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by oberstein 11y ago
To test this manually, go to google maps and paste the lat/long into this site. e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6205099,-122.3493306,19.75z --> http://avoidhumans.com/list.php?lat=47.620509
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by oberstein 11y ago
Depends what you expected those initial coins to do. Did you get them as a speculative investment with a chance of "interest" of x%/year? Then a 100% increase is pretty damn good as far as investments go, you shouldn't f
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by oberstein 11y ago
"The straightforward and easy path was to join the proprietary software world, signing nondisclosure agreements and promising not to help my fellow hacker.... I could have made money this way, and perhaps had fun programming (if I clo
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by oberstein 11y ago
They're different sub-genres. I really enjoyed BSG, but for me it didn't take away anything from TNG. The only criticism I have with TNG is that tech isn't the solution to all their non-philosophical problems -- they are a ci
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by oberstein 11y ago
> Would you ever consider rubbing yourself with paper a valid realistic alternative to showering? Yes, all the time, for many classes of uncleanliness. Pants and paper towels are amazing. I'm careful with your wording, though -- tho
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by oberstein 11y ago
I too would be interested in studies. But I do think environmental cost is factored in to the cost of most things, especially if due to environmental damage it is no longer possible to get a Thing at any price. I think the true cost of a si
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by oberstein 11y ago
> Five months into the experiment, after some initial reservations, I gave up toilet paper. Now I do things the way hundreds of millions (including my extended family) in India do — with water and my left hand. That's pretty gross.
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by oberstein 11y ago
You must be new here.
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by oberstein 11y ago
It will be interesting to see what the final winner of GPU programming looks like. There's also the possibility of FPGAs making their way into consumer hardware, and right now the pure-Python library MyHDL is a great choice for those.
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by oberstein 11y ago
> Let me warn you. If you persist with your propaganda on Python3, then GOLANG will be the future of Python. Does that register with you guys? This abstract future of Python has already been ceded to something that is not Python, just as
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by oberstein 11y ago
Yeah, but Israel is also tiny and can still kick the ass of everyone else in the Middle East. Similar to Israel, Singapore has a lot going for it with respect to modern warfare that makes up for its population and landmass deficit. I agree
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by oberstein 11y ago
Me too. It does take a long time, though, even with ccache on.
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by oberstein 11y ago
Are there any engineering efforts[1] being proposed or actively worked on by Singapore to solve this issue? Every now and again I hear about the hazes forcing everyone in Singapore to wear masks and stay indoors as much as possible until th
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by oberstein 11y ago
Crocodile humor.
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by oberstein 11y ago
If it's getting worse, you haven't hit full burnout yet. You should stop right now unless you really want to suffer that, let this be a cautionary tale: http://jacquesmattheij.com/dealing-with-burn-out I would jus
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by oberstein 11y ago
Zuckerberg saying "Young people are just smarter" seems like an instance of https://antidem.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/glantons-law/ Age discrimination exists because most of us have direct exper
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by oberstein 11y ago
Why don't you pay one of the several startups doing book-scanning services?
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by oberstein 11y ago
A lot of companies have provisions in their EULAs to allow for copies stored in RAM or by the browsers, e.g. http://storedvalue.com/en-US/terms-and-conditions and I believe streaming services are doing that as well sin
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by oberstein 11y ago
In my interviews with Uber drivers the only ones that really complain about the company are former taxi drivers.
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by oberstein 11y ago
It would need to be fairly ridiculously sized. Far easier to just cushion the ground and have the 'rig' waiting at the impact site. e.g. skydiving into a bunch of cardboard boxes with no parachute. https://www.youtube.c
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by oberstein 11y ago
Some of us initially poor but nouveau-rich would like to retire before we're old, you know. A wealth tax makes that much harder than it already is. You would also kill property ownership by all but the ultra-rich who have enough assets
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by oberstein 11y ago
Thanks for bringing out his AI comment, it seems much more aligned with the main superintelligence research community now than when I read his thoughts last. Updated.
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by oberstein 11y ago
Fine, physics in general, then? I mean he's still my generation's (20-30-somethings) Einstein, great thinker, but Einstein had a lot of bad ideas about socialism and governance too.
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by oberstein 11y ago
Perhaps by continuing to ignore it. Hawking has some weird (if somewhat common) opinions about AI, aliens, and I guess capitalism too. He should stick to black holes. What annoys me is he often has the basic facts right. For example, fully
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by oberstein 11y ago
Still cheaper (and more useful) than the F-35 program...
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by oberstein 11y ago
Those two possibilities vary hugely in their time consideration! 1 considers the far future outcome ("you go on with your life") but 2 only considers the next few months. 2a you find out you can do it and enjoy it, great career pa
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by oberstein 11y ago
Seattle is a godless soulless husk of what it once was, attitudes that spawn things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Bastards_Out didn't win out. Try living in Utah for a while (as a real or pretend Mor
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by oberstein 11y ago
That is a much better line of questioning since it avoids the arguments about what is meant by savings. Also clicking through I found it avoids the followup argument of "what about credit cards"? To quote the whole thing: "47
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by oberstein 11y ago
http://morguefile.com/ is a lot better.
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by oberstein 11y ago
Solution: forced cryonics, with elements of Demolition Man thrown in as desired.

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