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by nkoren 6y ago
There's nothing which says that the Great Filter needs to be caused by endogenous factors. Let's say that these are all relatively "easy" to achieve: planets, life, complex life, technological civilisation. Even if they&
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by nkoren 6y ago
You don't even need to go to Southern Mexico for that. There's a small enclave town in Phoenix, Arizona, called Guadalupe. It's a Mexican / native community. In the centre of town, there's a public square flanked by
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by nkoren 6y ago
Hey, I'm neither a Catholic nor a monotheist. I've got no personal dog in this fight, except that as a rule, my sympathies are generally aligned with indigenous peoples. And yeah, people can be super hypocritical: mote in your eye
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by nkoren 6y ago
The destruction of those codixes is, without a doubt, one of the greatest acts of cultural vandalism in history. Absolutely tragic. At the same time, I've read a bit more about that incident, and... this is probably not politically cor
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Hyperkludge(twitter.com)
3 points by nkoren 6y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 6y ago
Oh, of course the roof is amazing, one of the crowning achievements of human ingenuity, IMHO. But for some reason the floor impresses me at least as much. If you're a Roman working on that roof, you know you're doing something tot
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by nkoren 6y ago
Check out the floor of the Pantheon, in Rome. THAT IS THE ORIGINAL FLOOR. People have been walking on it for 2,000 years and it's still gorgeous. The sheer competency of these guys was unbelievable.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Pretty much: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fertility_deities
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by nkoren 6y ago
Eh, Americans do it too, just less consistently. When's the last time you saw LASER?
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by nkoren 7y ago
That's correct, and the "weird taste" relative to other sodas was (is? Been a while since I've been to India, and I noticed it was losing market share badly last time I was there...) cardamom. Cardamom is put to good use
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by nkoren 7y ago
The primary point isn't wrong, but I am deeply deeply deeply skeptical of this, since the underlying data is of such varying and often miserable quality. A friend of mine in Oregon exhibited all the C19 symptoms, and went to get tested
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by nkoren 7y ago
This is fine on the surface, but still has the potential for problems. Eg., if I were Muslim, I might be quite happy to declare that I'm interested in Halal food and would like to see advertising relevant to my interests. Win/win,
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The Great Anglo-Saxon Health Experiment(medium.com)
2 points by nkoren 7y ago|0 comments
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Coronavirus Tracker(worldometers.info)
3 points by nkoren 7y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 7y ago
Your assumption is totally reasonable, but wrong. That's the construction cost Musk has said he's aiming for.
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by nkoren 7y ago
Oh boy oh boy, I look forward to seeing this. The sinking of the Thresher has been of interest to me ever since a party I attended 25 years ago, where a very inebriated nuclear engineer apparently mistook my security clearance (none whatsoe
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by nkoren 7y ago
A botched SAP implementation played a significant role in the $2.1B implosion of Target Canada.[1] Can't belive it isn't mentioned here. 1: https://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-can...
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by nkoren 7y ago
Emigrating from the US to the UK, that was one of the biggest wins for me: ubiquitous small shops, within walking distance, where I can buy fresh vegetables. What a revelation! I've come to see the existence of such shops (and the zoni
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by nkoren 7y ago
Looking at the predictions from a decade ago, it's spectacular how many of them are wrong. Like, probably more than 95% of them are in the "very wrong" category. That should be a severe cautionary note for this kind of progno
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by nkoren 7y ago
What's your company?
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by nkoren 7y ago
We use OpenLayers extensively in my company ( https://www.podaris.com ), and we push it really, really hard. It's the basis for a parametric CAD system, a bunch of GIS tools, and most recently, transport micro-simulation. I
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Msnbc has blacked out a presidential candidate(vocal.media)
2 points by nkoren 7y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 7y ago
This is good. I co-founded Futurescaper[1], a company that does work in strategic foresight systems -- collective mapping of complex systems, and analytical tools to help people and organisations to understand them. This put us in a prime
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by nkoren 7y ago
A friend of mine has seen it. Says that it's true.
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by nkoren 7y ago
(Found via a friend of mine, who commented that she "knew this guy and once kicked him out of my apartment after he snorted all the medication in my bathroom cabinet." Just an interesting bit of extra context.)
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The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder(wired.com)
13 points by nkoren 7y ago|1 comments
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by nkoren 7y ago
Musk actually has credited Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace with providing the inspiration for vertically landing the Falcon 9. Of course Armadillo was likewise inspired by the Delta Clipper, which was in turn inspired by the LEM, etc. Bu
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by nkoren 7y ago
I know some very smart people who are working on this. http://el-sky.com/
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by nkoren 7y ago
Please read the article. > Researchers have found a woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia even though her brain has developed major neurological features of the disease. > She, like thousands of her r
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Experimental City: The Sci-Fi Utopia That Never Was(citylab.com)
3 points by nkoren 7y ago|0 comments

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