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On October 20 2016 10:01 Thieving Magpie wrote:Show nested quote +On October 20 2016 09:57 FiWiFaKi wrote:On October 20 2016 09:46 Thieving Magpie wrote:On October 20 2016 09:33 JimmiC wrote:
Not shooting me down, I figured there was no way to monetize it. I just figured I'd throw out the thought to the brilliant people of TL just in case. There are many ways to make money off of it. But it will take a large amount of energy and money to do it. Essentially, the question to ask yourself is "Will this make enough money so that all the legal fees and time spent over the next few years is worth it?" If you have a vision, and see potential, go for it. Think it through, but it's what separates the cowards who fell into other people's success (usually the 9-5 worker), and those who truly started their own thing, made massive sacrifice, took lots of calculated risks, they're truly the saviors of the economy. A lot of people really suck at going all the way with anything, and from my experience, especially the internet forum crowd (myself included). Honestly, even if you don't have a vision. If you're truly driven, you can find someone else to have the vision for you.
Usually it's difficult for someone to have the exact same vision as you. It's the difference between working towards exactly what you want and being your own boss, and working towards something kind of similar to what you want, but with the benefit of more security.
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ZigguratOfUr
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Given the choice between making the tomato a vegetable or making pluto a planet, which would you choose?
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On October 20 2016 10:45 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Given the choice between making the tomato a vegetable or making pluto a planet, which would you choose?
I'd definitely make tomato a planet.
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If all tomatoes are planets, we could not count how many planets are, it'd be much ore difficult to simulate the N-body problem of our solar system, and so on.
But studying Pluto as a vegetable, yum yum!
Following question: how long could we live (7 billion people), by harvesting it?
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Not very long, i don't think Pluto has a lot of calories.
But on the other hand, Pluto looks kind of like a potato, so lets assume Pluto is made of potatoes. We will further ignore nutrients and just go by calories. Apparently 1kg of potatoes has about 750 kcal. A person needs ~2000kcal/day, or about 2.7kg of potatoes. 7 billion people thus need 1.87*10^10 kg of potatoes a day.
Pluto has a mass of 1.303 *10^22 kg. Thus, Potato Pluto would last current humanity for ~7*10^11 days. Or 1.9 billion years.
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Ok, so, solving hunger in the world: Check
What's next now?
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On October 20 2016 18:30 AbouSV wrote:
Ok, so, solving hunger in the world: Check
What's next now?
Finding a way to keep potato beetles away from Pluto?
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On October 20 2016 18:34 Morfildur wrote:Show nested quote +On October 20 2016 18:30 AbouSV wrote:
Ok, so, solving hunger in the world: Check
What's next now? Finding a way to keep potato beetles away from Pluto?
Find ways to refit pluto into a potato space shuttle to get them potatoes over here.
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I tried looking into blowing Pluto (with its mass spreading isotropically) when earth is the closest (including debris travel time), and only harvesting the fraction directly coming to earth.
But with a distance of 4.3 10^9m and earth radius of 6.37 10^3m, we would only have 5.5 10^-15% of what Simberto calculated, which is not even enough for a single day.
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On October 20 2016 17:53 AbouSV wrote:
If all tomatoes are planets, we could not count how many planets are, it'd be much ore difficult to simulate the N-body problem of our solar system, and so on.
But studying Pluto as a vegetable, yum yum!
Following question: how long could we live (7 billion people), by harvesting it?
There would still be more planet-planets than tomato-planets (unless there were tomato-planets on the planet-planets).
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On October 20 2016 18:34 Morfildur wrote:Show nested quote +On October 20 2016 18:30 AbouSV wrote:
Ok, so, solving hunger in the world: Check
What's next now? Finding a way to keep potato beetles away from Pluto?
War?
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English native speakers, I need your help.
Needs a cold draw to slow his tachycardia
In a dark bar the world just melts away
The second sentence is very poetic, I like the association of drinking/melting, the blur you get when you are drunk. However, I don't get the first one: what does he refer to with 'draw'? Wiktionary has 12 results and I cannot make sense of any of them.
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You can 'draw' that is take in something. Most commonly would be a cigarette, to 'drag' on a cigarette> to draw on a cigarette. Also to draw on a cold drink but much less common, and a little strange, though poetically would be legitimate.
What are you reading?
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On October 22 2016 01:43 SoSexy wrote:
English native speakers, I need your help.
Needs a cold draw to slow his tachycardia
In a dark bar the world just melts away
The second sentence is very poetic, I like the association of drinking/melting, the blur you get when you are drunk. However, I don't get the first one: what does he refer to with 'draw'? Wiktionary has 12 results and I cannot make sense of any of them.
