ColanR

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by ColanR 7y ago
> clearly he is making very calculated moves A very good person can also be someone who makes calculated moves. The two characteristics are not mutually exclusive.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Unfortunately, this is more a generalized problem of human disbelief in the unlikely than anything specific to science. We can't really say, 'scientists now have to be more receptive to weird ideas'.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I have no idea what that means, but I'm curious to know. Can you point to anything I could read?
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by ColanR 7y ago
It is enumerable, but I think what you may have missed is that negative numbers are included. i.e., > 42 = (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
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by ColanR 7y ago
> audiobooks aren't annoying, but they're below my baud if you will. Net result: boredom/falling asleep to whatever it is and the need to actively make an effort to listen. Some things which require active listener partic
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Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker and Active DPI Circumvention Utility(github.com)
3 points by ColanR 7y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 7y ago
> not that they made no sense (they can't help that) Try being a little less rude to the other folks on this thread.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Monsanto is a good example. Paid internet shills: https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/monsanto-paid-internet-trolls... . Influenced research about its Roundup products: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01
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by ColanR 7y ago
I recall that this is exactly what Monsanto was caught doing about a year ago, to cover up the dangerous effects of the chemicals they used (iirc). Paid shills on the internet who had facts at the ready to disprove Monsanto's bad acti
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by ColanR 7y ago
I don't have any rose colored glasses. I read the section, found it tough to parse, stated what I understood, and asked for input. You have no reason to get rude.
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by ColanR 7y ago
For actual historical temperature data, see here. [1] It looks like a general range of 5-9 C is the norm, with 12, 15, and 30 C (53, 59, 86 F) spikes over the last 2 months of data. For that kind of failure rate, I wouldn't depend on
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by ColanR 7y ago
> I do hope people eventually come to the conclusion that everyone says regrettable things on occasion so they can stop digging through endless archives of comments and posts looking for dirt. I feel this is a huge component of why peopl
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by ColanR 7y ago
It looks like the criticism boils down to, 'its really hard to test, so let's look at other theories for now'. Anything I missed?
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by ColanR 7y ago
That was after a while. From my recollection, the locked down blackberry was a compromise after he insisted on his prior insecure blackberry.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Relevant quote: > Under the First Amendment, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) cannot prohibit rideshare operators from installing tablets to display truthful commercial advertisements. Commercial speech is protected
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by ColanR 7y ago
That was the precise idea - and in an age when riding from the states to DC could take a month or more, the mechanism for that tally was electors who physically travelled to DC, and were sworn to vote as they were directed by the populace.
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Largest Chip Ever Holds 1.2T Transistors(hackaday.com)
2 points by ColanR 7y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Organising people is approximately what makes a person rich. Which means, if we are to remove wealth inequality, we have to disincentivise everyone from organizing other people.
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Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)(link.springer.com)
110 points by ColanR 7y ago|55 comments
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Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli (2017)(crocs.fi.muni.cz)
11 points by ColanR 7y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 7y ago
Parent addressed your comment in his first sentence. > I'd prefer XML because of the stability of the tools available for it.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Unfortunately, that experiment could just as well have been testing people's ability to smell the difference.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> driving appears to give you more freedoms only because you live in a city I don't live in a city, just like half the population of the US. You assumed that, and now the rest of what you wrote is irrelevant.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> construct it around a car I don't, actually - it's that a car is far more useful than a bike. I drive 25 minutes to work; I haul (5 bike-ride-loads of) groceries several miles to my house; I visit friends anywhere from 1-5 h
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by ColanR 7y ago
It's been entertaining to read the discussions (below) about how to make this practical. So far, it looks like the only way to make this work is to a) live in a city, or rebuild your suburbia into a city, and b) construct your entire
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Something has changed It's like everyone is looking for approval, and in more public settings.
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by ColanR 7y ago
This seems like a symptom of the rules involved; when courts enable endless litigation, whoever can afford it comes out on top. If, on the other hand, legal machinations rewarded concise litigation (and public defenders were far more easily
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by ColanR 7y ago
How does microgravity help in nanofabrication?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Here's a link to the site: https://www.red-lang.org/
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by ColanR 7y ago
Doesn't mean they are any less entitled to the right of free speech. > They want to kill people, deprive them of rights, shout down everyone who disagrees with them, and justify all of this with a tissue of lies and conspiracy theor

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