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by QAPereo 9y ago
That evidence also speaks to premeditation, and mens rea.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I’m not arguing against privacy, or for this kind of abusive tech used in the system. I’m just saying that this particular story doesn’t make for a great exemplar, anymore than the guy who was nailed because of his smart water meter. There
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Even better, I find that not murdering people is a much easier solution to this problem.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Organized crime has typically been highly diversified, and it seems odd that the most successful organized criminal organizations would ignore those opportunities. Typically so-called vice crimes such as illegal prostitution and gambling ar
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Iirc they’re getting into avocados lately. Edit: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41635008 Damn.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
In quantum suicide, your means of death must be both the result of a quantum superposition, and 100% lethal... otherwise you might just be in this universe, horribly maimed. Now, a nuke on your lap with the trigger hooked up to sense the de
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Can Government Officials Have You Arrested for Speaking to Them?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
This is possible, but probably represents a drastic misunderstanding of MWI/QM. I’d you’re thinking I. Terms of branches from quantum superpositions, then it would be a certainty, but a certainty among u counted multitudes. If you’re t
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Oooh... I stand corrected then. It would certainly make a ton of sense for a bathing culture like Japan, but for showers... eh. Heated seat with bidet and air though? Oh hell yes please.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
How’s the suicide rate among evangelical Christians? Southern Baptists? If you tell young people to shape up or be damned, some will implode, especially LGBT youth, people struggling with addictions, atheists, etc. Sadly (imo) Mormons are l
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Sounds like a way to scald someone with a hack. Edit: There was a self-filling bathtube that I could program directly from the kitchen. How much do you want to bet that a US version would be networked, probably smartphone integrated?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I don’t think that’s dumb, and the answer is... sort of. The easiest way to make it work would be to have the device somehow help to heat and cool you internally, which would save you energy. You might be able to use the power to produce AT
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The average person wouldn’t even know what you were talking about, never mind actively trying to stop you from pursuing it. The only way they try to enforce anything on you is by dominating the market for a given service, and you are not
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by QAPereo 9y ago
http://www.prutchi.com/pdf/implantable/nuclear_pacemakers.pd... Last paragraph on page 2... quite a long damned time; by 35 years it was still going strong.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Cynically? A bunch of entropy. Optimistically? One of the newly minted millionaires will go on to do something great, like the people who built the fiber net. Realistically? Who knows...
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I’m not a Mormon, or even a Christian, so I have no stake here. What the fuck? No. I’ve traveled all over, and met a lot of Mormons and have Mormon friends. The most sinister thing they’re into is family game night. Ok, I’m no fan of the mi
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Same here, I switched to Kinesis Advantage keyboards many moons ago, and it saved me. I went from braces on both forearms to nothing, and never looked back.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Rather, two strains of C. Diff have enhanced trehalose metabolism. It’s 5e trehalose you eat which feeds it well, in your gut. The ice cream itself was/is safe in terms of pathogens.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It also goes to show that Soylent was (before 1.5 at least) a bad idea. I wonder if it still is, given that they switched one disaccharide (trehalose) for another (isomaltulose).
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Just to add to your objections about wasted energy, I’d add that energy and resources would be expended to build the parts for these things. Wear is proportional to use, so that’s another source of both dissipation, and material losses.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That would be legal, but critically attempting to redeem them for current USD would be a crime. So no... not the same.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Although Einstein’s spacetime might serve as a reference frame against which accelerations can be measured... Oh Jesus Christ... they should have stuck with Newton where they were not so obviously out of their depth.
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About Hawaii’s Ballistic Missile False Alarm, According To A Former Navy EM(taskandpurpose.com)
2 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Good mechanical switches have a kind of mechanical haptic feedback that lets you know with a click, that your keystroke has registered, without bottoming out the key.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia As you see, that’s just part of being human!
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by QAPereo 9y ago
So let’s say I don’t copy 100%... but I asymptotically approach it. At what decimal do I infringe, or as long as I never reach unity am I cool?
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Rare footage of SR-71 Blackbirds(taskandpurpose.com)
68 points by QAPereo 9y ago|19 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I wonder what aspects of human beauty chickens are perceiving? Purely at a guess, I would say symmetry of features and signs of health/reproductive health. Given that they’re looking st faces, this seems most likely to me.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Have you seen the voice controlled elevator sketch on Burnistoun? Give the poor algorithm a break! ;)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
What I really appreciate more than anything else about this site, is that all kinds of interesting things come up. Cities of refuge coming up in a discussion about contemporary society and jurisprudence strikes me as valuable, and I appreci

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