It's fun for life expectancy.
Step one: Ask for your own life expectancy.
Step two: Ask for the life expectancy of someone years' younger.
Step three: What.
Step four: Oh.
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Step one: Ask for your own life expectancy.
Step two: Ask for the life expectancy of someone years' younger.
Step three: What.
Step four: Oh.
It means “the materials and manufacturing budget is increased to allow the designers to push the diminishing-returns boundary further.”
For competitive use-cases, where an increase in capability makes the difference between winning and losing, paying the increased cost of the more capable tool is a sound tactic.
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Consider ten seconds persistence limit. Like short-term memory for the spoken word.
On the one hand, artists’ conceptions of boiled oceans and cities in cinders that saddened and discouraged me in my childhood. On the other hand, the heat energy density of Sol today is comparable to a compost heap. When the radius of a sphere doubles, it’s volume increase eight times.
If Sol is too itsy to start helium fusion, maybe orbiting within the post-expansion photosphere - the hydrogen envelope - is chill, damp, and sparky?
Gasses cool when they expand, right?
What’s the expected surface temperature of Sol after it has expanded past Earth’s orbit?
Do you see tyranny-of-the-majority and factional-rule as evils to be mitigated, or as desirable reflections-of-worker-cooperator-sentiment, regardless of consequences?
Do you agree that the Democratic Caucus of the Colorado State House of Representative is a democracy? In 2020, they eschewed one member, one vote in favor of Quadratic Voting. More here: https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/quadratic-voting-i...
Do you agree that it would lead to colossal losses by the disinformation promulgators and those they influenced when their predicted outcomes failed?
If familiarity is what you seek, look for echo chambers.
Suppose that worker cooperatives have taken over the world.
Suppose then that the worker cooperatives must choose between policy options, for example { "increase payments to retired workers", "increase investment in disaster preparedness", "increase investment in infectious disease biochemistry" }.
What is your recommendation for how the worker cooperatives should decide how to allocate resources? Presuming you do not recommend prediction markets.
stares.mov isn't bad.
Unsophisticated users who have lost or forgotten their passphrase can recover their data.
Should they be allowed to decide to buy a device whose manufacturer maintains a sole-source app retailer?
It seems more that by driving clicks, the algorithms are `facilitating` the marketplace. People are signaling the ideas they prefer, idea suppliers are producing more of such ideas, and the people get these ideas at ever-lower prices.
How is that in any way a distortion of an ideal marketplace?
They’re probably using more apps from more authors, each app being built to do one thing well.
The farthest observable galaxy is 1.34 x 10^10 light years.
This FRB is 1.17 x 10^7 light years.
So if you're at zero and end of the line is at 1340, this FRB is at 1.17. That doesn't feel close?
… are completely dependent on what expenses are attributed to the revenue by the cost accountant. Is producing WWDC an App Store cost?
The G.I. Bill after World War 2 is a precedent. Do you think CARES is larger, or smaller?
I would wager the typical Hacker News reader would be able to explain accelerated depreciation after sixty seconds of reading the instructions for Schedule C. It's not arcane.
These are straightforward deductions.
My impression remains that during the period between Poetics and, oh, Canterbury Tales, the great thinkers didn't publish anything about Narrative.
Thanks for the Northrop Frye tip!
Do you have any examples? I'm recollecting Augustine, Aquinas, Boethius, Abelard, Plotinus, Maimonides, et al, and nothing like Poetics comes to mind. What am I not remembering?
Question your assumptions.