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by jp555 9y ago
Both profit-motives and a re-election motives can disrupt efforts. But I think being small is significant leverage for achieving new things, and small + technology is compounded leverage.
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by jp555 9y ago
I used to hang my clothes indoors when I was living in Europe (some apartments had clever retractable hangers built above the bathtub), and even when raining they would dry in less than a day.
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by jp555 9y ago
If emergency room doctors made laws, motorcycles would be illegal. We're all susceptible to being deluded by our naive realism. Like how I think anyone driving faster than me is a maniac and anyone driving slower is a moron. The object
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by jp555 10y ago
Some of that functionality looks a lot like Pikazo.
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by jp555 10y ago
Well, a resting human body generates 4x more heat per volume than the fusion reaction at the core of the Sun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Astrophysical... But why didn't the machines just build
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by jp555 10y ago
Bit better in low light, but can you edit your RAW pics on it? How about editing 4K video? Of course I'm being facetious, but top of the line smartphones are pretty great cameras generally speaking. Man I wish I could have changed the
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by jp555 10y ago
Youtube. I learned first by borrowing books from my local library and then from Robert J. Lang books I bought. But that was before the Internet. Nowadays YouTube is an excellent resource for learning some foundational folding principles, so
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by jp555 10y ago
Have you thought that maybe the tech pundits are just wrong? If they say Apple gear is "subpar" and yet it still sells like gangbusters, that tells me that the products were probably not "subpar" at all. Critics can be w
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by jp555 10y ago
Although they'll have a lot more intense x-ray and UV radiation to deal with. Surviving for long enough from under ice or an ocean might be harder than getting out of our gravity well.
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by jp555 10y ago
It's about what my Toshiba PC laptop cost in 2000. With its 1.5 hours of battery life... :P
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by jp555 10y ago
Bret Victor tweeted that the TouchBar took 8 years of work to go from conception to production. https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/791767756928462848 You sure it was a reaction to MS?
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by jp555 10y ago
Depends what kind of progressive income tax system you work in. At the end of the day for me, 80% salary wouldn't mean much less net income, but that extra free time would be amazing.
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by jp555 10y ago
My hope is Magic Leap will be the beginning of that.
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by jp555 10y ago
... in albino rats.
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by jp555 10y ago
I tried a drag from a cigarette a few times, always made my head spin like crazy and I puked. It was stronger than a drag from a cannabis joint. But I have never been a nicotine user.
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by jp555 10y ago
I've experienced work lunches with alcohol a lot and it can help in team bonding. I've also been involved in deal making where if you didn't drink alcohol with the prospect (China), you were not going to get the deal. I'
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by jp555 10y ago
I guess you don't drink coffee? How many people use caffeine to chemically alter their state? How about using alcohol to ease social interaction anxiety? Nicotine is another very popular tool for altering one's state. We are all e
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by jp555 10y ago
Compounded growth is a powerful thing. 1% compounded 100 times = 270.48, which is way better than 100%! And it gets even better the more steps you go: 1% x 150 = 444.84 1% x 200 = 731.6 People lament the fact that batteries "only get b
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by jp555 10y ago
I hope they move it to a full windscreen HUD and add dashboard hardware controls.
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by jp555 10y ago
Oh great, no doubt this will picked up as a sensationalist news item that'll inevitable lead to a futile debate with my elderly inlaws about how dangerous LED lights are, because this is proof, no matter how much my inlaws are NOT no
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by jp555 10y ago
Isn't Venus almost devoid of hydrogen? We're going need a lot of it to make water.
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by jp555 10y ago
what's a CD?
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by jp555 10y ago
LOL, that sounds very familiar, I was a PDC too :P. The global brand ad spend is >$400 Billion a year! It's about 10x bigger than the "transactional" advertising market (Google CPC, coupons, etc). Brand is a very ephemer
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by jp555 10y ago
When did you ever, upon seeing a TV commercial, pack up and head to the store to buy the thing you saw? Never. Even though you saw many hundreds of thousands of those (OK I'm actually talking about me, growing up pre-internet). That&#x
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by jp555 10y ago
That's making a lot of assumptions though. For one thing, I think to become an interstellar species, we'll have to direct the evolution of Homo sapiens into some kind of Homo exteriores spatium sapiens. Radiation-hardened, very ve
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by jp555 10y ago
Not sure about that analogy. Ingredients tend to get mixed together in many ways to make many different kinds of meals. You can only watch one show at a time, and the marginal effort of "travelling between stores" - flipping from
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by jp555 10y ago
But even if you're the best driver around you 19/20 times you still drive now. I don't see why you give wetware more leeway than hardware.
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by jp555 10y ago
Good advice. Less competition up here in Canada but there's still zero-fees options if you shop around.
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by jp555 10y ago
Right on, and if you include account fees, it's equivalent to disturbingly high negative interest.
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by jp555 10y ago
super interesting thx! I didn't think of larger-area, lower intensity beam as an option. Now it's got me thinking of other ideas like adding a few months of growing season to northern & southern farms, which sounds like a cove

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