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by mbfg 10y ago
once lab meat/lab milk can be produced at or below cost of farming, cows will likely go extinct, unfortunately. A less vulgar correlary is that once horse racing is outlawed, horses will mostly go extinct as well, as the racing industr
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by mbfg 10y ago
translate: US government diverts attention away from new wikileaks dump of clinton emails.
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by mbfg 10y ago
an i3 will blow this chip away. You can get a better spec'ed machine with one for ~350
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by mbfg 10y ago
Unless you are dying for this tiny form factor, you can get a significantly better machine for less money. Surprisingly the machine is for industrial use, which you pay for, and which likely, you don't want.
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by mbfg 10y ago
i am not attesting at all to its health, just its commonality
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by mbfg 10y ago
no this is the best policy for a normal job. You are not isolated, you are working. That means a good deal of communicating with coworkers, but about work, not about personal.
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by mbfg 10y ago
i would never, ever ask another man out for lunch or coffee, just as i would never ever ask a woman out for lunch or coffee, and would equally decline if was asked. Work doesn't need to be about buddies. work is about work. That's
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by mbfg 10y ago
that's cute. not married eh?
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by mbfg 10y ago
Is that true? Yellow/Orange/Red are perceived as 'danger' colors. Is that just a made up association in our brains, or do we see yellow/orange/red more readily? If you flashed a bright orange billboard in front
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by mbfg 10y ago
Sure i get all that. You still have to wonder why the brain created color to differentiate wavelengths. If we could not see and were speculating on how you could discern wavelengths, maybe you would guess that there would be some sort of fr
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by mbfg 10y ago
One of the neat things (i think) is that the visual and tactile systems in our bodies seem to always agree on what is perceived 'reality'. This on the surface seems like an argument against this proposal. But of course we can easi
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by mbfg 10y ago
Imagine you had a force field generation machine, that could produce fields in any size, shape, density, etc. If you made a force field in a tubular shape about 8 inches long, with a smooth rubber tactile force, that was squishable, but sti
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by mbfg 10y ago
Still the color argument is pretty strong. What if the energy emitted/reflected by the universe was totally in the non visible light spectrum. No one would see anything. To a blind person this is a normality, and so perhaps a person wh
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by mbfg 10y ago
The article states "At an estimated present-day price of approximately $10 per watt of laser power, building and operating Breakthrough Starshot’s 100-gigawatt array today could cost as much as $1 trillion." but goes on to say tha
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by mbfg 10y ago
I'd take any of the McMansions shown here. sorry.
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by mbfg 10y ago
Practically the entire universe could be teaming with intelligent life, and we would never know it, given the speed of causality, even without the expansion of the universe.
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by mbfg 10y ago
it's probably not a force.
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by mbfg 10y ago
how feasible something is, is irrelevant to this post. Ok, not feasible now. I'll come back in 100,000 years. Is it feasible then? If so then the logic still holds.
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by mbfg 10y ago
How do you know that you are not now, a simulation? In fact, once we have the technology to produce such a simulation, logically speaking, then, it is an overwhelming probability that we are a simulation, given that, you have at most one &#
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by mbfg 10y ago
Let's play another game, then. Assume that over time, you go to the neuroscientist, and they replace a very small part of your brain with artificial technology of some sort. But they do so in a way that you can not tell the difference.
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by mbfg 10y ago
> There is only one universe ok, except what else just has 1 of them > Time is real ask a photon that
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by mbfg 10y ago
also known as the "God of the Gaps", or in this case, perhaps, the "Devil of the Gaps".
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by mbfg 10y ago
interesting how they 'fix' problems people don't care about, and don't fix problems people do care about.
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by mbfg 10y ago
Hickey's latest tweet: If you think you know how I ought to spend my time, come over and mow my lawn while I expound on the problems of dev entitlement culture. https://twitter.com/richhickey/status/7419822053
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by mbfg 10y ago
i understand your sentiment here, and in the view of history this is true. The problem is that now, or very soon, we are/will be in a state where the 1% can easily put down the 99% politically, socially, financially and yes militarily.
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by mbfg 10y ago
Debuggers in managed languages are probably the biggest workload reducers as a percentage since binary -> assembly.
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by mbfg 10y ago
There really are very few 'journalists' anymore, certainly none on TV. It's all marketing now, for big business, doing and saying what is in the best interest of those businesses, regardless of the facts at hand. Trump brough
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by mbfg 10y ago
well, in every way but cost
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by mbfg 10y ago
TMON - Terminal Monitor for early Macintoshes. It was like you were touching the hardware of the machine. I'm probably one of the few that wrote a set of plugins for TMON for doing all kinds of crazy stuff to make debugging awesome. Lo
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by mbfg 10y ago
This article would have been much more informative had we seen the actual program. Usually it doesn't much matter how big a file you read from your program assuming you are reading for aggregation purposes. If you are in need of indivi

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