Brockenstein

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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well the moon has had artificial satellites in the past. I imagine it might not be terribly common, but not impossible either. >The almost nonexistent cases (at least in our Solar System) shows how rare it is. It might not exist in our s
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>but the idea that learning facts can be detrimental to someone's ability is interesting. It's interesting. I would say the issue with this idea is, is you can't predict how learning random information and combining that i
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
It seems like I did this thing and it worked, it will work for you too. When the reality is if the guy was to try this again 19 more times with new startups, chances are he'd have 18-19 more failures under his belt..
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
When it makes headline news... typically.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
The banana dying is my favorite trope. It's true, but it's been dying for a long time and we've known it's been in trouble for a long time. What with all plants being clones, no genetic diversity and having to jump from
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I think her point was a lot of things could kill you but are rather trivial to deal with now with medical care. Not that every sort of infection or illness is a death sentence without modern medicine. >I am a bit bothered by such stateme
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I really thought this was going to be a case of someone who spent years getting raises up to $15 an hour was having a fit because now everyone makes as much. OK, so the complaint is a little more legitimate than that. But whenever you overh
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Dying of old age was a norm. There were plenty of old people way back when. It's just that lots of people dying young (well across all age groups) was the norm too.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I think he's trying to dog socialism by attaching it to the wealth requirements for qualifying for medicare/medicaid. IE you can't have hundreds of thousands of dollars in asestes and property and qualify. I don't percei
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
It might be along the lines that you have to have a minimum of assets to and money to qualify for some of those things. You know to prevent middle class and wealthy people from abusing the system designed for people who can't afford ca
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Lots of Americans agree with you. The problem is those that don't are: 1. Willing to gamble they'll never get sick 2. Don't want "their" tax dollars paying for other people's medical bills, other peoples anythi
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan high IQ, but still might be a total crank and crackpot.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>If someone at IBM decided that there should be 640Kb of available RAM for programs it's believable that Bill might have simply been agreeing with them. Yeah, "640k should be enough for anybody (specifically in the context of a
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>People who don't understand what assault rifles are, Or don't care for pedants who try arguing that an AR-15 isn't an assault rifle... because the issue isn't about terminology. Although trying argue about that does
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>The article also cites the example of vaccine denialism which is much more pervasive on the political left Is it? Or is that how you perceive it? Because vaccine denialism as far as I've seen doesn't abide by political alignme
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I agree. It might be better to say, "People don't change their minds when we want them too. But people do change their minds when they come to their own realizations about the information they have. And sometimes that sucks becaus
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Before this sort of technology keeping in contact with friends wasn't trivial. Both parties had to want to keep it up. And if they didn't, or you didn't, you just lost contact with a lot of people as a normal matter of course
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Pretty much no one is actually sorry. They're just sorry the underestimated the negative response.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Hiring and training employees is expensive. Providing long term care and disabilities for disabled employees even more so though. And I imagine some jobs, twenty years experience doesn't make you twenty times more valuable than some FN
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>You don't want to kill your workers. If you do, soon there will be no workers to mine your coal, or man your rigs or whatever you need them for. Well that's clearly not the case. Coal mining has been happening for centuries an
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well that's an extreme too far. Your life is not predetermined at birth. But our options from moment to moment might be limited by our biology. Some of them are weighted by the circumstances of our births. Every day something that we m
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>I think that deep down, mental illness is not really accepted as something real. We tend to believe in free will and how people are responsible for their own actions, and we tend to apply this to the mentally ill too, and this is exactl
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well I imagine step one will be to keep raising the penalties for speeding on the remaining manual drivers. After all it will be like 20 years before autonomous cars are a significant minority. Some people will refuse to buy them for years.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>He said "God is so powerful that he can do anything including placing all that evidence there to test our faith". So his God is a deceiver. It's impossible to know the truth about anything in that universe. Because you do
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Lots of things evolved multiple times independently. And while we make a big deal about multi-cellular life, there's still nothing so special about it that that is the one thing that could only have happened once...
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
This is a good question and there's lots of possible answers. 1. Multiple forms of life did arise at about the same time, but in the end there was one. 2. Multiple forms of life did arise and ended up cross breeding or doing lateral ge
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>the Church sent the message to everyone watching in return: don't challenge our authority, and we'll leave you alone. Galileo walking back his words and being under house arrest for the rest of his life would certainly send a
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>Is it possible that Ramanujan would not have been so successful had he followed the standard learning path? Sure, it's possible. But there's always a problem when you teach yourself something, no matter how good at it you are,
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
It is a crazy contradiction. And as long as there's someone to blame for the lack of results it's an excuse to keep persisting. The low number of U.S. causalities keep outrage to a minimum. Lots of people probably don't even

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