GCU-Empiricist

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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Gosh, it must be so awful for the market for transcriptional sex to spill over to those innocent boards, with the foul unnatural acts that everyone should be prevented. . . oh wait everyone who isn't a test tube baby is a product of a
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
So craigslist was/is a purpose-driven websites related to prostitution? The had to take down their entire dating section, which was both full of sex-workers and honest personals, because some of them might be trafficking victims. Thi
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Don't they still launch in international waters? EDIT/ Thank you for the correction, that's just landing. /EDIT Headquartered yes, but the barge ~~launches~~ landings keep making me think long term SPaceX will be looki
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
This will be interesting. Especially if you look at the territory laws in the UN Space treaty. I look forward to when we see our first off earth based corporation, and won't be surprised if it is a SpaceX child entity.
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Try looking at any of the boards. The city listing of marketplaces is up but that is as far as it goes.
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
>Craigslist seems to have cleaned itself up well. Removing everything is cleaning up well? By the same analogy you should remove your toilet, permanently, from your house to flush it.
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
How is coming for the webpage that acts as a marketplace coming for the pimps?
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Craigslist declined to be the testcase, it will be interesting to see how this goes with lawmakers specifically targeting the site. Is tinder or other e-dating forums next?
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Looks like more SESTA, but we won't know for sure until the DOJ press release at 6PM.
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Twtter: Backpage.com has been seized(twitter.com)
8 points by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago|2 comments
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
“If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another — but which one? Differences are crucial.” R.A. Heinlein
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
That might e taken as a violation of UN Space treaty. Depends on how weapons of mass destruction is defined in the treaty.
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
I wouldn't put half of humanity anywhere right now. You just need enough to keep a population (with immigration) after they face a horrific mortality rate as they figure out how to lower the risk; hopefully highly trained and well equ
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Any access-key/backdoor is either going to be very distributed so it can be used, or it's going to be under a SAP (special access program or similar alphabet soup); either way it will be compromised either for profit, or by consci
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Glue-gun on the seams and a few desiccant packets inside?
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Well in an argument between "everyone should die by 150 years" and "lets have the happy problem of people not dying of old age" I'm in the latter camp. Similarly having all of your species susceptible to any out of
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
You might enjoy reading age of Em
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Can you imagine a better incentive for off-planet migration and terra-forming?
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
This will probably end up pushing us to Lithium fusion pretty fast, the fuel is a lot more common and the temperature requirement is only a little hotter. That said nuclear proliferation from tritium is a lot less of a risk than from uraniu
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
>After a while, reactor has to be rebuilt from totally new materials. The closest parallel we have is nuclear reactors. Navy Nuclear submarines are probably the most prevalent safe small reactors (US submarine reactors not K19) and they
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
A lot of the discussion in previous threads has shown that some of the major players EG craigslist know there are specific politicians who have taking them down as a feather for their cap that has been tried for, so they are conceding the l
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Repeal seams like a good scenario to me. When your negative side effects are grossly larger than your well intentioned desired effect, repeal is the reasonable action. We just need politicians willing to eat crow, or someone to push a ro
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Depending on the settings yes you can, though I'm not sure if linking it to specific profiles can only be done at Google, but I've been able to see how many people are reading a shared gdocument before.
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Status signaling which is part of how Twitter acquires it's resource base (users).
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
We know how to contain strong neutron flux. We know how to contain short to medium lived activated materials, we know to avoid cobalt is hardened materials, we don't have to deal with water based corrosion in a fusion containment, thou
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Destroy, no that's a lot cheaper. Remain capable of fighting two major wars at any given time, that's more expensive I think they reduced the policy level capability requirement to one major war and something smaller within the la
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
So are we at the point where we believe the presentation of the message, vice the content of the message decides american politics? It seems like maybe we should try to understand why the message was so effective?
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
It'll take a lot of doing, they have the jobs and have built up a power dynamic that the employer has the power it's a bad Nash equilibrium.
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
The sad thing is they seem to be oblivious to the fact that they are potentially the dominant media being attacked by the legacy media because their idealism worked and they are gaining market-share, but they keep walking away from what mad
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by GCU-Empiricist 9y ago
Bad Nash Equilibria. I'm not always a big Yudkowski fan but his recent book/pamplet Inadequate Equilibria explains it pretty well: https://equilibriabook.com/

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