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by rriepe 7y ago
Only natural satellites are considered moons.
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by rriepe 7y ago
> I imagine each bovine exported off the property represents some amount of water. A cow contains 100 to 200 gallons of water, by my estimate.
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by rriepe 7y ago
I know you meant the technical feature, but I couldn't help but laugh at the idea of patenting stories .
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by rriepe 7y ago
I've thought a lot about this recently. A large portion of people hate social artifacts. They don't want to have their picture taken. They don't want to be recorded on audio or video. They don't want their daily uttera
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by rriepe 7y ago
While I agree in spirit (Occam tells me it was just unprecedented load), that explanation doesn't make any sense to me in terms of disproving the Leap Year theory. The mistake wouldn't even have to be in their code. As for believi
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by rriepe 7y ago
I haven't looked into the technical credibility of this at all [EDIT: I should have more strongly indicated my doubt here], so this isn't any sort of condemnation on my end, but I thought the Leap Day theory was interesting: http
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by rriepe 7y ago
It's not about mass but distribution. If all the land is flat, there won't be anything sticking out after the water is added.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Less, Django, React/Angular/Svelte Résumé/CV: musickal.com or strapless.io Email: rexriepe at gmail I'm a UI-focused frontend engineer that cares
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by rriepe 7y ago
I'd call it passion! But it's like mindcrime said, mostly a case of word inflation in this particular context. So for me it's not what word I'd use instead of "passionate," but what word they're using &quo
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by rriepe 7y ago
Yeah, "passion" is a huge red flag word for me. In the same realm as "ninja" or "rockstar."
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by rriepe 7y ago
On their front page right now: Matches for "Trump": 19 Matches for "coronavirus": 31 CNN: 13 for Trump, 14 for coronavirus MSNBC: 34 for Trump, 42 for coronavirus
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by rriepe 7y ago
The time to having it/transmitting it is quick, like 2 or 3 days. Symptoms come later, on average 6 days after that. If you're dealing with a big group of people, 10 days is sort of a smoking gun here.
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by rriepe 7y ago
What if the threat is the government? We're to give them all the guns and all the hospitals?
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by rriepe 7y ago
The Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco
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by rriepe 7y ago
This is a generous interpretation. I think it's a policy over-correction after not canceling the Chinese New Year parade earlier this month.
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by rriepe 7y ago
He meant 3 times a week, 1.5 hours at a time.
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by rriepe 7y ago
This is hilarious. Isn't 2012 the underlying model they use for everything today? Fearmongering is the go-to default for absolutely every issue the media covers. Then during an actual literal pandemic they take a short break from eve
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by rriepe 7y ago
I would say don't presume that. Presume instead that this program will not supplant other programs and it will not be universal. UBI is a popular idea, but the way you see it isn't the popular version of it, at least in California
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by rriepe 7y ago
That's more "Explain like I'm five years into my PhD"
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by rriepe 7y ago
The "feel good" chemical in your brain is put together from a building block version of it. But sometimes it doesn't get that far, because special types of bugs in your gut get to the building block version first. They do the
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by rriepe 7y ago
There are two bars though, because there's a double standard. If the robot car hits the boy, it's national news. The lower bar of surpassing human safety performance is, in almost all regards, not even relevant to the discussion.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Great point. I almost missed this. It really seems like there should be another separation in the article I linked, between "Universe" and "Milky Way."
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by rriepe 7y ago
I have an Essential phone and couldn't agree more. While we're at it, can it be e-ink? And have the processing power of a 2004 phone? And a headphone jack? I just want less phone overall.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Any place with red flag laws, including the USA. A diagnosis can make you a second-class citizen with fewer rights.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Agreed. If this gets big, any mention of pre-2019 coronavirus will have to be qualified with "No, not that coronavirus."
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by rriepe 7y ago
Yeah but all the elemental matter in the universe is like three dust specks floating in a lecture hall. You can ask about the dust specks or the lecture hall interchangeably.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Mammal "seeds" (gametes or zygotes) never evolved to be outside the body for any period of time. In theory you could probably do this with a 2,000-year-old platypus egg that had been preserved in amber. But otherwise mammals just
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by rriepe 7y ago
Wikipedia has a good writeup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem... TL;DR: Stars burn it up.
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by rriepe 7y ago
It's complicated. Helium does make the list, but lithium doesn't. Carbon and oxygen are higher than you'd expect if you're just going by atomic weight.
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by rriepe 7y ago
I meant it in an "elements occurring in the universe" sort of way, but this is a great point too. If we could get at atmospheric nitrogen naturally, there'd be no bottleneck.

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