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by tejtm 5y ago
and that is selection. Chinese were first to rely on fermented grains to be food at least 6k years ago. good strategy -- there are time when every calorie you can get counts. bad strategy -- its addictive and toxic. solution? favor those w
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by tejtm 5y ago
This has to be a question someone here might be able to answer. Is there some mass-distance(-velocity?) function that defines the alternative fates? Where below some threshold, things are fated to merge and beyond which ...not so much. I a
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by tejtm 5y ago
space is pretty big, but I would bet eternity wins this one.
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Might help to think of it as more of a reprieve. In that the star itself or its remains will still likely end up inside the black holes Schwarzschild radius never to be seen again except as Hawking radiation till the BH evaporates. That the
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by tejtm 5y ago
true, but those are included of the natural cost of doing business. these additional occlusions are because a private entity has chosen to take the space for their profit with zero consequence or compensation for our loss.
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by tejtm 5y ago
"Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." -- Mike Tyson
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<alt><left-arrow> ... and never return, blacklist them.
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terrible beauty
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maybe not the safest before we got fire and cooking some ferns have a carcinogen that can be denatured with enough heat
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by tejtm 5y ago
sounds just like programming ... I know! let's invent object oriented welding to lower the barriers to being able to make a weld that holds.
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by tejtm 5y ago
"tapes". You may be new, but you got the gist of it. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." --Andrew Tannenbaum
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by tejtm 5y ago
Fear be gone! I took the plunge got the license started learning radio. turns out everything I have wanted to do so far which is listen and learn I never needed the license for in the first place. The amateur license is to transmit. You can
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by tejtm 5y ago
I might as well go down with you suggesting they put on a bake sale. [0] https://www.loc.gov/item/2015649445/
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ah spellcheck; "catechism" No longer being sure is a good start, keep it up it you can.
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Following the granularity gradient FROM .. JOIN .. WHERE .. SELECT tables -> columns -> rows -> filter I think they knew that but decided they wanted DBAs to think about what they wanted to end up with before they began writing co
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by tejtm 5y ago
It may also be probable that you were not flagrantly abused by nuns in mandatory cataclysm classes. I was not so lucky, but unlike my classmates, at least I did not get beat again at home when parents learned I had angered the nuns by askin
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by tejtm 5y ago
ahh yes, much the same way Legos are "perfectly misshaped" marbles
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by tejtm 5y ago
I would agree that is implied in the call for SETI to target them. The implication is the spread of a civilization to "nearby" stars could be responsible for the observations. Without anything but wild guess to go on much closer
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by tejtm 5y ago
It appears to contribute to our decreasing brain size for the last 17k years.
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It is not an unfounded fear, especially with people not capable of understanding what you are being gracious about.
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by tejtm 5y ago
Compared to yeast and nematodes they are doing pretty good, but I never saw activists dump tanks of them out on the lawn proclaiming "be free".
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by tejtm 5y ago
I think each great circle has its own poles orthogonal to its inclination and earth's poles has naught to do with it. Without station keeping, LEO orbits (thankfully) degrade so the outter shells will be gradually bleeding into the low
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by tejtm 5y ago
Would not be surprised if this cues some Expansion of the universe due to gravity lost in waves. headlines. But the distance scales and force magnitudes are so far out of my experience that even with the help of math I would be h
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by tejtm 5y ago
There is also Matchmaker Exchange who's aim is to be a clearing house where very rare diseases become slightly less rare when patients can locate someone else with the same thing. So an answer to who may be interested, could be someone
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by tejtm 5y ago
Specific plug for Will Byrd's mediKanren and Matt Might's group in general they are the real deal. (source: I have worked for other deals). For more just start learning the tools... I have not checked in on them for years now
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Selective pressure for programmer ethics. May take a more than a few generations to cut through all this cash.
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Anecdotal: I right away, broke my screen ** from my perspective ** dropped something on the screen, the next time I used it there were all sorts of horizontal and vertical lines on it. My wife got me a replacement because that is ho
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by tejtm 5y ago
Yep only turn on briefly when I decide to update the OS. No regrets.
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by tejtm 5y ago
I agree with all you are saying but hope one point can be made more clear and that is; "Heaven forbid that it collide with something and produce a debris cloud that can never be fully cleaned up in our lifetimes." At that altitude
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In my experience rural Americans tend to live in abject terror of just how fine they would feel were they treated as they treat minorities and it is compounded by a deep down understanding they are already the minority, it just has not arr

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