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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
"Would the Grand Canyon be less grand if it was only a couple millennia old?" Yes.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
This page seems to suggest that poplar seedling density in clearcut areas is on the order of thousands per acre, which then thin out considerably as the trees mature. See the "seedling development" section. http://www.n
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
It's a testament to the brilliance of game show producers that they took something like this that both the contestant and the audience will misunderstand (but looks so simple!) and made a long running show out of it, making millions al
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Where did you find that 100 trees per acre figure? That sounded really low to me, so I did some googling and found numbers more along the lines of 300-400 per acre. In fact, 100 trees per acre is the minimum to be classified as a forest i
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Poplars are considered to be among the best trees in terms of carbon sequestration according to studies done thus far. In addition, if they're converted to paper and other wood products, they continue to sequester the carbon for the li
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Yellow Poplars in Georgia grow at pretty much that same rate naturally. When I was living there I let a portion of my backyard go from lawn to natural, and the poplars were amazingly fast.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Speed- The difference is after that 10 minutes, the transaction is settled. The money has moved. What you have with a credit card in 10 minutes is a promise that the money will move, possibly days or even weeks later. The bitcoin can be mo
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
I was looking for something on r/askhistorians I saw a while back about a hot sauce bottle found in Virginia City ruins, indicating a brand that had gone national in the 1870s or so. Haven't found it yet, but did find this- a disc
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Trendy brands are fashion items with limited product histories? Who would have guessed? In any case, it's instructive to look at old menus and wine lists to get a feel for what was actually on offer way back when. For the most part, c
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
This was also part of the Survival Swimming course that used to be mandatory at Georgia Tech back in the olden days. At some point in the class, we had to jump off the high dive, use our pants as described, and remain floating in the deep e
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Combine this with pg's essay on the importance of importing the 'best and brightest' to America and some things start to make sense. More minds working where they can be aimed in the 'desirable' direction.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
What if the AI was integral to the design and manufacturing processes of all the airplanes, which is a much more likely path? Then you can see how it gains 'control', in the senses that control matters anyway, without us necessari
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Large corporations "restructure" all the time. Most often this consists of a periodic pruning of exactly these jobs, which really are worthless. The company continues on, wholly unharmed by the cuts.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
When I worked as a bartender, if we didn't know what a particular drink was, and the customer didn't know what was in it, we just asked "What color is it?". We usually came up with something satisfactory!
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Hinton's Coursera class a couple years ago pulled me in. I wish there were more Coursera classes at that level.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. I stayed on 10.04 as long as I could, but eventually the lack of support for Chrome and so on convinced me to update. Plus I have 14.04 running on all the servers where I have a choice.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Certainly my impression of everything that pg has said is that solo founders have the odds stacked heavily against them when it comes to YC acceptance. I'm surprised that you're surprised that's what we all believe.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
While having a co-founder might indicate you have trouble convincing people of things, or that you have no desire to do so, it's also the case that having a co-founder is no indication at all that you do have the ability to persuade. I
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
I wonder why it's obscured so much by what looks like protective housing in some shots. I also wonder how much of its navigation it's actually doing, as opposed to being remote controlled.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
You seem like someone tuned in. So what art is happening in San Francisco right now?
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Computers are magic. Dragons are magic. QED. I'm actually kinda serious. Also, humans are monkeys. Ergo, "monkey" is popular.
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To all the young journalists asking for advice(fusion.net)
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
My brother is a restaurant owner. He bought the building one of his places was in, along with several other businesses. Initially it was a struggle to keep the mortgage payments going, but over time the other shops faded out and he replaced
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
It happens with US accounts too. Banks have a strong incentive to avoid money laundering activities, and no real penalty for false positives.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
He made the post mentioning Silk Road on Jan 29, 2011. He made the post looking for a developer 9 months later, on October 11, 2011. And as I mentioned below, the fake ID issue seems to have come up after the email warrant was issued, so it
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Lack of leads is no excuse to start digging in people's privacy. The fake ID thing seems to have occurred after the warrant was issued, so I'm not sure I see its relevance.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Right, so the whole 'probable cause' is built on one post about Silk Road. As I say, that seems an awfully thin reason to go digging in someone's email. I couldn't care less one way or the other about Ulbricht or Silk R
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
There is literally nothing unusual about "conveniently avoiding specifics" in a tech recruiting post. It's not even a tiny bit suspicious. He may or may not have been the first to post about Silk Road on Bitcointalk, or anywh
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
So just discussing Silk Road was enough to get a warrant to look at his email? There's nothing at all suspicious about the tech recruiting post. It's the same thing everyone here has seen 10,000 times. https://bitcoint
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Which would still be a crime, if he committed it. But he wasn't tried for it.

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