strangattractor

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by strangattractor 7y ago
No single solution is going to save the planet. Give me 10 things I can do to reduce pollution, carbon emissions or trash by %2.6 and we get a %26 reduction. Everyone of these things is someone's "Sacred Cow" - we need to get
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by strangattractor 7y ago
The Bio tech seen is very credential focused. It is not like standard tech that often welcomes people with other experience. There are several likely reasons for this. 1. An over abundance of Bio Phd's. 2. Medicine in particular is t
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by strangattractor 7y ago
I know I have always dreamed of being thrown in prison for criticizing the government:0
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by strangattractor 7y ago
If monads are so easy why are there so many articles written explaining them? I am losing count of how many articles I have seen just on monads. Pretty soon they will catch up to all explanations of why functional programming is the bees k
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by strangattractor 7y ago
Showing that e^ix = cos x + i sin x
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by strangattractor 7y ago
What exactly is going well? 3 years ago the economy was growing - jobs where increasing rapidly - farmers where selling soybeans - the military was building new housing and schools for troop's families which translates into local jobs.
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by strangattractor 7y ago
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engin... . (free - look for pdf download link ) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics (free - look for pdf download lin
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by strangattractor 7y ago
People once where more up right on bicycles. I think that bicycles are to blame. The racing position most bicycles have are causing the problem not phones.
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by strangattractor 7y ago
Do you really want to give a site run by someone you don't know vital info and a account number. Probably legit but ...
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by strangattractor 7y ago
Racket is great and fun. I find it truly amazing that after all these many years people are still trying to justify Lisp. Frankly - if it was going to be adopted in mass it would have happened by now and no amount of explaining is going to
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by strangattractor 8y ago
Because programming languages are practically irrelevant in making products. They are only important to developers. In the last thirty years of programming I have yet to see a project fail because of the programming language or code quality
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by strangattractor 8y ago
I miss the Cathedral - welcome to the Bazaar:)
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by strangattractor 8y ago
So you are saying that if I owned a bitcoin before the split worth X and owned a bitcoin and bitcoin cash worth X + Y after the split that is not identical printing money. If the US made dollarsPlus and gave you one for every dollar you cur
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by strangattractor 8y ago
He is in less of a position to know whether you would be a good VC than you are. It's not about him - it's about what you want. People generally do well at things they enjoy or feel is valuable. You are a bright person. I would be
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by strangattractor 8y ago
Please read: https://www.facetdev.com/blog/posts/why-i-turned-down-my-y-c... Having been part of the dot-bombs of the early 2000's I agree with his assessment. No one can tell you what job to take. Spend som
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by strangattractor 8y ago
I am not seeing the deflationary part. They just split it and created twice as much Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash. There is a new Bitcoin like currency minted every 5 minutes. It is far cheaper to create digital currencies than paper money and f
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by strangattractor 8y ago
Good to know that Jack believes that putting his money in Bitcoin will give him greater returns than having it in Twitter or Square:0 How should that make Twitturd and Square investors feel?
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by strangattractor 8y ago
Sounds like your in a cult not a company. NPR had a piece the other day about how companies are having trouble retaining people. They are offering added incentives like paying student loans. Why do they have this problem? Because they have
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by strangattractor 8y ago
We can call them Marstralians
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by strangattractor 8y ago
Having them permanently disconnect from the internet would be a god send.
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by strangattractor 8y ago
It cost about $100K a year to keep people in prison. Just maybe some of them would like to go and settle Mars instead of staying in prison. It might make since to pay their way. One could imagine an entire colony of such prisoners developin
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by strangattractor 9y ago
If they had only switched to Bitcoin they wouldn't have this problem - NOT
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by strangattractor 9y ago
More Redflags - A paper that doesn't have any experimental data - A single author paper (nobody to collaborate with) - A paper that uses many of the the author's previous papers as references