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by Dove 10y ago
It amuses me that nearly every comment in this thread advances the same theory that the article discards as inaccurate: that the artists had never seen an elephant and were working from description only. It notes that the accuracy does not
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by Dove 10y ago
> What I mean is, Christians don't even agree what the word means. They actually substantially do. There are ~2.2 billion Christians in the world. Of these, about 1.2 billion are Catholic, 0.9 billion are Protestant, and the ~0.2
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by Dove 10y ago
Yeah, I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to be terrified by that. Yeah, man, civilization and specialization. Sounds like progress to me. What's the concern? A Lucifer's Hammer style apocalypse? Failure of society at
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by Dove 10y ago
Just the same, cars can be driven almost bumper to bumper, at arbitrarily low speeds, in ten foot wide lanes. The realities of wind and minimum forward speed and prop wash dictate that aircraft will need a lot more clearance than a car doe
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by Dove 10y ago
That doesn't seem very practical to me. There is are deep emotional bonds with physical bases that begin in the womb - a baby learning his mother's voice and smell, the mysterious bonding that happens during the sacred hour after
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by Dove 10y ago
It isn't fair to compare typical use of one method tp ideal use of another. Per Wikipedia, the two methods have similar effectiveness rates under typical use, with condoms being twice as effective under ideal use. https://
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by Dove 10y ago
I had a 3D ultrasound done at this place - http://www.firstviewultrasound.com - not long ago. I guess expensive means different things to different people, but I wound up with a CD full of a few dozen images and some movies for
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by Dove 10y ago
From the linked transcript: BLUMBERG: But fortunately, as you know, plank three I think is something that people can get around - a massive tax cut. SMITH: OK. BLUMBERG: Are you ready? SMITH: Yeah. BLUMBERG: A tax cut that's an insidio
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by Dove 10y ago
Yeah, Mars. We're not impressed. It's just a muddy frozen lake, not an ocean. Total crap idea. Also, your web design sucks.
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by Dove 10y ago
No reason for me to try to pick out specific characters. I won't notice. Plus, it won't work for zero width characters, and I might miss it for really tiny ones. Give me a popup warning explaining the problem when I try to visit
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by Dove 10y ago
If Walmart engages in wage theft and is then sued for it, that sounds to me like the law works. Unless the penalties aren't enough to resolve the issue or something, that doesn't sound like an ongoing injustice - and at any rate,
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by Dove 10y ago
I think the search for a suitable commander for the robot armies is a silly one. Asking "Who will command robots?" is like asking "who will run software?" Everyone will. What will they do? Whatever their creators and
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by Dove 10y ago
I see another advantage: it may be safe to do things with lab-grown meat that aren't safe with farm-grown. Tuna without overfishing concerns. Swordfish without the mercury. Chicken that can be served medium rare. Or ground beef for t
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by Dove 10y ago
Girl here. The comments you've gotten so far are going about this the wrong way. Arguments about price, ethics, practical tradeoffs are the dead wrong tone. Proposals should be over the top romantic; you'd never suggest skippin
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by Dove 10y ago
If you like the concept of Magic but not the pay to win element, check out Codex. http://www.sirlin.net/codex It's an RTS-inspired reaction to deep experience with Magic, by a sophisticated and competitive game desig
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by Dove 10y ago
Oh, I use it that way from time to time. But I like to say "order of bignitude" to disambiguate binary. Also occasionally useful is "order of wordnitude" for millions / billions, etc.
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by Dove 10y ago
If this is a new topic to you (I don't mean, you , SturgeonsLaw, as you are clearly familiar with it :) -- I mean the reader), you would do well to consider both sides. I personally find the arguments that bike helmets cause more har
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by Dove 10y ago
I am not too surprised. I think these efforts are like trying to get computers to write essays by following established rules for writing style. They can follow those rules well enough, and so they don't sound like complete amateurs
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The Itch (2008)(newyorker.com)
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by Dove 10y ago
This is a more general problem. Warning labels on toothpaste and such generally include the phrase "SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH MAY RESULT" if they really mean something's dangerous. Medications don't seem to do the same t
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by Dove 10y ago
You can fix that. If you go to Amazon -> Your Account -> Your Recommendations -> Improve My Recommendations, you can tell it to ignore certain purchases. I have to do that surprisingly frequently, myself. I buy things buy as gifts
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by Dove 10y ago
In a system where your vote can be verified, you can be coerced into voting a certain way.
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by Dove 10y ago
You can't be made a slave without your permission. You can be made a fugitive, a prisoner, or dead... but you can't be made a slave.
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by Dove 10y ago
It means you were able to fake the algorithm out. Consider a very simple algorithm that guesses based on your previous two characters: df d dd d fd f ff f This is presumably much simpler than what the page is doing, but wi
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by Dove 10y ago
There was an article a couple days ago about why everyone believes Columbus proved the world was round[1], even though that isn't true[2]: The real myth of the medieval flat earth begins first in the eighteenth and nineteent
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by Dove 10y ago
So, mathematics has this concept of an expression being "well-defined". It means you can always tell if something meets the definition, exactly, in every case. Almost no definitions in the real world are well-defined. Heaps are
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by Dove 10y ago
There is a tradeoff, though. A doctor once explained to me that she did 24 hour shifts to minimize the mistakes that can occur when handing a complicated case off to someone else.
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by Dove 10y ago
there is no expert or science that can fully understand the whole ecosystem and how it works, mosquitos and many insects are at the base of the food chain, the impact will probably be a domino effect that will make many other species extin
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by Dove 10y ago
I am astonished by the comments in this thread. Many people seem to assume that the chance of disaster as a result of wiping out mosquitoes is high - a sentiment I can only assume arises from having watched a lot of movies with the Arrogan
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by Dove 11y ago
When I look at the emoji they show for the "grinning face with smiling eyes", three of them strike me as being nowhere close to that description. But I am especially intrigued that the three of them all fail in the same way: the m

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