QAPereo

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by QAPereo 9y ago
I understand what you’re saying, however the only justification that is used for torture in modern Weatern states, is the procurement of time sensitive information. The prime example which comes up over and over is the Gestapo interrogat
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by QAPereo 9y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-... http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674743908 http://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/20&#x2
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The strongest argument against torture is efficacy; torture is a shoddy tool with devastating personal and organizational consequences. You don’t even need to examine the moral or legal framework, it just doesn’t work. Arguing for torture i
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The only way for anyone to gain financially is for these tokens to appreciate in value... Sounds like a security.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Don’t forget the hard parts... self-replication, energy storage and conversion, damage sensing and repair.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Um... VW?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Where are your citations?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
So you do like “obscure statistics” after all! Good! https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/global/pdfs/en/Global... Your turn.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Such people are a minority of smokers around the world, and given how addictive nicotine is, probably fooling themselves. The average smoker is in the Asia Pacific region, India, Indonesia, and Africa, and is impoverished. In those regions
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by QAPereo 9y ago
“This distinction is interesting and important...” ...and will be at the eventual inquest I’m sure. https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0
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by QAPereo 9y ago
They also have giant emerging markets around the world, far more numerous than Canada, the US, and Western Europe. If history is a guided then generations of tobacco execs can strike it rich by killing people, before the gig is up. Edit: Re
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Honestly, I hate ads, and on a visceral level I dislike them on Amazon. HOWEVER... I haven't noticed them doing any harm to the experience, they're easy to identify, and therefore to avoid. I wish they weren't there, and worr
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The tech sector essentially exists the way it does today by dint of the slow pace of the law vs. technology. In short, this is a new robber-baron period, and it will probably end just as messily for everyone involved. But hey, who cares whe
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Are there any reliable estimates on mortality related to this pollution? It must be considerable.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
YES. Other reasons too, such as the relentless spying, but that too.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The Bushes made their money smuggling drugs, two presidencies later I’d say they’ve overcome the stigma. Papa Kennedy was hardly a saint, and JFK was alright.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
People like the minority represented by HN? Sure. The billions who use social media every day? Not so much.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
How you get rich doesn’t matter to many people, especially those “strivers” like so many here hoping to become rich themselves. People don’t tolerate the likes of Thiel, Weinstein, Etc because they’re decent people... it’s just money and po
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Spain and Portugal will do whatever Germany says, France... is France so who knows? I don’t see how this can be enforced locally though.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Unless Germany is on board, I can’t see this happening. (Thank god for minute favors)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
There’s also the benefit of roads in every state of repair, from pristine to essentially abandoned by the government.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
“How you get rich matters...” Peter Thiel. The Bushes. Bill Gates. George Soros. Warren Buffett. IBM. Bayer.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
...yet these companies are supposed to be the shining success stories that all other tech startups aspire to. reply A lot of people in this world, as you can see on most threads on this site, define "good" as "financially
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by QAPereo 9y ago
...Does she like salmon? Does she start to eat lots of berries in fall? I’m not saying that she’s a bear though!...
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Have some fun with hypothetical Relativistic impactors, it’s a blast. :)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
A probe should show signs of acceleration, not freefall... unless you wanted the probe to be stealthy. That is a disturbing thought.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/ Have fun destroying Earth!
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The object approached our solar system from almost directly "above" the ecliptic, the approximate plane in space where the planets and most asteroids orbit the Sun, so it did not have any close encounters with the eight major pla
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Strictly speaking, most people wouldn’t even understand your first sentence.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I think that future generations may look at how we were forced to deal with pain in much the way we look at pre-anesthesia surgery.

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