kerbalspacepro

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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
If you can afford to live within jackhammer distance of a metro, you can afford earplugs
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
It took 100 million years for evolution to design cows and 400 million years of evolution have been impacting fish, so it will take approximately 4x as much investment or time to develop a "Further Than Fish" replacement
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
People got very mad at this, but it seems preferable. Movies/TV shows that you "like a lot" versus movies that you "just like" are both movies that you'd watch, and watching is what you're buying.
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
It seems like the biggest problem is the retreat from nuclear, not the focus on solar.
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
You can look them up though? It's not difficult?
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
It sounds like something from the last book of the Three Body Problem trilogy
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
Are you made that they didn't leave open the possibility that she was Australian, a Kiwi or an Afrikaner?
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
It's entirely built around linking between different parts of the sequence. In theory, you land on one page and can go to any number of pages. It has a set order (by that which the text was published), but is equally valid to read it i
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
The first words are "A study published this week sheds".... Except for its the author's study. "My study" is more appropriate.
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
Yudkowsky's Sequences on Less Wrong (Rationality A-Z is the bookform) has a good claim on being a true future-book as webpage.
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
Definitely more lonely, given that what finished them off was the same Power that still courses through most of the developed world.
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
The point of a job should be to improve the world. The point of a career is to be able to do more impactful jobs by increasing skill and understanding. Personality and job fit are only important as far as they allow you to do the job better
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
The answer is to use Microsoft apps on an Apple machine (or Linux if you're that kind of person)
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
Conservation of Angular momentum collapses shapely sort of things into a disk
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
Why do you say this?
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by kerbalspacepro 7y ago
I thought this was going to be an essential part of this article, but it seems like IEO (Instagram Engine Optimization) is actually technically boring and scammy, whereas automated IEO- while still scammy- is technically interesting!
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Bad infrastructure causes people to ask "what am I even paying taxes for?" The actual answer is "An insurance company with an army"
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
We're talking about scientists, not computer scientists. As surely as business managers and industrial engineers don't need to know the best programming practices to be good SQL monkeys, surely scientists- neuroscientists at that-
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
What would a good resource for good scripting practices?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Yeah. Going to a bookstore has the same feeling as going clothes shopping with respect to online shopping: it feels good to look at lots of product and to feel the pages in your hand. You can't tell if something will spark joy over Ama
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
I get that you're trying to tell a morality tale in order to determine who the bad guy is, but there wasn't "a bad guy" causing the last recession. "Retail banks were on the front lines making the liar lones"..
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
So, you make a bunch of good points. But consider- some people (most people) can't ever get a "cash back" credit card because of their bad credit. How does that play into your framework?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Why do you think "Fraud cost is negligible"?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Yes, and ultimately Goldman Sachs is a bank and will be held accountable for anything that happens. This is a GS product that Apple gets a significant cut of.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Why does the pension have to exist? Why don't they just get a 401k and get off the books.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Politicians don't push for renewables because it doesn't get them any points with their constituencies. You can point to energy lobbyists as a reason for this, but it isn't necessary to do so. You can just ask the average cit
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
You either have to build more efficient buildings or retrofit existing buildings. Most home/office energy expenditure is on heating/cooling/fridging/hot showers. Only 10% is based on lighting [1]. The best way to tackle
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Visiting a bank for a 50 seems like a waste of £7
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
No, it should be clear that however they're calculating wealth is obviously wrong. Augustus Caesar has the wealth of $4.6 trillion? There is simply no way that is true.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
I honestly don't get it. What of these robots are functional? There is a "Toys" heading but... they all look like toys? Every single one?

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