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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s a preliminary plan to build something... so basically a fantasy at this point. It’s also an old fantasy, he’s been saying this for at least two years.[1] Mind you... Musk said in May 2016 that he expected Tesla would produce 500,000 v
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by GW150914 8y ago
They don’t need to hack the network, just turn some people or beat them with rubber hoses.
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s a cool idea, and admittedly would be a sort of loophole, but it might just mean that such a drive would require an arbitrarily high amount to work. Maybe Stephen Hawking was right and as soon as you build a machine capable of time trav
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by GW150914 8y ago
I don’t think there is a true ELI5 answer, at least, I can’t think of one. The basic concept involves general relativity, and while there are ways to simplify it (i.e. no math) it’s still complicated. This does an ok job: https:/&#x2F
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by GW150914 8y ago
It doesn’t matter, it still implies time travel. Use the wormhole acceleration-return thought experiment as an example. If you can leave point A and arrive at point B before light could, it doesn’t matter if you took a shortcut.
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by GW150914 8y ago
There seems to be little recognition of the fact that FTL implies time travel, and just how unlikely that really is. I expect major advances in physics in the far future, but I’m not sure that bypassing causality and FTL will ever be one of
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by GW150914 8y ago
Powerful drugs and paying by the hour seems like they have to be included in the necessary Venn diagram.
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by GW150914 8y ago
“The goal is algorithmic governance,” he added. Given that the tech isn’t there, maybe the idea is just to say “the algorithm did it” on a national scale. The technology might not be worth much at doing more than providing much wanted pre
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by GW150914 8y ago
I could be totally wrong, but I’m guessing that they’re coming from a “stewing in a brew of other people’s excreta and skin flakes, dirt and sebum,” rather than a modesty angle.
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s a matter of insufficient drugs being used, not a feature of the drugs themselves.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Patients under general anesthesia don’t, sedation is less certain. For obvious reasons, there’s no corpus or research into the issue, so it’s left to supposition. Remember that “sedation” and “unconscious” are not necessarily the same.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Does Kratom have other undesirable side effects? How is it on the liver? If the population present opiate users switched to Kratom, what would we see?
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by GW150914 8y ago
Just to add, when Lister introduced antiseptic methods he was met with strong resistance from those same doctors who were equal parts annoyed with the messenger, and the message. It’s a hard thing to realize that you’d be killing thousands
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by GW150914 8y ago
They can take my use of ad and script blocking as implicit rejection of the terms of their contract, and they’re free to deny me service. If they don’t, I’m not obliged to do it for them.
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Why the U.S. Navy Once Had a Concrete Ice Cream Barge(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by GW150914 8y ago|0 comments
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by GW150914 8y ago
This isn’t an exercise in rescuing children or building a submersible for Musk, it’s an exercise in PR. The best that can be said is at least he’s not doing any harm. Designing, building, and deploying a sub for such a challenging environme
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by GW150914 8y ago
Of course that society existed only to break up and emigrate, it was hell on Earth, it requires an aircraft carrier as the center, and it was planned and executed by a mad billionaire with ambitions of world domination.
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by GW150914 8y ago
The article talks about the plan to rely heavily on aquaculture and greenhouses for food. Presumably if you’re not into that, you’re not the ideal resident.
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by GW150914 8y ago
How about bolting it to a small drone and flying around until you find an open WiFi you can use? Then fly it into the nearest body of water.
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s also a not giving a shit problem in many cases. Everyone starving isn’t in a war zone or subject to epic corruption and seizure of goods. Some people starve and go malnourished in the US and other wealthy countries for lack of anyone r
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by GW150914 8y ago
The truth is that the only way to really appreciate the sound of a nuclear detonation is to be blown away by it. Literally. When you see tanks being flipped over, and bridges being collapsed, that’s the “sound” in the form of a mach stem tr
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The Electric Flight of Spiders(theatlantic.com)
206 points by GW150914 8y ago|32 comments
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by GW150914 8y ago
I switched to a vertical mouse and my wrist pain went away. A good keyboard is also a must. I don’t think there is one “right” way though, it’s all very much a personal choice.
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by GW150914 8y ago
”not enough data for meaningful answer" is a valid answer. It is, but in some circumstances it can then call intelligence, sincerity, or familiarity with the subject into question. If you say that data isn’t present for a meaningful
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by GW150914 8y ago
Jesus... some people will buy into just about anything. If human beings could live that way, they wouldn’t need to live that way.
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by GW150914 8y ago
How on Earth can you be both Communist and Anarchist?
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by GW150914 8y ago
That really is exciting, and I agree with your assessment of their ability to deliver. Maybe we’ll really see some developing industry in space in the next few decades... amazing. Even if it’s just vacuum industry, welding and such, it coul
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by GW150914 8y ago
No, that’s how we all die from a disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Does SpaceX currently operate anything that can make a round trip to the moon and back? LEO for sure, but Luna? They’ve definitely done an impressive job of bringing the price per kilo launched into LEO down, but that may not translate to a
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by GW150914 8y ago
Good idea, we can send them on the B Ark.

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