QAPereo

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by QAPereo 9y ago
Nothing about capitalism demands an ugly lack of proper legislation, regulation, and enforcement. I would not like to write off capitalism on the basis of a rigged system that just uses the name for ideological purposes.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out... once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant... once the Invisible
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Please explain this... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...
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by QAPereo 9y ago
In HEP, it’s more that the bar is so damned high, and your n equals something in the billions or trillions, and oversight from the community is extreme. The confidence required for example, to make people feel generally positive about the
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Definitely. ADMX for example, is searching for axions, under the assumption that WIMPs or sterile-heavy neutrinos are he wrong bet. Having said that, SUSY is still very popular, albeit unsupported by evidence. Critically for proponents of
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I’d call it... aspirational. It’s not there yet, but it’s almost always an interesting discussion. Typically for pop-sci it oversells the matter, but it feels more enthusiastic than deluded or dumb. Just my gut though, as a dilettante.
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On Highway Noise Barriers, the Science Is Mixed. Are There Alternatives?(undark.org)
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Prior to his insights, glia were just thought to be little more than structural support and insulation for neurons. The truth of course is so much more interesting. Baruch dayan emet.
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Prison Food Is Making U.S. Inmates Disproportionately Sick(theatlantic.com)
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That isn’t what I meant, at least as far as promoting business interests; at least, not beyond nurturing networking here. As for suppressing critique... well... that seems to be the case, but I don’t see it as unreasonable. Besides, a lot o
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Life is just another thermodynamic process following a gradient, and all things tend to entropy.
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Speaking as someone who does just that... it’s a good site for the quality of the minds here, bad for the degree of censorship. Having said that, it feels more honest than FB. This is YC pursuing their own best interests very openly with HN
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I blame the algorithm behind the mirror, and the people behind the algorithms.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Note the username and just ignore the troll. I have faith that the account will be dead soon.
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Are you really arguing that social media isn’t optimized to create bubbles?
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Once you kill a few people with your tech, they’ll demand the same regulations. It’s just that much consumer tech is crap that frankly couldn’t do the intended job, never mind hurt someone. You can compromise then identities of millions of
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Start by not assuming that the poster is endorsing it; maybe they just want to share something relevant and stupid being spread around. Maybe it’s a discussion piece, centered on the flaws in the piece.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Avoiding taxes isn't illegal though. No one said that it was, and it isn’t illegal to be a parasite. As to the rest, life is a competition.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
If you offshore your profits and workers, avoid taxes, and the usual bag of tricks? Yes, parasite, and what happens to parasites which are too successful?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Zombies which don’t rapidly decay and fail make no rational sense, but that kind of zombie also makes for a lousy zombie tale. Zombies represent anxieties about life, death, disease, being eaten alive, etc.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That really depends on the assumptions you’re making about why it’s done. Large scale mining for building materials and fuel requires an existing space industry for demand. Saving on Dv only makes sense if you have something proven so out t
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by QAPereo 9y ago
At what environmental cost? How many gallons/sec are you processing, how much energy is used per gram of Li? Without burning fissile fuels or building expensive new nuke plants, how will it work?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I find these products creepy and intrusive. When I think of entities I’d trust with a networked mic in my home, giant multinationals don’t readily spring to mind. Price is not the issue, much like price isn’t the pro
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The potential returns are enormous, but so are the risks. Remember any number of things could disrupt the price, from novel battery tech, to new mining opportunities. That’s the long term, the short term is just crazy.
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It might cost more, but it’s certainly abundant; we’re not going to run out of it. No I would even go so far as to say that a rise in the price of terrestrial lithium would be a good thing. In the short term it will hurt, but there’s a lo
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s true, but by the same token it is subtle makeup that wouldn’t even begin to fool facial recognition, even if they don’t use Near-IR/UV. Do you think you could toe that line of fooling the camera and the human? If so, I’ll buy it,
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I have faith in the power of makeup, but now let’s take this actor off the set. They can’t touch it up, they’re going to sweat, and they’ll be in real life and not on film. On the screen makeup is basically magic, I’ll totally grant that po
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Not quite, it was more along the lines of another order of magnitude increase in inequality, which would be amplified with each passing generation. Not something you could hope to rise out of either, you’d be 100% born into it. Now, you mig
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Again, this assumes your passport matches, and humans are trained to spot the unusual. Guy with a massive beard he did’t have on his passport, plus a bruise sufficient to fool he camera is suspicious don’t you think? Once again, this also
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I feel like even a mediocre TSA agent is going to be suspicious about the heavily bearded man with a serious bruise on their face. I mean, unless that matches your passport!

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