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by skosch 7y ago
Because everyone and their grandma can whip up a quick Python script after a few days of practice, whereas learning Haskell is a much bigger investment?
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by skosch 7y ago
I'm with you, but then again I currently live in a nice neighbourhood where something like "serial packet thiefs" are considered a "low-impact black-swan event", as you say. Not everyone is so lucky, and I'd wa
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by skosch 7y ago
Consider that "subjects raw plant matter to complicated chemical processes to produce something meat-tasting" is equally true for fake meat factories as it is for cows. Just because the recipe for real meat has come about via evol
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by skosch 7y ago
If you haven't yet, check out Redshift ( http://jonls.dk/redshift/ ).
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by skosch 7y ago
There is a huge asymmetry between learning to recognize characters and learning to write them. I've found that learning to read a basic repertoire of Chinese characters is surprisingly doable and a very helpful skill as a learner, to t
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by skosch 7y ago
Can you comment on the history of the name, printed as 港 on the bills? For those unaware, the character means "harbour"; it's the Kong in Hong Kong – is there any relationship to the HKD?
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by skosch 7y ago
... but if you think, "hey, so the models could be wrong, how reassuring", think again. It's just as likely that reality is worse than predicted.
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by skosch 7y ago
Pragmata is nice. For those looking for a very similar free font, check out Iosevka ( https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ )
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by skosch 7y ago
Plenty of evidence has been found. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/18/us/politics/m...
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by skosch 7y ago
A small flashlight can (and has been) done, see e.g. https://hackaday.io/project/158857-body-heat-powered-flashli...
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by skosch 7y ago
Since it hasn't been mentioned in this thread, Digital Fortress is nothing special. If you've read one Dan Brown book, you've read them all: the protagonist makes some awe-inspiring, creepy discovery, stuff happens, finally i
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by skosch 7y ago
> Projections about or population leveling off would change when assumptions change, like the world being cleaner from planting all these trees. You have it backwards. People in clean, wealthy countries tend to have fewer kids than even
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by skosch 7y ago
You're right – so take your argument, and follow it to its logical conclusion. Precisely because individuals act in the way you describe, change has to come from the top, ideally in the form of economic incentives. Make polluters pay
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by skosch 7y ago
Those are cancers caused by viruses, and it's the viruses getting transmitted. On the other hand, clonal transmission refers to the cancer cells themselves leaving sick individual A, entering healthy individual B, and continuing to r
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by skosch 7y ago
Oh I agree, it absolutely is the way to go! If you haven't heard of it, take a look at the Giving What We Can pledge [0]. But most people aren't like you and me. I've had conversations about this with many others, and the mos
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by skosch 7y ago
It's very healthy of you to be skeptical of government handouts to the Green industry – not because climate change is fake (it's not), but because government rarely knows how to pick the right tech to invest in. (Note that the gov
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by skosch 7y ago
That's a false dichotomy. We don't need your technocratic oligarchy. Most people already do agree on what's "good" and what isn't, and yet they (rationally) choose to put their money elsewhere, because they h
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by skosch 7y ago
Even better – economists have already worked out how to create this kind of investment incentive in a mathematically optimal way: https://medium.com/coinmonks/breaking-down-buterin-hitzig-an... https://posei
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by skosch 7y ago
Related: I've found that to run time-consuming number-crunching code from Elixir, the most convenient approach is to call a Python script via ports. It's super easy and can't crash your VM. To convert from/to Erlang term
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by skosch 7y ago
Congratulations, and best of luck!
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by skosch 7y ago
It's 154% of the design load, not 154% more than the design load. So 1.54×.
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by skosch 7y ago
The life/reproduction cycle of jellyfish makes it difficult to talk about "common parlance" age. Someone even made a website about it: https://immortal-jellyfish.com/
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by skosch 7y ago
The article explicitly concludes that the speaker is the bottleneck, not the listener. You can understand sped-up Youtube videos just fine.
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by skosch 7y ago
This looks great, and I wish you all the success in the world. The domain is your key asset, IMHO. 1) When did you start, and how long does it take you to sell an acre? 2) How do you plan on "releasing" more regions? Is the next r
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by skosch 7y ago
It's great that you understand how supply and demand works, but look beyond that. At some point in the mid-term future, automation will take over enough labor that a sizeable chunk of the (educated, motivated) population won't be
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by skosch 7y ago
That article is from over a week ago, and it cites http://www.globalfiredata.org/forecast.html#amazon , which has since been updated. Indeed, people are burning more this year than they did in the past few years – any burn
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by skosch 7y ago
False. The 2019 fires are way outside of the average: http://www.globalfiredata.org/forecast.html Also, what you call average is only the average over the past few years, which means: illegal loggers and ranchers burning th
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by skosch 7y ago
> Two super-deep-pocketed customers that pay them about a million dollars a month each. This sounds like a perfectly legitimate way to earn a living, and more mature and wise than chasing some unvalidated unicorn dream and running out of
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by skosch 7y ago
Good question. Republicans in particular need to worry about primary challenges in their science-illiterate districts, and many may be wary of attaching their name to this directly. But there are a good handful of deep red congresspeople wh
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by skosch 7y ago
The difference is: the dose makes the poison. Organisms may be able to handle everyday quantities of dsRNA, but beyond a certain concentration, you may suddenly see unexpected problems, which then cause domino effects throughout the ecosyst

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