M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
Up to a point, yes. Then it becomes a mess for everyone.
782.
by M_Grey 10y ago
That's then 'easiest' path on what planet? It's the absolute hardest path, and utterly defeatist.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's great, and there are other painkillers on the horizon too, but that's "maybe" and "later". Today we could take concrete steps to alleviate this crisis which we created in the first place. Cannabis is a g
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I wouldn't be shocked if something fundamental is being wrecked at the atomic level as a result of fast neutrons. Sputtering is a stone cold bitch.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...I'll pass, thanks. It sounds like sub-lingual would be an effective route. That said, if you're in a lot of pain... bombs away.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Sure, but when you actually have to do math with them, and use them every day in practical language, it starts to make a lot less sense. After all, the goal of terms of art isn't to make the language of a given pursuit less opaque to &
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Same here... it was my cue to laugh and hang up.
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The best response to some cyberattacks may be to ignore them(sciencemag.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Sure, but you'd be talking about a civilization that could afford to build it, and operate it... a civilization so advanced that they can afford more than double our current energy production just to electromagnetically shield Mars.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well think about it... 1 Tesla = 10,000 Gauss. When you're talking about magnetic fields in MRI coils, or planetary magnetosphere it helps to use a larger scale. When you're talking about EM forces on the scale on an atomic nucleu
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yes, but if you have zettawatts of energy to pump into a space station, you probably don't need to be doing something so crude.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Who is this for? The kind of person who doesn't stop to consider how much energy it would take to run this hypothetical device, and what that energy/money/resources could do on Earth. "The common clay of the new West...&
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IBM Thinks It’s Ready to Turn Quantum Computing into an Actual Business(qz.com)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Good point. It would be, for us, a predatory symbiotic organism I think.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Just a small correction, that's not a drug, but an organism.
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It won’t be two-day shipping, but Jeff Bezos sets sights on delivering to moon(qz.com)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I was entering the country with a friend of mine I'd been visiting in Jena, Germany (he's American as well) and when he was asked we both got to see the reaction to, "Numerical simulations of the n-body problem." "U
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AImotive Aims to Convert Regular Cars into Driverless Ones Inexpensively(theguardian.com)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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Artificial Intelligence Goes Deep to Beat Humans at Poker(sciencemag.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
We call them "Minute Mysteries" where I grew up in the US... I'd guess it was brought over from Russian immigrants. I remember the ones you mentioned, along with one about someone hanging themselves on an ice brick, another a
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by M_Grey 10y ago
My mother used to pretend to control changing traffic lights... it took me a little while to figure out that she was watching the opposing the lights. It was pretty magical at the time... and she got to troll me.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You treat your consumption as an investment? That's kind of silly.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
What an amazing achievement. Finally, the promise of genetic therapy is starting to actually emerge from the lab.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's even more bizarre... no one has an object at all. You essentially build up the object from a set of properties defined by asking yes or no questions, the answers to which must be consistent. It's actually possible that the ob
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If you want to go to the quantum physics end of things, play the classic game, with a twist. The "it" person leaves the room while everyone else decides on the object. Instead however, they agree that no one will have any idea of
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think we need to be realistic... lonliness is an emerging problem around the world. In the UK they're worried about lonely pensioners, in Japan it's lonely young people, in the US it's just... lonely people. We're spen
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Chinese official calls for easing of internet censorship(theguardian.com)
3 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't know about the bible, but here's an old Russian proverb: Алты́нного во́ра ве́шают, а полти́нного че́ствуют. Translation: One hangs the thief who stole altyn(3 kopecks), and honors the one who stole poltinnik(50 kopecks).
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Do you really think the only option other than selling you a new full-price console every couple of years, is a decade of PS3 or the like? Come on.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Early adopters... I do not understand you at all.

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