topher515

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by topher515 6y ago
You made a particularly unfortunate accidental word switch up. I imagine you meant "ravaged". ravished — _fill (someone) with intense delight; enrapture._
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by topher515 7y ago
Location: Oakland / San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, JavaScript, React, Docker, AWS, SQL, *nix Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckwilcox/ Ema
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by topher515 7y ago
I believe Zoom has the exact feature you’re describing—passwords for meetings. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360033559832-Meeti...
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by topher515 7y ago
In the United States, where we seem to have a shortage of masks, all of this discussion goes out the window though. We need to ensure we have enough masks for health care workers and the sick, before we encourage the healthy to wear them. (
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Ask HN: App or service to help those in Covid isolation?
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by topher515 7y ago
From the "Appendix / methodology" section at the bottom of the page: > "Day 1" is when a country reaches 100 cases. A country is "X days behind Italy" if they reached 100 cases that many days after Ital
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by topher515 7y ago
When you say humans "goto space", you're probably talking about going to orbit. As such, the problem isn't that space is "up high", it's that fast is "very fast". This "XKCD What If?"[0
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by topher515 7y ago
The primary goal of the European “Federation” is not to create a “better” super-state, but to prevent war amongst the states by creating a common economic dependence and by aligning mutual interests.
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by topher515 7y ago
This article made me think of the endless "solar farms" scene from Blade Runner 2049[1] [1] https://youtu.be/u9L0pord5jE?t=68
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by topher515 7y ago
Human global population is no longer increasing at an exponential rate.[1] It's very likely that by ~2060 human fertility rate will drop below "replacement rate" (2.1 children per woman), thus beginning a long, slow decline i
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by topher515 8y ago
I suggest you take a look at this article[1] which reframes the idea of who “owns”, on first principle, your pre-tax income. I’m not sure I completely buy into the article’s thesis. But I think it’s extrmely valuable viewpoint to consider o
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by topher515 8y ago
There's a feature that vastly improves the human usability for Plus Codes. The least-precision, first-four characters can be omitted and replaced with the City / Region name: e.g., "Nairobi PR6C+24". Considering that uni
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by topher515 8y ago
> But somehow, in the US one unvaccinated child is a risk to a school full of vaccinated children? This doesn't make sense. You're misunderstanding who is at risk in this scenario. It is not the vaccinated who are at risk; it
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by topher515 10y ago
You should consider reading "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane. Bill Gates strongly recommended it in one of his Gates' notes. It is an exploration of the central role that energy/metabolism has had in the initial formati
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by topher515 12y ago
This is a cool "concept", but appears to be a practical impossibility. Stupid laws of physics: http://deepseanews.com/2014/01/triton-not-dive-or-dive-not-t...
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by topher515 13y ago
What you're talking about sounds like Max Weber's theory about the state being defined as any entity with the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence I