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by weeksie 12y ago
Makes perfect sense to me. And re: simulation—absolutely. The rest of the universe would be, in comparison, pretty boring. Also, I have to pick up Accelerondo. Sounds like a good one.
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by weeksie 12y ago
I don't necessarily disagree. I think that there's a likelihood that Von Neuman probes are a possible thing. But are they inevitable? Perhaps they are unlikely. What if the technology required to create reliable VNPs was only in t
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by weeksie 12y ago
i don't think I fully understand what you're saying, could you explain it in more detail?
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by weeksie 12y ago
Here's my answer to the Fermi paradox: simulation. And not because we're in one (all respect to Nick Bostrom) but because when a civ reaches singularity, there's no point in expanding because the reality that it/they can
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by weeksie 12y ago
You only have to install Jekyll locally, it generates plain-jain html files. Thanks for the info on the differences. Congrats on making a neat tool, I was just legitimately curious as to how they would compare. Cheers!
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by weeksie 12y ago
How does this compare to something like Jekyll?
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by weeksie 12y ago
Thomas Pynchon is everything that's wrong with postmodernism. I get that he's difficult and I get that he's creating an internal system of signs but come the fuck on, already. It's literature to prove a point. It's
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by weeksie 12y ago
"All those widows and orphans" Spare me. What are the numbers on those widows and orphans? Because the thing is, tech investment right now is driven by investors and funds—entities that by definition should be able to handle their
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by weeksie 12y ago
I don't disagree with any of those points. My original post just stated that I couldn't imagine any fitness pressure that would be making humans smarter and, if anything, we were probably going in the other direction. My secondary
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by weeksie 12y ago
I didn't use the term "a few generations", that was another commenter. :) That said, you mentioned a beneficial trait becoming neutral, and that's making the assumption that greater intelligence is neutral. It could be t
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by weeksie 12y ago
I think that was my point. You said that ten thousand years of civilization was too short for meaningful evolution. At least that was my understanding.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Express trains would help with volume. If an express traveling on another track was just hitting Manhattan stops plus Bedford, Morgan, Myrtle-Wyckoff, . . . That would take care of a lot of the volume that gets packed onto the always-local
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by weeksie 12y ago
There has been shrinkage in the average brain size over the last five thousand years. Intelligence is a very complicated thing and brain size might not be the only factor—that shrinkage might not even be relevant. But that does not mean tha
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by weeksie 12y ago
The first point—increased mate choice—seems to invalidate the second. At least to my understanding, a larger population makes genetic drift less likely to fix on a trait.
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by weeksie 12y ago
I think it's that the tunnel isn't wide enough to have an express. They already run a shitload of trains on the L track, but there's an upper limit to capacity.
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by weeksie 12y ago
I would be surprised if humans are getting smarter. Show me the selective pressure on intelligence in the modern world, because I don't see it. You don't have to be smart to be evolutionarily fit. Not even close. I'd be very
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by weeksie 12y ago
Don't lie, it'll bite you in the ass. I've had friends go through rounds and rounds of interviews and get dinged on things like this. Ethics is important. If you have to lie to negotiate a good salary then you need to improve
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by weeksie 12y ago
The article delved into the forces and influence at work, mentioning Bismarck's genocide, Ataturk's national identity, as well as the Reich being a solid part of the colonial era (if the English can run India, why can't Germa
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by weeksie 12y ago
Semolina is durum wheat (same stuff for dried and fresh), so I don't think there's a difference there. And I don't think I agree with regards to the flavor of a bolognese or ragu. Then again, good fresh pasta is pretty easy t
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by weeksie 12y ago
Hilarious! I have a forum that's been around for a similar amount of time and at the beginning it was on vBulletin. At least in the old days it was possible to have hidden forums that didn't show up on the main index, but would sh
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by weeksie 12y ago
Okay, perhaps? Not sure I've ever had a pasta that didn't taste better fresh. Can you name an example? I'm no expert but I'm not a complete noob either.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Ah. . . . gotcha. Yeah, all of the things I've seen on alkaline noodles are in relation to asian noodles. I'll have to give the pre-soak a shot sometime if I ever end up stuck with dry noodles. How much difference in flavor is the
593.
by weeksie 12y ago
I don't think this article is about regular pasta (e.g. for use in Italian dishes), I think it's specifically meant for ramen noodles, hence the added baking soda to make the water alkaline. There isn't any real advantage in
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by weeksie 12y ago
Yup, I've cranked out two novels and a comic script with Scrivener. Hands down my favorite electronic tool for planning, plotting, and composing after I'm done sketching out general plot arcs on paper.
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by weeksie 12y ago
This is the worst attitude. University is not supposed to be vocational school.
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by weeksie 12y ago
The big problem lies in misunderstanding what fitness is. Fitness _only_ means surviving long enough to reproduce (and doing it). A genetically fit organism is one that reproduces. To be more fit the organism must reproduce more than others
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by weeksie 12y ago
That depends. If you happen to be moving houses it might be a good time to try to quit smoking as well, for instance. For heroin? Maybe it's worth moving to a different town.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Oh yeah! That jukebox had Whitesnake, man! :D And yeah, the arcade at the Anchor was way better but the Sportsman was much more chill about me taking up one of their pool tables, if I recall. Sportsman also had Goonies, I think. Not that I
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by weeksie 12y ago
Doubtful that Whittier had much in that department. I was in Cordova (with ~1300 people) and our public library wasn't much. I mostly read old sci-fi novels that my dad's crew would leave behind in the bunks.
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by weeksie 12y ago
I never actually lived there, but I was born in a small town across the Prince William Sound called Cordova. I came from a fishing family so we would spend much of the summer bouncing around between just anchoring up in the PWS and (often)

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