Galacta7

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by Galacta7 3y ago
Ah, that makes much more sense. I must have missed that. Thanks for the clarification!
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by Galacta7 3y ago
I'm curious, how does a flight crew not notice a window entirely missing?!? I get that most of the passengers were near the middle of the craft, but wouldn't it still have been fairly noticeable as the flight attendants were walki
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Aren't there already mechanical tree shakers that harvest olives fairly efficiently?
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Extra virgin olive oil is for the truly elite. The merely 10% only get the standard slutty olive oil.
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by Galacta7 3y ago
I used to work for a temp agency (clerical, not in tech) and I remember once seeing what my agency was getting paid for me on an hourly basis. Iirc, it was something like 3-4x what I was getting paid hourly. It was kind of sickening tbh. Pl
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by Galacta7 3y ago
I would love to get Verizon 5G Home Internet for my mom, who is currently getting gouged by Verizon with DSL (and slow barely better than dial-up DSL). Unfortunately, she's not eligible, as Verizon apparently limits the number of 5G cu
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by Galacta7 3y ago
One of my favorite McSweeney's articles. It only gets more hilarious towards the end. Very funny satirical take on some of the more bizarre (but very real) traditions in academia.
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Thinking about it, it seems questions generally allow for some flexibility of interpretation reducing potential cause for offense, where statements allow far less latitude. The problem is that some questions require foundational understandi
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Hmm, I see a problem with this analogy in that the person selling the stamp is at an unfair disadvantage due to that information asymmetry. It's actually unethical and sometimes even illegal to do this in the stock market, especially i
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Sounds like he lost his Persian sense of Tarof, lol. https://youtu.be/XAvzW1WZsN4
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by Galacta7 3y ago
(Or more likely) Live audience: "Ohmmmmmm!"
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Having read the article, I'm still confused ... are they saying Death Valley in particular had the hottest midnight on record? Or that it was the hottest midnight ever recorded on the planet? The article doesn't make this clear.
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by Galacta7 3y ago
I was just thinking of Tantacrul and his amazing videos. I can't wait to see his update on Musescore 4.1.
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Iirc, that was also the reason Earth plunged into a new ice age in Snowpiercer.
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by Galacta7 3y ago
I can see that... :P
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by Galacta7 3y ago
This reminds me of the Excel scoring error by NASA that impacted where the Space Shuttles would be retired. Basically costing the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force an orbiter (though the NASA Administrator says it wouldn't have mad
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by Galacta7 3y ago
I think they prefer the term Synthetic Persons.
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by Galacta7 3y ago
This is genuinely exciting. I was a big B5 fan, and disappointed that the live action reboot never happened. This feels like the next best thing, and in some ways may be even better, since we won't need to rationalize why the actors ap
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by Galacta7 3y ago
That's the way I remember it too, so you may be right. I remember being shaken by the first time she realizes she can't feel her own pulse in the simulation, then starts to panic and have an existential crisis on the realization o
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by Galacta7 3y ago
I actually enjoyed Caprica more than BSG, since the worldbuilding was so much richer and more interesting to me. Particularly the roots of the conflicts between the colonies and the eventual rise of the Cylons. It felt like it was a better
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by Galacta7 3y ago
This was also the premise of the Battlestar Galactica prequel "Caprica." The father of A.I. created a digital copy of his recently deceased daughter based on her digital trail from life. The copy struggles with her existence in an
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by Galacta7 3y ago
It's interesting that this shared allegiance to the Constitution was still strained to the breaking point 160+ years ago. I wonder how U.S. military leaders must have felt when huge swaths of the military (and military leaders) decided
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by Galacta7 3y ago
Indeed, my understanding is that the British Army was created by and legally answerable to Parliament, unlike the other armed forces. As you mentioned, a remain of mistrust after the monarch was restored to the throne after the civil war (t
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by Galacta7 4y ago
Never thought I'd see a Ben-Hur reference in the wild, but I love it. One of my favorite scenes.
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by Galacta7 4y ago
> For now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft. Even more confusing since most spacefaring nations span across multiple time zones. Getting a lunar time zone that everyone can theoretically fol
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by Galacta7 4y ago
It seems like that's literally true for Ally bank, which started its life as the finance arm of GMAC, and still technically is despite being a full-fledged bank in its own right. I don't think they're owned by General Motors
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by Galacta7 4y ago
I possibly could see a free market compromise existing. Perhaps one where automakers charge a higher base price for vehicles without the ability to repossess themselves. Or where one's insurance premium goes up if you opt-out of this f
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by Galacta7 4y ago
Also the saying, "The baker's children are the last to have bread."