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by novalis78 6y ago
2020 isn't quite over yet
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by novalis78 6y ago
Speaking of pet theories, here is mine: There exists a sentry system of interstellar buoys that get sucked into star systems passing by. Perhaps with a solar sail, so they can control a bit which stars they want to take a closer look at. Ou
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by novalis78 6y ago
Add a bullet point to Boring company’s mission plan.
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by novalis78 6y ago
It’s fascinating how new and cheaper forms of power (Fusion or Molten salt nuclear reactors looking at you) we unlock another plane of abundance.
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by novalis78 6y ago
95% of all Enterprise car rental fraud occurs with debit cards (as per a recent conversation with a manager) http://www.city-data.com/forum/automotive/2750797-rental-age...
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by novalis78 6y ago
“ GPT-3 does not look much like an agent. It does not seem to have goals or preferences beyond completing text, for example. It is more like a chameleon that can take the shape of many different agents. Or perhaps it is an engine that can b
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by novalis78 6y ago
Yes, I taught all 4 of my children using that book and it’s amazing and works and should be the standard everywhere. It was actually recommended to us by our first daycare teacher who used to teach elementary school before retiring. She sai
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by novalis78 6y ago
Good friend of mine said his company invented the book preview and had tons of publisher relationships due to their service for public libraries and preview snippets. They sat in a meeting with Amazon executives early 2000s - allegedly simi
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Artificial consciousness and the nature of reality (Joshua Bach)(youtu.be)
2 points by novalis78 6y ago|1 comments
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by novalis78 6y ago
I highly recommend the website https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ and in particular their excellent newsletter. Surely, it would be an oversimplification to reduce everything to one cause but how much the setup of the original
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by novalis78 6y ago
Here is a lifestyle change for you: ‘A step farther out’ by Jerry Pournell. Anti-humanism on nature.com rubs me the wrong way.
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by novalis78 6y ago
“The contributions of sound money to human flourishing are not restricted to scientific and technological advance; they can also be seen in the art world. It is no coincidence that Florentine and Venetian artists were the leaders of the Ren
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by novalis78 6y ago
That’s why I do like TheFoundation.com - their advertisement is a bit cheesy but the core idea: to go out and find real world pain points for existing businesses and then to figure out a software solution for them and even get paid customer
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by novalis78 6y ago
Keep trying.
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by novalis78 6y ago
“How to get what you want” by Raymond Hull
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by novalis78 6y ago
ByteFederal | Full Stack Developer | Sarasota, FL | Full Time, Onsite | www.bytefederal.com Fast growing FinTech startup developing hardware and software for a fleet of kiosks, made in the US. We also operate a network of "bank in a bo
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by novalis78 6y ago
It will be interesting what the fertility rate of new frontier worlds might look like. Technologically advanced but in constant need of humans to build and push further.
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by novalis78 6y ago
Has anyone done a study or analysis of how much this might benefit large scale civil engineering projects?
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by novalis78 6y ago
That’s a very thorough overview
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Universe’s ‘missing matter’ finally found in the space between galaxies(news.ucsc.edu)
23 points by novalis78 6y ago|6 comments
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by novalis78 6y ago
Disappointed how?
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by novalis78 6y ago
Reminds me of the discussion in ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ about zombie industries directly or indirectly build on top of unsound monetary policies. One could argue this capital burning colossi exist by virtue of access to a populations purchas
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by novalis78 6y ago
There are various attempts on county and state level to implement forms of (blockchain) based personal identification systems that would be flexible and reveal only the necessary information based on the recipient and issued by the state (F
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by novalis78 6y ago
There is a universe of new startup names to be discovered. “Is your startup name pre- or post-GPT2”?
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by novalis78 6y ago
There is no greater privacy violation than the BSA act. Can’t wait for that to be on the table of some judge one day.
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by novalis78 6y ago
Exactly. As it stands wealth is drained away from the people with skills to the people with quills. Thus we end up with mountains of strangulating regs and no bullet trains or hyperloops. I remember Germany, early 2000s, same story: they ha
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by novalis78 6y ago
I think it starts with the financial system. The current system incentivizes bureaucracy, regulation and stagnation in part due to the cantillion effect but also indirectly because it destroys capital, increases debt and prevents a savings
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by novalis78 7y ago
The platonic universe of the entirety of math sounds (this week at least) like Wolfram’s “Universe of Computational reality” of which the physical reality is just a subset.
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by novalis78 7y ago
What’s depressing about being a nanotchmological robot attempting to conquer the solar system and spread his technology and nanotechnology? It sounds rather exciting and fascinating. Perhaps if the depression is too severe you need to check
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by novalis78 7y ago
I am pretty sure the Martian congressional republic is not going to stop colonizing just Mars. They’ll have every incentive to push further, faster :-)

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