David Deutsch shatters the myth of spaceship earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R6e4xNoarg

I switched from Chrome to Firefox 6 months ago when Google started playing games with it's ad blockers.

All of my Chrome extensions and features were supported by Firefox and I was a happy camper.

Then two problems got to me:

1. Slow performance on web apps like Gmail (use it for work)

2. Firefox regularly crashes (more than 10 times per day)

I'm trying to switch to the Brave browser (Chromium) now, but I was almost a Firefox convert.

> 2. Firefox regularly crashes (more than 10 times per day)

Needless to say, crashing 10 times a day is not normal. :)

Can you share any Crash Report IDs from your Firefox's about:crashes page? The crash reports will say whether a bug has already been filed or fixed.

Firefox does not seem to crash on me. However, the FF performance has never been up to par. Especially with Google products(Gmail, Docs, etc.).

Doesn't that make you suspicious?

It might be your setup, I do not experience that. (I too use Gmail in FF.)

Uncharitable reading: "a very creepy thing"

Charitable reading: "a funny throw away comment"

While I'd agree with you 'in the wild' on a random person, if you watch Neil for a length of time on stage,.... he has an energy about him. It almost exudes as a hyperactive type of quality. Not many people are excited about space "stuff" - so I can see him just becoming overly excited when people ARE interested.

I've watched NDT quite a bit (being an amateur astronomer myself), but that statement is still creepy. I don't think that being 'energetic' automatically excempts any individual from criticism for their actions and words.

That’s the kind of thing a horny fourteen year old boy says. It’s funny to precisely no one.

Really? I bet many people would find it funny. Perhaps not you or your circle, but you don't define the world, his country, state, or community.

After reading this article I followed up with the author book "CROOKED Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting On the Road to Recovery".

As a computer programmer who has just gone through 1 year of bullshit therapies and recommendations, this book is a godsend.

If you have back or neck problems and want some non-bullshit explanations, read this book immediately.

https://www.cathrynjakobsonramin.com/books/crooked/overview/

This article is genius, Greg Brockman has figured this out.

Does NameCoin have all the needed features to make this happen right now?

Fascinating idea. In the areas that this would work, would it not be simpler to just use a normal cell phones data connection or SMS?

Say the blockchain's growing by a gigabyte a month.[1] I don't think SMS can support that much, especially times so many devices. Using a tv signal is more robust - you can support millions of devices, and transient 3G network failures will have less or no effect.

[1] I estimated. http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size

But the parking meter (etc.) doesn't need to handle the blockchain at all. It could use the SMS to communicate with a shared parking meter bitcoin transaction server. That said, broadcasting the blockchain is useful.

If you stick to centralized solution then that would work nice and might be good enough. However Kryptoradio allows to do it by just listening incoming transactions and blocks.

The idea is that a lot of devices wouldn't need a two-way connection, rather they could confirm payment with only a downlink.

Wow amazing! I need this for all other languages, if only for the mapping of Code -> Online API.

Other languages will come, as well as other sites (GitHub and others)

In the article they mention:

Experiments show that when HMW-HA is removed from the creature’s cells, they become susceptible to cancer, suggesting it plays a role in making the rodent ‘cancer-proof’.

And this is a good point, but I wish to add some crazy ideas

Maybe the absence of HMW-HA is boosting the metabolism in this rodents? what if those animals living in low oxigen habitats could exchange more or less oxigen by its skins HMW-HA mediated? more oxigen, more metabolic rates, more sun exposition in captive animals... cancer appears?.

Just wild speculation about a very interesting discovery; I'm not saying that this is the role of HMW-HA, I will be really very happy with the idea of a safer replacement for chemotherapy, but I wish to read studies about other possible reasons for the development of a cancer-proof system in an animal living in an apparently "not cancer prone" environment. And I'd like a lot also to have data about cancer rates in queens/kings and the other animals. There are different rates?, the same probability of having cancer in both groups?

I host large images between 500k and 700k. I store the original image along with 4 different resized versions. The resized images on average account for 35% of disk space.

I store about 300GBs of images. The resized versions take up about 100GBs of the 300.

If I were to then to add retina versions (2x) of each thumbnail, I might be running at 70%+ disk space being used up by thumbnails.

imgix is very interesting, as it would cut my storage costs, decrease my user image upload times ( because I wouldn't have to resize after uploading ). Also I would be free to create 2x retina images, or even new thumbnail sizes as desired.

Only things to justify, are the lock-in with using imgix ( re-writing my site to use it ) and the monthly cost.

how 300GB is storage problem? I would understand if you say 300TB , but with 2TB HDD < 100$ and 0.5TB SSD < 400$ I can't really see that a major use case. And that is one time fixed payment.

Agreed. Unfortunately this site has many images and low traffic ( non-profit ), so it doesn't justify the cost of dedicated hardware.