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by murbard2 11y ago
Octopuses beg to differ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16631583
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by murbard2 11y ago
Ten people, not ten researchers, but that would be towards the upper limit. Point is, $20M is nothing to sneer at, even for a billion dollar hedge fund.
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by murbard2 11y ago
That's $20,000,000 which is enough to warrant at least 10 people working on it.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes and no. If it can be automated, no amount is too small to collect. A hobbyist best shot is to do... things that don't scale. Source: I do too.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Rigidity helps you for the same reason using a jointed arm is easier than controlling a tentacle. Limiting the number of degrees of freedom can make things a whole lot easier. Yes, there are interesting designs with biopolymers, but they pr
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by murbard2 11y ago
The rigidity buys you a lot. It's not just easier modelling, it's also higher reliability. If your bond is rigid, you don't have to worry too much about heat causing errors in the synthesis.
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by murbard2 11y ago
> Smalley was obviously right because Drexler thought that nanotechnology would eventually become something like mechanical engineering. That does not work, because quantum mechanics are the default nanoscale rules. Non sequitur. First o
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by murbard2 11y ago
You can just say you don't like the taste.
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by murbard2 11y ago
So are the taxes also worse if you increase the exercise window? Is it more tax efficient to issue 100 year stock options vs RSU?
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by murbard2 11y ago
You only lose power when you deflect particles, and maybe when you radiate some photons as you move through space. Intuitively, both effects seems like they would be fairly small.
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by murbard2 11y ago
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The moon is falling into the sun, just like the earth.
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As t→∞ an option becomes indistinguishable from its underlyer, why don't they give RSUs? Taxes?
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by murbard2 11y ago
The assumption that we can only see color we have a name for is widely repeated despite being obviously bogus. I know maybe a dozen words for colors, but that doesn't prevent me from seeing the differences between the different tones i
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by murbard2 11y ago
Actually I haven't heard of any camera where it is replicated. I used to own a purple backpack that appeared bright blue under every single digital camera I tried, including fancy ones. Combinations of red and blue will appear purple i
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by murbard2 11y ago
...and some people have no clue whatsoever and will form an indelible impression of what Android is like based on the experience they have with whatever phone the store salesman recommended.
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by murbard2 11y ago
For extra credit compute the probability under Jeffrey's prior.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Well, this is a huge, industrial one. You don't need that much power for home trash / christmas trees.
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by murbard2 11y ago
I'm surprised they seem to be moving the trash directly from the chute into the system rather than passing it through a waste shredder first. Then Christmas trees and cardboard boxes wouldn't be an issue... (Youtube "waste s
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What do blockchains accomplish?(medium.com)
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by murbard2 11y ago
Beyond what's been said about efficiency, you have to look forward a bit. Solar is really cheap and getting cheaper. This is anticipating for a future where a much larger fraction of the power on the grid comes from less polluting sour
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by murbard2 11y ago
I genuinely think it's a great piece, no sarcasm intended (though I obviously playfully ignored the fact that the OP was implying the opposite) Experiments in general are meant to be simplistic. The goal is to remove as many confoundin
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yeah, I was thinking that too... it is really well written, it makes compelling and nuanced arguments and it sets a nice thought framework for the debate. This is really an excellent piece, no wonder he's an econ professor at one of th
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by murbard2 11y ago
Could it be that some of the landlords successfully made it look like an accident to collect the insurance money?
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by murbard2 11y ago
The Bronx did go up in flames when landlords set their own buildings on fire as they were taking a loss on their rent controlled buildings, where the rent didn't even cover the mandatory maintenance.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Hey, I said "produced", not "producing"! It's definitely rebounded since then and I'm particularly excited about the upcoming developments on the southern part, by the water.
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by murbard2 11y ago
This has nothing to do with what anyone deserves or doesn't deserve. If you want the poor to live in desirable places, the best way to do that is to give them the money to do so. Trying to control prices directly has a track record of
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by murbard2 11y ago
The author seems very keen on rent control, but I think one should look more cool headedly at some alternatives that can achieve the same result by different means. Bombing the city in particular should be considered. Bombs could be supplie
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by murbard2 11y ago
This seasoning [1] gets remarkably close to the flavor of bacon. Amazon lists the ingredients as Sea Salt, Maltodextrin, Dehydranated garlic, paprika, dehydrated onion, natural flavors, natural hickory flavor, spice and less than 2% silicon
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by murbard2 11y ago
Matching the low frequency image information is a good simple approach to do the blending, but better results can be achieved with Poisson image editing: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Fall07/Papers/Perez03.pdf

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