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by wcoenen 6y ago
People have debated prescriptive vs descriptive linguistics for centuries, it will not be resolved here. https://www.bartleby.com/73/2019.html
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by wcoenen 6y ago
This book may have value to learn something about meditation, but it also has exactly the kind of "mystic woo" I was talking about. In the first few sentences it talks about the "soul" wanting to return back to it's
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Thanks, I've read the start and found that Harris does a good job of explaining from the outset why a non-religous, mysticism-averse person would still want to explore this type of spirituality. That part wasn't very clear to me i
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I've read the the free kindle sample now, which is already a couple hours of reading. I found the introduction and and overview very difficult to get through, even to the point of falling asleep. But the
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Yes, because if there was nothing, I couldn't be asking the question.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> Then, you see the truth, of life, existence and the universe. Pretty words, but do they mean anything? For example, if I reach this state, will it be revealed to me why there is something rather than nothing? I think not, otherwise s
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by wcoenen 6y ago
I was going to reply that it might be difficult to match the power of something like Jupiter's radio signals. However, it turns out that Jupiter's decametric radio emissions are only about the equivalent of a megawatt antenna[1].
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> From some of them, I remember learning to focus on the present, on putting one foot in front of the other, in a kind of hyperfocus on exactly and only the very smallest thing you need to do right now, then doing it again, and again, a
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Judging from some search hits for the terminal velocity and coefficient of drag for phones, it is closer to 40 mph.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Note that TIPS currently have a negative yield for all durations. So even though they protect you against potential inflation as measured by CPI, there's still a cost. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Applying your own bartender analogy, in this case pornhub should be properly policing the content made available on their website. Mastercard doesn't have any useful domain knowledge.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
A reference on that wikipedia article claims that the original phrasing of Murphy's law was: "Every component than can be installed backward, eventually will be." http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6301146
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by wcoenen 6y ago
You mentioned mobile at the end of your comment, and I'm wondering how this works. Isn't it very cumbersome to attach a hardware device to your phone each time you need to login somewhere?
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the Base58 encoding in the original Bitcoin whitepaper There is no mention of Base58 in the whitepaper. http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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by wcoenen 6y ago
The test vectors still don't make sense in the updated version. The inputs should be byte sequences, not text.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Could this have been worm-able with more effort? Nearby phones silently infecting each other would be the real nightmare scenario.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
RNA is definitely not like an "abstract syntax tree" or "intermediate representation". It is the final machine code that is executed by ribosomes to build proteins. Proteins aren't really "executable programs&q
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> The article primarily talks about the compressed timeline, not the fact its mRNA. I maintain the timeline is a one-off. I feel that you're splitting hairs here. The article mentions both in adjacent paragraphs. And the fact that
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by wcoenen 6y ago
It wasn't a one-off, it has accelerated the development of mRNA vaccines. This is a new type of vaccine that will be applied to other diseases as well.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
I think you missed that OP is Iranian, that's how he noticed the problem. The propaganda is within Iran. His nickname is another hint, Fazel is an Iranian name.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Shouldn't the bitcoin price be higher on USDT shops like Bitfinex and Binance then, vs other exchanges? I'd expect USDT buying pressure to drive up the price, while elsewhere there would be selling pressure to get real USD out. Ye
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by wcoenen 6y ago
More miners does not lower fees. Bitcoin users are competing with each other when bidding for the limited space in each bitcoin block. And the frequency at which blocks are generated is roughly constant by design.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Let's assume for a moment bitcoin would be worth a million in 5 years. There will have been another halving, so miners will be generating 3.125 bitcoin/block. At 6 blocks an hour, that would be worth 3.125 * 6 * $1M = $18,750,000
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by wcoenen 6y ago
In Belgium we have 450K active cases, 3.9% of the population. Everybody at least knows somebody with covid-19 at this point.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
The article also made me think about the Unix philosophy of text pipes. I think Powershell is a step further in that direction, as it it allows you to pipe typed objects between scripts and cmdlets. It's just not clear to me how to ext
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> Exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which... Context: this is quoting Sigmund Freud, who mistakenly believed the drug to be non-addictive.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
For anyone having trouble keeping up with the renames: "Google Apps" was renamed to "G Suite" in 2016, and was recently renamed again to "Google Workspace".
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by wcoenen 6y ago
I'm a little confused by your comment. As far as I understand, a "missense" mutation is a basic one nucleotide change which results in a change of one amino acid for the encoded protein. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by wcoenen 6y ago
> this is obviously nothing more than (very) advanced lane assistance Is that really obvious? It looks like the system is aware of much more than just lanes. A lane assist system doesn't stop for red lights or stop signs, or make
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by wcoenen 6y ago
update 2: SNPedia has the mutation listed as Rs184039278. I don't have data about it, but maybe newer versions of the 23andme chip or other genotyping platforms do. https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs184039278

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