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by op03 6y ago
Cities consistently outlast Kings and Empires. But to build empire you have to be in denial of that fact.
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by op03 6y ago
>> If we want 8 billion people living in comfort, we need more energy "We want" is language that hides reality. Who wants this? How many people? As the Trump election (and many other elections around the world) show there is
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by op03 6y ago
Not really. Sometimes it's just a default move leaders have to make to cover their ass. If you are in a position of responsibility, even for a small group, and the neighbouring building gets robbed or there is physical violence, people
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by op03 6y ago
Above all, dont insult the German football team.
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by op03 6y ago
That is exactly what I do. Today in fact, I got my Postman to sign an affidavit that he has "a strong and nearly binding interest in my stability, security, prosperity, etc".
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by op03 6y ago
More like a Cost of dealing with people in the neighborhood who want your stuff and/or want you to bend and bow to them. Look at Taiwan today. What other option do they have other than burning billions to buy some deterrence? Same goes
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by op03 6y ago
Its not complicated. There are dose response curves for everything once you start studying them - https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/chemicals-and-toxic... https://www.epa.gov/fera/dose-respo
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by op03 6y ago
Glenn Greenwald needs an achievable goal otherwise all that persistence and energy he has is going to be squandered. Lot of it has been already. His frustrations have been building, if not overflowing, and social media just enjoys/enco
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by op03 6y ago
The EPA has something called a Dose-Response Curve. Depending on what's being dumped in the river the polluter can be thrown in jail, the govt can be sued, the river can be closed off etc etc But what helps in determining damage is the
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by op03 6y ago
It's not weird. Its just how a large jungle gets explored by chimps with 6 inch brains. Eye doctors, Astronomers, Painters, Microscopists, Architects etc etc had all been studying light for thousands of years. But it took a bookminder
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by op03 6y ago
Try doing this without AR -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNbRRRFhqY In the past it would require hiring an entire vfx team. And this is just interacting with more or less static content. Things get even more interes
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by op03 6y ago
Personal staff and underlings are the solution. And friends and family are a great backup. This system works out well if you do a good job of remembering and meeting their needs. Keep notes on the needs of each person you care about. They w
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by op03 6y ago
Language is probably a prereq. You can't be in great battles with yourself without language arising. So where ever language arises, Consciousness of some sort follows. Ants I doubt have great self control problems cause language hardwa
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by op03 6y ago
Monitoring Facebook needs to work like the Black hole photo project. Large alliances spanning countries and multiple institutions, hundreds of researchers working in tandem. Thats the best way to tame a beast this large. Same goes for regul
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by op03 6y ago
Man I wish there were graphing tool to make graphs (eg 3D bar charts/over geo data) to look this cool.
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by op03 6y ago
I use elastic - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
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by op03 6y ago
Good job. I recruit for Facebook. Send me you resume. What people also don't get is Match making is a big problem while making babies too. Our Facebook Parenting portal makes baby making simple by requiring a Facebook account. But its
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by op03 6y ago
I was just joking :) Mostly to show, the MORE complex and dynamic the system is, anyone can pick random factors and use it in analysis to say whatever they feel like.
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by op03 6y ago
If you ever teach a group of kids you quickly learn that interests, personality types, needs come in a wide spectrum. Whats in the "core curriculum" and its effects are not predictable. For example, I had French classes for 4 year
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by op03 6y ago
Who makes better food? Thats all that matter. It was a crucial factor in the fall of the Romans (they hadn't invented pizza yet), the Mongols, the Brits, the Soviets, the Germans etc etc.
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by op03 6y ago
Ask him to talk to as many profs in the dept as possible. Something will click. Thats what I did. Specifically that he is into programming, what excites him etc and that he is looking to work with them in whatever capacity available. Profs
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by op03 6y ago
Whats happening at Apple's spaceship? Is it empty? Can I squat there?
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by op03 6y ago
Can journos be ranked by topic frequency? Not too interested in the most popular topics, but the obscure stuff like why some dept in govt has changed something related to topic and there are a couple journos who have been monitoring/re
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by op03 6y ago
Once people start saying Likes/Clicks/Views lead to Outcomes not just for person hitting the numbers, but for the whole of society then they need to point at those Outcomes. Not the Like/Click/View counts. Obama did the
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by op03 6y ago
This is why Kim Kardashian will be president.
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by op03 6y ago
Wondering what the next bot is going to do...uncovers anonymity on the net analyzing writing patterns? Produce psych profile of anyone? Shows the list of known weaknesses? Recommends the easiest way to trigger a person? Interesting times.
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by op03 6y ago
This should be done in collaboration with all other countries who are claiming the same thing. Global monopolists have to be handled globally.
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by op03 6y ago
For some reason wikidata is light on financial info, as in budgets, expenditure, income, debt, assets of various orgs, various levels of govt etc. Is it because the triple store is not the best way to store/query financial data or is i
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by op03 6y ago
Try Slashdot 5-6 links a day feels a bit less addictive than the HN 30.
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by op03 6y ago
On post traumatic growth - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/post-tr...

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