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by QAPereo 9y ago
This sounds like something you could reasonably crowdfund, while delivering a really useful product.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
And by skilled investors, you mean people with enough capital to manage the insane risk. So skillfull... Besides, let’s wait to heap laurels on investors until after the music stops.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That same government is perfectly capable of throwing you into a deep dark hole until you comply with their demands or die of old age. I understand you have a particular ideological viewpoint, but that shouldn’t prevent you from understand
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Build a post racial world by acknowledging that racial barriers exist independently of your thoughts, seek to weaken them and repair ongoing harm. The most powerful group playing pretend isn’t going to fix a damned thing. Trying to pretend
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by QAPereo 9y ago
We can’t all be ideologically motivated to the point of societal suicide.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Sure, but let’s not pretend the last millennium didn’t happen or shape the present in critical ways.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
They are, but only to our shattered, underfunded, and now backwards EPA.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The biggest objection is that any work results in dissipation, and any machine which seems to violate this is quietly cheating with some input of energy. Aka Thermodynamics Edit: what possible objection could you have to this?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I love just how pervasive the influence of xkcd is! I do the same as you by the way, and no one has ever called me on using something that is obviously not a name.
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What Makes Some of Us Left-Handed? Hint: Nobody Knows(undark.org)
3 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Depraved heart, aka depraved indifference is probably too mild here. Depraved indifference applies to situations in which the object is not murder, and may not even be gross bodily harm. It’s a matter of not caring that your actions have
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That would lead to massive piracy... it is not a solution. A business model needs work like a business, not a charity, and you’re always competing its free . It’s simple... ad value or die as a business. Is that easy? No, but why should it
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Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret(nytimes.com)
324 points by QAPereo 9y ago|266 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It depends... Dirac is a counterexample, while Bohr is a supporting example. It may just be that experimentalist who can explain their ideas with clarity and passion are the ones we notice first/most?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Same here, and I’m not an engineer or CS. uMatrix is IMO something a bright child could work out through trial and error.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
This is a much more reasonable idea once you're on Mars, and current research offers some hope that it would actually work. More worrying though is the trip to Mars, which would have a much higher exposure and require some really nov
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Balance is key, and difficult, and will always tend to fall out of balance under external influences. All too often though I feel that the problem is framed as "too hard" you know? It is not too hard, if more people were on board
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s worth pointing out that while b-amyloid and tau proteins are suspected of playing a crucial role in Alzheimer’s, disease it isn’t actually confirmed.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
If the first mission to Mars is really full of explorers, mountaineers, and daring billionaires then as I said I will be a believer. If they’re full of desperate people not searching for longevity or comfort, but those same things for the f
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Soooo... either people “grow up” or he “takes his ball and goes home” is that about it? Definitely ironic.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The current wave of crime in parts of the Ukraine is, I shit you not, grenade violence. I’m inclined to agree with you. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/world/europe/ukraine-gren...
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The governments of the world?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s sad that people need to rediscover the power of the rubber hose this way. I like the idealism in the crypto community, even if I think it’s unfounded. Seeing them face the reality of human nature and behavior would be like watching a r
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I see, thanks for the highly informative reply... I’ll definitely disable auto fill.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Would uBlock Origin and uMatrix do the job?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
We can’t even imagine nothing though... it’s just a word we use to describe a state which may not and may never have existed.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The latter feels like a classic case of questions for which the answer is unhelpfully, 42. That is to say, do we even know what the question is? We have no real reason to believe that the universe came from nothing, or that nothing exists
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by QAPereo 9y ago
True, but a lot of people didn't exactly live long or good lives then, and explorers, far from just being daring people... were desperate. When I hear that Elon Musk is on the first one-way trip, I'll be a believer too. Until then
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That’s certainly very humane of you, but also wrong. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/space-radiation-may-d... After letting the mice rest for 6 weeks, the team put them through a battery of cognitive
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Does anyone really think that Uber has enough runway, or could ever get enough, to last until the necessary level of automation is developed? SoftBank though, between this and their incredibly favorable, conditional loan to Theranos really

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