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by internaut 10y ago
The future used to be much more interesting. Check out Whale Bus: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Fr...
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by internaut 10y ago
The water sensor one is a good use case but the others seem a bit weak. They seem like the kind of technology I could have developed or even bought off the shelf in 1980. I was talking to one guy who says the security sensors to detect foot
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by internaut 10y ago
To be serious Adam, what is the reason for this: > human tendency of blaming externalities as to avoid serious self reflection Everybody does it but you have to wonder why. What is the evolutionary purpose of denial? Surely changing one
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by internaut 10y ago
I don't think so. As far as I understand it is accepted that neoconservativism endorses foreign intervention and democracy. Thiel has been against these misadventures to 'reform' the Middle East and he isn't a fan of dem
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by internaut 10y ago
And in-depth piece from businessinsider? > In short, he's trying to save the world from apocalypse. I would call that accurate in two senses. Thiel believes the world faces an existential threat and that the threat is non-fictional.
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by internaut 10y ago
I've started to think that a lot of what we are isn't present inside our heads although it informs them. Things like books, culture which are all intergenerational memories. We're constantly immersed from the earliest develop
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by internaut 10y ago
With Troll Dad I think you get taught critical thinking at an early stage. We should use the Asch Test in schools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIh4MkcfJA
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by internaut 10y ago
I'll check it out.
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by internaut 10y ago
I'm sure you're right, bach it's pretty damn good! Sometimes you can just sense history through the music. I probably wouldn't pick up on loss, I expect it is like enjoying real bean coffee vs the granulated matter that
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by internaut 10y ago
Dramatic music has deep roots in our classical tradition. It is something that is richly influenced by culture which is interesting. A typical example is Carmina Burana, which qualifies as the 'most damn German thing ever' to me.
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by internaut 10y ago
This is cool. The organ is infrequently used because it is so huge but if you want high drama it's the right tool for the job. Interstellar on church organ is intense. Feel inspired here: https://youtu.be/zg5QMysuSYg
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by internaut 10y ago
The Icelanders are big supporters of Wikileaks and Birgitta herself was a member. Potentially this could mean an invite to Iceland for the occupant of the Ecuadorian embassy or Edward Snowden.
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by internaut 10y ago
Having a kill switch for the Net is an unbelievably bad idea. There are two reasons. 1. If a political actor wanted to kill off a large group of people without the government calling in the army to intervene then it would need a definite wi
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by internaut 10y ago
Now this is god damn huge. I'm an outsider to this topic and any bio technicians/scientists are welcome to butt in, but as I see it there are at least two serious problems with the industry. 1. Eroom's Law. The cost of drug d
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by internaut 10y ago
Sounds political. Maybe you should flag it. Just as Paul Graham talks of submarine pieces which are adverts in disguise, the same thing happens with political messages dressed up as something else. This severely annoys me when it is in the
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by internaut 10y ago
This is both amusing and slightly terrifying. I think he'll be in mending bridges mode. He needs SV if he is serious about reform. On the other hand the Media had their Red Wedding. “It was like a fucking firing squad,” one source said
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by internaut 10y ago
> The news article you're citing literally makes no mention of the barometric pressure. Areas of low pressure have a colloquial name. Storms. I suggest you come back to this thread on a different day and re-read it. Or give it to so
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by internaut 10y ago
To those unacquainted, imagine if Godel Escher Bach mated with The Lord of the Rings. It is a true masterpiece.
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by internaut 10y ago
True. I do have a related question for you if you'll permit a final digression while we're on this subject. What are your thoughts on vacuum insulation panels? They have incredible R values, but leak over time. Do you see them bei
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by internaut 10y ago
You mean low barometric pressure, not high. The chain of causality was this: Low pressure causing high pollen density causing respiratory illness. This has the power to explain why large numbers of people were abruptly affected. It's a
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by internaut 10y ago
I can recommend Puro Sound Labs. https://purosound.com/products/iem-200-studio-grade-in-ear-h... They do a nice reasonably priced line of headphones and earphones which won't exceed 85 dB. They also sell an adapte
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by internaut 10y ago
> Thousands unexpectedly developed symptoms? This is hard to believe. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-29/thunderstorm-asthma-ei... "An eighth person has died following last week's freak thunderstor
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by internaut 10y ago
> Houses are not that airtight. Long before a house gets airtight enough to maintain a pressure differential efficiently, the occupants will get ill as off-gassing from carpets and paints and wood finishes cannot escape. They are that ai
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by internaut 10y ago
One of the major reasons for reforming the fourth estate is that they have crippled large numbers of people's metacognition. Fast news is like fast food. The television watching population's view of reality is impressionistic. Of
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by internaut 10y ago
Yes, probably. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-04/thunderstorm-asthma-wa... If changes in barometric pressure change how pollen is dispersed then wearing a mask might be the right answer for a person with respi
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by internaut 10y ago
You might want to talk to some engineers about that. It may be possible to have a fine degree of control over air pressure in today's high spec houses because of their high air tightness requirements. I don't know that it is possi
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by internaut 10y ago
This is very real. Barometric pressure directly affects your ability to breathe. Recently several people died by asthma attack in Australia and thousands of people with no preexisting history of respiratory illness suddenly developed sympto
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by internaut 10y ago
> When reading such things, I don't understand why people hate on UBI. There is a litany of reasons why. Mostly on the "I agree in principal but..." basis. Here are three. 1. The Big Bang. A change as drastic as UBI should
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by internaut 10y ago
Interesting critique. I'm inclined to agree. Having one good counterexample (or a lot of solid confirmatory examples) can often change your mind significantly. You can't accumulate this kind of information from first principals. T
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by internaut 10y ago
Russians have a habit of employing scientific information in their daily lives. For instance: I've been told that a Russian or Eastern European weather forecaster sometimes gives health advice based on the air pressure changes. In Amer

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