Nogwater

What's the field of view?

> I think we'd all agree that increasing employment is a good goal

I don't agree, and I'm not sure why people would see employment for its own sake would be a good thing. I want to increase some of the things that employments brings (purchasing power, a sense of purpose, etc...) and not others (loss of time, feeling trapped, etc...).

Not exactly the same premise, but I've heard it called "Queen Anne Likes".

I'd like to suggest Blindsight by Peter Watts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

I dropped an egg in a shoe box full of sand and it worked fine. Unfortunately, that design wasn't allowed at my school.

r/SpaceX has a lot of good info. Check out the "What are the differences between the Falcon 9 v1.1 and the upgraded Falcon version popularly called the v1.2?" FAQ here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/faq/falcon

This Wikipedia page has a mention of super-chilling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-1

I've asked that before too and been told that they are randomly distributed. Here's a link!

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/236-are-the-planes-of-solar...

What if they hack your dropbox account and get a copy of the vault that way? They're not on your box, but now they can try to break into your vault.

Sounds like a really expensive way to make radioactive steam. :)

Just think of them as unbuffered channels.

I've started buying them when they're very hard (Costco sells them by the bag) and then waiting for them to ripen at home. This keeps them from getting bruised by other shoppers. So far, I've had good luck with them being ripe and good for about 3 days.

Here's a great Veritasium video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQggDnScsvI

The mutations are random, but the selection isn't... it's governed by the environment.

I'm not sure that I want to ride in a car built by a company with a killer instinct. ;)

It reminds me a lot of listening to air traffic control somewhere busy.

Is there anything like this to remove pre-rolls and mid-rolls on YouTube?

What is so special about Koreans that your comment couldn't have used "humans" instead?

After all of this effort, they're still limiting passwords to 18 characters? Why would they do that?

I don't think that's necessarily true. Let's say they have all of the passwords stored as bcrypt hashes, and they also know the last time you changed your password. They could just update the application logic to check that your password is of the form <pw><pw> if your last change date is before X. Then to check the password, they just take the first half and check that against the hash.

Do you just want the neural net, or the tags too? This might not be what you want, but it looks like it could be fun to play with: http://clarifai.com/

You mean it isn't?

what if? - Randall Munroe - https://whatif.xkcd.com/book/

I guess we disagree on the general character/culture front. I see a lot of similarities across state boundaries (for example: people think murder is bad) and a lot of differences within states (especially in the city vs. rural divide). Lots of values aren't even geographical (e.g. should religion be a part of public schools?). Similarly, I'd say that most boarders are arbitrary and have very little lasting meaning, but whatever.

To try to answer your question. I think there are common rules that make sense to apply globally (eg no murder, slavery, theft of private property, etc...), and some rules that should be very local (eg maximum sizes for billboards), and there's some middle ground for things like regulation and management of watersheds.

Why is it a problem to have 300 million people follow the same set of laws, but it's okay to have 38 million people with the same laws? Or maybe California is too big to be a viable state too? Maybe 6 million is the right magic number, and that's why Singapore is still okay? Or maybe 3 million would be better (like Mississippi.)? Then again, the founding fathers knew best (right?) and the largest colony/state at that time was well under a million, so maybe that's the right size?