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Twitter Users Split on Boycott Over Platform’s Move Against Rose McGowan(nytimes.com)
5 points by QAPereo 9y ago|1 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
So a guy as driven as Musk isn’t doing this for PR, just... because he likes it? I’m sure it’s also totally unrelated to firing 1% of a 30k workforce?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
You can’t really have a nice atmosphere with so little incoming solar radiation, and at 10g you’d be talking about a truly THICK atmosphere. Moons though, could be “squeezed and stretched” from the gravitational interaction with the planet,
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by QAPereo 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#Size_and_composi... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_giant More like a giant lump of ice and rock with a frozen atmosphere, a so-called “Ice Giant” l
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Science never says never, but it does become so convincing regarding a given topic that reasonable people lose interest in them infinitesimal possibility.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That’s going to be one very rocky, veeeery frozen planet. Still, if it has moons, one of them could be geologically active if the orbit is right. Imagine a cryovolcano erupting, with Sol as a pinprick in the background.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I would love to see, and be happy to pay for, an iPhone with an emphasis on portability and battery life. I really like my SE, but would kill for a remake in a similar size/capability, but with a battery upgrade. These specs, and the f
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Sheryl Sandberg Blitzes Washington in P.R. Push for Facebook(nytimes.com)
1 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
1) https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/health/ab... 2) gone for now, still talking, still reflecting a roughly mainstream sentiment of bigotry which largely defines Australia. 3) Yeah, same with us
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by QAPereo 9y ago
What’s the average life expectancy of an aboriginal Australian? How’s Tony Abbot doing, and how’s the weather in a detention camp in Papua New Guinea this time of year?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Wouldn’t ScriptBlocker uMatrix handle that by default?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s basically Juche philosophy, so yes, gobbledygook.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Buy time at a lab to ensure QC at all levels of production, which they’d need to do this safely? I’m sure lots of desperate people have the time, money, and expertise ro make that work.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
If you take actions which a reasonable person would expect to cause harm to others, there is a legal dimension there ranging from civil liability, to the extreme of 2nd degree murder via “depraved indifference” statutes.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The bots count towards ad revenue, so add prior knowledge by Twitter, and boom... fraud.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Just remember that the difference is in circumstances, not humanity: it’s not westerners who suck, its a majority of people. Whoever is on top at the time just had the opportunity to hurt the most below.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The sad fact is that some people will look at a highly volatile investment and dip in, others will commit their life savings. You really can’t help the latter, and the former doesn’t need help.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Armies are expensive and difficult to maintain, so you need a pressing reason to have one, such as defending or conquering territory. What would Apple or Amazon need an army for? If you want to see how a company can wield the power of a nat
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The many missing-presumed-dead canaries? Snowden?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Smart, this is going to appeal to him, thanks. Thanks as well to the others who offered lots of good advice.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Wow... just materials? That much? Honestly I think even better of Apple, considering what they must invest beyond materials in each phone.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
My 70 year old, cant-even-use-a-Mac uncle wants in! I don’t know what to tell him, paper wallet in a vault? How does a guy who can’t even use an iPad buy bitcoins?!
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by QAPereo 9y ago
By the same token, some of the great failures, frauds, and cons in history did look a lot like this.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Karl Guttag, who’s views I trust in this area, wrote some blogs on the topic a while ago. He was not impressed: http://www.kguttag.com/2016/11/20/magic-leap-separating-magi... If you want all happiness and b
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The Bronx’s Quiet, Brutal War with Opioids(nytimes.com)
1 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
How about the guy after Xi? After that? The power, once concentrated tends to remain so, and eventually you roll a Hoxha, Stalin, or Pol Pot.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Horseshoe politics at its finest; when you’re extreme enough, the people like you are those who manage to be equally extreme. By then the underlying ideologies have converged on the same basic notions of rejecting the mainstream and revolut
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I only wish that HN was similarly skeptical about near-term Mars colonization. For a group of largely smart, educated people, too many are willing to suspend disbelief for a sufficiently charismatic person, or out of desperation.
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Hypothetical Nuclear Attack: Seoul, Tokyo: Human Cost of War on Korean Peninsula(38north.org)
1 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Is it inevitable? What if the bird knew it was being monitored? Impossible probably, but a human could definitely think about that, and even try to foil detection. I’m not convinced that metacognition doesn’t add a non-trivial degree of dif

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