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It’s true, I’m almost certainly a drug dealer/pedophile/terrorist, as are all who encrypt so much as a single byte!
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What’s more remarkable to me is that people happily offer up this data on themselves, and what worries me is what intelligence agencies do to spy on people who care enough not to broadcast their every movement, meal, and stray thought.
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9y ago
If only we funded science with half of the vigor we do even something as pathetic as Juicero... Edit: for perspective, Juicero raised and blew over $100mil on the promise of something you can get from a salad, while the yearly operating bud
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'First 5G mobile net connection' claimed by Qualcomm
(bbc.com)
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If I had those answers, I’d be doing more than opining here. As you say the scale of the problem is staggering and self-perpetuating.
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9y ago
Very thoughtful insights from someone who doesn't understand that a lack of thoughtful insight isn't the problem with our bloated and inefficient bureaucracies, and therefore fails to address those problems. You don't turn a
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A Few Words with Caltech Research Scientist, David Boyd
(quantumfrontiers.com)
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...Alone in a universe.
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Global stability is just a localized illusion enjoyed by nuclear powers and their allies.
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This is a description of rotational stability, gyroscopic stability is: http://www.real-world-physics-problems.com/gyroscope-physics... Key point Gyroscopic stability also explains why a spinning axisymmetric projectile, s
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9y ago
I think you’ve confused the notion of nothingness, which may or may not even be real in practice, and spacetime, which is definitely a thing. Gravity is a result distortions in that thing.
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Octopus-Inspired 'Skin' May Give Robots 3D Camouflage
(nbcnews.com)
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I honestly don’t know. I struggle with a somewhat depressive outlook, but horrifically reality and that outlook have been slowly converging. I hope that I’m wrong, just a cranky guy, because the alternatives are genuinely terrifying me.
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9y ago
The bad actors get more press. Yes, because they have the largest impact, a la 2008 for example, and the subsequent bailouts. A thousand honest, sincere and low-impact nuns are rightly ignored in the face of a few pedophile priests who we
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I need a hug from an optimist.
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Just to 3 Unknown to analysts, investors and the hundreds of thousands of customers who signed up to buy it, as recently as early September major portions of the Model 3 were still being banged out by hand, away from the automated producti
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I just kept thinking, “well yeah, but the optimists might be right, and Musk has done amazing things before.” Then... Unknown to analysts, investors and the hundreds of thousands of customers who signed up to buy it, as recently as early S
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You can imagine him having the vision to bet on Mars colonies, but not asteroid mining?
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Right, but now with modern armies, navies, and air forces against... what... just masses of humanity? There won't be a question of the outcome, it will be wholesale slaughter.
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A lot of this appears to be due to climate change, and it is happening up and down the Nile valley. Yes, and the ensuing political and social instability is driving mass migration; this is an accelerating process. What will happen when te
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9y ago
Blame them both.
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9y ago
That’s from 2013... more recently http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/19/is-this-the-end-of-the-roadfor... https://www.ft.com/content/40774fc6-76b5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb10...
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Did it in London?
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Thanks very much!
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Is this article based on: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00897-7 ?
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Anyone with a sabot to throw, and a brain at this point.
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You’ve confused radius and mass. 10x mass = 10x gravity, and then radius is a totally separate issue. Mass and surface gravity are proportional, while radius depends on issues of composition.
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One man acting in his own best interest is a conspiracy now? Oooook...
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Yesm yes, you are so smart and all us sheep who don't understand anything. ... if you knew even the first thing...
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No one would bet their money on an uneconomical plan to colonize Mars. He literally cried on 60 minutes when confronted with Aldrin's support of ULA. He hasnt, he’s betting money on rockets which are useful for highly lucrative activ
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