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by jackfoxy 6y ago
As a human this explanation is emotionally satisfying. It appeals to my sense of human exceptionalism. However how many true but unprovable theorems do we know about? Has anyone ever bothered to compile a list of true but unprovable under
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Some years ago I ran across someone's research based on some Google book scanning technology reporting on the fantastic number of instances on f()ck in books prior to the 20th century. This is simply not true. The problem was the scann
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
17 years ago there was a candy or confection sold in Mexico containing lead. I know this because I briefly contracted to a California state agency charged with reducing lead poisoning among children. Apparently lead, like many metals, impar
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
I was warned very early, end of January, and locked down my family about a week before required. I track someone who reviews the literature and news and give bi-weekly updates on the state of knowledge and politics surrounding the pandemic.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
The world was already facing a fertilizer shortage which would have resulted in famine. That was the impetus for developing Haber-Bosh. The fact that petroleum is plentiful and cheap resulted (eventually, and in conjunction with other facto
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Fossil fuels are the single greatest cause of everything that separates how we live today from how people lived at the beginning of the 19th century up to and including the huge surge in sustained human population. Look to the Haber-Bosch p
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Everything about git makes sense except the syntax and the fact it does not compose.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
> I have never seen anything like this How long have you lived in the Bay Area? I just checked the forecast, and it's not Pacifica your talking about (thank goodness, that would be really awful). Inland from the ocean such heat wave
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Yep, everyone in the biz called it green bar . I'll bet it predates 1967.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
At least in English corruption means a lot more than just bribes. https://www.wordnik.com/words/corruption When an organization, government, society is corrupt it is rotten, polluted, depraved. Lots of things are wrong
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Thanks, got bored and stopped reading before I got to that.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
I don't agree with the assumption of a single great filter. Why not many sufficient enough filters. Maybe one occurrence of any is sufficient to locally halt forever evolution to space-faring civilization, or successive occurrence of a
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
I didn't imply Standard Oil was a conglomerate or that conglomerates are monopolies. How did you parse that? Alphabet on the other hand has characteristics of both.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
It is worth noting when Standard Oil was broken up John D. Rockefeller's net worth went up. The sum value of the new oil companies soon exceeded the value of the old monolith. Also for reasons I cannot explain, investors happily watch
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
In decades of going to gyms, I don't ever remember being offended by anyone's natural body odor, but my sense of smell would certainly find offense at someone who showed up on the gym floor over perfumed with deodorant or other
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Uh, article lacking some background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Benjamin
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
> Humans release ~25 gigatons of carbon per year ~30% of which is from ongoing deforestation, unless the quoted ~25 gigatons is from fossil fuels only?
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Stopping and even reversing deforestation is the single most efficient form of CO2 reduction/capture we have available. Deforestation rivals fossil fossil fuels for greenhouse gas emissions (up to 30% of anthropic emissions) yet it rar
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
I saw the Arkestra in the late 70s at a venue on Broadway in San Francisco. I was amazed at the number of musicians. How could he pay this many people to play this small venue and cheap tickets? Amazing show. I think they played until 1 AM.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
The mass of the larger of the 2 planets seems to be on the verge of brown dwarf classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Youtube served me the Bill Gates bitcoin scam on Monday, 2 days before the Twitter hack, as opening ad for a video from their recommendation algorithm. The ad's site clearly perpetuated the scam for at least a couple days before changi
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Bottom line: How is it the WHO did not declare a pandemic until Mar 11?
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
> given that the Americans only showed up a hundred years after the (mostly failed) Mission system started teaching Spanish Much less than 100 years. Mission San Diego, founded 1769. Mission Delores (San Francisco), founded 1776. Yankees
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Note support for the tau constant has been added to several languages and frameworks including the upcoming .NET 5.0 runtime.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Not for sure. We are missing the crucial bit of information on how much royalties and over what period of time the school district secured rents. Here's some background on the kind of typical agreement the school district entered into.
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Actually Microsoft has quite a respectable team of developers dedicated to F#. It is true development suffered because the Roslyn compiler that MS invested a lot of effort into cannot be made to work for the language. F# has been made compa
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Is this a solution in search of a problem? I'm not trolling, but asking this honestly. This is actually the article's tldr: Exactly what is the problem? Precisely how does UBI solve this specific problem? There are examples of foc
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by jackfoxy 6y ago
Can someone summarize exactly what manipulation she refused?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonian_telescope I once worked with a woman who learned from John Dobson about lens grinding and telescope construction. Watched a Youtube video of John recently. This is too labor inte
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The Fed's response to the pandemic has been essentially to bail-out every financial instrument. Today we are seeing deflationary pressures. But this is only in the short term. Eventually this unprecedentedly massive printing of money

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