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simplemath··on Lithium-air batteries: Their time has come
You are a battery that runs on ATP
simplemath··on Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation
So AirBnB is worth 4x WYN?

That doesn't make sense to me

simplemath··on Minds Turned to Ash: Burnout is more than working too hard
I just get a new Note every 2 years.

Easy.

simplemath··on Are Fantasy Football and Baseball More Based on Skill Than the Real Sports?
Depends on the sport. For NBA and NFL athletes in the US, it is close to 1 in 10k high school athletes in those sports that make it to the pros
simplemath··on Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
That, and actually increasing the dataset...
simplemath··on Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
I grew up in upstate NY with long, long winters.

Have lived in Phoenix since 2003.

I curse at the Daystar about half the year

simplemath··on Are Fantasy Football and Baseball More Based on Skill Than the Real Sports?
>But I think that's a flawed conclusion. The article notes that many unskilled players play daily fantasy as well. In the NHL (to continue the example), every single player and team is elite compared to all hockey players. If NHL teams played minor and rec league teams, their records would be stunningly lopsided.

Came to say this - Hosoi should compare the top 0.01% of fantasy players against each other and report back

simplemath··on Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
Ask the Bundy Clan about that
simplemath··on Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed
No, it's still insane.
simplemath··on Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed
Oh, China and Indonesia are doing it, and he's offering an amnesty program??

Well you've sold me! Line 'em up!

simplemath··on Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
the most impressive part, to me, was how thoroughly he reverse engineered what looks to be a crazy complicated CPU architecture - the Saturn has four of them.

Also, I love that his original motivation was to use the sound processor for mixing chiptune, and basically opening up the entire system at metal level is a happy by product.

ALSO, the fact that he decided that his first working prototype was too hands on and finding a way to piggyback the video playback expansion card to make the mod orders of magnitude less complicated to install / execute.

Super impressive stuff

simplemath··on How we're scammed into eating phony food
https://www.cooc.com
simplemath··on Pilot test of storing carbon dioxide in rocks
Carboniferous period, pt. II

I look forward to our descendants' giant cockroach overlords

simplemath··on The cave divers who went back for their friends
Stop base jumping or first descents on cave dives after having children
simplemath··on The cave divers who went back for their friends
It's an incredible hobby, to be sure.

But it's also verifiably one of the more dangerous sporting activities known.

simplemath··on Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals
>I've found a way

wow. If you're not bullshitting, and your method is scalable,reliable,and cost-effective congratulations on changing the world.

simplemath··on Immortality Begins at Forty
Jesus Christ....
simplemath··on Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of Democracy
Are you by chance on the committee that is naming this boat?

If not, you'd be an excellent committee member. You'd be a total hit at committees.

simplemath··on U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High
That simply wont happen until capital holders are forced to divest themselves of their capital.

Pooling of capital at the extreme right tail of the bell curve is accelerating, not decelerating.

simplemath··on A Protocol for Dying
I hope to muster the level of clarity and pragmatism you show here if I have time to reflect upon it when my number is called.

Inspiring.

simplemath··on Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
I can't escape Curry even here.. the ubiquitous magical little bastard
simplemath··on Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York?
You DID though, implying that it's the community that needs to take more concerted better action on its own, to reverse 100 years of endemic sociopolitical dysfunction.

It's basic libertarian boilerplate bullshit.

simplemath··on Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York?
Yeah, if only the children of ENY would find their fucking bootstraps...

They are in fact denied agency.

What's lacking in ENY are any meaningful community resources, from schooling, to infrastructure to policing.

It's not the people's fault they were born into that hellhole.

Let me guess, if somehow we could bring market forces to bear on Brownsville, the free market fairy would save all of these communities from themselves.

Give me a break.

simplemath··on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
Look at me, im the Linux now.

-MSFT

simplemath··on Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10
Replying to myself for a back pat. Well done, self. You called it.
simplemath··on Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report
Who needs to break encryption when you can break 99% of deployed OS kernels across all platforms?
simplemath··on No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription Now Available
Presumably if you dev in rhel or particularly rhel/.net, you'd want to run the same in prod.
simplemath··on The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA
Trump is not going to be president.

It's nearly statistically impossible.

simplemath··on No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription Now Available
You wouldn't. Seems like the whole idea.
simplemath··on What life is like after police ransack your house, then the charges are dropped
I inferred some equivocation which led me to believe that you find the institution of CF acceptable, despite the abundance of abuse. That the good outweighs the bad, or that seizures themselves are generally acceptable, and not an outright insult to the zombie corpse of the long dead 4A.

I'll admit though that this is my issue, not yours (perceiving your intent negatively). This has been a good discussion, and I should abstain from inference and address you on content alone. For that, I apologize.

As far as how we should proceed institutionally with altering CF to be more in line with the spirit of the rule of law - I'm a cynic, and a pragmatist.

If we're extremely lucky, we'll get a federal redress of CF and how it can be applied.

Clamoring for it to be thrown out is an outright fantasy.

I don't think we'll get either.

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