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by GW150914 8y ago
You do know what the “A” in AI stands for? I’m not disagreeing with your central point, although I think given how well the incentives of the leadership are with most outcomes debates about their degree of control are not really important.
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by GW150914 8y ago
The most popular argument I’ve heard is that the royal family actually makes more money for the UK than they cost, although those arguments seem to assume that abolishing royalty would mean bulldozing the artifacts and architecture which ar
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by GW150914 8y ago
The thing about persecution complexes is that those who have them will find persecution in anything, so it's kind of a waste of energy to worry about what might trigger those prone to thinking in such a way. Interestingly enough, tha
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by GW150914 8y ago
Of course Roman culture was itself a retread of Greek culture with a few mods thrown in, they even pulled an asset flip with the Greek pantheon.
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by GW150914 8y ago
The reason is not complex, it’s just rarely discussed. The first time Chlorine was used it killed a lot of soldiers, because nobody had a clue what was going on and no one was equipped or trained to deal with it. By the end of the same war,
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by GW150914 8y ago
In the absence of civilization tyrants are rare, what you get are feuding family units, tribes, and warlords. Personal strength of arms is tantamount, and frankly Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos and the like won’t last a day. Who cares about how r
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by GW150914 8y ago
History is mostly a record of just those kinds of “anti-people” laws. In the UK their history is practically defined by them, with arguably the most famous being Acts of Enclosure dating back to the very early 17th century. https:/&#x
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by GW150914 8y ago
Don't get me wrong: I'm not sure I'd rather live (as I do) under the US's policy regime than I would under the EU's. But our pathologies of governance are different ones. You know how the saying goes, you can live
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by GW150914 8y ago
What do 2-6 have to do with the actual subject of telecommunications? I’m not even going to bother with the details of 2-6, I’m just curious what point in context you thought you were making.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Shut down FCC. That's all it would take. Sure, your FM radio would stop working, but that's a small sacrifice to make, to get actual competition in something as important as telecommunications. Good idea, I was just thinking tha
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by GW150914 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919093 So yeah, there’s that.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Ask someone who was an environmentalist for a couple of decades if shooting the messenager is a new or growing phenomena. It definitely isn’t, and is always at its peak issue makes people feel powerless, and they know that it would take per
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by GW150914 8y ago
I was specifically responding to this: I'm not arguing that it's fine to imprison people just because they'd be better off-you're the one saying that. When in fact he’s been saying just that, repeatedly and vociferousl
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by GW150914 8y ago
The homeless advocates behind this lawsuit also assume that street life is somehow preferable to jail or prison, where occupants are provided 3 square meals a day, warm and clean clothing, a clean dedicated space to sleep, and all the free
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by GW150914 8y ago
The homeless advocates behind this lawsuit also assume that street life is somehow preferable to jail or prison, where occupants are provided 3 square meals a day, warm and clean clothing, a clean dedicated space to sleep, and all the free
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by GW150914 8y ago
Two reasons I think. First, understandably by now the moderators must dread these kinds of submissions, given that they inevitably evolve along the same acrimonious lines. Supporting this submission by pinning it or unflagging it is sort of
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think his flaws, borne of crippling mental illness as they were, will be largely forgotten in favor of his intelligence, his oddness, the unique nature of TempleOS, and his obvious pain. The phrase, “tortured artist” is thrown around a lo
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by GW150914 8y ago
This sounds like a reasonable point to me, and I'm not sure why this and your other post in this thread are being down-voted. In my limited experience comments critical of Tesla are immediately downvoted, but often recover after a wh
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by GW150914 8y ago
Disclaimer. The following comment was re-written after Greg replied: Responding to Greg’s points, if you buy out the battery lease on the long range car, it’s $34,000 dollars. The Tesla Model 3 you can buy today starts at $54,000 dollars. I
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think it’s unlikely that the majority of Tesla’s massive stock valuation comes from people who just wanted to see the likes of Mercedes hammer the final mail into Tesla’s coffin. I think there’s even a chance that they wanted to make mone
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by GW150914 8y ago
I don’t know about the catalogue, but assuming the meteorite is the usual rocky, iron-nickel composition then it wouldn’t have melted, given that a structure fire tends to top out several hundred degrees below the required temperature. Give
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by GW150914 8y ago
I said You mean the rich, temperate parts of Western Europe, most of which could fit inside Texas? Sure. You said I live in Norway, in a city of 180-200k people. Folks use public transportation or walking all the time. With children. For
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by GW150914 8y ago
Just for a bit of fun perspective, that’s 7 km/s faster than reentry velocity! Even if you felt like dealing with the heat, it would cost an ungodly amount of energy which kind of defeats the point of an elevator. On the other hand,
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by GW150914 8y ago
Electric bikes are a huge improvement over standard bikes, and no improvement at all over a car for a significant number of use cases. They’re also no more useful than a bike in places where roads are poorly maintained, rain and snow are fr
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by GW150914 8y ago
That is legally and in every other sense, a quad bike. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy#/media/File%3A... He showed a picture of two very small cars, and you offered an electric quad with a body
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by GW150914 8y ago
You mean the rich, temperate parts of Western Europe, most of which could fit inside Texas? Sure. If you’re being more honest it’s the urban areas of the richer, temperate parts of Weatern Europe, which is an even smaller geographic area wi
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by GW150914 8y ago
We’re not in this position because most people give a real crap about the ecological impact of their actions. They want to make a difference only when it doesn’t entail giving anything up. If you think that enough people will buy into elect
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by GW150914 8y ago
People have been saying that for a very long time, and every decade or two someone bets real money and loses horribly. I think the last time was Kamen thinking the Segway would change human transportation forever. Such visionaries tend to c
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by GW150914 8y ago
In the case of digital cameras, the driving forces were varied, from governments wanting better means to spy and drop bombs, the film industry looking for a replacement tech, dedicated hobbyists seeing the benefits and getting on board. I c
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s a good point, and not too pedantic I think. There have been concerns about leaching from pressure treated woods, conservation of paper products which leach acidic compounds are an issue, and I may have given the impression that plast

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