FullMtlAlcoholc

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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
>Cheap energy should always be a priority. Environmentalists agree with this statement. As an energy source, coal has a relatively low price sans regulations. However, the true cost is not captured by markets. Burning coal causes smog, s
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>Either you take the position adults can make up their own minds or you dismantle democracy and media as voters are easily influenced and cannot be trusted. Reducing the solution set to a binary is emblematic of the problems of the US po
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>You're implicitly claiming that crows have second order desires (what you "want to want", as opposed to first order desires, "what you want"). I would think it's prudent to assume so unless incontrovertible
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Presuming the above is true, crashes serve to depreciate the prices assets. Those that cannot ride out the crash sell for pennies on the dollar. In the city of Detroit, whole swaths of neighborhoods could be purchased for the price of a 2 b
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There has definitely been a wave of backlash against him. The pro union crowd and those who hope his car company fails
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That can certainly have an effect. At the end of the day, a lot of people in LA prefer serene private transport in an environment under their control that runs on their own schedule over public transport. I commuted via bike and public tran
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
I never understood that about BART. Why were its hours never extended? It seems like that'd be a sure thing to pass if it makes even a small impact on driving fatalities. I doubt that the taxi union had sway over this?
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
More like a hastily made, watered down well drink.
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
>You can go out and drink and never be legally drunk, much less not drive drunk. That there is a legal threshold (In California anyway) for being drunk while driving is a common misconception. When you get a DUI, two charges are filed ag
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Univerisities should remain centers of education and the pursuit of knowledge. Training people for jobs is the responsibility of vocational schools and corporate training .
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Saving the life of someone who killed your friends is still noble. Roy wasn't some Replicant revolutionary. He was just trying to save his own skin... and the lives of his friends
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>I have often wondered what gives these people (the visionaries with the means, think Musk) the arrogance to impose their vision on humanity. Nothing gives anyone the inherent right to impose their will on others. Governments only have a
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Situations like these make me really question democracies. If the voting public is so poorly educated that they don't even question the source, that doesnt bode well for the complex problems facing our society. The whole "fake new
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
I want to live longer because I want to see amazing tech. I imagine rhis is one of the primary reasons that people want a longer lifespan. Beyond that, I want to live long enough to go on interplanetary and/or interstellar voyages. M
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
I don't understand this mindset. There are millions of python developers using this language in for everything from from small shell scripts, web scrapers, to apps and. machine learning models. Yet there is a monolithic additude towar
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
That's a huge difference. In communities there's validation of your view
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Those threads and /r/TheRedPill are disturbing. They feel insulted that women are choosing other partners over them, as if a stable income is all that is necessary to be entitled to the girl of your choice. When their socially ine
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
However it originates, it will need a body to experience sensations firsthand, not pre-recorded or simulated data. Perhaps connected IoT devices will be sufficient. Also, AGI will not be invented. It will arise as an emergent phenomena, and
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
We're already doing this. In Iceland, 85% of prospective parents who receive prenatal testing and discover that their children will have Down's Syndrome choose to terminate the pregnancy. Tay Sachs disease, a condition that afflic
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Hiding in plain sight and steganography along with strong encryption are the only tools to retain privacy.
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
That line is not so clear. For example, it is not that uncommon for medical students to take beta blockers for increased performance during lab practicals and patient procedures, or surgeons. There is a murky line between jittery nerves and
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
When something is referred to as fractal, does it always imply a degree of self-similarity? As I understand it, Mandelbrot developed fractal geometry as a tool to examine the "roughness" of reality as opposed to the smoothness of
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
To add to your point, I gleaned this from the Economist: " Consumers tend to respond much more strongly to “free” offers than to prices that are only fractionally higher than zero. When Amazon first offered free shipping in European co
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And the hurricanes are fueled by the amount of available water, which is increasing
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Los Angeles happens to be the most energy efficient in the country and residents are quite environmentally aware
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Is this a joke or a modern incarnation of phrenology.? As society moves forward, we must not accept that just because a tool is based on AI that it is not flawless or biased. Judging someone's competency based upon their face and its e
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The issue is the bandwidth on uploads at the speed of speech or thumbs and fingers and the extra encoding steps needed to tak thoughts and encode them into speech or other muscle movements.
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This is exactly what is meant by the term library at a decent research university.
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The point I was making is that the cost of an education is uncoupled (at elite universities) from the ability to afford it. It may be hopelessly optimistic, but I think that eventually, tuition will and should be eliminated for everyone..
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by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
That data didn't just magically migrate to a hard drive. Librarians are often leading and coordinating the digitization of archives One of the biggest problems facing the biological sciences (and scientific research in general) is an e

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