Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
If the numbers in the parent post are true, then you'd probably still be better off just pumping the water high up with that energy and letting it fall down when the energy is needed. On the other hand nabla9 quoted numbers that look v
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> But plants are eaten by various organisms (= C becomes part of the organism), are used for building houses, become fossilized. All of these make these "cycle" claims invalid. That organism will soon die and decompose as well
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Many Muslim women, when asked, will say that they chose to wear a burqa, or the niqab, but I think most of us here know that they've been conditioned to think that way. We all are conditioned by the culture we live in. We general
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If you think about it, what's happening in Shenzhen is basically what has happened in most major cities in wealthy western countries. As the city becomes richer manufacturing slowly disappears, because new manufacturing is too expensiv
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Doesn't that just mean that Vietnam is becoming the new China? China started their improvements in somewhat similar circumstances.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I find this surprising. It seems obvious to me that areas in countries that are much less wealthy grow much faster than wealthy countries (if they're improving). They are essentially catching up by implementing many of the same techniq
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by Mirioron 7y ago
How do you know that Damore doesn't care about diversity in tech? From what he wrote and has spoken about it should be apparent that he was putting forward reasons, when asked by people working on the problem, why the current programs
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by Mirioron 7y ago
That plant would pull in more CO2 and increase its own biomass based on it. When that plant then dies two-three-five years later then all of that carbon gets back into the atmosphere anyway. > If you can't grasp the logic, think abo
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If I burn a plant that contains 10 kg of carbon and then grow a plant that contains 10 kg of carbon then in terms of carbon in the atmosphere it should be a net zero effect. Plants take carbon out of the atmosphere to grow after all.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
From what I've gathered the point Damore was getting at is that current "inclusivity" practices don't help women in the long run. Or at least they don't help enough and it could be done better.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It'll stop them from buying it from the US. They can just buy it from China instead.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
What's there to imagine? We already live in such a world.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Probably yes. They're clearly not succeeding at it and in return this has probably caused feuds between countries and peoples that will last decades if not centuries.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Like Hearthstone, MTG Arena has "unranked" modes, but like Hearthstone, the majority of rewards and design is meant to force you into ranked modes. Is it that the game designers sat down and deliberately designed a system to
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> That being said, I would be more amiable to a system that used player skill as a matchmaking tool if it didn't report those numbers to players. Almost all of these games have an "unranked" mode in matchmaking that doesn
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But there are no bots available that can play the game for you competently. Even deepmind had to have quite a few restrictions to do so and such a system most likely can't even learn an evolving metagame. People who join ranked want to
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The game wouldn't work without a ranking system. At least you can't go from a matchmaking system back to one without, because there's a segment of the player base that is so good that if you throw them together with the avera
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The problem is that there's a huge skill difference in games like League of Legends. Matchmaking has made some players improve so much that if you throw them into community servers then other (weaker) players end up not having fun. Thi
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Sacrificing a small percent of your playerbase in the name of having a functioning online system at all seems like a reasonable solution to me. Can those people then get full refunds for any game they purchased? Because they're p
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It still baffles me how so many technical people in the US use Apple products despite all of this.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If it's about the brand and not the IP, then Apple would be abusing copyright, no?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But people also demand far more from their lives. Nowadays people want to have a TV, a phone, a computer, lots of software and entrainment on these devices etc. Our cars are much safer, our food is safer, we have far better and more healthc
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Who's to say that Thursday won't become the new Friday though?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Hate speech is not about violence though. Plenty of countries have laws against incitement to violence without having hate speech laws. Take the United States as an example. Harassment and incitement to violence can still be illegal without
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm not arguing that those leaders are nor authoritarian. I'm saying that I think some people support them despite them being authoritarians because they speak out without political correctness. My quip about the spelling of t
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> If Robin Hood steals from the rich to give to the poor, is that bad for society simply by virtue of theft being seen as generally wrong? It is. Theft causes harm to society because it deprives property from somebody that legally owns
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by Mirioron 7y ago
What you're missing is that you're reading a generic summary of laws that are twisted and abused. Elsewhere in the thread an article was posted about a teenager that was arrested and had to wear an ankle bracelet because she quote
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Because giving a specific example is demanding to prove a negative. Such a request itself is borderline trolling.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The point is that there would be additional ways to stop their speech through legal means. > Just give a concrete example, do it! As said elsewhere: you can't prove a negative. Asking for concrete examples on this topic is like
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> The invitation to provide concrete examples of valuable discourse that's criminalized by hate speech is only one of several avenues available for this. The parent poster brought up a pretty important example: > Unreasonable

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