Aelinsaar

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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I give it about 50-50 odds someone was actually inspired by the fiction, directly.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
My 70 year old uncle was almost scammed this way, but he doesn't keep anything of value on his one computer, and when the scammer started to ask for SSN and other info he figured out that he was being scammed, cut the guy off, and clea
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
It's known, and it's called "Placebo".
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
That's fascinating, but birds do have their rods and cones attached to the retina. IIRC birds are though to be in some way detecting either directly, or through secondary effect, polarization of light.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
https://dummr.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/130661-strip-zoom.... That would be one theory as to the interior of the black box, I imagine, in more profitable cases.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Got it, that make sense. In that case, I wish you the best of luck, and hope someone here can help!
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Maybe you need to start by questioning the series of assumptions that have led you to have "100%" certainty in something? Presumably if you were correct, then you would be having a different experience by now.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Presumably the biggest factors will be education, and a lack of superstition and as you say, religion. I imagine it's not just a factor for the person donating, but also a consideration they have for their immediate families. I would g
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
It still might help to hold onto your investment...
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I think maybe that's why they're trying to get a ton of money, and as others are saying, exit.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
This is really not the time I'd be investing that heavily in Aramco. 30 Years ago, certainly, now... not so much.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Your characterization of your two sentences and a link as a "Well thought out counter-argument" aside... it was a question you've dodged, so thanks for the answer. ;)
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Just to see if I'm still batting a perfect game here, do you describe yourself as "Libertarian"?
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
There's no real indication that this is bottle with a genie in it; I think it's just an old beer bottle.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
What a steaming pile of stercore, what is this doing on HN? "The experimentalists weren't able to claim that it was a new force," Feng said I wonder why?! :|
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
"We're shocked!" -No One Seriously though, outside of a few desperate libertarians on the internet who needed not to believe it, I've never met a serious person who didn't see that likely connection.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Change in relation to the illusory confidence I mentioned in the first part of my sentence.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
The same math that describes the creation of an ERB, also makes them unsuitable for transit of even a single particle. There's also probably some question as to whether it would even connect to a distant part of our universe, since the
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
> Coincidentally around the same time Facebook announced their anticlickbait initiative, Facebook open-sourced their fasttext project, which can quickly build models to classify text using some of the above example techniques. Hmmmmmm…
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Not an expert, but #2 you bring up is pretty valid. Aside from directly administering a drug or agent, there is a reliance on the circulatory system to carry drugs to their targets. As for risks, any time you introduce a bunch of little thi
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
He's not even talking about an end, just a reduction in spending. When you look at how much mayhem is going in in Syria, it's hard to believe that you need to spend trillions just to massacre people.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Clearly not the kind of change that I was referring to, in context.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I'd say lose the "Black Hole" part, since what's been created is an artificial event horizon, not a singularity or any extremely compact mass. "In Lab, Sonic Event Horizon Shows Quantum Entanglement of Analogous Haw
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New Audi cars can tell you when traffic lights will turn green(arstechnica.com)
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
The truth is, most people seem firmly in the grip of illusory competence at most times, and it's not a shock that as life progresses that becomes crippling. I'd be shocked if people somehow magically changed in old age, rather tha
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Not to mention the minimal and subtle FUD that would be required, given how disgusted most of us are with the notion of spoiled and suspect food.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Yikes.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Two words, so accurate and so painful. :(
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Wickr
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
In fact, it's a lot easier these days to assume that what you broadcast through any medium is archived, you're on video and audio. You're not always, but it's easier to work on that assumption than accurately figure out

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