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by gpsx 6y ago
Don't worry, if this were to ever catch on it would be incorporated into browsers, meaning the net effect is just to make browsers more complicated.
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by gpsx 6y ago
I think the real question with the probability of life starting is eactly how easy it is to create life or even a good reproducing state given the proper conditions. What makes it dificult is that probabilities shrink very rapidly. If you c
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by gpsx 6y ago
All the money coming from the fed must be paid back, I believe. It seems like this will be difficult to repay. Usually with a loan a business would invest in capital or something similar and there is no value lost. Then there is the hope of
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by gpsx 6y ago
It is useful to think about all the energy in the problem. There is a case where the only energy in the problem is the kinetic energy of the spaceship and the potential energy from gravity. That is the case of firing the spaceship with a gi
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by gpsx 6y ago
I have been taking my temperature every day, maybe a few times a day for over a month. I was just curious to see how helpful this is related to COVID-19. Anyway, what I did see, for what it is worth, was my temperature change by a lot over
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by gpsx 6y ago
Labor force participation in the US has dropped heavily in since 2008 and even since it peaked around 2000. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART This in spite of the reported very low unemployment rate, which is
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by gpsx 6y ago
I had a similar experience at a startup. The business manager would only bring a technical problem if he had a solution. And of course, he wasn't really in a good position to present solutions to these problems. It is a great trait for
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by gpsx 6y ago
The difference between a startup and a big company is not just dollars. Making a product in a startup is sort of a process of discovery. In a big company they will generally have a pretty well defined picture of what they want. When a start
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by gpsx 6y ago
What would be a good use of gas stations for electric cars is battery swapping. It is too early to make this mandatory but I think it might be time to start working on this idea. (It has been looked into before.)
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by gpsx 6y ago
True, this was just an observation that, as the article said, there probably is more waste when you eat at a restaurant as compared to eating at home. They have a one-size-fits all problem in portion serving.
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by gpsx 6y ago
I expect people leave a lot of food uneaten at restaurants. The times I completely clear my plate, which should be the norm, I often get the same comment from the waiter, "Wow, you really liked that."
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Covid-19 Health Passport(docs.google.com)
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by gpsx 6y ago
Great point. I don't think people generally consider what makes up the growth of the stock market. I think two major components are value creation in the real economy (which sort of is what GDP is supposed to measure) and inflation, as
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by gpsx 6y ago
The article talks about how few companies have filed for bankruptcy so far. I have heard it predicted that companies will wait until businesses are open so they can liquidate. And, at the same time there would be a race then because compani
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by gpsx 6y ago
This advice might apply to written applications too. In college I was applying for a scholarship, in its first year, in which they picked one recipient from each state. It was a long application. The very last page was the question, "I
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by gpsx 7y ago
And then, someone went and invented the graphical user interface. So many precious machine cycles wasted rendering graphics for people who are too lazy to use the command line like they are supposed to. Shhheez.
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by gpsx 7y ago
I like Reuters because it seems to be one of the more neutral news sources in the US.
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by gpsx 7y ago
They say communication is X% non-verbal. Googling just now I got 93%. So maybe, intentionally or not, it is more than just the words used.
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by gpsx 7y ago
How do these ideas of energy relate to things like google search and software in general? I know server farms use a ton of energy and I also am pretty sure the human brain is by far the biggest consumer of energy in the human body. Maybe it
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by gpsx 7y ago
I think the best language to solve this problem is Excel. It says "circular dependency".
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by gpsx 7y ago
That is very cool, but does it produce no branches?
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by gpsx 7y ago
I'm not sure it is worse than getting the same amount of UV from the Sun. But, when I go to a tanning salon, I do see some people who overdue it. I would agree that is bad.
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by gpsx 7y ago
I’m not sure what kind of light therapy you did. I would recommend trying a tanning salon. Try to find beds with high UVB (the “bad” kind). This is better fir getting vitamin D. And they are the cheap beds too. You do t need to stay in long
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by gpsx 7y ago
The words "many worlds" is misleading to a lot of people. As Carroll says, when a "measurement" occurs, nothing special happens. It is just normal quantum mechanics. I think in general people accept that there can be a w
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by gpsx 7y ago
I'm not sure where this fits into your three problems but I spend most of my time thinking about problems that business gives me. Of course, this still underscores your point about social science.
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by gpsx 7y ago
I agree this is scary. I should also say this is about more than just spying on people, and some of the uses, probably the less impactful ones, are not evil. There is a lot you could do with a real time model of the world. Like I said, I ha
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by gpsx 7y ago
I can think of something massively useful for technology like this when it gets a little (lot) better, and considering using many cameras such as from robots - a real time map of the world. You would know where everybody is and where they h
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by gpsx 7y ago
I'm sold on meditating being beneficial. This article is a reminder that I need to start doing it regularly again. How difficult it is for me is probably a reflection of how much I need it. I wonder about some of the _negative_ effects
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by gpsx 7y ago
Maybe this is what progress looks like... I think the reason people learned much more about the geography before was because it was a byproduct of doing the work needed to get around. Those Thomas guides weren't easy. Of course, I like
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by gpsx 7y ago
I feel embarrassed to ask such an obvious question, but what would it take to _not_ download electron with every app? I assume the main drawback to doing this is having the correct version. This isn't a big problem for web browsers.

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