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I have a few years older model Mazda 3 that has a similar system, although much less stylish. I like it for two reasons. I don't glance down when adjusting the radio or checking GP…

> If I had that level of vividness of dreams and I could make them lucid Lucid dreaming is actually a skill anyone can learn. Edit: Now that I think about it, the population is pro…

> almost no one outside of IT understands decentralization and why someone would want it I've talked to economist and political scientist that understood the implications of tradin…

Is this a joke about fiat currencies and their tendency to suddenly become valueless and cryptocurrencies tendency to suddenly become valueless by making a cross language pun conne…

-- lucid dreaming I've had over 100 lucid dreams, although none recently. My crowning achievement was summoning Socrates that would teach me things using the socratic method (only …

I don't think this is a textbox example of Goodhart's law. A healthy amount of sleep is a great target and measure, just like staying within a healthy weight range and lots of othe…

I live in Seattle, and have for years. I’ve lived in several different cities in the Northeast, Midwest, and South. King County has one of the highest minimum wages in the United S…

Let's assume in 10 years a descending order of the best laptop cpus are 1. Future ARM 2. Future AMD 3. Future Intel. When I say leapfrog I am implying that I believe this list to b…

I don't think Apple will adopt AMD cpus, I think they will leapfrog to ARM in 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#GPL_lawsuits The author can sue for damages and receive cash.

Some popular services like Snapchat and Tinder do not offer web versions of their service and are app only. The app ecosystem is important to get everyone on board because some com…

It might be. On monitors the difference between a 120hz refresh rate and 144hz refresh rate is about 14ms between frames. Some people (claim) to tell the difference.

On the downside if I use Apple Sign In on apps I probably won't be able to sign in to that application on my Android devices.

The point is that the idea of public millimeter wave surveillance has some amount of public support. Even if they deploy an ineffective version in 12 months, in 240 months they mig…

That's just wrong. This is ML 101 False positive = (Machine says positive but grand truth is negative) / (Machine says is positive) In English, a false positive is when the machine…

I was in the beta test for cangoroo. I booked 30 minutes, planning on going 2km in the time. When I was near my destination my cangoroo tokens depleted and the locking mechanism en…

No, and radioactive decay doesn't account for the variances between the reference kilogram and it's sister kilograms we've observed.

This isn't a slightly difficult problem, this is a fundamentally impossible problem. A qualitative thing cannot be quantified. If we could quantify adversity we could calculate the…

It's hard to say because the mechanisms for the mass loss are not fully known. In fact, we are just guessing that mass loss actually occurred, and how much did occur. How would we …

Weight is a measurement of force. Mass isn't.

The reference kilogram is estimated to have lost 50 micrograms over it's lifetime. I think it's safe to say that a reference gram would have lost a similar amount of mass. This wou…

This gives me concerns about legacy. Henry Ford is still well known and quoted today not only because he built a well known company and iconic products a century ago, but because h…

> Everybody knew record companies were just adding filling to get to a certain album lengths. Sometimes. Maybe even often. Never always. To me the highest achievement a recording a…

What statistics will the Adversity Score be based on? How close to reality are those numbers? What statistics will colleges create using the Adversity Score? Those will surely be e…

I think the goal of quantifying the amount of adversity a person experiences in their life is a fools errand. This is like asking "On a scale of 1-100 how beautiful is The Mona Lis…