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by GW150914 8y ago
They reduced shit on the streets and horse carcasses, and increased air pollution. It’s bit disingenuous to conflate pollution as in “horse shit” with pollution as in “TEL, CO2, NO2, etc.” In fact TEL is a great example of just how devestst
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by GW150914 8y ago
How can it be both finite in size, and have no edges? Good question, but find me the edge of an idealized balloon. Where is the edge of a sphere? As to why you won’t come back, remember that spacetime is expanding faster an faster, and yo
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by GW150914 8y ago
Just to add, being a parasite’s intermediate host is often a raw deal, because the little critter didn’t evolve to give a shit about how quickly and brutally it kills you.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Note to self, get biggest guns, most people with guns, dominate society, set up theocracy with me as godhead, assemble harem, make sure sure court jesters are committed ideologues who thought reinventing feudalism was smart. I mean, really?
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by GW150914 8y ago
As oh_sigh says their castings can be used as compost, and the roaches themselves can probably be used to make fish or animal feed. In fact their poop might too. People might hesitate at the prospect of eating roaches, or shit, but pass it
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by GW150914 8y ago
I was expecting something about EM pulse weapons or a hack involving EM, but unless I’m greatly mistaken this appears to be someone’s persecutorial delusion about voices being “beamed” into their head. I spent some time working with people
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by GW150914 8y ago
This may sound daft because it’s overwhelmingly focused on women’s fashion, but the basics are universal; watch some episodes of the American version of What Not To Wear. Concepts such as quality, matching and “going together” and the role
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by GW150914 8y ago
Quantum entanglement seems poised to provide real-time interstellar communication. That makes for good science fiction, because Quantum Mechanics is so poorly understood by most people, but it’s in no way possible or implied by the theory
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by GW150914 8y ago
HN is at least 90% anti-Trump. If you're getting downvoted for a Trump criticism, you've screwed up somewhere other than pissing off the three people on HN who have voting privileges and like Trump. Ok, I can accept that. How di
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by GW150914 8y ago
Well if that’s true the learning curve will be so steep as to resemble a cliff. I’m not usually a nuclear war alarmist, given that all players stand to lose, but which country capable of world war will lose gracefully without nuking someone
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think the dust issue at least has an solid explanation, insofar as most of our electronics have cooling which attracts a lot of dust, much of which falls nearby. The toys... clearly a desperate attempt by either time travelers or extradim
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by GW150914 8y ago
If you are discriminated and robbed in your favorite online game, for no other reason then who you are or your name- without any success when appealing to the "state", you begin to understand what it is like to have been a jew in
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by GW150914 8y ago
> Some of the labeling heard today What do you have in mind, in particular? They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. From the man who is now the president of
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by GW150914 8y ago
We should be encouraging people around the world to have fewer children, not more. Local declining birth rates are at worst, a generational problem, and the solution isn’t to breed because of a poorly defined and researched, and massively o
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by GW150914 8y ago
As I understand it, the board is set up to require something like a 90% vote for something like that, and it’s loaded with his friends. It’s a good setup for getting things done in a hurry in accordance with one man’s vision, but now... i
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by GW150914 8y ago
The only font made under a DARPA contract to sap the will to live from enemy graphic designers.
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There’s also something to be said about the brevity of pain, even if the end is death. As incredible as thst monk’s composure was, hismnerves would have been dead within a short time, and he would have followed in a minute or two. Still an
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by GW150914 8y ago
I’d heard that he died here, but suicide? Oh man, this makes me so sad for him and his family. Past the illness, he was interesting and smart, and it sucks that he felt like he had no other way out. TempleOS was one of those things that nob
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by GW150914 8y ago
Hah. There's definitely pain out there that can't be studied to oblivion. Anyone so pompous hasn't experienced, for example, a cluster headache. Or passed a kidney stone, or had a thrombosed hemorrhoid, or been tortured. I
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by GW150914 8y ago
Fascinating, but not really surprising. Some dates we have set for the advent of a given technology represent the challenges of archaeology rather than what is believed to really be the start of something. Making some form of fermented grai
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by GW150914 8y ago
If only we didn't care about privacy. In someone else’s car with a perfect stranger? I truly don’t care about privacy in that situation, and having an expectation of privacy there is delusional. In my car, I want the option for as
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by GW150914 8y ago
I despise it, and it seems to have become all that Aeon is capable of. If I wanted to hear what a stoned Physics 101 student thought, I’d ask them. Good science isn’t necessarily sexy, it may not make for profitable clickbait, but it’s very
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He’s a man in desperate need of someone in his professional life who can tell him to shut up, and make it stick. He’s inflicted so many pointless wounds on himself and Co lately it’s really crazy, and it was all totally avoidable by just no
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by GW150914 8y ago
I would assume he’s referring to calling that guy a pedo, then doubling down on that again , plus setting off a serious SEC investigation because he has the Twitter discipline of an 8 year old. I agree about the pot though, I’d be no more
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by GW150914 8y ago
Actually the Bellamy Salute was a thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute The Bellamy salute is a palm-out salute described by Francis Bellamy, the author of the American Pledge of Allegiance, as the ges
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think, assuming this was a real mistake, that she’ll lose her job completely, but I agree there is very little chance of a conviction or even indictment. Having said that however, it may come to light that this was not a mistake, in which
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by GW150914 8y ago
When the only thing a group has to stand on is a slippery slope of their own invention, ignoring them is a safe option. Then you open with a slippery slope, “Suppose a schism opens... the next step...” If that next step ever begins to mat
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Elon Musk Live on Joe Rogan Experience [Video](m.youtube.com)
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by GW150914 8y ago
Group Intelligence? Honestly I’m not sure, I just know that it isn’t artificial in the sense of AI, sorry.
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If you work on an automatic transmission and quite a few other mechanical devices, you’ll learn that “master-slave” in technical English predates modern computing. It’s useful terminology because it’s instantly comprehensible as a metaphor

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