio space, but it does seem like there are a lot of potentially interesting applications. Regarding mesh networking, you don't have to have encryption to do that. It could still be very i
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by gpsx 5y ago
The producer side would be the much more effective option if they could get a significant fraction of people to do the same. That might not happen now, but if enough people get fed up with Google maybe it will.
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by gpsx 5y ago
There are definitely tradeoffs. In javascript I can cavalierly code knowing that a sequence of lines will not be interrupted by another thread. (Unfortunately, I still have some mental overhead because I keep thinking, "This program wi
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think the role of a tab in a code editor is different from the role of a tab in a document editor. I have always used dedicated code editors and prefer tabs (but like you, I use and specify spaces for code style). I think people who use e
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by gpsx 5y ago
I assume this statement was made not long after Einstein discovered the equivalence between mass and energy, so it's understandable it may not have been obvious at the time that we could generate power that way.
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by gpsx 5y ago
This is market forces at work. There is not necessarily someone to blame, generally speaking. I expect we'll see prices going up, wages going up and margins going down. I think that is good since I think we have gone too far in the oth
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by gpsx 5y ago
Maybe that is why wealth inequality keeps getting worse? I'm hopeful that it will be different right now because of the various current circumstances, but we will see.
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by gpsx 5y ago
I have heard that income inequality has decreased in recent times of high inflation, but I do not have a source for that. Who is worse off depends on the inflation. If wage inflation is bigger than price inflation, then that is good for wor
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by gpsx 5y ago
I didn't do this when I bought my place 20 years ago. I looked for houses I liked and could afford near where I worked. Being single, school districts were not as much of a concern, though that would probably be the biggest factor for
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by gpsx 5y ago
They could use this for an all wheel drive mountain bike.
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by gpsx 5y ago
It is a pretty tough task to measure how productive you are (for the sake of better expectations). Assuming you do succeed at measuring your maximum productivity. The you have to measure is your distribution of productivity over time. This
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by gpsx 5y ago
Just to add this explicitly, to expand on some specifics, motorcycles have the added complexity of angular momentum and its effects. As you mention, turning the wheel effects your lean angle through angular momentum conservation. The cone t
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by gpsx 5y ago
FOMO. This is what causes bubbles. Of course it isn't any consolation that people can keep getting rich off of overpriced assets for a long time. As the saying goes, "The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can rema
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by gpsx 5y ago
I have been working on a large side project which is no longer just a side project. I am not getting as many hours of work in as I would like, but at the same time I know if I tried to do more, I wouldn't be productive. In fact I'
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by gpsx 5y ago
What is the zoning? Can you use the land for anything other than a ABM site? /s
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by gpsx 5y ago
I am guessing this is misstated because so often lack of survival is the reason there is less reproduction. But yes, it comes down to who passes their genetic material to the most offspring.
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by gpsx 5y ago
Yes - in order to have a change be that fast it would have to be something that makes those people dramatically better at surviving, like X-men type mutations, or reproducing. I don't think the change of this blood vessel is really tur

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