Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
Sadly J must have not been invented yet since G suffered the same fate of overloading that its predecessor C did :(
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by Asbostos 11y ago
A similar effect can already be done by entirely conventional means. http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/01/11/gabions-product-area-g... Gabion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabion
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Is that really awesome, or is is bad news for say engineering or physics which could be losing those same women and are traditionally even more male dominated than computer science is? If those subjects are losing as many women, then this i
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yea, you're probably right about moderate levels of sport. On a very direct level, faster blood circulation from exercise improves brain function. There's probably also some motivation/self-esteem feelings it helps with as we
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It's unfortunate that video games need research to make them seem worthwhile, but sports are widely accepted as being good things for kids to do. Even though I'd bet there's a negative correlation between time spent playing s
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Are you saying lack of information is the problem? They don't understand the risks so they're making a poor decision to work there? Since we can't educate them, the next best thing is to force their factories to be shut down
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That implies the whole concept of developing nations is bad and we should try to prevent it. All of them have worker exploitation to some extent. Don't forget even exploited workers still choose where to work. They're not slaves.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Without an American-centric worldview, is there anything wrong with that moving of manufacturing jobs? It seems to be better for overall good in the world. It also serves American consumers who may get products cheaper. If we allow somebody
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Weren't there also thousands of tariffs removed? The economic advantages of that might outweigh any loses from tighter copyright, and I suspect was the carrot the US used to get all the copyright concessions. Everyone wants to export t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Hilariously, by ignoring such subsidies, they're effectively "discovering" something every street cleaner in some countries already knows - you get paid for collecting plastic bottles and you don't get paid for leaving t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
If these things do happen (are they really any reliable predictions?), perhaps they're compensated for by the fact that we can grow enough food to feed the planet thanks to fertilizers and fossil fuel powered transportation. The situat
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by Asbostos 11y ago
No mention of how the new work will be licensed. If it's not going into the public domain then that'll automatically make it worth less than the original.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
From the article, the new translations should be 'putting the “same kind of pressure on the language”—rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, rhetoric—“as Shakespeare put on his.”' Obviously somebody else's existing translation isn't t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Oh yes. I misread it. Doesn't change the point though that traditional medicine is about as good as homeopathy or praying.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Except we have no idea that traditional medicines were developed by effective trial and error. It's more likely that some mystic just declared some arbitrary potion to be medicine for some arbitrary disease and the placebo effect, appe
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Helping people with problems is absolutely the best thing to do. When people offend us, we tend to write them off as an "asshole" or general bad person. But they're still a person with the same motivations as everyone else. I
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The negative effects of mass shootings are largely because people don't understand the risks. So I think they'd go away if we realized they didn't matter. You're right though that smoking shouldn't be top. Everbody
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The side with the real power - the voters. You can blame businesses or activists or interest groups or governments or whatever but America still has a democracy and American people actually do choose the outcomes they get. You personally mi
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How on earth is every country going to pass all these laws? Won't it end up broken to bits or with some countries quitting?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I don't think meeting physically is a problem if you only do it once, or periodically during your life. The problem happens when every organization that wants to be sure you're really you requires you do go through the same ordeal
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How about prisoners, foriengers and pedophiles? CEOs should lose their job for thinking those people are worth less too?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I'm sure most developed countries do that by fining businesses for false advertising, which would incentivise the businesses to pass the punishment on to the staff who did it. Lies aren't really the problem though, fooling us wit
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by Asbostos 11y ago
But what's the alternative? In many cases nobody really knows what's in our best interests. So with any protection from "phishermen", you'd suffer from other inefficiencies or harm caused by good opportunities being
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by Asbostos 11y ago
All those factors can be addressed with a small hub motor and battery which together is much cheaper than the high-efficiency parts. If you set the power level right, you could even tune it to give the same reduction in effort for the rider
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Let's say a mass-extinction causing space object hits Earth every 100 million years ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event ) . That gives us a 1e-8 chance of all 7e9 people being wiped out in one year. Tha
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yep. If you use a bike for exercise, then you want it to be hard work. If you use it for moving around, then add a motor and battery. Lightweight frames are only for artificial competitions. Then what are you competing at? Who can afford th
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by Asbostos 11y ago
China actually has export controls to protect the rest of the world from its bad products. Like you say, it must have a Chinese brand otherwise it's either a fake or illegally obtained (out the back door of the factory).
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yes. For such a high priced item, this should be easily economical. Some medicines already do this. It seems kind of obvious.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Or rather, if we work out a way for users to spend their money on content instead of the ad traffic, we can ditch the ad-funding model. This shows that viewer-pays web content is economically feasible, we just need some technology to get th
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yes. Somehow having a consistent look and feel is considered to be good for native apps but bad for websites. On Windows you have to make sure your controls look and behave the same as every other app or people will get lost and think it&#x

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