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Comment · 7 years ago
If we had no sun at all, I'm pretty sure we'd be an ice ball, save for volcanic activity. These impacts from solar activity take some time to develop, as I understand it. If we are in some sort of grand minimum, just wait a decade or so. If the Earth was highly reactive to these events (like breaking cold records everytime a minimum happens), I'm not sure we'd be here. The oceans store/release a lot of heat over the short term (years).
Comment · 7 years ago
It's gaslighting them. They have no feedback that the world is ignoring them. The crank on the public street corner saying the world is gonna end soon gets feedback when people walk right on by or put in their earbuds to ignore him.
Comment · 7 years ago
Just don't smile for the cameras.
Comment · 7 years ago
Well it's multipurpose. One roll can ship many different things. Otherwise you need an inventory of various sized boxes. I'm guessing it will find an instant niche.
Comment · 7 years ago
http://www.berkshares.org/

It's been around for a long time.

Comment · 7 years ago
You're arguing for a demurrage currency, not a fiat, debt- leveraged fractional reserve one.
Comment · 7 years ago
At this point, it's a feature to have things denominated in $. I'm likely going to buy a Purism laptop with bitcoin, but of course denominated in $. I spent a couple hundred on BTC years ago, which has generated a nice return. This will be my first purchase, and I'll have plenty of BTC left over. Holding a deflationary currency while the world operates on an inflationary one is fine by me.
Comment · 7 years ago
A custom router can do this for all devices on your network. That is what I use.
Comment · 8 years ago
This article is laughable. Knocking the developers by saying Myers and Briggs had no training is akin to knocking the first powered flight by saying Orville and Wilbur Wright had no training.

It's not difficult to imagine evolution has discovered a way to segregate us into different personalities for the advantage to form cohesive social groups with specializations for survival. Who hasn't observed the difference between introvert and extravert in their own interactions? Is it a stretch to envision a couple more dichotomies exist?

Ask people to answer questions that will sort them into 16 bins and isn't it logical to assume those bins might have traits in common?

There are plenty of problems with MBTI and by all means, develop a better science. I tend to characterize people into their MBTI type in order to better interact with them. I find it useful and understandable, even predictive. Parlor trick? Perhaps, but on a couple of occasions now, I've accurately predicted a new friend's MBTI type simply by observing them and then having them take the test to confirm. You then have a useful basic mental model of them.

Unfortunately, while I can fly in a 777 nearly halfway around the world now due in part to the Wrights, there is no personality tool 777 equivalent.

Comment · 8 years ago
Eh, well, the declination theory is probably nothing. There is apparently another map blessed by him w/o declination and land ownership.

https://dalneitzel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Fennboree-...

He claims all you need is the map, then leaves more offline clues in interviews than on the map, e.g. above 5000 feet, near pine, near a road from which he could make two trips in an afternoon. That is sort of annoying - seems a treasure map /poem should be self-contained.

Comment · 8 years ago
The map is unusual. It's rare to show magnetic declination lines - I suspect there might be a clue there. Land ownership is seemingly a clue too. Nobody who grew up in the west would hide treasure on someone else's private land and then claim he did it to get people outdoors. In many of these areas, people don't appreciate trespassing. Tribal land is out of the question too, unless he's crazy.
Comment · 8 years ago
Right, it is a pretty fair offer, but it's not SF real estate generous. That would work out to $16 billion or so.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
This kind of volatility is nothing new for Bitcoin. This kind of volatility in an asset with that market cap is fairly rare.

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