Needs a cold draw to slow his tachycardia
In a dark bar the world just melts away
He is using medical terms to create the association of Drinking Beer with Curing Emotion. Draw Blood and Tachycardia to give the image of blood. Cold Draw instead of Draw Blood syncs with A Dark Bar in that the american phrase of "a cold one" meaning beer gets stretched into both something bloody "Cold Draw" and dystopic "Cold Dark Night"
By re-transcribing the feeling of a fast beating heart (usually meaning love) away from emotion toward a medical condition, he creates the sense that he is sickened or cursed with love, and in an attempt to cure, goes to a bar to fix his ailment but literally melting the world away--ie retreating from the world.
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On October 22 2016 02:15 Thieving Magpie wrote:Show nested quote +On October 22 2016 01:43 SoSexy wrote:
English native speakers, I need your help.
Needs a cold draw to slow his tachycardia
In a dark bar the world just melts away
The second sentence is very poetic, I like the association of drinking/melting, the blur you get when you are drunk. However, I don't get the first one: what does he refer to with 'draw'? Wiktionary has 12 results and I cannot make sense of any of them. Needs a cold draw to slow his tachycardia In a dark bar the world just melts away He is using medical terms to create the association of Drinking Beer with Curing Emotion. Draw Blood and Tachycardia to give the image of blood. Cold Draw instead of Draw Blood syncs with A Dark Bar in that the american phrase of "a cold one" meaning beer gets stretched into both something bloody "Cold Draw" and dystopic "Cold Dark Night" By re-transcribing the feeling of a fast beating heart (usually meaning love) away from emotion toward a medical condition, he creates the sense that he is sickened or cursed with love, and in an attempt to cure, goes to a bar to fix his ailment but literally melting the world away--ie retreating from the world.
Thanks! Amazing to see how many things I miss out by not being American - I would have never guessed the 'a cold one' references. Your part on love is off, though - it is about a man who is dealing with false rape accusations.
So I guess it's something to drink or smoke!
To the previous poster: it's part of a song, Tachycardia, on Conor Oberst's new album, 'Ruminations'.
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On October 22 2016 02:35 SoSexy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 22 2016 02:15 Thieving Magpie wrote:On October 22 2016 01:43 SoSexy wrote:
English native speakers, I need your help.
Needs a cold draw to slow his tachycardia
In a dark bar the world just melts away
The second sentence is very poetic, I like the association of drinking/melting, the blur you get when you are drunk. However, I don't get the first one: what does he refer to with 'draw'? Wiktionary has 12 results and I cannot make sense of any of them. Needs a cold draw to slow his tachycardia In a dark bar the world just melts away He is using medical terms to create the association of Drinking Beer with Curing Emotion. Draw Blood and Tachycardia to give the image of blood. Cold Draw instead of Draw Blood syncs with A Dark Bar in that the american phrase of "a cold one" meaning beer gets stretched into both something bloody "Cold Draw" and dystopic "Cold Dark Night" By re-transcribing the feeling of a fast beating heart (usually meaning love) away from emotion toward a medical condition, he creates the sense that he is sickened or cursed with love, and in an attempt to cure, goes to a bar to fix his ailment but literally melting the world away--ie retreating from the world. Thanks! Amazing to see how many things I miss out by not being American - I would have never guessed the 'a cold one' references. Your part on love is off, though - it is about a man who is dealing with false rape accusations. So I guess it's something to drink or smoke! To the previous poster: it's part of a song, Tachycardia, on Conor Oberst's new album, 'Ruminations'.
Interesting mix up then. Heart beating faster is a normal trope in pop songs about being in love while a slowing heartbeat is used in dramas as a sign of dying. So using the medical term of Tachycardia (which technically means irregular heartrate) blurs that line between love and dying at the same time--which makes sense in a song about false rape accusations (Falling in love/lust and then being condemned/dying for it)
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Disclaimer : I hesitated to post this question in the US Politics thread or here. I decided to post it here because I don't want it to go into a political debate, I just want a simple answer. So please, don't derail.
Why is the "alt-right" movement in the US called "alt-right" (as if they were an alternative to the traditional right) and not "far-right" ? I mean, they're exhibiting signs of open racism, discrimination, conspiracy theorism and historical revisionism. To me, that places them much further right on the political spectrum than the traditional right, and racism, discrimination, conspiracyism and revisionism are pretty standard features of the far-right.
Thus, why alt-right? And more precisely, why are non-alt-right medias calling them "alt-right", thus legitimizing them as an alternative to the traditional right wing?
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