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by numtel 3y ago
Yes, Genesis is a great example of this. The Old Testament is a religious text embedded in an agricultural society and reflects the need to come to terms with that. I like to connect it with Douglas Adams' answer to the meaning of life
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by numtel 3y ago
This is a great book about how our capitalist economy was very much designed. It's cited heavily in Graeber's Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value and supports his general push revealed by the quote in Adam Curtis' docus
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by numtel 3y ago
If hunting/gathering is play and since that's basically what all animals do, then the blog's title, "play makes us human" is totally incorrect. Of course other animals play, we've all seen it. It seems the oppo
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by numtel 3y ago
I was wondering about new digestive capabilities recently and wrote this blurb: https://clonk.me/nft/137/0x8abd8d9fab3f711b16d15ce48747db496... If we could eat different things, we could give up agriculture and sa
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by numtel 3y ago
Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: Solidity, Javascript, HTML, CSS Resume: http://latenightsketches.com/resume-benjamin-green.pdf or https://numtel.github.io/ Email
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by numtel 3y ago
> When a user joins a platform, they are given 1,000 points. The article doesn't go into how they would limit users from creating new accounts, (i.e. sybil resistance) which would be very important if you give out points like this.
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by numtel 3y ago
Right at the top of the list: octocat. Good thing California is saving us from the sexual nature of GitHub's mascot.
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by numtel 3y ago
Uh, our money does already expire. It's called inflation.
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by numtel 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231023094046/https://www.nytim...
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by numtel 3y ago
Again, that's for a validator node. If you're running a mirror that's not taking part in making new blocks, you don't need the speed, just enough space. It may not be always synced to the latest block but it should work.
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by numtel 3y ago
It's not magic but it is a radically different pricing model: pay once, host forever. I see it as a massive bet on storage prices continuing to decrease.
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by numtel 3y ago
Anybody can spin up a mirror node, even on the mostly centralized BSC. This is just a misunderstanding. Every public blockchain works this way afaik. I've even made a site for hosting webpages on Optimism: https://newgeociti
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by numtel 3y ago
Please tell my why this prompt is blocked by Bing's image creator then: "view from inside a shark's mouth as it hunts fish" but "view from inside a shark's mouth as it looks for fish" is fine. A shark hunt
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by numtel 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231015092046/https://www.nytim...
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by numtel 3y ago
Exactly. I paid rent during the pandemic then afterwards, California paid landlords for any missed rent money but they did not reimburse renters who did pay. What a scam!
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by numtel 3y ago
As a car driver without a cabin air filter, (are cabin air filters even effective against exhaust gases?) both diesel trucks and motorcycles require me to close my windows and vents because of the smell. At least cars have smog equipment to
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by numtel 3y ago
Before I graduated from college, my aunt gave me the book, The Artist's Way, which prescribes this basic task as you've described as the foundational exercise for creativity. The suggestion given was 3 pages a day no matter what.
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by numtel 3y ago
You're asking about undercollatorized loans on chain? It's not a solved problem but there's progress. See this survey of approaches of loans on chain. [1] Last year for the ETHOnline hackathon, I made an app that allows anyon
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by numtel 3y ago
> concrete filled pipes I believe the word you're looking for is 'bollard'.
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by numtel 3y ago
For these kinds of things that don't take a ton of data, a blockchain is a great place to store them for a long time for one upfront fee.
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by numtel 3y ago
7th largest? Apparently at the time, the largest was the organ from the 1904 world's fair in St. louis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ
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by numtel 3y ago
Wikipedia suggests it's a hydrogenotrophic bacteria. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods Out of Berkeley, there's also Air Protein https://www.airprotein.com/
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by numtel 3y ago
How's it an investment if there's no liquidity? You can't sell your friendship on the market. And don't reply with a link to that japanese guy who sells his time to hang out.
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by numtel 3y ago
> In 2005, Congress decided that a new series of dollar coins should be minted to engage the public. These coins would bear the likeness of every former president, starting with George Washington. There would be a new one every quarter.
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by numtel 3y ago
> I still don't quite understand his weird obsession with population size I don't know the author's reasoning since it's not included but IMO, a greater population is valuable because it means more ideas and more chan
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by numtel 3y ago
That is some opaque language to say, "it's too expensive to have kids and this may cause the end of technological progress."
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by numtel 3y ago
My water heater stopped working a few weeks ago. I told ChatGPT what I was seeing and it told me which part to replace. I had never worked on a water heater before and fixing it was no problem with its instructions. OTOH, I didn't real
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by numtel 3y ago
History is considered to be since the invention of writing. (<10000 years) Anything before that is pre-history.
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by numtel 3y ago
GOG has sc3k that works on modern hardware. Also, wine runs the original afaik.
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by numtel 3y ago
Go back to the ancient world and they don't care about your magic steam engine because it uses too much resources? Make one gun and they'll want to get better at extracting resources quickly. James C Scott chronicles in his variou

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