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by tbabb 8y ago
Sure. They would like their liability be zero in both cases. I think it should be more than zero in both cases.
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by tbabb 8y ago
Agree. I think we are waking up to that, and this is a sign that we are beginning to move in that direction.
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by tbabb 8y ago
Bolt is to Tesla as BlackBerry is to iPhone. They are both products of the same class, but one of them just obliterates the other both in terms of technological sophistication and cool factor. Turns out that has an impact on market success.
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by tbabb 8y ago
Facebook, YouTube, and the like are publishers. As a society, we did not have qualms before the internet about publishers declining to amplify the views of people like Alex Jones. Even in the absence of YouTube's support, he arguably h
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by tbabb 8y ago
Thus begins the "peak s/oil/cobalt" soothsaying for the next 10 decades or so?
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by tbabb 8y ago
No, I am not proposing that the universe is full of life, nor am I proposing that it is empty of life. I am objecting to the notion of "drawing conclusions about how much life there is based on how much life see," because we are b
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by tbabb 8y ago
This is one reason why I am VERY skeptical of this conclusion. From my reading of the article, the primary evidence they have is a bright radar reflection. That is the long-wavelength equivalent of saying "we found some white stuff, it
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by tbabb 8y ago
> if life were abundant in the universe, the naïve expectation is that we'd see it everywhere, but we don't No, that's my point: We don't see it because we can't ; we don't have the technology. The fact tha
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by tbabb 8y ago
Everything about the Drake Equation, the Great Filter, and the Fermi "paradox" strike me as extremely sloppy logic, from which nothing but unfounded conclusions can be drawn. We have essentially zero data on the prevalence of life
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by tbabb 8y ago
Black Holes and Time Warps , by Kip Thorne himself: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/d...
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by tbabb 8y ago
I have unmitigated disgust for every single person with approval power over the production of that show. Every single one of them is either an idiot or conman. There is no middle ground.
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by tbabb 8y ago
Oops, yes. (Must have been thinking about intercontinental ballistic trains).
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by tbabb 8y ago
Is Blue Origin's business model exclusively space tourism? If so, I think that's unlikely to sustain them. SpaceX is busy building the intercontinental railroad to space; if Blue Origin is not building toward a similarly ambitious
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by tbabb 8y ago
If someone were trying to disguise a submarine as a whale, why wouldn't they give it a normal whale voice?
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by tbabb 8y ago
> quit eating cephalopods because they might be smarter than humans Ahem, what?
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by tbabb 8y ago
It sounds like you need to manage your time, including making time to take care of your life, especially if you're spending handfuls of hours every day simply stressing. If that time is going to be not-work, then it might as well be ti
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by tbabb 8y ago
Something doesn't add up. Assuming "working every hour you're awake" means something like 12 hours/day 6 days a week, that'd be a $90k/yr salary at your stated rate of $25/hr. A more realistic (but st
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by tbabb 8y ago
Consider Phlebas was how I discovered the "rule of 50" (or more generally, "put down a book when you are sick of it"). The book felt like an aimless wander from one scene to the next, with little overarching drive, and
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by tbabb 8y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28159831 Yes, and that's not mutually exclusive with there being a biochemical risk factor that triggers it or increases susceptibility. It is certainly a little out there, but
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by tbabb 8y ago
Is there a word for "time vertigo"? So many lifetimes and stories associated with each one of those little shards of object; these are just the ones discarded and found in this one small place. The magnitude of all the human lifet
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by tbabb 8y ago
There are some studies suggesting that type 2 diabetes might be prion-transmitted, which are not destroyed by normal sterilization techniques. So we might be transmitting that (and god knows what else) with routine surgery.
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by tbabb 8y ago
> Ions entering are then propelled from the positive to the negative screen and then out beyond, while electrons are reflected. There are thus two exhausts, but because the protons are much more massive than the electrons, the thrust of
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Some napkin math about SpaceX's passenger ICBM(bzarg.com)
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by tbabb 8y ago
Why can't the bees be cultivated/bred?
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by tbabb 8y ago
> Maybe something like "someone is aware of my pain and they tried to stop me by installing this silly light". That is an explanation that is much more believable to me than "mysterious color-based calming effect".
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by tbabb 8y ago
One could not say what is "expected" without knowing either the statistics of suicides in Japanese train stations, or the statistics of where installations happened. If per-station variance is high, or if the installed stations we
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by tbabb 8y ago
> Operating on the theory that exposure to blue light has a calming effect on one’s mood, rail stations installed these LED panels as a suicide-prevention measure Color me completely skeptical. That sounds like superstition to me. It rep
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by tbabb 8y ago
Very much disagree that those things are clear. - Obviously the clock is time related, but there is no clue how. After reading this, I still don't know what it does. Is it a "remind me later" icon? - The right pointing rectan
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by tbabb 8y ago
Yes, except what we are talking about here is the computer doing the work of composing content, not merely transcribing it. It is relieving the human of the work of actually thinking about what they want to say and how they want to say it--
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by tbabb 8y ago
Is this some kind of belated April Fool's joke?

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