I see. With regard to your post and the origin of the black hole “pic”, do you believe that applying the same pipeline to random images or even noise would generate a similar result?
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Thanks for the interesting read. I absolutely lack the background to comment on your conclusions, but your post made me remember some questions I had on Black Holes that no physicist I talked to could answer, I never would have guessed the field had detractors.
If you don’t mind me asking, are you also a climate change skeptic?
You mention evolution being proven wrong a long time ago. Care to elaborate?
I believe you used the therm “genetic code” incorrectly in [II.] when you were talking about cancer, the correct word is genome.
Some bacterial species have impressive level of radiation resistance, so it’s a quality that can certainly be evolved much like antibiotic resistance. The most extreme radiation-resistance strategies involve the presence of multiple genomes within a cell as “backups”, this is coupled with various metabolic activities which have the goal to replace/repair the “main one” when it is damaged by radiation. Viruses, on the other hand, completely lack a metabolism and therefore will have serious trouble developing this kind of resistance.
As a general thing, I believe dating falls into one of those category of things that are better improved by simply practicing it; I wouldn’t really recommend any books on dating per se.
I can, however, recommend certain books that better explain the nature of social interaction in general that I personally found very helpful and have had a positive impact on my dating life:
Games People Play
Influence: Science and Practice
The Laws of Human Nature
I might have better suggestions for more specific topics...
Generally bad advice. I found the book to be very well written, my only complaint is with the content. The beginning was good with some good introduction and very well written definition of some of the core problems/concepts. The rest of the book was just bad; bad advice and very vague in general. I’ve read many books on the subject, most have flaws in the sense that are heavily in ideology and/or somewhat poorly written, but they manage to at least get the basic facts right; this one left like the complete opposite.
Sorry, I’m bad at reviews.
I think one of the reason so many people are bad at it is that there is a lot of misinformation about the subject. Consider it is also kind of a taboo so it’s hard for people to take it seriously. I also wanted to say that I think “Mate” is probably the worst book I’ve read on the subject.
it’s a rather more confused experience than for those who have always been sighted.
I suppose they just need to develop the spatial skill to process the information? As I said there is no reason to believe these people lack qualias, as color-blind people with synesthesia experience so-called “Moon Colors”
I have never heard of people who acquired sight later in life experience long-term issues with the sense; unlike say people who haven’t been exposed to language at an early age.
Some people are color-blind. This deficiency can be objectively demonstrated by tasks such as the Ishihara patterns.
This does not mean that color-blind people are missing qualia. In fact we know for sure that at least some color-blind individuals still possess the qualia of the “missing” color.
As a general rule people that cannot smell/touch ect. simply lack the receptors for these kind of experiences; this doesn’t mean they lack the qualia.
Highly debatable
I would say that the only fair thing to say here, is that we simply do not have any way to know that as of today.
Submission: Low-bandwidth Oracle
What is the most likely solution to the Fermi Paradox?
Answer can be picked from a small number of options (Rare Earth, Aestivation, Great Filter, Planetarium etc.). There are a number of observation that we can make based on the question alone. However, in the end the LBO can only do one of 2 things: lie or be honest. If it lies, the prediction will have a harder and harder time matching the reality that we observe as time goes on. Alternatively we confirm the prediction and learn some interesting things about the universe we live in.
Submission: Low-bandwidth Oracle
What was the first self-replicating molecule on Earth?
Short answer(can also be limited to a list), easy to verify in the lab, which means we can use it to assess the predictive power of the machine, while at the same time provides very useful information.
Similar questions that are hard to answer but can be answered in a few bits, which let us test the power of the LBO and provide massive returns at the same time:
What is the easiest to develop type of fusion power that ensure the best economic return in the short/medium term?
What is the cheapest way of access to space?
What forms of FTL are possible?
What are the ligands of orphan receptors?
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Very interesting work. I am not an expert by any means, but a quick search in the chapter on Jewish Law does not mention the Kibbutz. While admittedly the most interesting aspects of the Kibbutz are the anthropological ones rather than the ones concerning the legal system I suppose they could be an example of a “very different system”. Unfortunately I cannot recommend any source in particular. Similarly in the Iranian government the Legal and Political systems are heavily interweaved with the religious authority.
I’ve been a trader for 2 years, it’s just a hobby for me. I’ve mostly done Sentiment and Fundamental but wanted to try Technical and others.
If you were a hobbist like me, what would you say is the best way to host a bot? Should I get my own server? Do I rent one? Or do I use an exchange?
Thanks, great post and I love your logo.
A Blockchain cannot validate information received if the hardware is not secure, so it cannot replace the Fail-Deadly Key.
A Blockchain, on the other hand, could timestamp the hash as soon as it is generated to ensure it was created before a certain point in time.
[Question] The tech left behind
I guess you could do that in a variety of ways. PM in general can be used to create rewards for events to happen. Take the following: “I agree to leave facebook if ten million other people agree to leave with me.” could be implemented as “I bet $$ that 10M people will not leave FB within a month”, people can then stake against it and leave FB to promote the event (and share the contract). PM are very flexible, the real limitation IMO is to create a community to bring liquidity to the market and then create a standard contract for people to follow for a specific type of market
Looks like something of this sort could be easily implemented in an already existing platform like Augur, I actually wouldn’t mind putting some effort in it if someone is interested
Interesting. The article didn’t mention that.
Is there any online community where people can practice DC that you would recommend?