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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
It’s certainly the business of anyone hiring him, if only from a PR and liability perspective. As to our business, it would be hard to argue that submitting this question didn’t go some way to making it just that. Still, I respect your stan
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
We certainly wouldn’t want to permit the trafficking of underage words! Seriously, this is an ugly, puritanical step back for a country that makes quite the show of free speech. If nothing else, censoring books should be a great big red fla
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Whisper from the First Stars Sets Off Loud Dark Matter Debate(quantamagazine.org)
5 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Nvidia further distances itself from Uber in wake of fatal self-driving crash(theverge.com)
5 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Wants to Get to Teenagers Before the Banks Do(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Make a Leader Step Down(daily.jstor.org)
1 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Very much so, yes. They’re not completely unaware of the need for PR though, so you’re unlikely to be hassled. Unlikely, but I for one wouldn’t take the chance. I realize that sentiment around this issue is massively polarized, but the real
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
I would add one point: Is there a chance you might ever be one of those things, or are friends with or related to one of them? If so, no social media.
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Opioids Kill: Here’s How an Overdose Shuts Down Your Body(sciencenews.org)
1 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Huawei’s P20 Pro is a hugely promising phone that will upset Americans(theverge.com)
18 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|19 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Yeah, but they’re not looking at ads or providing useful data for brokers.
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The First Prank Calls Were Surprisingly Morbid(atlasobscura.com)
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
You should probably talk to a lawyer, because given what’s been said in this thread alone, you’re never going to be able to argue that you didn’t knowingly facilitate. Love it or hate it, new laws make that problematic even for Google. I me
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
With this as a stated goal, The world needs a protocol and network for trade that no one company or government controls. That's OpenBazaar... going after the network as a whole doesn’t seem unreasonable. The FBI for example, probably
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Ok, let’s look at an example of illegal and immoral. What will you do when people sell child porn on your platform?
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The Las Vegas strip’s first legit esports arena just opened for business(techcrunch.com)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks(quantamagazine.org)
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Gasoline under normal conditions doesn’t explode, it burns. I’m not denying that a fire was the likely outcome in either case, but neither gasoline nor batteries detonate, they deflagrate. Gasoline in particular, despite what Hollywood woul
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
At these energies it’s less about ablation and more about thermal effects on propellant and warhead assemblies. The problem is that coating a missile in a thin layer of something designed to ablate is a lot cheaper than building a laser to
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
The terms sociopath and psychopath are tossed around a lot these days, but Cruz is the prototypical psychopath if there ever was one. He seems to have shed warning signs almost constantly, and he was clearly dangerously disturbed. Someone l
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
The developer’s boss(es) seems more useful in this case. Unless a single developer was grossly negligent, then throw them in there too, but even then their supervisors are on the hook for signing off on grossly negligent software.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Ever been to FL or AZ? The oldest people you’ve ever seen are still driving, slowly, dangerously, and happily. No one is taking their licenses with the AARP, around. Meanwhile you may be overestimating the love very old people have for auto
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
I like the old rumor? of the doctor who put a piece of paper with a code word written on it, on top of a high shelf in the OR. As the story goes, no one was ever able to report the code word. This is not unlike Houdini’s code phrase for his
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Fiber lasers are part of the solution, but blooming in air, and from target ablation is still a problem. What we really need for “ray guns” are phased array lasers and/or FEL’s. Just pumping more energy through conventional optics will
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Exactly, and this issue is highly emotive for many. The rational counter argument, that humans are generally terrible drivers, is just guaranteed to piss people off more.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
To be efficient as a power plant a reactor needs to spend most of its time operating. If you want to make nuclear material for bombs with this kind of reactor it will enter a number of startup-shutdown cycles, which would make it inefficien
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
My guess is that they don’t want to be seen asking for something they’ll publically fail to get. At this point, outside of the world of tech, people who were downright alarmed by SDV’s now have a place to hang their hat. Politicians follow
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
It’s worth pointing out that the extensive submarine fleet the US has could give it a bit more leeway in choosing their second strike than any other nation. Having said that, Americans went to two wars based on a conventional attack on New
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Be suspicious. In the V.R. game Surgeon Simulator, players use power drills, bone saws, and other tools to vivisect a humanoid alien that writhes in pain on the operating table. As in most V.R. video games, players in Kitchen and Surgeon S
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Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California(techcrunch.com)
253 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|354 comments

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