trukterious

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by trukterious 8y ago
Apparently there's stuff like gold, iridium, silver, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium and tungsten. These might be transported back to earth. Plus there's iron, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, alumin
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by trukterious 8y ago
Yes but not all in the same place, so the ore would presumably be less concentrated?
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by trukterious 8y ago
Hmm, interesting. I was thinking that we could mine fresh debris from the asteroids themselves, in concentrated form. Plus saving the earth, of course.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Plan B. Crash dozens of asteroids onto the moon at a few designated locations. (Use rocks that might hit the earth or pass fairly close). Offer free mining rights to companies on a first-there-first-served basis.
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by trukterious 8y ago
>how could we have possibly made it as long as we have as a species if we are only now realizing that we can't eat enough good foods to be healthy? Partly due to agricultural soil depletion of certain elements like magnesium, zinc
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by trukterious 8y ago
I do eat quite a lot of broccoli but I still don't fancy eating 7 heads every day -- enough to cover two dinner plates. So I take a magnesium tablet before bed. Less work to prepare and to digest. The present moral aversion to suppleme
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by trukterious 8y ago
>With normal healthy food you should get more than enough. No, I looked into it some years ago and it seems unfeasible. For instance you'd have to eat about 15 stalks/heads of broccoli daily to get the RDA of magnesium, and t
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by trukterious 8y ago
Say we were to crash potentially earth-destroying asteroids into the moon and then offer free mining rights to companies on a first-to-get-there basis. I think we would still hear a a cacophony of moral objections. A spirit of pessimism see
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by trukterious 8y ago
Not really -- for instance, at HN we pay more attention to comments that explain stuff well, refer to sources, and so on. The bots might be a blessing, in some ways, if they result in more people looking for good explanations rather than fo
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by trukterious 8y ago
Fasting is very relevant here because it puts the body deeper into repair and maintenance mode. My guess is is periodic fasting plus a modest regimen of longterm repair supplements would be the optimum strategy.
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It's time for techies to embrace militant optimism again(wired.com)
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by trukterious 8y ago
I read Dawkins before Darwin, which made sense. Just as, if I wanted to learn relativity, I wouldn't go to Einstein's papers first.
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by trukterious 8y ago
How about in the process of reading a proof? Each single step is validated by the intuition of the reader.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Indeed. Great view, time for reading and thinking, steps for exercise, saving lives, few social events to attend...
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by trukterious 8y ago
It's more like 'thinkjuice'. The act of making all the perceptual discriminations required to consume 100,000 words cuts into the cognitive budget.
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by trukterious 8y ago
The difference is that the things that we praise Churchill for, e.g. leading the unpopular fight against the Nazis, were almost unique to him. Yet the charge that 'he favored eugenics and was deeply racist' could be levelled at ma
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by trukterious 8y ago
Absolutely. The greater the man, the greater the flaws. Yet we still need heroes from history to look up to, and we can't judge solely by modern standards. By analogy consider the contemporaneous movie The Wizard of Oz (1939). It&#x2
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by trukterious 8y ago
You can't do a thing you don't feel like doing. Ask David Hume, or ask any depressed person. In reality our ideas about what we should be doing co-evolve with our feelings about doing those things.
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by trukterious 8y ago
>philosophical exports are the kinds of thing that, once you internalize them, just seem like the way things are Yes; if you like a philosophical idea that's usually sufficient for you to have 'adopted' or 'accepted
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by trukterious 8y ago
Or from the final episode of Firefly : Jayne: Well, I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara Serra: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Well I'm not talking about obsession in the sense of a mental disorder -- but in the sense of that one thing X that a particular person happens to be in love with at the moment (could be piano, could be tennis, could be computer progra
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by trukterious 8y ago
>educational system [...] stop focusing on what you are best at and most passionate about to improve your "grades" Yes. Precocious boys follow a sequence of obsessions. The way to foster achievement, then, is to find out what
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by trukterious 8y ago
>increase autonomy of all participants of the system Yes, forced association causes bullying. There's no bureaucratic 'solution' that won't be gamed by the bullies. And there's no substitute for having good&#x2
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by trukterious 8y ago
The twist is the 'crybully' -- someone who bullies others and claims victimhood when confronted. In this way an accusation or counter-accusation of bullying can itself be a form of bullying.
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by trukterious 8y ago
People aren't like resources to be harvested: they are 'ends in themselves', i.e. with their own lives and perspectives. Also, unlike an extractable resource, their goodness is variegated.
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by trukterious 8y ago
This article is written as if Aubrey de Grey didn't exist! In addition to the featured scrapyard cars one could peruse these vintage models: https://www.classiccarpassion.com/media/101072/55.jpg They still go
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by trukterious 8y ago
I don't think that there are any garbage people. Everybody has some good in them. (This doesn't imply we shouldn't set some boundaries).
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by trukterious 8y ago
The author's problem is that there's a gap between what he's doing and what he thinks he ought to be doing. On the plus side he's already got some perspective via his humorous writing. In addition he might try and do
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by trukterious 8y ago
Pain is a signal that something is wrong and needs attention. Yet we also choose pain because it can feel pleasurable. e.g. eating chilli causes pain, which is interpreted as pleasure e.g. leaving everything to the last minute, which is i
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by trukterious 8y ago
Yes. Also the driver can anticipate the various accelerations more accurately than the passengers since he is causing them. As a passenger I find I can read in reasonable comfort if I can look up and out of the vehicle at each acceleratio

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