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by maaku 11y ago
You can start using credit cards.
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by maaku 11y ago
My family still gets those oversold-flight coupons when they get bumped to the next flight. I don't because that would require flying United :P
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by maaku 11y ago
Because redundancy in transmission? Also I would be very surprised if the the data is not already compressed.
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by maaku 11y ago
The real reason, which hopefully gives some engineering insight, is why not? It's a flyby mission whose primary data collection occupied only a couple of days. Like any spacecraft design they had to choose between high bandwidth (more
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by maaku 11y ago
Even if we are alone, so what? All the more reason to expand life outward.
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by maaku 11y ago
And to anyone else who recognizes this as a problem, please consider donating to the B612 foundation: http://sentinelmission.org/
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by maaku 11y ago
Protecting the Earth from a large asteroid headed our way is trivially easy to do, if you have a space program and enough advanced warning.
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by maaku 11y ago
This is an old idea. Google keyword: "global brain".
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by maaku 11y ago
As the same language. I believe it is uncontroversial among linguists to regard spoken Hindi and Urdu as regional dialects of the same language. Their writing systems are radically different, of course.
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by maaku 11y ago
Because the instruments that took the pictures monochrome.
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by maaku 11y ago
Har har har. But in all seriousness Reddit become the phenomenon it is because of its users, and the many hours, days, weeks, and months they each individually put in to build communities. To create something with value, larger than thems
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by maaku 11y ago
Reddit is an anarchist experiment. No centralized filtering except where external laws are clearly being broken, and even then only in the most extreme cases of violence or exploitation (e.g. child pornography). Whether that is a good thing
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by maaku 11y ago
It would be rounded almost instantly. In an impact of that size -- almost exactly comparable to the impact which created the Earth-Moon system -- the surface of Pluto would have been heated so extensively as to become molton rock.
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by maaku 11y ago
Pluto may have a young surface due to the collision which created its moons.
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by maaku 11y ago
Yes, you are. NASA is not picking one color here applying a filter to the entire image as you seem to be implying. They are doing their best with the data available from multiple instruments to determine what the color of each pixel should
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by maaku 11y ago
The bandwidth is that bad. It will take months to retrieve the data from closest approach.
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by maaku 11y ago
It shouldn't be.
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by maaku 11y ago
Moravec's paradox is not an experimental result. It's just one guys musings on intelligence. It says a lot more about the misguided things people thought about intelligence in the early days of AI than the actual inherent difficul
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by maaku 11y ago
And in doing so, destroy a bunch of really beautiful valleys.
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by maaku 11y ago
Except that's not true? Most things release "by the government" had a contractor involved somehow, and government contractors have a different set of rules.
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by maaku 11y ago
Google Berkshire Hathaway. Today you will learn something new.
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by maaku 11y ago
You may do well to checkout the FAQ of the personal finance subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics
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by maaku 11y ago
You can go to any number of retirement planning sites and use their tools to construct the same portfolio. Why not just buy the underlying funds?
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by maaku 11y ago
Wealthfront fee is ON TOP OF the underlying ETFs.
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by maaku 11y ago
I suggest doing what I do: invest your time in speculative bets (startups), and invest your take-home pay in index funds.
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by maaku 11y ago
S&P gains since inception are on the order of 11%. It is something you can rely upon (see: Trinity study on portfolio survivability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study )
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by maaku 11y ago
First of all, you are probably not taking full advantage of tax-efficient accounts. Are you contributing your maximums, including back door strategies? Second, you can do substantially better than Wealthfront with even an extremely lazy por
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by maaku 11y ago
And the 500 index has a lower return from being top heavy. You would have gotten even better ROI with a broad market index like VTI.
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by maaku 11y ago
Eh, just compare the active fund against the S&P 500 on a suitably long enough horizon: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSEARCA%3ASPY%2C+NYSEARCA%... I'll admit it's looking for a needle in haystack though.
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by maaku 11y ago
The majority, sure, but not all. Look at since-inception charts of POGRX, VHT, and BRK.B for example.

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