Hyperborian

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by Hyperborian 10y ago
> ...and is more energy efficient per calorie consumed too. I've read studies in the past that found entirely the opposite, and by a very large margin. If I remember correctly, I believe that raising chickens for meat was many tim
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by Hyperborian 10y ago
> Are some angles harder to block than others? As a matter of fact, yes. Satellite dishes have, by their very nature, a narrow "beam width" of reception. That's so that they can pick up the weak signals coming from satelli
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by Hyperborian 10y ago
That world doesn't need to be created, it's the world we have now.
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
I believe the implication is that these would be placed in locations that have free wifi available, without necessarily having permission to do so.
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
> Or maybe they would have been scared completely senseless seeing tons of steel being piloted by an idiot with no training at speeds they didn't even know were possible for humans to achieve. In light of the second amendment, that
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
> That still demonstrates there's a significant problem. Of course, but it's a different problem with a different solution. Isn't that important to know?
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that a high school teacher would not be considered a "public figure" in the US.
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
> “If you have a good book, price isn’t an issue.” Because if it's that good, it will show up on the various pirating sites quickly. There is a new ceiling on media prices, books included, and these companies are just going to keep
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
Interesting. Reminds me of CJDNS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
If I'm reading the linked projections correctly, even the worst predicitions put us at less then three minutes off from the earths rotation by the year 2100, and it will take somewhere in the area a thousand years to be off by an hou
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by Hyperborian 11y ago
> ...and then conclude that what you are looking at is tight-knit enough to be called a culture. There is no such qulaificiation on what constitutes a culture. You're making the common mistake of thinking that "culture"