Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
That's a great step, but isn't it still not ideal because at 5k resolution, you could still get banding on a continuous gradient covering the screen without dithering?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Look at the biased language here - "pause" implies that it's temporary. But it hasn't finished pausing yet and since our models didn't predict the pause, we don't know when or if it'll finish. It should be
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Sea level rise alone isn't a humanity-destroying disaster. It's just a bit of an expense having to build new buildings further inland. We've done a good job of building nearly every building on earth in the past 100 years. We
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It's actually much easier to falsify the "this is a bad thing" part. All we have to do is wait and see if it really is a bad thing or not. The length of time to wait should be about 100 years since that's also the limits
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by Asbostos 11y ago
When ice sheets were recently found to be melting and breaking off faster than before, most of the media was relating it to global climate change. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too. If you don't consider this as evide
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The trouble with climate change deniers is they turn everyone else into an equally unreasonable proponent. Look at these reactions to two pieces of evidence: Antarctica is losing ice from its ice sheets - It shows global warming is happenin
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Seperatist muslims in Xinjang, anti-government rebels in Egypt or Nazi sympathisers in countryside Germany. They're all people sharing ideas that can lead them to violence. It's not reasonable to pick one of them and class it as &
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Many countries have problems with violent political extremism of different sorts. When they outlaw free speech for supporters of those ideas, we call them violators of human rights. When China locks up dissidents because they spread anti-go
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The German law says so. Perhaps they don't enforce it much but it's still the law: " Whosoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or downplays an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the kind indica
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by Asbostos 11y ago
You can't publish holocaust denial material. That means if you find a new discovery that seems to challenge the legally sanctioned story, you can be breaking the law by publishing it. I don't think that politicians should decide w
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Sure, my idea of good guys and bad guys might be wrong. And so might the idea that Nazis were bad guys and allies were good guys. This is the same concept that we choose the history we want to believe, myself included. You could even make t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
All histories of wars that are still in living memory or close are going to be grossly distorted because people want to hear stories that pander to their own emotions. As a prime example, historians are often legally (and certainly professi
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That's alright if the goal is to help the individuals, like welfare. But it's not OK if the goal is to get people to do the most extreme things, like job applicant selection looking for a "best" applicant or baseball tea
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How is a plea deal not duress? Imagine if a cop pointed a gun at you and said "I'll shoot you unless you confess". We wouldn't accept that confession but we do accept a prosecutor saying "you'll get the death p
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by Asbostos 11y ago
According to the numbers in the article, if everyone had a go in court, the waiting list would only grow and people would be spending their whole lives waiting. Since that's surely more unacceptable than what we have, it presumably wou
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It's meaningless to say cognitive scores "halve" or "double". That depends entirely on how the test results are presented, not the person or even the test. What's half a human intellect? Is that being as smart
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Ironically, his own blog includes a screen reader that appears whenever you select some text. Don't blind people already have good screen readers? I select text to remind me the place I'm up to, and get annoyed when little buttons
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It's still democracy and it still protects against extreme runaway government power. Ultimately the issue is that people want this. People are scared of terrorists. People do want the government to bend the rules to track them down. Th
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How many seconds of taxpayer money would be wasted just changing the font themselves? They might need to ask for a Word document instead of a pdf but so what? I agree this sounds petty considering how much work apparently goes into such an
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by Asbostos 11y ago
They still result in an outcome of "completely guilty" or "completely innocent". There's no "we'll give him a lighter sentence because we're only slightly convinced there's no reasonable doubt&qu
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by Asbostos 11y ago
He also lost his license and presumably his job which is probably the more serious consequence than the 10 days.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
As I understand, Americans vote for their local prosecutors or at least judges (this guy ended up as a judge). So keep in mind that the blame ultimately lies with the people of that locality who let such things happen even when they're
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Your 2nd idea is a fascinating one. The legal system has a weird binary concept of "proof" that doesn't exist anywhere else except perhaps maths. It might still need some threshold of certainty to stop harassment or gaming th
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I'd have thought a contract between the dealer and manufacturer would have solved that. Why don't other industries need laws to protect retailers from manufacturers?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I wonder if the cooling it surely provides to the ground under the reflectors would make the land retain more water and be hospitable enough for plants to eventually start growing there.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Aren't environment variables kind of a bad thing in Windows? They're global so installing an application that twiddles with them could break another application. Isn't that what we had the registry for and now AppData? Path i
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Just because there's a height difference with locks, doesn't mean some kind of singularity would develop without them. Either the height difference would disappear, or continuous currents through the canal would maintain it. In th
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It's a bit scary that this was detected when the parents used a fertility clinic and were so sure of themselves that they felt the need to investigate further. There must be other false negatives where they trusted the test results tha
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Hey that looks fantastic. It only seems to be supported by about half a dozen sites though. I wonder if there are some big costs to a site adopting it.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Ironically, it's easier for me to log into my internet banking than twitter because internet banking only has a hardware key and a simple 6 digit pin, but for Twitter, I have to go find my paper password list and type it in. It would b

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