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But what is the effect on lifetime of not having any CNO present? If a present-day massive star would have a lifetime of 10 million years, how long would it live if it was a popula…

There is a range of wavelengths of light that humans perceive as green. The same is true for every color that is part of the rainbow. In contrast, the "pure purples" do not appear …

There's an important distinction between anatomically modern humans and behaviorally modern humans. Behaviorally modern humans were the ones that were able to migrate all over the …

Fabulous idea. I will definitely use this for future early-stage demos.

> “Recursively self-improving systems, because of contingent bottlenecks, diminishing returns, and counter-reactions […], cannot achieve exponential progress in practice. Empirical…

But there used to be a stigma around wearing glasses.

That's a very interesting idea, though it wouldn't significantly affect people with vast resources such as botnet owners, corporations, and governments. It would certainly slow dow…

This is really impressive. What would it take to persuade you to fix the 3D performance issues? :)

While Larry and Sergei were running Google, the company often (though not necessarily always) chose doing what was right over a more profitable wrong. A specific example was when t…

> is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce? Well, from a high-level view the only way a cell can make more cells is to divide, and if it divides it either makes a copy …

As a counterexample, imagine reading a book on mathematics that did not use any special notation, instead relying on natural-language descriptions of formulas and algorithms. Or im…

They're not /really/ connected, at least historically. But the author sees a reasonable progression in ease of use, while maintaining a lot of flexibility. And the idea of starting…

I heard that submarines are called "boats" because "ships" are targets...

> This bug is probably going to end up infecting most of the people in the United States. Exactly. As you say, we need to flatten the curve to keep hospitals from becoming overwhel…

Thank you for this. You make the essential point that others are missing: flattening the curve isn't to buy time; it's to prevent massive loss of life and societal collapse. Buying…

SHA-2 is based on similar techniques to those in SHA-1, which prompted the SHA-3 competition when weaknesses in SHA-1 were first discovered (as they could conceivably have been pre…

Exactly. Big companies move slowly. A small, well-funded company may be able to approve an X-thousand-dollar payment in a matter of days, but a large company just can't react that …

So you're defining "AI" to be anything that we can currently program a computer to do, and "I" to be anything we can't yet? That doesn't seem like a useful distinction to me. Unles…

In my case, my current income provides a comfortable lifestyle for my family of five. But yes, if you have kids, your expenses are definitely going to go up.

> "if you don't have a backup for it, you only have it temporarily" Fabulous line. Is that attributable to anyone in particular?

I agree with you. For example, if I had 100 times my current yearly income in savings/investments/etc, I could live my current lifestyle indefinitely (barring eg, a market crash) b…

I have some Pacific Islander friends that consider me rich because I live in a nice house (rented), own three cars (bought used), and have a steady desk job (after many years of re…

1. It's homoiconicity in general. It's most obvious in arithmetic expressions, but homoiconicity (as far as I've seen) eschews semantic indicators besides function name and argumen…