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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
People should be fighting to join their favorite Silicon Valley FANMAG. Some would prefer the Bill Gates FANMAG, others Jeff Bezos...
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Conversely, Nvidia has done a solid job of advancing GPU performance even in the face of weak competition, and with their additional resources, ARM performance may advance even faster, and provide the first competition in decades to x86 in
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
How likely is it that a virus evolved for living in civet cats just happened to evolve to also be pathogenic in bats and humans?
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Danger for earth. When we introduce a species to a new environment, sometimes it dies, and sometimes it becomes an invasive species and kills a lot of other stuff. And some of those invasive species are big (like snakehead fish) and some ar
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
It could have been any number of meteors over the last 4 billion years, on either planet.
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
In the Strait of Gibraltar?
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
If the Venusian life has anything vaguely like replicating paired strands of nucleic acids, I think we have to assume a common ancestor (and I'd put my money on it coming from Venus). Even if there's no commonality whatsoever in d
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Assuming no abiotic pathway is found, what type of mission will confirm Venusian life? I imagine that everyone will agree it's way too dangerous to bring a sample back to Earth for analysis, so I expect we'll need to send microsco
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Ammonia has been proposed as an alternative solvent for life.
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Indeed. All else being equal, I'd expect evolution to progress faster in hotter environments with more solar radiation. I wouldn't be surprised if Venusian microorganisms were more advanced, adaptable and capable of surviving an i
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Very exciting news, if by exciting you mean horrifying. It would be near confirmation of the Great Filter.
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
FWIW, although I don't subscribe to Gaia Theory, I thought this was a perfectly fine comment and the commenter who called it embarrassing was being a jerk.
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
On the one hand, I have a hard time imagining that noise being more bothersome than the motor of powered boats, but with a sample size of two, it fits the data as well as any other theory. Having said that, I think the simplest explanation
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
They don't attack us because it would waste calories and risk injury in exchange for nothing.
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Assuming you're taking about a Beluga in Norway, that whale was likely trained by the Russian military to do something vaguely similar.
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Unfortunately, this is a sample size of 1, so it's hard to know what's different about this pod versus all the other pods that have interacted frequently with boats without attacking them. But we do know that this population is mu
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
I think these are attacks by a population that's starving to death, surrounded by deafening noise (and remember, their primary sense is hearing) and poisoned by heavy metals accumulating in the food chain. I think they understand that
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Orcas are picky eaters, especially the ones that feed on fish like the Gibraltar orcas. There have been an enormous number of human-orca interactions both in the wild and in captivity, and even in the only known attacks on humans- the Sea W
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
There are no statistics because this has never been reported before. One of the key points that animal rights activists used to shut down the Sea World orca performances was that there were no reports of wild orcas ever attacking humans, in
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
According to a Washington Post article from today, the Trump campaign is considering filing lawsuits to challenge mail in ballots without postmarks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mail-voting/20...
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
The biggest challenge in recruiting technical talent to the government is the GS payscale. This program is being recommended to Congress, so I assume it's an attempt to indirectly increase compensation by offering free tuition to peopl
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
I bought my 2018 XPS 13 with a Windows 10 license, but tried installing Dell's official Ubuntu image on it after a few days, and couldn't live with it. Trackpad acceleration was awkward, fingerprint reader unlock didn't work,
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
Netflix is obsessed with data. Easy cancellation lets them define a much more accurate loss function for the AI they eventually want to run their whole business for them.
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by stupendousyappi 6y ago
I have a hard time seeing how the statistic that the Times receives twice as much money from readers as from advertisers is evidence that the NYT "serves advertisers rather than readers". I think that probably puts them in the top
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by stupendousyappi 7y ago
Political predictions: 1. Authoritarianism spreads as propaganda and surveillance technologies make it easier for bad actors in weak democracies to cement their power. 2. Over the decade, the US dollar declines modestly versus other major c
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by stupendousyappi 7y ago
Evidently, starting next year, Swift will have the legal right to do something harmful to the owners of Big Machine Records- rerecord her old songs. The owners of that company currently have the legal right to prevent her from playing her o
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by stupendousyappi 7y ago
The exchange rate decline was likely the biggest Brexit-related factor.
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by stupendousyappi 7y ago
One day, someone is going to write a fantastic magazine article about what happened to Valve.
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by stupendousyappi 7y ago
I think HN still has one of the highest signal to noise ratios on the web.