M_Grey

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901.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Definitely it's the more likely assumption that simple cronyism is at play rather the unfolding plot of a dystopian novel. I'm not sure that it's the safe assumption though.
902.
by M_Grey 10y ago
It was cleaner than their original design, but still a wildly dirty, and stupidly inefficient device.
903.
by M_Grey 10y ago
I agree with you, yet I wonder how many here who also agree put their money where their mouth is? If we're all still living here and investing here, we'll just be like any other group of intelligent people who will have seen the b
904.
by M_Grey 10y ago
The funny thing is that we'll probably get around to detonating some nuclear weapons, but I doubt it will be in a controlled attempt to avert catastrophe. More like it will be the final act in a series of wars over resources and migrat
905.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Meanwhile police in a murder case are preparing to take Amazon to court for Echo records. On the privacy front, there's just no saving people, but the IoT brings the magic of invading privacy together with furnishing botnets with mill
906.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Flailing attempts at geoengineering will come later, after it becomes clear to even the thickest person that we're desperately screwed.
907.
by M_Grey 10y ago
That title is a bit sensational... there's nothing alarming about this. From the article: The trigger that led to the crater started in the 1960s. Rapid deforestation meant that the ground was no longer shaded by trees in the warmer s
908.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Mars as a goal is laudable, but 2025 strikes me as more likely to be murderous. There's no doubt that human lives can grease the wheels of progress, and often have in the past. I feel like people have already accepted that as the way s
909.
by M_Grey 10y ago
As I said / strongly implied... the time for this has largely passed. Now is the time when people wring their hands as they slowly realize that there's a problem, now that said problem has rolled right over them.
910.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Vote. Get other people to vote. Preferably have already done that in an alternate universe decades ago. Now? Now that corporations have all of the rights, and none of the responsibilities of personhood, Trump is in office, the Republicans h
911.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Even the ones that don't operate that way seem to be filled with people who are convinced that it's all a zero-sum game... leading to the same essential result. The problem mainly seems to be that far from making any attempt to li
912.
by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm less worried about this mission, and more than it's going to give people an (increasingly) false confidence that we're ready for Mars.
913.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Most shark attacks turn out to be attacks of people surfing, boogie-boarding, or otherwise making themselves look like seals or similar mammal from the shark's perspective. Your risk while surfing is much higher than the average swim
914.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Probably they should. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13745315
915.
by M_Grey 10y ago
It's honestly part of such a good quote, I feel compelled to post the rest. "I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any pr
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Thom Mason, Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to Step Down(sciencemag.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
917.
by M_Grey 10y ago
100%, absolutely, yes yes yes. Fortunately most of us aren't descended from those antisocials who were too unpleasant for period Britain to tolerate.
918.
by M_Grey 10y ago
"Freedom" means, The freedom to harm others, the freedom to be the undisputed top of the political and social food chain, and the freedom to maintain that position at any cost. They want the freedom to limit the freedom of others.
919.
by M_Grey 10y ago
No pardon necessary, I was being unclear. I can only plead tiredness, and thank you for finding my usual run of post thorough.
920.
by M_Grey 10y ago
I can't imagine that anyone would be so foolish as to do that today, even if they had been so inclined years ago.
921.
by M_Grey 10y ago
IIRC wasn't there just a debate here on HN about the wisdom of shorting Tesla stock?
922.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Sex offenders as in... people who've been convicted of crimes against children? Or... sex offenders as in college students who were caught pissing in public? Because both can land you in the same hole in this country.
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Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfunction(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
924.
by M_Grey 10y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27721383 Good question! The answer is that we know so little about surviving there for any appreciable length of time (compared to a human lifespan), that most don't understand
925.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Increasingly, observations like the ones you mention, along with galaxy rotation curves and more, have really narrowed down the space that DM can occupy. MOND in particular has only very narrow ranges with which it can remain sound, and inc
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Would it be possible to train a DNN
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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What Exactly Happened with the Best Picture Win at the Oscars?(qz.com)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
928.
by M_Grey 10y ago
Yes, and look how thoroughly the North acted to secure the rights of former slaves!
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The problem is that following that, you become a tool as well.
930.
by M_Grey 10y ago
"Needs" Not so much. "Wants" as "Thinks it needs", but even then, the amount of student debt suggests that neither of those are entirely true either.

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