Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
Is it possible that the front wheels being powered could climb up a small stone, unlike a skateboard that is kind of pushed horizontally into it by momentum?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I think he's more concerned about the Guardian, but I don't know why. Holocaust denial is a healthy part of understanding things, just as cranks are in science. Actually the holocaust suffers from a lack of serious objective resea
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I'm surprised that hobbyists building their own printer aren't going for the patented laser methods that actually make high quality parts. Surely you can make your own copy of a patented item, just not sell it. Even if you're
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Thanks for using a right-handed coordinate system.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I agree that it mostly causes unneeded confusion to have another arbitrary standard. I think usually they are created or perpetuated to give a minor convenience to a minority of specialists using it every day, but then they become popular a
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How sure were you that the things you saw were man-made? If I thought I'd discovered a 10,000 year old object, it would be worth notifying an archeologist.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I didn't see any discussion of this in the article, but could it have just fallen off a ship, maybe from the Romans or something? It looks like the only dating they've done so far is of the area it was found in, not the monolith i
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by Asbostos 11y ago
If they have time to be friendly, perhaps they aren't so overworked and can really treat you more effectively. It sounds like an indicator of better treatment. If doctors are always rushed off their feet, that's probably not an id
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Is it really a bad idea? Will people actually get off Facebook and watch more TV if the ads were shorter? I suspect ads aren't the reason TV viewing is declining and aren't going to accelerate it much.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I first discovered this flexibility signing up for a simple warehouse laboring job while I was a student. It had a "don't work in our industry for a year" type clause. I expressed some concern about that and the boss just cro
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Copying to RAM while playing isn't copying? Or is implicitly permitted by all copyright holders?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yes. Unpredictable bugs have been my major concern with it forever. I'm never confident that it hasn't silently deleted some pictures from my documents or break the pagination. So I use all sorts of dirty hacks to try to detect co
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The downside is that you're then locked in to your ISP. People used to be trapped with their ISP just to keep their email address. It was terrible. If they host your blog on their own domain name, you're again trapped with them.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This is what's bizarre about self-professed high-morals people. They say gays should be treated equally, blacks too, and even people with all kinds of diseases. There's even a human right called "freedom of movement". Bu
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I guess you're right. Town planning enforces this too with section sizes too big for low-priced high density housing. Thus forcing poor people out. What's weird, is people often complain these segregations are unfair or keep peopl
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Thanks for the correction. In that case it doesn't really seem to be an issue of borders. People can surely be exploited in those ways within their own country too.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
They begin with an odd argument made by the US - Ecuador's open borders have increased human trafficing. The concept of human trafficing only exists because there are closed borders that people want to cross. If the US opened its borde
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Indeed. Lobbying isn't the fault of the lobbyists or the politicians. It's the fault of the voters. Ultimately the blame for consistently bad laws lies at the feet of the people in the electorate. If we focussed more on individual
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by Asbostos 11y ago
You're describing K-strategists vs R-strategists, which I don't think has quite that relationship to position on the food chain, but there still are species that do more of one that the other. Your point does make sense to me that
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Your argument about lifespan doesn't seem to make sense. Every species has some lifespan. Many are shorter than dairy cows. How do you decide what the "proper" lifespan is? Is it the lifespan of its ancestors? How many genera
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I wonder if those 72% of no-banners really want pirated photocopies of copyright books in their school library, along with color picture books of violent child pornography. Surely the questions were misleading or open to different interpret
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Can you explain more how the free market stops existing if you commodify labour? I don't understand that.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That doesn't explain why they were seemingly allowed to replace "retards" with "gits" which is obviously still being used with the same derogatory meaning.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Are you saying that bullying and shunning people who don't behave according to social norms is healthy? Isn't that essentially the root of all racism, bigotry, sexism, etc? That's what already happens with large scale trollin
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Paradoxically, they say we want people because they're accountable. At the same time the show that parole judges are consistently making wrong decisions. But they're presumably not being held accountable. Sure we feel nice imagini
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I'm always disappointed when I hear about .Net being open sourced and .Net running on Linux and so on. Because the discussion completely ignores the existence of desktop applications. If you used Winforms or WPF or DirectX, etc. then y
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by Asbostos 11y ago
If MSFT centric people think open source is a waste of time that helps their competitors, and open source contributors are wasting their time helping their competitors, then doesn't that mean the MSFT centric people are perfectly righ
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Or better yet, UTC or GMT since probably more people in the world know their offset relative to that, than EST.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That can just buy you time to move inland. We'll always have places to go to, just won't want to move too fast.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That's the job of property speculators. Curiously, the prices they pay seems to indicate that they don't expect it to happen and are putting their money where their mouth is - unlike scientists and reporters who have nothing to lo

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