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by 21 8y ago
> I've seen children accustomed to using touch interfaces blurring the line between physical and virtual, i.e swiping at physical objects like books, photos, even walls. I've not seen this behavior with those used to non touch
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by 21 8y ago
So the vast majority of physicists which believed that the Higgs would be found were also acting like on a religious belief taken on faith.
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by 21 8y ago
What about if you disable the machines video cameras for a while, as a punishment? Do you think it could learn to fear that? You and I can understand death without actually having experienced it. Surely a machine could too.
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by 21 8y ago
If I believe that aliens exist somewhere in the universe, is that unscientific?
425.
by 21 8y ago
There is literally not a single comment addressing the content here at this moment :) Yes, I'm not helping
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by 21 8y ago
How do you know that. How do you know the improvement was not because now he was using shoes.
427.
by 21 8y ago
For once, even if it's allowed no top athlete runs barefoot/minimal. And it's not because of ad dollars - you don't see them wearing hats or gloves just because some company would pay for that.
428.
by 21 8y ago
If someone says "I hate ICE, I hate police", should they be censored too, and their message not distributed?
429.
by 21 8y ago
Does it cleave a whole segment off (two point cut), or just a single cut?
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by 21 8y ago
Kids haven't stopped using words just because the parents use them too. Or iPhones. Some things are too essential to discard for this reason. What will change is what emojis are used and how. The rare ones which are not used by parents
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by 21 8y ago
Not a physicist, but the basic idea is that the probability for anything to happen is different than 0, even if extremely small. The quantum fields can't ever be zero, from my understanding. And thus stuff can still happen: > Accor
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by 21 8y ago
> According to Berger and Loutre, the current interglacial period ends[14] sending the Earth back into a glacial period of the current ice age, regardless of the effects of anthropogenic global warming. According to that guy, there wi
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by 21 8y ago
> The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to
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by 21 8y ago
> the idea of a rapture, in which some chosen humans will be taken up and made one with the infinite while others will be left behind. Didn't this already happened once? Some chosen animals were lifted to unbelievable heights, while
435.
by 21 8y ago
How to make a Eurovision hit parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tgnx6jTQ
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by 21 8y ago
You could say the same thing about Picasso, or Leonardo da Vinci. Did they figure out some kind of formula?
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by 21 8y ago
> it's much cheaper to dig It still costs money. And where should the exits be? If they are far apart this doesn't work. And the prospect of being underground for a long trip is not that thrilling. You're basically proposi
438.
by 21 8y ago
Even in traditional memory, you can use a single degree of freedom to store multiple bits, by quantizing the charge. Like in TLC flash memory, where you can store 3 bit per cell. This is because in traditional memory, a single "cell&qu
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by 21 8y ago
But for that you would need to read the actual case, you couldn't just look at the label "convicted for child rape"
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by 21 8y ago
I meant during the thing. Like you don't talk to the police without a lawyer present, maybe you shouldn't talk to the insurer without a professional present.
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by 21 8y ago
How do you even authenticate the info if it's from a hostile government?
442.
by 21 8y ago
Question for those who might know about this: If I find myself in a similar situation as in this article, is there some sort of "insurance professional handler" laywer kind of guy you can hire so that he does what is necessary and
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by 21 8y ago
> currently using crispr to treat humans Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression was that crispr is used for treatment only in cases where there is nothing else left and the alternative is sure death
444.
by 21 8y ago
Your requirements sound like those rigged bids in corrupted countries where the bid book conditions are like "car length to be between 2531 mm and 2533 mm" and "car weight between 1203 kg and 1205 kg"
445.
by 21 8y ago
Rolex or Gucci isn't cheap either. If you want to look successful, you need to spend the money.
446.
by 21 8y ago
Let's not forget the massive pain that /dev/urandom being a file was, that they had to add a syscall for it: getrandom()
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by 21 8y ago
> Parking is also extremely expensive to construct and maintain. Say what? It's a fucking concrete slab. Maybe they mean expensive in land cost.
448.
by 21 8y ago
What exactly do you mean by a thin client? With $300 you can get a retina display laptop with Celeron quad-core and 6 GB RAM.
449.
by 21 8y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I need, XLR plugs on my phone :)
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by 21 8y ago
MicroUSB is supposedly designed in such a way that the stress is placed on the cable connector which is easier to replace, not the device connector which is attached to an expensive device. But yeah, I can't imagine Micro-USB being mor

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