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by liminvorous 4y ago
Based on your comments here and what I’ve seen of polyamorous people’s online dating profiles I think I am more likely to respect a man in such a relationship style than I am to respect you. Do you think this comment is helpful? If not do
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by liminvorous 4y ago
I only have an undergraduate degree in physics, but I think the point you may be missing is that information requires some physical medium to store it. So entropy is very roughly speaking the property of the system that determines how big
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by liminvorous 4y ago
Why do you request push notification permission? I can think of no useful use cases for push notifications in your app. Also you should open links in an external browser on iOS rather than using the safari view controller, or at least provi
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by liminvorous 4y ago
Marmite was invented fairly recently (late 19th/early 20th century), apparently by a german scientist who was studying food chemistry and nutrition. (In case you missed the joke, the liquid the parent suggests you can discard is beer).
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by liminvorous 4y ago
Money is a leaky representation of your time and effort that we accept because it is better than isolated subsistence agriculture. It's purpose is to motivate you to devote time and effort to satisfying the needs and wants of other peo
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by liminvorous 4y ago
Materials seem to have different refractive indices for some sort of complicated quantum reason that only relies on the inhomogenity because of materials being made up of atoms containing electrons, not an sort of macroscopic inhomogenity.
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by liminvorous 5y ago
Clearly these three rules are a fact about human pyschology rather than an invention and should be ineligible for patents. I understand that New Zealand law for example classifies pure software inovation as categorically not being invention
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by liminvorous 5y ago
Your point makes sense if you treat states as the relevant actors, but a free trade deal is actually normally about states aggreeing to not stop or impede their citizens from trading with each other, which I think flips it back to being a c
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by liminvorous 5y ago
I think heatpumps are something like 400% efficient for domestic heating, depending on outfoor temperature and so forth, so I guess resistive heating is inefficient by comparison, though I agree it seems weird to call close to 100% efficien
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by liminvorous 5y ago
I suspect you might be aware of this, but Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota serries takes this idea as a very significant part of its world building, and I highly recommend it if you're willing to sit though 4 doorstops of books for thi
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by liminvorous 5y ago
We're talking about a theoretical federal republic where states aren't allowed to restrict immigration, but the federal government isn't strong enough to homogenise the laws here.
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by liminvorous 5y ago
As a fairly clever and socially off person who wasn't allowed to do any kind of accelrated program, I want to ask how sure you the acceleration is the casual factor, rather than say some underlying biological thing?
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by liminvorous 5y ago
I think this is a claim about emergent effects of the interaction between education and the wider economic system rather than the intent of a particular group of people. In practice I don't think it makes much difference if a system is
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by liminvorous 5y ago
Disorder basically just means something that causes problems in your life, I don't think we know enough about psychology to have great ideas about how different environments could affect stuff like this. Scott Alexander has an interest
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by liminvorous 5y ago
Sending currency to non-existant addresses is how people encode arbitary data on the bitcoin blockchain, so definitely possible. Giving a person control over the funds allocated to their smart contract probably opens holes where they can st
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by liminvorous 5y ago
I think you have an overly restrictive understanding of science fiction. The Martian deals with [...] advanced science and technology and space exploration and getting people alive to mars is definitely future rather than current techno
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by liminvorous 5y ago
Some academic once told me that the best phd students tended to get Bs in their honours year, because they didn’t think memorising a textbook was a good use of their time. Is your interview process perhaps over-indexing academic performance
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by liminvorous 5y ago
Scott Alexander breaks down gender ratios of doctors in different medical specialties in part IV [here]( https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge... ) Basically finding that specialities wit
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A Chemical Hunger Part VII: Lithium(slimemoldtimemold.com)
3 points by liminvorous 5y ago|0 comments
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by liminvorous 5y ago
New Zealand funds its roads via taxes on petrol, and for non-petrol vehicles "Road User Charges" which are basically a tax on oddometer kilometers. I haven't checked if how the balance between revenue generated by these taxes
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by liminvorous 5y ago
Event horizons exist, I don't think we have any evidence singularities really exist inside them, or any way gather such evidence.
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by liminvorous 5y ago
You can definitely sideload books, and I was able to do so without loginning into an account by adding a fake user to a sqlite file on the device. I didn't see any upside to any of the tweak/custom firmware stuff I saw over just n
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by liminvorous 6y ago
As far as I can tell they are just saying the same things about radiation exposure as everyone else, but making them sound scary. I didn't see any evidence of health damage, though I didn't read too closely. I haven't looked
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by liminvorous 6y ago
Ah far as I can tell the radiation levels in the places people were evacuated from are comparable to those from living somewhere with a naturally high background level. This image compares the dose with some other areas: https://
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by liminvorous 6y ago
I think wikipedia is wrong or confusing here. A heat pump requires a thermal resevoir (something that doesn't change temperature much when you move heat to or from it) of some sort, usually the atmosphere, or in ground source heat pump
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by liminvorous 6y ago
> Figuring out what's causing those changes involved diving into detailed accounting records on the construction of these nuclear plants; data on that was available for plants built after 1976. My understanding was that the cost of
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by liminvorous 6y ago
A chair is a physical object that may happen to have been designed using maths, a video codec is a set of instructions for what maths to do on your machine that does maths to make it play video.
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by liminvorous 6y ago
If you’re using validity in its psychological jargon sense here I think a lot of mbti enthusiasts on Reddit would say that the tests are unreliable, but the classification is still good for finding a sense of community with people who think
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by liminvorous 6y ago
I think you can only tell if it’s changed by measuring the thing and comparing the results with the other person.
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by liminvorous 6y ago
This would add a level of indirection to stockholders trying to influence the company though, right? You have to make the fund managers put pressure on the company to give you short term gains, rather than pressuring the company directly.

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