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751.
by maaku 12y ago
More than you would have if the entire universe were transformed into computonium. So effectively infinite.
752.
by maaku 12y ago
And most of biology (including you).
753.
by maaku 12y ago
"The Emotion Machine" is an updated view of Society of Mind. If you already have SoM I'd recommend reading it first though.
754.
by maaku 12y ago
From the GP: > Where can you cut costs and get away with it ? The second clause is just as important.
755.
by maaku 12y ago
Who the fuck cares if you burn rate is "normal." The only question that matters is is it higher than it could be? Where can you cut costs and get away with it? If your startup is perfectly on the median, that means half the star
756.
by maaku 12y ago
It's possible to be both a textbook tactic and a dick move at the same time, you know.
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by maaku 12y ago
Yeah it's basically an assortment of radiation sources, e.g. the things we routinely use in medicine and obscure industrial cases. The short-lived stuff could see immediate use in various contexts that need access to radioactive source
758.
by maaku 12y ago
Or, you know, we could reprocess (recycle?) the waste into much shorter lived compounds and fuel for 2nd generation breeder reactors. Then there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
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by maaku 12y ago
> There’s also a twist on the Nested Sets model, called the nested interval model, where the nodes are given two numbers that represent the numerator and denominator of a fraction, but it doesn’t seem so popular, and was too complex to w
760.
by maaku 12y ago
You need to read up on your history I think. Most plutocrats bootstrapped their businesses. Most giants of the tech world sought VC funds after they were runaway growth and/or profitable. The VC story only matches a few cherry-picked
761.
by maaku 12y ago
Electrons are fundamental particles as far as we know, protons are not. You can shoot something at a proton and see that there are three little things inside. That is I think an important distinction to make.
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by maaku 12y ago
Yes-ish. There are a few obscure theories that explain dark matter as stable, super-symmetric, super-heavy, non-interacting particles of this sort. But such particles are not predicted by the standard model.
763.
by maaku 12y ago
Yes. It's somewhat shameful that we physicists still call these constructs 'particles' as to the lay person this still implies some sort of fundamental nature. They are actually predicted constructs of still smaller particles
764.
by maaku 12y ago
Why not.. MINIX?
765.
by maaku 12y ago
1) What adversarial analysis have you done to make sure that the reputation weighting mechanism can't be gamed, or the market making bot's funds emptied? 2) How do you handle miner censorship of vote revelations? 3) Why do you inc
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by maaku 12y ago
> Are you going to use some of that 21MM$$ to buy some of the coins currently setup for auction by the US Marshall? I wish! Nah, only if we had reason to buy that many coins anyway. We got funded to make infrastructure and develop produc
767.
by maaku 12y ago
All of these projects have been underway for quite some time. Indeed, Open-Transactions is almost as old as bitcoin itself. Nevertheless, my (highly biased) opinion is that Blockstream is worth paying attention to because unlike the above m
768.
by maaku 12y ago
Yes, yes it would.
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by maaku 12y ago
The joke is that Americans only eat cocoa flavored sugar, such as is produced by the big commercial candy factories here. The GP pointed out that at any American store will sell you fine, refined chocolates, including (by implication)i mpo
770.
by maaku 12y ago
Explaining the Michelson-Morley experiment required assuming a constant speed of light regardless of relative velocity, combined with old-school frame agnosticism. Of course making this intuitive leap is what led Einstein to special relat
771.
by maaku 12y ago
I've actually already been scared by it, investigated it, and dismissed it (you can't remember sleeping because you're not forming memories, not because you cease to exist). But it was interesting to see the idea phrased so s
772.
by maaku 12y ago
That's one of the most scary quotes ever. Way to write a horror story in 2 sentences.
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by maaku 12y ago
A shadow would imply its in the sun. It's not.
774.
by maaku 12y ago
What shielding? There's nothing live on it.
775.
by maaku 12y ago
How much money does it really take to run a web-assessable open-access journal? It could very well be funded on charity.
776.
by maaku 12y ago
Tenant could be an LLC registered in a jurisdiction that doesn't require disclosure of ownership or directors.
777.
by maaku 12y ago
What a strange world we live in where people escaping surveillance move to Berlin.
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by maaku 12y ago
I probably should have clarified that the professor was himself a lay person. Basically the term "witch", "saint" or "heretic" was applied based on the social context of the individual, or a moral judgment made
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by maaku 12y ago
I once took a class at a Jesuit university named "Witches, saints and heretics." The TL;DR was that these are not disjoint groups of people.
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by maaku 12y ago
As I posted elsewhere, you seem to be missing the point I was trying to make. But let's run with it: What does "deserving" have to do with it? If I write the next Great American Novel and assign royalties to my favorite child

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