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Maybe 500 years by today's behavioral standards. I assume that if people were told you could live ~forever barring an accident leading to your death, many people in society would behave VERY differently. The risk profile of you or me getting in a car to drive to the store is VERY different than someone with age-and-sickness-proof-but-accident-vulnerable immortality.

Ridiculing genuine curiosity is a terrible behavior from teachers... why stifle inquisitive minds? Anyway, you may already be familiar with these proposed biochemistries, but there has been a lot of speculation on this exact question over the years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...

Could you please elaborate on the distinction that you see between "artificial" intelligence and whatever it is that we as humans possess? Furthermore, what specific aspects of this intelligence are unachievable by an AI? Is it a "human intelligence is non-computational" line of thinking?

Not that you're wrong about US factory farming, but this article (and the photos) are only concerned with Canada. It's, unfortunately, not just a US problem.

Depending on where you are, you can use Curb or something similar to pair with your ride and let the app handle payment. I use it (or just hailing cabs) almost exclusively over Uber/Lyft these days, typically 1/2 the price and the drivers don’t get lost in the city either.

New Relic has had this for a few years now for a couple hundred of the most requested domains: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query...

Disclaimer - I work at New Relic but not on this.

There's the IP code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code) but I've only seen it used with respect to devices. It's unclear (to me) if it would cover something like this.

For inputs that are going to get hashed that seems reasonable, as well as for single-purpose systems. On the flipside, this seems like a great way to have unintended consequences downstream in more complex systems. That "out of memory" condition may appear as an ephemeral bug or slowdown that surfaces not at input time but at retrieval by another service.

Some sections are truly fascinating. Personally, I always loved the chapter on asbestos (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...) because I was surprised to learn that they had figured out its uses by that time in history.

I think we read the same version. "Verisimilitude" was a new word for me. I'm still trying to find a way to use it in conversation.

My college horticulture professor had us watch this hilarious, informative documentary on cane toads and I cannot recommend it enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBLf1tsoaw

I may be able to shed some light on this. During the dyn outage I really wanted to keep listening to soundcloud, so I spent a bit digging up the hostenames/IPs to dump in /etc/hosts. I found that they were fetching data from two different hostnames, cf-media.sndcdn.com and ec-media.sndcdn.com which I'm guessing stand for cloudfront and edgecast. Never dug deep enough to figure out how they sharded the data, and I'm not even sure both were used for songs (maybe one was pictures, one was tracks) but I seem to recall needing both to play all songs consistently.

Oh, great point, I hadn't even considered that. I'm sure creating all those steel/concrete containers isn't the most CO2 friendly activity. AFAIK most plants store onsite so there's no transportation cost at least.

This got me thinking: how much CO2 is emitted by different energy sources in generating 1 kilowatt-hour?

I came across this link: http://blueskymodel.org/kilowatt-hour

Seems like solar is more or less a break even, where nuclear /wind/geothermal/hydro are pure wins, which makes sense I suppose. Could you manufacture enough of these to consume 1 kilowatt-hour without generating more CO2 in the process than they would consume in their lifecycle?

A little over a year ago, I followed a link to Lapham's from HN, and I've been a subscriber and reader ever since. Every magazine is an absolute treat. For those who are already extremely well read it might be review, but I have always felt that my education leaned too far towards STEM and, save for a few electives, not nearly enough towards a true liberal education. FWIW, I think Lapham's has been a great starting point to filling those gaps.

Additionally, Serious Eats also did a cold-brew method comparison, which may be of interest:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/whats-the-best-way-to-bre...

Not an article, but here's the paper the WHO cites to make the "16% increased risk per 100g red/processed meat" claim. It's citation 12 on the WHO paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3...

>Please would you kindly help if good with you please, thank you kindly, thanks.

Took a while, but along with a coworker, we were able to get 100.

In addition, if fraction of life were the cause, wouldn't we expect to see people with retrograde amnesia exhibit childlike impatience?

Agreed, and I think it's especially uncomfortable because that sort of reasoning is exactly the sort of thing Chesterton would've hated.