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David Brin Short-Story Contest: What Happens to Starman and the Red Roadster?(davidbrin.blogspot.com)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
The notion that one can generally shop, let alone shop for groceries, via a voice interface is puzzling. I'm ok with other family members adding things to a wishlist (called "shopping list" in the Alexa system), although I of
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Atmospheric CO2 levels for the last 500M years(doi.org)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|2 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
Maybe you could include a full graph for the last 500 million years. It would show a steady decline of CO2 levels in the last 50-60my, whereas levels were previously ranging 2-5 times higher than in the recent holocene. [1] The real doomsda
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by mkempe 9y ago
I wish. It was streaming on a Roku tv, so I don't know how to do that. Shortly before the 25th minute of the Live Views of Starman.
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by mkempe 9y ago
I saw a few minutes ago a (ghostly) reflection of the mannequin's face in the windshield -- looked like David Bowie with stage makeup... Camera view from behind the spacesuit, the car was facing Earth, the sun was behind the car (I thi
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Space Oddity by David Bowie(songfacts.com)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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Musk: Falcon Heavy success = “game over for all the other heavy lift rockets”(businessinsider.com)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
Weak writing, and bad title. I think what they mean to say is that: in addition to an estimated 1 trillion exoplanets orbiting the (250 billion, ± 150) stars of the Milky Way, they estimate that there is another trillion "starless&qu
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Genetics Dominate Environmental Influences on Self-Control in Children(link.springer.com)
19 points by mkempe 9y ago|3 comments
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Deadly WA Amtrak crash: Workers say they warned of inadequate training(cnn.com)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
tldr: he set up computers to participate in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search; obviously the computer result has no relation to that person's religious role. In other news, the NYT are minor-league trolling.
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by mkempe 9y ago
To be in one's prime means to be productive, rational, social, and in good health. Not past one's prime , not "elderly" -- which is the particular term I was responding to. I don't understand your (and others'
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by mkempe 9y ago
Is there a term for a fund that takes money from people (let's call them "investors"), promises to pay them back that money plus abundant interest in the future, and doesn't actually have enough (or any) money to pay all
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Multidecadal increase in N. Atlantic phytoplankton, strongly CO2 limited (2015)(science.sciencemag.org)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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How Blockchain Can End Poverty(wsj.com)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
How does this relate to CrowdStrike -- funded in large part by Google Capital?
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by mkempe 9y ago
If you think humans flourish only in terms of physical prowess or memory retrieval, you have very poor standards. To call someone who is middle-aged "elderly" does fit with your criteria, and with reports of ageism in tech compani
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by mkempe 9y ago
The measure of flourishing is not how fast one can dig holes, nor is it how quickly one can study new APIs. Knowing useful and effective ways to act, and acting accordingly; understanding and undertaking long-term, purposeful courses of act
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by mkempe 9y ago
So you say you don't call people who are 50 "decrepit" -- but do you call people in their middle age or in their 50s "elderly"?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Note that I wrote around 50, not after 50. Middle age is usually defined as the 40 to 60 range (or more recently held to be slightly later, 45-65). That is the period when people flourish. That is certainly not when people are "eld
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by mkempe 9y ago
Actually the age range was 51-84, so middle plus old age, not all "elderly". Normal people flourish and are in their prime around 50. Volunteers had "objective cognitive performance scores and clinical histories consistent wi
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The 10,000 Year Clock(longnow.org)
200 points by mkempe 9y ago|56 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
Bien sûr, le nom, la photo, sans la moindre hésitation... Allez, développez votre création et votre histoire à long terme, c'est ça qui compte!
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by mkempe 9y ago
en français on peut rester garçon toute le vie, non? en tout cas quand on parle entre copains.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Agree with props! nit: Maxime is a boy's name, so his mates.
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Infectious flu virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic cases(pnas.org)
5 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
[1] has a sequence of images showing how the drawing bot gradually creates a v.realistic image of a bird with yellow body, black wings, and short beak. (Tao Xu et al. via Microsoft) [1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/dr
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by mkempe 9y ago
From the same place as the money to pay for electricity would have come from... It's a simple arithmetic problem; John has USD 100, he can either spend it on electricity (to produce 1 BTC) or he can buy 2 BTC. Obviously owning 2 BTC is
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by mkempe 9y ago
Nope.

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