Pharmakon

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It’s unfortunate Nasa canceled the all-female EVA, but it’s the right decision(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
>What I find many times here is a belief in pure systems ruled by logic and strict interpretations of language (again, programmer logic), while real life and politics are nothing like that. Again, this is where you’re running into prob
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Education and intelligence don’t imply any particular insight into our motivations or feelings. It’s also true that an education focused on programming and tech in general is an extremely limited focus unrelated to politics. Then there’s ju
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
It’s also reasonable to speculate that a sufficiently advanced species might identify the solution to the problem of energy useage as being population control rather than mega-engineering. Instead of trillions, maybe a hallmark of sufficien
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Of course if we’re talking about an FTL-capable civilization then our understanding of physics is out of the window to begin with. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a civilization with FTL to make Dyson spheres or swarms, and it may b
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Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel(theconversation.com)
154 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|165 comments
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Elon Musk’s latest defense: Tesla says my tweets were kosher(arstechnica.com)
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
That’s even worse, akin to countries that claim there are no gay people there because it’s ideologically inconvenient to admit otherwise, or anyone “out” is summarily executed. Having said that the previous poster specified “modern develope
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
South Korea, as of last count, has 11,400 homeless people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeles... It is a tiny fraction of the total population, and an achievement, so why bullshit about it? As
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
I’d prefer to waste the resources of an airline or Boeing, rather than the kind of “waste of resources” in losing whole plane loads of human beings. Turning off MCAS solves one problem and trades it in for another, it is not a waste of reso
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Not just legal. People are much more forgiving of innapropriatw behaviour if they can point to a disability outside of your control; as opposed to you just being a jerk. No one complain about a blind man staring at them if they know they a
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Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, 2011–2016 [pdf](cdc.gov)
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How Many Times Can Silicon Valley Be Wrong About Cars?(thedrive.com)
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‘How to Find Simple Treasures in Complex Numbers’(quantamagazine.org)
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A Phrenologist’s Dream of an Octagon House(daily.jstor.org)
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
You’re just afraid of the truth You got me, although I can tell you’re not serious, or you’d have used all caps.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Am I the only person bored stiff by conspiracists? I don’t deny that the phenomenon is significant, has an impact, and needs to be addressed, but Christ it’s boring! Cranky and conspiracists have always been derivative, repetitive, often de
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Companies aren’t people, they don’t act like people and don’t have a person’s motivation. It’s a dangerous thing to talk or think as if they were. Companies like Google are a collection of people serving their own interests and desire to st
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Not just that, but even if it turns out that slog is decades long, those miners will still need those shovels. It’s brilliant, because barring a sudden implosion of SDVA research, this is a guaranteed income stream independent of the succes
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
There’s a karma requirement. If I recall correctly I gained the downvote when I passed 500, but I could be wrong of course. My impression of this site is that they don’t do blacklists, they’d probably warn you straight up if they had a prob
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AT&T and Comcast test 'verified' phone calls to fight spam(engadget.com)
2 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
That was theory, that the state (or monarch) had to show both their power over life and death, and that the public needed to see thst justice was done. We (the British) figured out that didn’t even remotely work back in 1783, and frankly I
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
I’m sorry that’s just naive and not at all borne out by history. When executions were a public spectacle (as in Tyburn) they were a huge party. People laughed and drank and cheered as people were hanged or drawn and quartered. I think you u
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Replace “drug dealers” with “armed robbers” and you’ll avoid thn inevitable moralizing and nitpicking.
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Making life better for hundreds of millions of people is a very hard problem. Crushing dissent with terror and violence by contrast is relatively simple. It’s no wonder that tyrants tend to the latter and only the former as it impacts the
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Because of course, we all know that any regulation is part of an inevitable slide to “camps”. Come on, people who argue that always seem to miss just how much power a society has to change course, which is why that slippery slope is a fall
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Because the EU has a history of at least pretending to care about consumer rights, and (more) aggressively going after anti-competitive practices?
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Waterproof Fabric Harvests Energy from Raindrops(physicsworld.com)
3 points by Pharmakon 8y ago|1 comments
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
The SEC is one of the government agencies that’s best not to mess around with. They have broad powers, lots of discretion, and a very long arm. They can’t put you in jail, but they can make sure you never see the inside of a boardroom or ru
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by Pharmakon 8y ago
Reddit is trying to make money, get investors and better ads. It’s. No mystery why they’ve been trying to clean house lately. I wonder when they’ll realize that it’s a lost cause?

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