Practicality

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by Practicality 10y ago
Very true: http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
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by Practicality 10y ago
Interesting that this is in the "Utopia Planitia." That is starting to look like a probable location to set up a colony.
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by Practicality 10y ago
OH man, the itch is a really good analogy. I suddenly understand what is going on with Tourette's now. I mean, even discussing this topic I felt the need to scratch. Prior to reading that analogy I just could not wrap my head around th
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by Practicality 10y ago
Maybe, but it doesn't need to be useless labor. In the town I grew up in we had automated trash collection for a few years. The town eventually voted to get rid of the automated trash collectors because of jobs . Seriously. People tha
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by Practicality 10y ago
"everybody it [is] fully satisfied with what they have and there's nothing more that they'd buy if they had more money." That's the idea. Let's for the moment, just assume that AI and robots and some other tech
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by Practicality 10y ago
At this point I've already come to accept that fulltime labor for everyone is simply not going to happen. We just don't need it. The big question is will the majority be able to maintain enough power to obtain income for those w
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by Practicality 10y ago
Yes. I keep thinking/hoping it's a temporary thing. Target is on my commute and Walmart is about 5 miles out of the way. I would much rather go to Target but I can't justify spending that much more to save the 15 minutes (unl
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by Practicality 10y ago
You could even just have life that moves more slowly because of the lower available energies. If we ever find some life that does not have an Earth origin perhaps we can finally get some more data points about what environments are really r
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by Practicality 10y ago
Probably a local phenomena. I've done some comparison shopping in my town and the price of most identical items at the Target here is +50% over the Walmart. Not 100%, but plenty overpriced. It's probably just because the locals do
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by Practicality 10y ago
For what it's worth eBay does turn a profit most years: http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ebay/financials
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by Practicality 10y ago
If it's the same price as Target, then you know it is double the price of other retailers. Simple really.
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by Practicality 10y ago
You're going to be hard pressed to out pedantic NASA scientists. They probably spent quite some time deliberating over the term "Ice Deposit" as the most accurate one.
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by Practicality 10y ago
I am surprised that anyone is surprised by this, honestly. Russian culture does not place even as much of a value on truthfulness as American culture does, and even that is not that high. It should be seen as a given that there is significa
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by Practicality 10y ago
I hear comments like that from a lot of people who aren't "computer nerds." I mean, you did just call a whole class of millions of people "special," and I am pretty sure you didn't mean it positively.
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by Practicality 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This fits "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Major world events are prett
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by Practicality 10y ago
3 months of applying? Wow. Seems like whatever he got was well-earned to me. I really stick to projects too, but this is massive. I just don't have the time/patience for 3-months of searching while I am currently working. Kind of
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by Practicality 10y ago
Is there some method of digging holes that I am not aware of that doesn't make it obvious there is a freshly dug hole? I mean, that spot in your neighbors yard that looks freshly dug would probably be a good place to look. (They were o
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by Practicality 10y ago
What is the simple, appropriately engineered solution?
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by Practicality 10y ago
O(1)? Having all the answers pre-cached would be the only way to do that. Unless there is some kind of quantum computer algorithm that fits this problem well.
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by Practicality 10y ago
I am not so sure that what we have right now for tuition is as bad as it seems. Because people are paying for it, we are getting much higher quality than we would if it was completely government funded. Also, it's still being paid by p
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by Practicality 10y ago
You sound like a fun person to have drinks with and discuss ideas :)
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by Practicality 10y ago
Abortion and other black and white issues would definitely be a weakness for a moderate party. I would think their strengths for better economic policies, better military policies, better domestic policies and on and on would outweigh the b
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by Practicality 10y ago
Regarding your link: But the middle ground often is the best solution in politics (not necessarily exactly in the middle, but definitely not on the extremes). Some examples: The best government is between Authoritarianism and Anarchy, rathe
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by Practicality 10y ago
I don't get why we don't just have a moderate party that represents the majority. Despite what the news would seem to have us believe most people are moderate, rather than one extreme or the other.
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by Practicality 10y ago
You gotta stop going to those sites. :)
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by Practicality 10y ago
I highly doubt the process will be a single drug. I can't imagine any way any compound could remove DNA damage[1] for all cells in your body. Of course, if it did that would be great. Most likely treatment would be some sort of special
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by Practicality 10y ago
I am supposing that it will be incredibly expensive, something like $1 trillion/person or something along those lines. Hence, the 1,000 years of debt. A lot of people will take the deal anyway.
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by Practicality 10y ago
"It usually means either 'do some free work for us'" Your comment seems to have an off by one error. What is the other option?
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by Practicality 10y ago
"What?" for "this statements confounds and confuses me" is very different than "What?" for "I didn't hear you." This difference can be very confusing in a lot of circumstances though. I wonder if
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by Practicality 10y ago
I am pretty sure the way it works is that everyone will get the immortality when it is available, but the poor folks get 1,000 years of debt.

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