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by tritium 9y ago
Man, that example knocks it out of the park. I had my own retort to the basic concept behind the article, but that one tears it to shreds. Anyway, the tendency of the article pushes negative reinforcement, not just anecdotally, but also as
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by tritium 9y ago
I can't find the dictionaries they used. It's hard to develop any intuition about the utility of research like this, without the actual dictionaries they applied analysis to. Are the word lists public information? Why or why not?
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by tritium 9y ago
Seems like an ideal protein source for space travel. Even if the genomic monoculture represents a serious starvation hazard.
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by tritium 9y ago
Q. Hey, this won't just try to show me more Twitter bullshit, will it? A. No, no, no! Heh heh! It will show you Yelp bullshit. Much better, yes? Q. Ah... so the advertising will finally be the kind we all ye
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by tritium 9y ago
Yeah, but wildcard replacements via regex? Come on. There's so much bike shedding that regex tolerates that we make games out of it. https://xkcd.com/1313/
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by tritium 9y ago
Wow, this stops and reverses cancer in progress (in mice). It's not just a preventative measure to eliminate the potential of possible cancers from emerging. The cancers the mice already have goes away.
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by tritium 9y ago
I think this also blows apart some nascent theories regarding toxoplasmosis.
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by tritium 9y ago
Would you commit suicide to find out? Would you believe it, if you witnessed a minutes-long, violent, extremely painful suicide, and the dead individual’s clone said they remember everything, and that despite all the screaming and begging,
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by tritium 9y ago
Identical twins handily prove that copying a brain still produces different people. It’s true for siamese twins, and it’d be just as true for cloned genetic stem cells 3D printed from a snapshot of the exact cellular structure of your brain
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There's still the reasonable argument that this represents a collector's item, conferring appreciable value more reliable than many cryptocurrencies.
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by tritium 9y ago
You’d have to cache an available copy, wait for updated data, and then compare the two, to produce a diff. I’d imagine (or hope) there’s a process behind the scenes that slows down and selectively fragments the availability of new data, so
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by tritium 9y ago
Protip: It’s not the individual’s mobile device usage patterns that are the problem. It’s the usage patterns of everyone else that turns out to be distressing.
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by tritium 9y ago
Does this have something specific to do with Gmail? Or is it just that it’s another thing (a separate, independent feature of your Google account) that you get for free, as part of being a Gmail user?
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by tritium 9y ago
Maybe accupuncture, in this case, operates in the same area as horse whispering, exercising trust by engaging awareness and attenuating hostility. Operant conditioning has lots of animal applications. They can’t subject them to tranquilizer
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by tritium 9y ago
Breeding elephants, however, is quite the tall order. Irrespective of the challenges their sheer size presents, they’re also relatively smart, and happen to live in conflicted territories. Convincing elephants that they should feel safe, an
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by tritium 9y ago
Jamming is denial of service. If the transmission medium is flooded with a high noise floor, digital signal processors will fail to decode any valid values from the band the carrier signal transmits on. Authentic signatures have no utility
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by tritium 9y ago
Well, if you cut the bagel according to this particular linked torodial method, to produce two links, you’d then be able to perform the traditional bagel slice on one of the linked halves, and that would produce a chain with three links...
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by tritium 9y ago
The manner of delivery is reminiscent of Steve “ Protopod ” Sutton’s [0] famous iced tea video. [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/protopod [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkT77010fE
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by tritium 9y ago
What happens if you copy paste the 'legs selector' part of a mouse HOX gene into the fruitfly Homeobox: 'In fact, when the mouse Hox-B6 gene is inserted in Drosophila, it can substitute for Ante
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by tritium 9y ago
So that rule can implicit as well: avoid collision with the existing comb floor by ramping either up on top of it, or down underneath. The spiral staircase structure starts to appear as soon as you encircle the axis and choose a vertical di
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by tritium 9y ago
So, it’s safe to say that from birth to death, it’s possible to take a phone, from point of sale, all the way through the rest of it’s usage history, watch it float around, and then tie it presumptively to an individual, whenever the phone’
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by tritium 9y ago
See also: Excitonium https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885404 Sounds like polaritons and excitons are part of the same area of study, that a number of groups are looking at right now.
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by tritium 9y ago
Nonetheless, it adds an even greater depth to the absurdity of the premise of intellectual property your article discusses. A photo with its own special attribution and reuse rights, depicting a full-scale replica (possibly with its own s
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by tritium 9y ago
To gather something that seems like a reasonable answer, you’d have to consider that while Earth’s magnetic field deflects charged particles from the solar wind, the atmosphere is also an important deflector and buffer for the absorption of
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by tritium 9y ago
Oh god, I wonder if that’s what’s going on with a hard-to-find audio CD that I tried to order a while back...
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by tritium 9y ago
I knew about half of these, and the other half was still pretty awesome. I’m not entirely enthused by the pipeline operator, but oh well.
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by tritium 9y ago
Totally true, but it’s really, really important to stay alert and watch disruptive economic shifts like a hawk. The first thing keep in mind when radical improvements arrive is that spectacular new things have been dropped at our feet bef
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by tritium 9y ago
In this instance, the phrase " code that never goes wrong " does not imply recognition of human factors affecting an operational system.
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If this story keeps showing up in the news, but without any real information, I’d suspect that this constant simmering vagueness belies undisclosed information locked behind operational secrecy that prevents the public from understanding th
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by tritium 9y ago
From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: “Test missile alert” and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a rea

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