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by jatsign 7y ago
You could ask them the same things you ask any human, but get radically different (and perhaps very interesting) answers. You could look at their art, listen to their music, learn their philosophy - assuming they have any of that, and that
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Asteroid Mining Rankings(asterank.com)
2 points by jatsign 7y ago|0 comments
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Kant and the Contraption: A Thought Experiment(epochemagazine.org)
12 points by jatsign 7y ago|1 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
That is a really good story. I think I kind of downgraded "Exhalation" a bit because I'd read that story before so it wasn't new to me.
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by jatsign 7y ago
The author, Ted Chiang, recently released his book of short stories, Exhalation. This story is included in the book. It's good, but not as good as his first book, imo, "Story of Your Life and Others". Story of Your Life was t
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by jatsign 7y ago
How strange. I posted this 2 days ago and it didn't make it to the front page, but not for some reason it says I only posted it 6 hours ago?
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Funko Pop became a $686M business(vox.com)
48 points by jatsign 7y ago|52 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
Is the .pizza just for fun or am I missing a reference?
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by jatsign 7y ago
I have 529 plans for both my kids. Lets say I save up enough for them to pay for their entire college. If an alternate family, making the same as us, saves nothing, could they qualify for aid, while we wouldn't?
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by jatsign 7y ago
But at the end you don't just show the footprint online, you only have the option to get it emailed to me.
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by jatsign 7y ago
Why do I have to give you my email address before you'll let me figure out my carbon footprint, and how much this will cost?
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by jatsign 7y ago
My in-laws recently downsized to a townhouse and needed to get rid of some books, so I ended up with about 20 Jack Reacher (and similar) books. I grab one whenever we head out on vacation. They're great, because there's no need to
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by jatsign 7y ago
"A chair who asks, “Is everyone OK with choice A?” is going to get objections. But a chair who asks, “Can anyone not live with choice A?” is more likely to only hear from folks who think that choice A is impossible to engineer given so
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by jatsign 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
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The biggest danger about an asteroid strike? Lawyers(cosmosmagazine.com)
1 points by jatsign 7y ago|0 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
Does anyone know if Saudi Arabia has explored solar power. Seems like they have a lot of unused land that gets a lot of sunlight...
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Labor Dept. Says Workers at a Gig Company Are Contractors(nytimes.com)
3 points by jatsign 7y ago|0 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
Video of the author drying cherries with a helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPT9YbtINy4
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by jatsign 7y ago
I was being facetious, but I also love these kind of stories. Like the one last week about the guy sells onions on the internet. We live in a weird world.
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by jatsign 7y ago
Next Ycombinator class: A company using drones to dry cherries with machine learning.
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Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Startup Cut Corners(nytimes.com)
1 points by jatsign 7y ago|0 comments
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Toiling on Turkey’s Hazelnut Farms With Little to Show for It(nytimes.com)
4 points by jatsign 7y ago|0 comments
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Amazon says it’s working on free one-day Prime shipping(theverge.com)
1 points by jatsign 7y ago|2 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
In other words, you won't get rich trying to mine bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies from your home. Because if there's money to be made, many others will jump in. To get rich, you'd need some advantage, like incredibly low c
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Greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry(technologyreview.com)
5 points by jatsign 7y ago|0 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
True, but that's why I said "probably agree". You can be a solipsist and disagree with the existence of time, but that doesn't seem to be a very useful philosophy.
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A Regulatory Framework for the Internet(stratechery.com)
33 points by jatsign 7y ago|26 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
Even a skeptic philosopher, who would say most things can't be proven beyond the self, would probably agree that one of the things we have direct experience of is change.
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What Your CS Degree Won’t Prepare You For(hackernoon.com)
2 points by jatsign 7y ago|0 comments
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by jatsign 7y ago
It's not unusual to see deer around my house in the DC suburbs in VA(way beyond the zone depicted in the map), but we had a young one acting strangely last summer. It was just standing there, and wouldn't run if your approached it

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