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by peter303 9y ago
Some wise hunters dont kill out of spite but necessity. They say a prayer celebrating the circle of life and thanking the caught animal. And dont take more than necessary.
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by peter303 9y ago
I suggest its the poltical news cycle which emphasizes bad news at the expense of good. The US democratic party did not trumpet the progress of recovery from the Great Recession. Instead it focused on the inequalities that remained. True th
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by peter303 9y ago
Plus the refrigeration and industrialized food like processed dinners and fast food. These cut food preparation from tens of hours a week tomjust a few hours. Further automation like food deliveryband cooking systems could this even further
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by peter303 9y ago
People talked optimistically about the end of war in the early 20th century when it looked like war had gone the way of the dodo. The last major international conflict was a century earlier when the Powers deposed the second rise of Napoleo
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by peter303 9y ago
You know how people born before 1985 felt when there was the ever present global thermonuclear war threat. We used to practice duck-and-cover in grade school. Woulnt help if very near a bomb explosion, but a little helpful from distant blas
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by peter303 9y ago
One of my first TVs had vacuum tubes. When it failed, you took he tubes out and tested them at a drug store or radio shack for a failure. You could also take it to a repair store or call a rech to come. Very few vacuum tube tvs were easily
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by peter303 9y ago
The telegraph was the first Internet. It permitted messages to travel across a country in seconds instead of of days. For example the Battle of New Orleans, 29 years before the first telegraph, was fought after the peace treaty for the Wa
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by peter303 9y ago
I expect China about 2030. They are slow and methodical. Their stated priority is their third generation space station It will be six modules or a quarter of ISS. Perhaps they doing as visionairies suggested in the 1950s: get a decent space
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by peter303 9y ago
Topographic (geodetic) shape is always changing with time. Radar inferometry from satellites gives the most repeated surveys, but has low spatial resolution. You can discern made-made, seasonal, and geological factors causing change. The Am
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by peter303 9y ago
The neutrinos arrived 3 hours before the photons. Thats 1/500,000,000 difference. Plenty of things could have slowed the photons.
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by peter303 9y ago
A.I. Expert systems like MYCIN were supposed to revolutionize medince in the 1980s. They were sort of like the symptom handbooks you might see in WebMD.
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by peter303 9y ago
The Silicon Valley television show had the best parody: a deep learning program trained to find hot dogs for a foodie program repurposed for a phallus porn detection program.
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by peter303 9y ago
I am surprise the trucks dont have randomly loaded internal shelves like Amazon warehouses. Less compact packaging. But always know where everthing is. Plus there are near optimal traveling salesmen algorithms for minimizing driving. Exact
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by peter303 9y ago
My boomer bones are radioactive - strontium 90. We'll be a dating keystone for future paleoantropologists.
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by peter303 9y ago
If they audit all your real cash accounts and see undeclared inflows. Only about 1 in 200 individual taxpayers recieve comprehesive audits these days.
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by peter303 9y ago
Trump probably won, but pissed off the selecrion committee last minute.
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by peter303 9y ago
Poor choice of a passing fad. Next year the runner ups Presidents Trump and Xi will be far more influential.
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by peter303 9y ago
SpaceX is wisely recycled NASA and Russia Tech too. Why reinvent all the wheels? SpaceX lured away some of the best industry engineers by promising projects that actually get launched. Accomplishment is as important as money to some of us t
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by peter303 9y ago
Does cash flow cover operations with existing technology? They will launch 18 or 19 times in 2017, most with paying customers. I could see new capital going to new technology like the Falcon Heavy and Human launches.
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by peter303 9y ago
I hope meetup doesnt get trashed like the Slashdot, Wired and Huffpost acquisitions. They were destroyed by excessive advertising.
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by peter303 9y ago
“One chance in ten an individual directly experiences a solar eclipse.” Any spot on Earth sees one in four centuries; life expectancy 40 years. However its pretty certain that people would have heard from neigbors who saw one. Othe eclipses
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by peter303 9y ago
I remember the beginning of the startup era. When Bill Gate and Steve Jobs started their companies in 1976, rhere were very few venture capital firms and the stepped procedure of investment you see today. A company had to borrow from more c
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by peter303 9y ago
How do you know you havevsome intelligence? Youcan only explain a small part how it works. Ditto only replicate a few intelligent activites.
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by peter303 9y ago
I was at Stanford when Prof Knuth developed his TeX system in the 1980s. It was wonderful to watchthe user group meetings develop these systems. For themost TeX semed to spring in a fully developed fashion like Athena born from the head of
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by peter303 9y ago
Or in China when tradition says the driver pays the victims hospital expenses or (generally lesser) funeral expenses, some drivers insure it is the latter. I have even seen movies depicting this quandry.
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by peter303 9y ago
Some people dont know Woz spent some years as an elementary school math teacher after leaving his full time Apple job. So he as insight as a teacher.
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by peter303 9y ago
At MIT a “school” means something larger than a department. Most people outside MIT dont realize that MIT has never had a distinct computer science major, even though MIT has been doing leading edge computer science for 75 years and spawned
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MIT profs ask to create computer science schoolat MIT(thetech.com)
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“Behind every modern man are 200 energy slaves”, a calculation attributed to Buckminster Fuller and others. You calculate the per capita energy usage divided by a humans daily caloric intake (on human labor eqivalent) to estimate an energy
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by peter303 9y ago
Correct. Ignoring dependence caused the 2008 financial meltdown. Mortgage securities were created assuming mortgage failures were independent, when in a financal meltdown failures are highly correlated. In math terms this is difference of a

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