IntrepidWorm

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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Well, we could be more careful about allowing #B16075 to design website palettes. :)
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Yeah, it's a prime example of a sisyphean task. Language is too varied and fluid, and the internet is far too juvenile to be censored for any length of time (not a dig, but you try telling reddit they can't say slurs anymore).
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
That roughly follows some proposed applications of stem cell therapy. Why invent a nanomachine swarm when we are all nanomachine swarms?
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Yes, you are correct. Contrary to gold, however, which is largely useless and ornamental (aside from some marginal use in microelectronics), helium is necessary for a large amount of critical medical infrastructure, as well as research at c
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
I'm not sure the analogy holds - again, most of this debris would be occupying a relatively narrow region of space surrounding Earth, and it wouldn't simply decay after a few orbits. Thinking of kessler syndrome as some impenetrab
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Armchair astonomer here. If the bodies involved in the collision are already in stable orbits around earth, most of the debris from the collision will remain relatively true to its orbit prior to impact, though the force of the collision wi
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
I cannot confirm, but that sounds plausible. This is the same logic for using antibiotics sparingly and in manners that will maximize their effect, to reduce the rate at which resistant strains of organisms dangerous to us can mutate.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
I know that HN policy is to take the best faith interpretation, but I'm really struggling here. The ramifications of what you suggested are boggling to consider- any developer of any system must implement and require a network at the l
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
US media has a long history of conflating race, religion, and socioeconomic class, in part due to the tangled nature of the 'States own biases and prejudice.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Yes - the US and many other western nations have propped up Israel, in many ways enabling the continued aggression towards Palestine, though much of the west has an economic incentive to continue turning a blind eye towards the ongoing pers
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Calling Zionism equivalent to Nazism seems to be an overgeneralization. It would be better served to point out the similarities of both movements as overtly nationalistic, militant, and carried strongly by an undercurrent of racism. Further
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
It's a good point, though I will caution that in the case of paper and plastic waste, many consumers have much less control over product end-of-life than petroleum and paper industry would have them believe. Regulating at an industry l
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
As a child, I remember telnetting into an instance of blinkenlights to watch a fairly faithful ASCII rendition of Star Wars Episode IV. I never really looked into what sort of software blinkenlights was. Very interesting! If I recall correc
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Right - the data are still being sent in packets, but the quantity and frequency of the data packets are such that the chance of miscommunication is reduced to near zero with even a modestly strong connection.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the reasons given for stonewalling desalination plants. It seems to me (a layman) that this would be one of the first real avenues for actual progress on the shortage. Why is this being fought so hard?
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Mmm.... .0003 oz cutlets.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
I second this - cow based protein and cricket based protein both supply adequate value in an average human diet - why is there such a stigma against one versus the other?
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Naive - definitely. But I'm speaking to what seems to me a fairly common observation. Feel free to criticize! I'm not so sure about haughty- that doesn't feel like a good faith interpretation.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Legally, the government can force compliance by large technical companies. In practice, there's no current chance of that happening. Believing that Facebook, Google, Twitter et. al. are beholden to the government given the past several
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
The product itself is an ingenious remarketing of a waste product from the beer industry.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Portal 2 is filled to brimming with satire. However, I am inclined to agree with the above commenter: it does seem that things get more and more absurd as I get older.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Its hard to tell if thats sarcasm. :)
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Calling it a berry here or there seems to be downplaying ancient hominid diets. We lost the ability to produce our own vitamin C quite early on due to our subsistance on fruits, nuts, and vegetables foraged from the surrounding land. Huntin
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
I have a hard time believing Diogenes would waste a good Guinness like that.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
Absolutely none.
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by IntrepidWorm 4y ago
I'm not an astrophysicist, but from what I can gather we want these potential shards off the sea floor for analysis precisely because we're not sure what the makeup of interstellar debris would look like. It would be hard to form
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
That seems to be the general bend of the diagnostic help over reddit, though it seems we may never know for sure. Its been 30 days since Mr. Kanasta's last post. KaptainKanasta, if you're out there, I know I speak for others who w
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
Its nice to see the emphasis on safety: nuclear sciences can (and should) be explored by young persons in a manner that won't turn your garden shed into a superfund site. Safety first, kids. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
I recall hearing that the national stockpile was being sold off. I don't think even the US government would consider straight up venting it.
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by IntrepidWorm 5y ago
One cannot even assume time is infinite- there are theories postulating infinite time and finite time, as well as theories postulating that time may not really exist at all.

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