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by jbotz 6y ago
It seems the claim here is that physics is more fundamental than mathematics. It may be an open argument, but anyone who wants to make this claim today really has to address John Wheeler's "It from bit."
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The Autodidactic Universe(arxiv.org)
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by jbotz 6y ago
Agreed. I'm a big believer in animal intelligence and I've lived with both cats and dogs, and this setup seems to me to be difficult for cats to understand, too abstract and removed from cat's natural capacities. They made
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by jbotz 6y ago
Your skin "dries out" because soap removes the natural oils of your skin. The solution is to replace the oils. Coconut oil or olive oil are good choices. A few drops on your still-wet hands, then spread it around by rubbing you
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by jbotz 6y ago
Don't "call bullshit" because you can't personally see how to falsify a theory by reading some popularized science articles. There are real papers with math behind these claims, and when you've read them and at l
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by jbotz 6y ago
I just watched "Kingdom of the White Wolf" on Disney+ which has exactly that situation. The white wolves of Ellesmere island hunt musk oxen; there isn't much else there except snow hares. At one point after not managing to
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by jbotz 6y ago
My wife is a lucid dreamer, and once there was smoke in her dream and while dreaming she was worried that maybe there was a fire in "the real world", so she called me out loud asked if I smelled smoke... her voice came out strange
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by jbotz 6y ago
> Civilisations have collapsed before, and will collapse again. Civilizations have collapsed before... but none of those were nuclear-armed, global civilizations that have produced more artifact matter than there is biomass on the planet
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The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record(theatlantic.com)
16 points by jbotz 6y ago|1 comments
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by jbotz 6y ago
For now, CentOS. Personally I think this whole thing is overblown and CentOS's new rolling update distribution really will be a solid and stable platform for the use cases of most of those who were using CentOS before. For those for w
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by jbotz 6y ago
The general idea is that ecosystems consisting of grasslands with herds of large herbivores are better than any others at rapidly fixing carbon and building rich soils, significantly more so than forests. The way this works is that grasses
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by jbotz 6y ago
Some more... Rash is a shell embedded in Racket that was presented in a paper at GPCE18[1]. Oil is cited in the paper, so Andy really should include it in the list as well ;-). There are also a few others mentioned in the "Risky revi
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by jbotz 6y ago
In relation to the first part of the essay, how smoothly Amazon handles customs, that's not my experience in Brazil. Specifically, Amazon makes one rather large error, they include the shipping costs in the declared customs value, so
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by jbotz 6y ago
Well, I've lived on three different continents and during this time always read a wide range of news sources in several different languages, and MY life experience is that what you're saying didn't happen, and I don't
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by jbotz 6y ago
Why do you think this is the best book? And would someone's background, or lack thereof, in other fields of mathematics not have a bearing on that assessment?
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by jbotz 6y ago
> when I was a kid there were lots of news about global warming and the rising of sea level to life changing amounts in few years No. There was no such news, unless your only source of information were tabloid headlines. It's a favo
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by jbotz 6y ago
Cory nails it. Or at least part of it. I've long had a nagging feeling that there was a deep connection between the current state of our "post truth" society and the continuously widening scope of "IP" (digital mon
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by jbotz 6y ago
> I failed to grasp what it is It queues up Unix (shell) jobs. Do you understand what's meant by a shell "job"? Like "cmd &"? Typing "cmd1 &", "cmd2 &", etc, runs jobs in paralle
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by jbotz 6y ago
The Brazilian blog "Tecnoblog" has the full details here[1], with a list of all the information allegedly included in this data. If they are correct that's pretty much everything about everybody... I mean personal info (like
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Simulations show that continuous habitability of earth for 4GY was dumb luck(thenextweb.com)
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by jbotz 6y ago
Using machine learning. One interesting bit is that they chose Julia as the language with which to build their software, and after some initial trepidation over using such a “new” language they're now super-satisfied with their choice
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Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done?(journals.sagepub.com)
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by jbotz 6y ago
How were they able to patent this? I've known for 20 years that catnip works as a mosquito repellent; there was a 2001 paper that showed that its essential oil, nepetalactone, was 10 times more effective than DEET[1]. Soon after this
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by jbotz 6y ago
Although they don't give a number, they do actually mention refresh time in the penultimate paragraph: "it is rumored that E INK was able to integrate their Regal Waveform controllers in ACEP 2, resulting in faster page refresh
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by jbotz 6y ago
> it's worth considering the arguments of people like Michael Shellenberger I'm sympathetic to the argument for nuclear energy as part of the answer to global warming, but... Schellenberger? No, sorry, it's not worth cons
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by jbotz 6y ago
Sorry, this doesn't make sense. You certainly can delete chats and leave (and subsequently delete) groups (by swiping left on the chat/group name in the chat list). How do they "haunt" you?
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by jbotz 6y ago
The world that see you when looking out through your eyes doesn't exist in reality either. It's just models your brain puts together from some sensory stimuli (photons hitting your retina), but they aren't real, they are mer
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by jbotz 6y ago
It worked and was essentially instantaneous for me.
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by jbotz 6y ago
Well, I don't know where parent is located, but here in Brazil they are pretty much right. Everybody has WhatsApp... it's assumed that if you have a phone you have WhatsApp. A lot of financial transactions are conducted by doi
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by jbotz 6y ago
You have a point, but one should point out here that WhatsApp makes this easy only if you stick with the same type of phone... if you switch between Android and iOS you're completely SOL with WhatsApp. With Signal on the other hand yo

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