Lorento

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by Lorento 11y ago
If you want a more intuitive mechanical system, see the Boeing/somebody 1st stage engine recovery plan that uses a heat shield and parachute to land just the engine, not the whole stage body. Don't forget the barge is also activel
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by Lorento 11y ago
Human life? Is it? Remember famines that used to regularly wipe out the peasants in most civilizations? It's been a while since disasters on those scales happened in most countries. Climate change doesn't sound so bad when you com
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by Lorento 11y ago
And make more targets for laughing at who worry about if their gemstone/champaigne/whiskey/painting/low oxygen platinum infused speaker cables are genuine or not when nobody can tell the difference.
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by Lorento 12y ago
Even over the candidate who promises to end the 2-party system? In other words, make real and lasting overall change, instead of just a single issue.
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by Lorento 12y ago
If you miss, it'll end up in an orbit that intersects Earth's orbit. That might be the opposite of eco-friendly!
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by Lorento 12y ago
I thought the offside rule was a hack because the natural, beautiful rules didn't end up working in real life.
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by Lorento 12y ago
That's debatable. First, it's public information he used. Anyone could have analysed it themselves if they wanted to find suspicious people. Further, if someone discriminates against these people just because their names appear on
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by Lorento 12y ago
Replace China with USA and see how it looks.
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by Lorento 12y ago
That's only a correlation. It doesn't show that poverty _causes_ poor education. It very, I think probably is, the opposite with poorly educated parents passing those self-limiting habits on to their children.
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by Lorento 12y ago
Do you really mean poverty, or other qualities that correlate with poverty? Do you think sufficiently high welfare payments would solve poor children's school problems? Somehow children in other countries seem to succeed very well desp
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by Lorento 12y ago
Do many poor children in America also feed and care for their families? I think it's still parents doing that. Of course some children may not have secure access to food and care, but they don't commonly provide it for their famil
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by Lorento 12y ago
It's surprising to hear that heritability can be so significant for individuals but races somehow never diverged in those same traits, while they did diverge in other heritable traits like skin color and height.
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by Lorento 12y ago
It doesn't have to be for "our" benefit (who's that? not us personally, we won't be there). It could be for their own benefit - same reason slaves were freed.
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by Lorento 12y ago
Shouldn't he test his model on another dataset besides the one used to generate it? Maybe it's overfitted. It would have been nicer to see the whole thing developed with only a decade or two of data, then shown to work for all the
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by Lorento 12y ago
Absolutely. Hard drugs are illegal in nearly every country, most of which don't have private prisons. Hard drugs are illegal because most people think they should be. The blame (or credit) lies with the majority.
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by Lorento 12y ago
Agreed. And the transition will be extremely slow with 500 years of coal remaining. You just have to look at how economies keep on operating when oil prices double or triple. That happens, and it doesn't bring the world to a standstill
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by Lorento 12y ago
I used to hold the same opinion about positive discrimination for women and ethnic minorities, but now I realize that it's necessary to overcome people's instinctive prejudice. Most companies don't hire on how well you can do
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by Lorento 12y ago
I think MS is making a good move in our current society. Popular culture isn't mature enough that we all feel we should treat people well by default - we are happy to abuse autistic spectrum people because they're not clearly labe