IntronExon

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U.S. Asks Qualcomm to Delay Meeting for National Security Review of Broadcom Bid(nytimes.com)
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Maybe, but if they’re sending us EM signals then we know we’re doomed. Physics as we know it, with c as a limit, strongly implies that it is simply impossible to defend against a relativistic strike.
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Retweets Are Trash(theatlantic.com)
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God Help Us, Lets Try to Understand Friston on Free Energy(slatestarcodex.com)
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Iceland Poloce Arrest Suspected Bitcoin Server Thieves(bbc.com)
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Well the info from the doctors who examined them debunks it, but that assumes that as you say, it isn’t being spun. I think the truth is that we just don’t know, and may never be in a position to know.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Yes, but not through whatever a human can tap out in a relatively short period of time. Besides, you don’t need to receive the signal a computer, just a speaker and a guy with a pen and paper.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
There's no way for you to get the astronaut out of the box. I may have been unclear: the astronaut is never intended to leave the box, he burns with the box. The astronaut is paralyzed save for his tapping finger, and on a doomed one
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Nobody here ever seems to bring it up, but in addition to all of the objections raised, I’d add the potential for a truly devastating earthquake.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
We could restrict the astronaut to using Morse code, and have literally no other data link back to Earth. The astronaut can be immobilized except for one finger used to key the Morse code. The ship can be little more than a ballistic missil
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by IntronExon 9y ago
If they’re following at that velocity, then we’re already dead, and “they” are a relativistic bombardment we won’t even see coming.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
It's mass hysteria. Not fucking hard to work this out. All evedence points to this from day one. Only thing of interest is they continue to not say this. I hate to burst your bubble... https://www.theguardian.com/worl
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Oh wow, I stand corrected. That’s as submarine as it gets, for sure. Thanks for pulling those links together, damned convincing.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Good point, but wouldn’t a few of the other 6.7 billion people on earth do it? They won’t care about US law, nor should they.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
...and promptly took a job at a Google? Sorry, but someone is working for these companies, and they’re clearly bright enough to make the necessary tools. I’m sure some extremely bright and principled people refuse to work with anything like
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by IntronExon 9y ago
It had better cross in a straight line, or it will arrive filled with vomit. I’m so tired of hearing about hyperloop, or “Vac-Trains” as they were known in the 1800’s. Like Magic Leap’s original claim of FSD it sounds good to people who don
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by IntronExon 9y ago
That’s a good link, but it relates more to stories which disappear and resurface periodically, wherefore the term “Submarine” in the title. When it’s just a brief flurry of activity that isn’t tightly focused (Such as the NYT’s pushing Inst
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Alternative theory: journalists are lazy, and if a story gets a decent response in one outlet, they all crap out a similar story until they reach a point of diminishing returns. As a bonus my theory doesn’t require tinfoil.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
I suppose one option is to stick a computer, not networked, on a small spacecraft along with a single astronaut and pop them into LEO. Run the code, and have the astronaut tell us what it says or does. If something goes wrong, the whole thi
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by IntronExon 9y ago
That’s certainly possible, and in fact it could have been part of a routine sweep for unpowered bugs that went wrong. It would also help to explain the impressive range of bullshit “explanations” that keep getting printed. Mass hysteria? Re
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by IntronExon 9y ago
What we really need are highly tunable and directional EMP generators, which can be easily concealed. You could “solve” everything from annoying drones, to people listening to Peppa a pig on their iPads, through the speaker. Of course you c
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Porsche to Develop Passenger Drone, German Report Claims(thedrive.com)
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Scientists and Journalists Square Off Over Covering Science, ‘Getting It Right’(undark.org)
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Or more effective and sinister, appeal to one person in a posotion to run the code. “Want be rich/immortal/powerful beyond human limits?”
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by IntronExon 9y ago
My first thought was just... who would have the combination of arrogance and poor judgment to do this, while still being able to actually do it? The Hiveway platform raised more than a few eyebrows today with an announcement by none other
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Hopefully, and there is no guarantee of further escalation, depending on the pathology/motivations of the shooter. Still, a lot of roads lead to thst escalatiom, especially if there is a thrill-seeking, or power-dominance aspect to the
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Trash in the Fjords? Norway Turns to Drones(nytimes.com)
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Wounds from Military-Style Rifles? ‘A Ghastly Thing to See’(nytimes.com)
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Skype now optimized for Android devices running 4.0.3 to 5.1(blogs.skype.com)
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Good point, I took that from the title, which is clearly a conclusion drawn from the post, not actually in it.

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