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by toss1 2y ago
Yup. The concept that biological systems have made 3D vision, navigation, and object avoidance work without LIDAR is certainly attractive. But there is a LOT more to it than just a photosensor and a bunch of calculations. The sensors them
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, those provisions in Oregon and Washington are certainly doing that better. I had literally to take three weeks off to kill a proposed development literally in my back yard. It is a wetland habitat, so enjoys some protection from good
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by toss1 2y ago
Not a finance guy, but mu understanding is that shorting can have unlimited losses — you are borrowing an amount of stock at Price $X and selling it at the market price, say 100 shares of TSLA at $400 this week. You are betting that the st
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by toss1 2y ago
>> is highly speculative, is it not? I'd say NOT. Shutdown of a small company running out of funds is rarely fully orderly. Critical things may get taken care of, but everything is unlikely, as people have already left. Plus, wit
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by toss1 2y ago
THIS! I'd even go further and say that training wheels optimizing for utility instead of mastery teaches the secondary skill first , so the child can pedal and add power without needing to learn to balance the bike. So, when the train
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by toss1 2y ago
Even after losing 16% in a month, falling from a high of $480+ to $405, the PE ratio is still about 111X. Even in a period of near record-high overall market valuations of 26X [1] not seen in at least decades, even before the Dotcom boom&#x
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by toss1 2y ago
Gawd yes, the list is ENDLESS! All of culture is new riffs on old stuff. The GP just wants to shut all that down. —Yikes!— if you don't like the new stuff, don't watch it, just re-watch and appreciate the old... There is plenty o
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by toss1 2y ago
Right, so by that rule, someone could stage a theater production or movie of the exact text of one of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books, but could not make anything similar to the characters and relationships of Holmes and Watson. Forever.
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by toss1 2y ago
>>unless your small town has a demographically-improbable homelessness problem...nothing I said pertains to you. Well, the current town has no homelessness problem, but there ARE most definitely laws in place (Massachusetts 40B) that
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by toss1 2y ago
>>...the price of upkeeping a beater car... ...not enough public transit in the US to avoid this reality outside of cities with high rent It is not only the price of purchase, insurance, maintenance of a car, it is also the TIME you
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, and even if they do magically popup, the grocery stores will STILL be a drive for everyone. And stores for every other supply, and the JOBS , will be a significant drive away. So, you will have just condemned every poor person you tra
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by toss1 2y ago
Where we are talking about areas that are already almost entirely paved with sidewalks and minimal trees or yards, etc., then we agree — there's no environment to preserve — it is just the character of the human-only habitat. converti
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by toss1 2y ago
>>which is a polite way of saying "we don't want apartment-dwelling poor people coming to live near us". NO, it is most definitely NOT that. It is overwhelmingly exactly what people say it is — maintaining the character
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by toss1 2y ago
YUP They also predicted that the personal computer on everyone's desk, and every major software category, etc. would reduce employment. It just made more work
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by toss1 2y ago
I don't know about trials in France, but this is definitely a very hot research topic globally. A quick search pulled in a bunch of institute names I recognize from over here in the US [0-3]. There are also some immunotherapies that ar
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by toss1 2y ago
Still, you'd agree any God that can control the heavens and the fate of the earth, if you thought about it for 2 seconds would be quite unlikely to be fooled by that ruse, even if they are 'only' a lesser God..., right?
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by toss1 2y ago
Sorry to hear about your friend; awful for both of you. Anything you can build or brew at home? About as good as chanting spells at the moon on alternate Tuesdays. And definitely do NOT go get infected with some virus, which will only creat
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by toss1 2y ago
In current times, democratically elected autocrats include Putin of Russia, Orban of Hungary, Erdoğan of Turkey, Chavez/Maduro of Venezuela, Bukele of El Slavador, and more. Jumping back a most notorious autocrat, Hitler was democrati
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by toss1 2y ago
Autocracy is not Left or Right. It is corrupting all the institutions to serve the will of the autocrat, not the will of the people. Bending the knee to the autocrat, in this case explicitly changing your rules and operations to enable the
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by toss1 2y ago
If it was in the works for a long time, then Zuckerberg has been planning to bend the knee to Trump for a long time. Today, Trump in press conference (video at [0]: Q: "Do you think Zuckerberg is responding to the threats you've m
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by toss1 2y ago
Of course there are better alloys today for all those specific uses (likely except musical). It was just a comment on the oddity that what the Egyptians were using had not yet been figured out, but that he knew. Despite all our vast current
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by toss1 2y ago
Yup Normalcy bias — it's an absolute killer. The same cognitive failure that has people in a fire thinking it's "just part of the show", or "just something in the kitchen", until it is too late, and panic overt
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New form of clickjacking to steal accounts(tomsguide.com)
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by toss1 2y ago
At college I was acquainted with one of the family who told me a story about when one of his uncles was in Egypt and on a tour of the pyramids or some ancient site. The guide said they had unearthed some bronze chisels used for stonecutting
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by toss1 2y ago
Apparently it's not just the mix of metals, but the process. At college I was acquainted with one of the family and I asked him just that question. He said it is actually very difficult and some MIT people had gotten closer than others
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by toss1 2y ago
YES, that would absolutely work As long as the infrastructure is good enough that it doesn't delay all the trains/busses (which happens a lot in Boston metro area, unfixed for decades). At that point, it's just a capital eq
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by toss1 2y ago
>>“Seattle has a solid bus system but everyone who can afford a car has a car." The "solid" descriptor is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there. While IDK specifically about the Seattle system, experience with other syst
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by toss1 2y ago
>>...the next tiny act of self-destruction A world of truth in that phrase It all really comes down to the tiny acts of building one's self or wasting the time... Yes a (non-wasteful) strategy & goal is key, but it comes dow
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by toss1 2y ago
Nice, looks like a CCP-promoting downvoting brigade just showed up. All the posts critical of CCP and suggesting a response to their assault just lost a whole bunch of voted Great confirmation that this is important. Let the downvotes begi
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by toss1 2y ago
>>We are so way too late. Too true, sadly. And that quote is spot-on. The thing is, there is no one better at playing catch-up than the USA; e.g., in 1939 just before WWII, the US had a total of 39 tanks in it's arsenal. The big

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