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by Zaak 6y ago
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/is-your-doctor-gettin...
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by Zaak 6y ago
But what is the effect on lifetime of not having any CNO present? If a present-day massive star would have a lifetime of 10 million years, how long would it live if it was a population III star with no CNO?
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by Zaak 6y ago
There is a range of wavelengths of light that humans perceive as green. The same is true for every color that is part of the rainbow. In contrast, the "pure purples" do not appear in the rainbow, and there is no single wavelength
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by Zaak 6y ago
There's an important distinction between anatomically modern humans and behaviorally modern humans. Behaviorally modern humans were the ones that were able to migrate all over the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by Zaak 6y ago
Fabulous idea. I will definitely use this for future early-stage demos.
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by Zaak 6y ago
> “Recursively self-improving systems, because of contingent bottlenecks, diminishing returns, and counter-reactions […], cannot achieve exponential progress in practice. Empirically, they tend to display linear or sigmoidal improvement.
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by Zaak 6y ago
But there used to be a stigma around wearing glasses.
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by Zaak 6y ago
That's a very interesting idea, though it wouldn't significantly affect people with vast resources such as botnet owners, corporations, and governments. It would certainly slow down the garden-variety troll, however the determined
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by Zaak 6y ago
This is really impressive. What would it take to persuade you to fix the 3D performance issues? :)
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by Zaak 6y ago
While Larry and Sergei were running Google, the company often (though not necessarily always) chose doing what was right over a more profitable wrong. A specific example was when they discovered the Chinese government was behind a major sec
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by Zaak 6y ago
> is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce? Well, from a high-level view the only way a cell can make more cells is to divide, and if it divides it either makes a copy of its genetic material first, or gives half of it to eac
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by Zaak 6y ago
As a counterexample, imagine reading a book on mathematics that did not use any special notation, instead relying on natural-language descriptions of formulas and algorithms. Or imagine reading a book on molecular biology that didn't u
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by Zaak 6y ago
They're not /really/ connected, at least historically. But the author sees a reasonable progression in ease of use, while maintaining a lot of flexibility. And the idea of starting with a forth-like system, building a lisp-li
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by Zaak 6y ago
I heard that submarines are called "boats" because "ships" are targets...
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by Zaak 6y ago
> This bug is probably going to end up infecting most of the people in the United States. Exactly. As you say, we need to flatten the curve to keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed, and we need to use the time to develop treatments to
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by Zaak 6y ago
Thank you for this. You make the essential point that others are missing: flattening the curve isn't to buy time; it's to prevent massive loss of life and societal collapse. Buying time to improve prevention and treatment is of se
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by Zaak 7y ago
SHA-2 is based on similar techniques to those in SHA-1, which prompted the SHA-3 competition when weaknesses in SHA-1 were first discovered (as they could conceivably have been present in SHA-2 as well). As it turns out, SHA-2 appears to be
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by Zaak 7y ago
Exactly. Big companies move slowly. A small, well-funded company may be able to approve an X-thousand-dollar payment in a matter of days, but a large company just can't react that fast. There are too many layers of process and approval
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by Zaak 7y ago
So you're defining "AI" to be anything that we can currently program a computer to do, and "I" to be anything we can't yet? That doesn't seem like a useful distinction to me. Unless you're using &quot
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Show HN: Simple public-key file encryption(gitlab.com)
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by Zaak 7y ago
In my case, my current income provides a comfortable lifestyle for my family of five. But yes, if you have kids, your expenses are definitely going to go up.
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by Zaak 7y ago
> "if you don't have a backup for it, you only have it temporarily" Fabulous line. Is that attributable to anyone in particular?
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by Zaak 7y ago
I agree with you. For example, if I had 100 times my current yearly income in savings/investments/etc, I could live my current lifestyle indefinitely (barring eg, a market crash) because even with zero interest, the money would la
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by Zaak 7y ago
I have some Pacific Islander friends that consider me rich because I live in a nice house (rented), own three cars (bought used), and have a steady desk job (after many years of recurring job instability). Of course, that's wealthy com
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by Zaak 7y ago
1. It's homoiconicity in general. It's most obvious in arithmetic expressions, but homoiconicity (as far as I've seen) eschews semantic indicators besides function name and argument position. I find that keywords and symbols
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by Zaak 7y ago
Gotcha. I do agree about homoiconicity. It's great for writing macros, and terrible for everything else. Of course, go too far in the other direction and you get perl, so... yeah.
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by Zaak 7y ago
I know that Python and Javascript have their warts (as do all languages in my experience), but what decisions in particular are you thinking of?
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by Zaak 7y ago
> Don't worry about the others. Don't worry about testing, or cleaning up, or documenting why the mistake was made or how it should have been done. Sounds like getting management to truly understand the concept of technical deb
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by Zaak 7y ago
Thanks for the info. I tend to have a carb-heavy diet. I wonder if doing a low-carb diet for a couple days before fasting would help. Or do you think it would take longer than that to acclimate?
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by Zaak 7y ago
That's good to know. Fasting for me is partly an exercise in choosing to do something that's uncomfortable for my body to achieve a higher purpose. It is explicitly not supposed to be damaging or unhealthy in any way (people who a

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