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by GW150914 8y ago
”Never leave home without my flip-phone and kindle" I’m that way, as are more than a few people I know if you freely substitute “book” or some other e-reader for Kindle.
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by GW150914 8y ago
That narrative is unacceptable to power structures that rule through fear. If people really internalized the fact that (for one example) a person in the UK is more likely to die from swallowing a bee than through terrorism, many totalitaria
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by GW150914 8y ago
As it points out in the article, for safety and astrodynamic reasons a loop would be situaties over an ocean, and most failure modes would be limited in scope.
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by GW150914 8y ago
For contrast, a cop makes 2-3 times that much per hour for directing traffic.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Remember when The Daily Express said that 150 new EU laws were “Ruining Britain,” and these were their top 8 of those laws? https://mobile.twitter.com/StuartWilksHeeg/status/4814529276... Tag line of TDE article*
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by GW150914 8y ago
Starch and fat, starch and fat, starch and fat, sugar and carbonation, starch and fat... Jesus. Cut out a lot of the fat, add some lean protein and a lot of soluble and insoluble fiber and he might feel better. I’m not shocked though, whe
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Swarming Bacteria Create an ‘Impossible’ Superfluid(quantamagazine.org)
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by GW150914 8y ago
Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others hand out megaphones with international reach for free, to anyone, and they accept no responsibility for what people do with their megaphones. Mumbling into your can of lager as you wander down the street
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by GW150914 8y ago
Nah, the backlash we're seeing against mainstream media these days are, I believe, in a large part driven by those reporters that failed to do their due diligence when it came to Iraq. Except that the “MSM is lying” crowd still overw
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s a question which may or may not be meaningful in the first place. In the classic formulation it’s a meaningless question, because time and space expanded from a singularity in the BB event, so there is no “before” just as there is no
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s similar only if you misunderstand the questions physics seeks to answer. “If we rewind time according to present observations and theories, what do we see?” The answer is a Big Bang event, but that is just the answer to the question po
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by GW150914 8y ago
Given that tontines are illegal in the US and much of the world, this seems risky even if you’re able to ignore any moral dimension.
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by GW150914 8y ago
That's a very vague statement which doesn't explain why it's a phenomenon frequently occurring with republican accounts. Well if we put aside conspiracies and the like, then the answer is because there is a correlation betw
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by GW150914 8y ago
None of that sounds like it fits a reasonable definition of “it’s a scam,” so much as it just doesn’t fit with your various ideological stances.
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by GW150914 8y ago
there is no evidence of this profile being a person. Sure there is, it’s in TFA and it was doxxed elsewhere. You’re welcome to believe otherwise of course, especially if that makes you feel better, but understand the difference between “n
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s good news that because you don’t like what this guy has to say, Musk threatened him through his employer to shut him up? Jesus.
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by GW150914 8y ago
How is it irrelevant that the day after the apocalypse, when money is meaningless and law and order are gone, all of that preparation is just free for the taking by someone stronger? What does a CEO have to offer in that scenario? Leadershi
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by GW150914 8y ago
A giant container ship with food is just pirate bait. A walled off region full of food is raider bait. Hoarding resources in the face of desperate people in the absence of law and order is suicide, but these guys can’t conceive of a future
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by GW150914 8y ago
The funny thing is really that they’ll hoard resources and power, but all of their power will mean nothing. A warlord isn’t some clever, greedy dick, it’s the guy who murders that dick and takes over his hoard. If you really want to prepare
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by GW150914 8y ago
No other state can ask for a waiver under the existing exemption. Nothing was stopping other states from seeking similar leeway in the bill, only California tried. Also per the article, the reason for that was the unique geography and circu
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by GW150914 8y ago
Because those states haven’t sought an exemption, but there’s no reason to believe they couldn’t have gotten one. The notion that power not reserved default to states is enshrined in the American constitution.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Whoa... thanks for the article. I’m shocked, but I guess shouldn’t be surprised.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Seroquel off label... for sleep?! Seroquel is a pretty hefty neuroleptic, with all of many adverse effects implied. Does your doctor discuss the possible long term impact of its use?
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by GW150914 8y ago
My mother was prescribed it to deal with transient insomnia, and very much used as directed. For two nights she had fine sleep, and on the third day called me mid-day. She was sitting in a chair crying, and said totally calmly that she didn
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by GW150914 8y ago
Remember, not only do rockets need something to push against, you have to bring that something with you. Rockets do not need to push against anything... they expel reaction mass out one end ensuring an equal and opposite reaction. Hence t
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by GW150914 8y ago
Apple’s success is first and foremost a result of the walled garden that so many here love to hate. A vast majority of people would rather know that whatever they download from an App Store isn’t a scam or malware than almost anything else.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Most of academia is toxic. Those who don't see that haven't spent enough time in it. Or they’ve spent way too much time in. It’s like people who spend a couple of decades in a prison, they’re fully institutionalized and feel the
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by GW150914 8y ago
Not necessarily... remember Enron?
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by GW150914 8y ago
Most people don’t flee their country’s legal system, and if they do they’re quietly pursued. Even fewer loudly defy their country’s legal system, but when they do they tend to be loudly pursued as a deterrent. It doesn’t get more public and
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s a bit glib, and ignores the possibility that now it’s known those nanoparticles travel in lymph, they could be found elsewhere. In the case of something like TiO2, I’d be pretty concerned if nanoparticles where found in my lymph node

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