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by GW150914 8y ago
Environmental technology will be harder than we thought at first, then we'll get the hang of it. Some people will die along the way. Then it will improve exponentially, as economic impetus comes into play. Unless you know a lot tha
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by GW150914 8y ago
People as a group are selfish and short sighted, prone to maximizing personal gain. Individuals can be self sacrificing and possess a long view, but there will be a thousand others willing to work the system to death in their place. More sp
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by GW150914 8y ago
Heinlein’s Razor! Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
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by GW150914 8y ago
From Wikipedia The process was very controversial at the time, and still is, and its success is hotly debated – with the claimed benefits including a reduced cost to the taxpayer, lower fares, improved customer service, and more investment
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by GW150914 8y ago
For a vision of how that plays out, see: United Kingdom. It doesn’t end well, not well at all.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Except the gp was specifically talking about strangers, and your link points out that this Russian phrase is overfamiliar for strangers. That is the whole point! From the gp (I usually don't care how some stranger feels, why should I?
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by GW150914 8y ago
Does it delete shadow profiles as well or just information gleaned from the account itself?
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by GW150914 8y ago
This kind of greeting is, however, not appropriate to complete strangers and might be considered an inappropriate familiarity. From the top answer in your link. I’m with the gp, it’s grotesque when everyone I come across in America in a s
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by GW150914 8y ago
People a few hours away can have different cultures and languages, but you think people literally months away from each other will somehow be more united? Why? How much in common will a third gen asteroid miner who can die if his environm
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s rough... I think I’d actually prefer kibble!
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by GW150914 8y ago
Teslas are exceedingly rare everywhere but the wealthiest cities. ...recent trip to Paris. Yeah... a notably wealthy city.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Missing a launch in rocketry is a normal and expected part of life in the industry, and no matter who is launching it happens. Missing targets for producing a car isn’t. This is what people mean when they say “comparing apples and oranges.”
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by GW150914 8y ago
Do they work for kibble?
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by GW150914 8y ago
A real solution would be to employ competent humans rather than build and rely on incompetent algorithms.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Its about spheres of influence. If I can effectively project my will upon the (non-nuclearized) world more effectively than anyone else, my power increases substantially. Its why Russia is considered only a regional power, despite having a
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by GW150914 8y ago
A lack of insight, denial of the very fact that they are ill is a prominent feature in a number of mental disorders, most notably schizophrenia. I think that what you’re saying about people getting together online to share delusions is a fa
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by GW150914 8y ago
They’re at war with Russia because they gave up their nuclear weapons. No one is invading a nuclear power, which I think is the point the post you’re responding to was making.
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by GW150914 8y ago
They know, they don’t care. It was hard enough to convince people, especially kids, that smoking was bad for you and that was with something that made you hack up yellow slugs, and stank. I would guess that convincing people that vaping nic
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s as a % of GDP, and says more about the GDP than the military spending. The US is number 1 in total military spending many times over any other country in absolute terms.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Guns and bombs are cheap. The Zumwalt, F-35, B-2, and more are not cheap. I would point out that “smart” bombs and cruise missiles are not cheap, and the cost really starts to add up. Nuclear weapons research, production, and maintenance is
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Hardware reverse engineering. A tale from the workbench(pentestpartners.com)
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by GW150914 8y ago
It occurs to me that these rants of Linus’ would get him banned on this site. It also occurs to me that it only works because people give him a wide bearth, because otherwise it’s just people “screaming” at each other, the very thing that t
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by GW150914 8y ago
From all available evidence there is no need to add the qualifier “by contrast” to that statement. The problem is that it seems about half of the American electorate support the Koch’s and others like them for ideological reasons. As a non-
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by GW150914 8y ago
Sorry for the late reply! https://www.sciencenews.org http://www.sciencemag.org https://www.nature.com https://www.eurekalert.org https://physicsworld.com
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by GW150914 8y ago
Well respected? It takes in science (sometimes) and futurist hype (mostly) and belches out something resembling pop science. There are quite a few decent sites that turn papers and headlines into brief articles, but Physorg is not one of
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by GW150914 8y ago
It probably helped that her mother was a congressional staffer and her father was a USAID exec.
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Why New York beats Silicon Valley as a destination for some startup founders(theverge.com)
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Elon Musk Should Know Better(theatlantic.com)
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by GW150914 8y ago
What's wrong with them having preference for people of a similar race? What's wrong for looking at the source countries of many of these immigrants and saying no thanks? No one's in a hurry to make sure lots of whites have p
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by GW150914 8y ago
You can absorb light and emit new photons, but the only way to bend their trajectory is bending spacetime with gravity. Needless to say, the EMDrive doesn’t contain a black hole.

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