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by QAPereo 9y ago
His comment is referencing an excellent trilogy by Cixin Liu, although it’s true that also related to broadcasting. Massive spoilers of the second and first books: https://books.google.com/books?id=ThKrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT163&
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Decimation also generally involved the unit beating the unlucky member to death themselves, as part of the punishment.
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My other car is a Dyson Sphere
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The Circadian Clock in Your Nose(nytimes.com)
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China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform It Bans at Home(nytimes.com)
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Pox diseases seem to kill more or less alike, and here is what's known about Smallpox: In fatal cases of ordinary smallpox, death usually occurs between the tenth and sixteenth days of the illness. The cause of death from smallpox is
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Wind and Solar Power Advance, but Carbon Refuses to Retreat(nytimes.com)
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Oh yes... this lunatic, the cyberphunk/cyberpimp who decided that since they’re already breaking the law, why not offer an unregistered security. Prison.
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One more question: lateral stability? Ok a few more questions... When you try to jump or crouch, or sidestep, etc... are you going to snap an ankle? Can you jump in this? Quickly spin around?
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It's both. Ubisoft is a perfect example of gaming actively seeking its nadir, having fully embraced the ethics of gambling and mobile fee2pay games in fully priced games, all while offering a highly buggy and mediocre experience. On th
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A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Startup(nytimes.com)
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Some people think they’ll be rich, that’s enough for them, and they either don’t care about, or rationalize away the rest.
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So party A has high standards, parties B and C don't and just trade with each other. Party A withers and and its resources are eventually aligned with B and C anyway. This is not an effective way to fight anything, it's just suici
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You apply pressure on companies taking investment from the Saudis collectively. That's just rephrasing it... how do you apply pressure? Everyone needs oil, many don't care about these issues, so how do we make them toe a lin
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Poor Social Skills May Be Harmful to Health(eurekalert.org)
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...How? How do you get a diverse and often quarrelsome world to agree on something that huge?
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The Cool Beginnings of a Volcano’s Supereruption(nytimes.com)
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On YouTube Kids, Startling Videos Slip Past Filters(nytimes.com)
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It's a great book, but in terms of the science, it's not new. Dragging mountains of ice from Saturn or something similar is a sci-fi cherry.
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Ice would be ideal for a number of reasons; a shield you could then use for water, air, and fuel! To get a big enough chunk though, you'd probably need to send drones to drag some icebergs from around Saturn. That... would be something
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I’m not sure that sweet spot exists, and a lot would depend on composition and entry angle.
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“We”
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Who would you trust with control over that potential weapon?
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The rainforest is a paradise for bugs and snakes, it’s sparsely populated with our close relatives. Most of all, there is very little human settlement, and where there is, the rainforest is usually destroyed first. Meanwhile in the Congo...
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Radiation shielding is either heavy, or difficult. Heavy is too expensive, and the quietly cold calculus of many seems to have been, “well these early explorers won’t live as long as us.” This however injects the possibility of mission fail
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only to see that the conference organizers had photoshopped my face onto a sexualized image of Wonder Woman without my consent, printed it out, and framed it. Isn’t it just an image of Wonder Woman, in full kit? Moreover, this iteration w
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When people bitch about “walled gardens” I like to remind them just why people build walls. This... is why. Sure, a world without walls and locks would be ideal, but only if it’s also a world without thieves, saboteurs, and jerks.
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What North Korea’s IC May Be Whispering to Kim Jong Un About US Intentions(38north.org)
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...until the inevitable collapse forces the issue.
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The Humongous Fungus and the Genes That Made It That Way(nytimes.com)
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