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I time travelled to Ancient Rome [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lisper 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lisper 6mo ago
You must have missed the smiley emoticon. Yes, I am well aware that parachutes on asteroids won't work. It was a joke. (I used to work for NASA.)
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by lisper 6mo ago
> Competition would be if a body part actively attacked another body part. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about this. I don't see a lot of daylight between "active attack" and starvation of resources.
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by lisper 6mo ago
> does your kidney compete with your lung? I don't know of any cases of direct kidney v lung competition, but competition among body parts is common. Sometime that competition is adaptive, sometimes not. Examples of adaptive compe
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by lisper 6mo ago
> Cooperation seems to be just as fundamental, if not more, than competition Both are fundamental. You can't survive without cooperating, but you also can't survive if you try to cooperate with the entire biosphere because ult
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by lisper 6mo ago
> it's equally likely that mitochondria's precursors were self interested parasites or predators That is in no way at odds with what I said.
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by lisper 6mo ago
> I am talking about the specific and highly unusual behavior of crawling inside of a much larger animal's mouth and trusting it not to eat you. OK. > Cleaner fish are highly intelligent[1] Yes. > and it appears that this int
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by lisper 6mo ago
Cooperation and symbiosis are very general survival strategies. They apear at all levels of the biological abstraction hierarchy, all the way down to mitochondria, which are almost certainly descended from what was once an independent orga
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by lisper 6mo ago
Well, at least the author is honest about it: > The title of this post is an intentional clickbait. Unfortunately, that's where the honesty ends. > It's NOT OK to compare floating-points using epsilons. > So, are epsilons
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by lisper 6mo ago
Just put a parachute on the asteroid. ;-)
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by lisper 6mo ago
Want to bet?
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by lisper 6mo ago
It worked for me. ;-)
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by lisper 6mo ago
> it's impossible for a dumb person to pretend they're smart. Unfortunately, that's not true. It's actually pretty easy to convince dumb people that you're smart, and so even dumb people can learn that skill. M
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by lisper 6mo ago
Nope. Came close, though Apollo 10 came closer. But there's a reason that Apollo 11 is the one everyone remembers.
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by lisper 6mo ago
Because we are not going back to the moon. A flyby is going to the moon in the same way that driving by the Anaheim exit on I-5 is going to Disneyland.
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by lisper 6mo ago
> I didn't read that as saying anything about your character I didn't take it that way, I just wanted to make sure there was no misunderstanding. This is an emotionally charged topic.
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by lisper 6mo ago
Thank you. But he was two months shy of his 90th birthday and, except for struggles with osteoarthritis and Parkinson's, he had a good run. I'm sad that he's gone, but it's not like it took anyone by surprise. And I&#
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by lisper 6mo ago
> There is, however, ALWAYS money for the colorful glossy brochures OMG, so much this! One of the things that happened after the acquisition is that they changed the phones to play a marketing pitch whenever you were on hold. (They eve
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by lisper 6mo ago
> There’s lots of markets that are okay-ish notwithstanding scummy people. It is not at all clear to me that there are "lots" of such markets, but that is neither here nor there. A prerequisite for an okay-ish market is that b
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by lisper 6mo ago
To be fair, my mother had cancer and my father had Parkinson's, and that was a much bigger factor in their ultimate quality of life than any deficiencies in the retirement home they found themselves in. So I don't mean "than
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by lisper 6mo ago
That was my parents' original plan. But they were in denial about how much preparation would be needed to make that happen. They lived in a split-level house and my father had severe osteoarthritis in his knees. It's actually a
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by lisper 6mo ago
My parents ended up being forced by circumstances to move into a retirement home about five years ago. Fortunately, the place turned out to be run by people who mostly cared about their clients and so my parents' lives were basically
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How ICE's Surveillance System Works [video](youtube.com)
13 points by lisper 6mo ago|1 comments
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Operation Easy Chair(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by lisper 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lisper 6mo ago
What is stopping them?
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by lisper 7mo ago
The old version of “line up and wait” was “taxi into position and hold”. “Hold short of runway” is still in use but means something different.
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EZ-CorridorKey: Perfect Green Screen Keys Made Easy(github.com)
1 points by lisper 7mo ago|1 comments
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The Dark Story of America's Most Iconic Bicycle [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lisper 7mo ago|0 comments
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ClaudeAI's Review of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"(old.reddit.com)
3 points by lisper 7mo ago|0 comments
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by lisper 7mo ago
NFTs are an attempt to recreate this dynamic in the digital world.

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