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by leot 10y ago
(Shameless plug) CleverPet Hubs work with cats, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzXwrXEkmHM Also, there have been rumors that the Hubs will be user-hackable in short order. And they use Particle Photons in any case ...
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“Dumb Animals”? Yes. “Dumb Tech”? No(medium.com)
1 points by leot 10y ago|0 comments
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by leot 10y ago
It is obvious that genetics matter. What isn't obvious is how, or how much. Ontogeny is context dependent at every scale of analysis. As such it is sensitive to precise manipulation in myriad ways, the vast majority of which are likely
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by leot 10y ago
> All people have identical abilities and preferences on average, therefore the demographics of a profession should exactly match the census. That is rubbish. A straw man. I've spent more than a decade within the so-called Overton b
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by leot 10y ago
What do you mean by "flourish"? Increasing biodiversity?
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CleverPet – Your dog can do so much more(clever.pet)
1 points by leot 10y ago|0 comments
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by leot 10y ago
How bad does a leader have to be before supporting him is a genuine moral outrage?
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by leot 10y ago
How is it baseless and anti-intellectual? If Trump were elected, he would be able to push through an agenda by exercising a significant aggressive minority of the population. This power to summon millions (who call legislators, picket, rall
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by leot 10y ago
One simple explanation is that procrastination starts as a symptom of breadth-first search behavior (which can look like slow progress, and is slow progress if you have a poor algorithm/memory), and then it gets significantly aggravate
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by leot 10y ago
Do you have a citation on phones using inertial navigation?
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by leot 10y ago
It still requires some cooperation, which means it's subject to game theory and defector risk. And there are numerous after the fact approaches to enforcement. Just make a $1,000,000 reward for anyone exposing a conspiracy to rig an el
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by leot 10y ago
You know this because you've been? What does "cool" mean to you?
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by leot 10y ago
Could someone please describe a plausible scenario in which an election is impacted by so-called "voter fraud"? While elections have been rigged from the very beginning (ballot stuffing etc.), "voter fraud" is an invente
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by leot 10y ago
"voter fraud" requires a conspiracy to be remotely effective. Laws should just target that by offering a big bounty for snitchers.
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by leot 10y ago
Because gov't grants are awarded by a committee of people with lots of different opinions, while corporations have only one interest in mind.
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by leot 10y ago
Every decision a machine makes benefits from the accumulated organized efforts of hundreds (if not many thousands). In a sense, so too do human decisions, but in practice we can much more quickly improve the decision-making of machines, ove
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by leot 10y ago
> "Requiring a supermajority is just privileging the side that prefers the status quo." Rather, requiring a supermajority is to privilege the status quo, period. There are benefits to stability, no matter how it's constitu
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by leot 10y ago
The 18th and 21st amendments to the US Constitution come to mind. This decision feels very much like it's on the wrong side of history, but perhaps that's just the denial.
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by leot 10y ago
What's stopping Britons from having another referendum?
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by leot 10y ago
There's an interesting calculus potentially at play: there can be a sincere intent that the offer be accepted, but the offer might have never been made were it not for the positive side-effects that mitigate the downside.
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Why we started CleverPet(medium.com)
1 points by leot 10y ago|0 comments
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by leot 10y ago
We manufacture large parts in Apple white, and it's not caused a huge number of problems. At least not yet.
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by leot 10y ago
Relevant: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/02/study-e-coli-vaccines-...
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Study: E. Coli Vaccines Are Effective but Economic Incentive Needed (2015)(foodsafetynews.com)
1 points by leot 10y ago|0 comments
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Your pet is (probably) bored. Technology may help(medium.com)
1 points by leot 10y ago|0 comments
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by leot 10y ago
Elsevier and others can go something themselves. Their behavior over the last two decades has been little more than reprehensible rent-seeking. Whatever goodwill they had disappeared as they sapped with increasing ruthlessness the dollars o
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Space travel using constant acceleration(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by leot 10y ago|0 comments
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Project GAMMA(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by leot 11y ago|0 comments
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by leot 11y ago
The Bay Area is the exception, certainly. The question concerns whether other places would be more or less equal. There are three assumptions behind the claim that wealth-seeking is better for income inequality: 1) rent-seeking is "eas
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by leot 11y ago
Wow, first upvotes, now downvotes. And all without explanation.

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