Snail_Commando

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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha... Whether or not this can be attributed to technical debt, I don't know
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
I'd imagine I'm pretty similar to grandparent post in this respect. If I find something interesting, I save it. Even if it's seemingly arbitrary or not immediately useful. With powerful search and tagging it's nice to ru
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
I was more trying to explain the intuition of why single nucleotide mutations (resulting in non-viability or undesired effects) are probably more likely in a strand of DNA with regions removed versus a strand of DNA left as-is. Basically, t
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
Imagine a general with a finite amount of artillery shells and a Howitzer on the fritz (i.e. the intended trajectory of the shots are somewhat off the mark today). Given the choice of where to deploy the artillery, the general may choose to
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
This actually kind of reinforces (or at least points to) one of the central ideas of the essay, that we cannot know what it is to be a bat--we would always contextualize or speculate about the bat experience in human terms of experience. If
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
This is not my creation, but I've read the essay before and I was intrigued by the game. It's pretty cool. Here is the essay if anyone is interested: http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.p
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A browser game inspired by Thomas Nagle's Essay “What is it like to be a bat?”(jrmgriffith.itch.io)
2 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|3 comments
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
For what it's worth [ ] , I'm pretty sure CERN(/LHC), ESRF, SLAC Nat. Accelerator Labs, Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Bekeley, Sandia, Princeton Plasma Phys. Lab, Brookhaven, Fermilab, Argonne Nat. Lab, TRIUMF, Sudbury Neutrin
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
I also disagree with the 'firsts' argument, to a certain extent. I didn't articulate my point well enough. I was responding to the 'I'll trade this time now, for more time later' line of reasoning (which I beli
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
> But selfish in a good, weird way - working 80 hours a week so someday I don't have to work 40, so I can take my wife and kids to Hawaii for the summer someday, or whatever. Epochs are not fungible, especially when raising children
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
If you've got about an hour and a half to spend, and you enjoyed this article, I'd like to recommend a lecture given by Will Wright in 2003. He covers his background, early computer games, the origins of Sim City, the Sims, as wel
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
IIRC, what you are referring to is in the text-epilogue/credits of the film. It said something along the lines of 'the Camorra even invested in the reconstruction of the Twin Towers.' Agreed that it was a somewhat bizarre 2-3
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
> "many of these families have moved to completely legit businesses and just keep the fear factor in place to secure large city / gvt contracts." Protip: If your business model relies on "fear factor" you may hav
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Tokyo vs. Hiroshima(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
3 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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Gates Foundation pledges $50 mln to fight Ebola epidemic(reuters.com)
1 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (1999)(nicscorner.com)
126 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|16 comments
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The Organ Detective: Career Spent Uncovering Hidden Global Market in Human Flesh(psmag.com)
2 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows(dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com)
2 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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AEB's Guidelines for Verbal Description(artbeyondsight.org)
1 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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A Physically Universal Cellular Automaton(web.mit.edu)
1 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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A Physically Universal Cellular Automaton(web.mit.edu)
1 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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Meet the Father of Digital Life(nautil.us)
3 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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Representation Versus Depiction(erasmatazz.com)
1 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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Social Software and the Politics of Groups (2003)(shirky.com)
2 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|1 comments
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This Shape-Shifter Could Tell Us Why Matter Exists(nautil.us)
31 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|5 comments
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The House Passes a $435 Million Increase to NASA's Budget(planetary.org)
2 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|0 comments
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Diary of an Insane Cell Mechanic (2003)(biolisp.org)
31 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|13 comments
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What Is Google Genomics?(developers.google.com)
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
Per `dang's suggestion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7803158 , here's the link to the paper so that we may consolidate the threads: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5563 Edited to steal more s
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Constructor Theory of Information(arxiv.org)
9 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|1 comments

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