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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s also a bunch of young people, who tend to assume that turning the rhetorical volume up to 11 does something more than inspire disgust. Chan “culture” has not helped. people with the most time to burn are asymmetrically advantaged in th
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by QAPereo 9y ago
What I said was that everything from abuse to rudeness is simply wrong, and I made that point unambiguously, twice. You are right that I think there should be consequences for abusive practices, but reasonable ones, like what I’m doing righ
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Death threats and abuse are a non-starter, but working on making more addictive games-cum-casinos should probably come with polite disdain. Given that so much in gaming has become a money grab from kids and people wired to gamble is, a sham
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I don’t know, mercy killing is a hell of a broad license.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That sounds distressingly like the logic of killing humans as well... Test: do you want that kind of mercy levied on you?
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Which are “the good countries” in this context?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I think Bitcoin is pretty broken at this point, but this article vs. the headline is absolutely atrocious. The North American Bitcoin Conference, held in Miami next week, said it has stopped accepting last-minute ticket payments in bitcoin
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Electric Cars The Driving Force To Cut Emissions(straitstimes.com)
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North Korea Likely Preparing for New Rocket Engine Test at Sohae(38north.org)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It seems like Vice took huge swaths of this as a guide, sadly inverted. Nothing for us here to worry about though! Next stop, Mars. ...Uh oh... Throw in a couple more modern cliches—something about driverless cars and the trolley problem
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The field generated by the drive is in the realm of 50 nanoteslas, and Earth’s geomagnetic field for example is in the microtesla range. I don’t think it really matters though, because the magnetic field around a planet redirects solar win
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Maybe, but that assumes they get the payout, that they did everything on their end of that deal, etc. Insurers don’t like to pay.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
How about they go into bankruptcy with most of the world’s computer users as their creditors? Maybe not, but it’s terrifying that you can avoid responsibility by fucking up on a larger scale than most.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
With money, and a handwritten apology soaked in the tears of their C-levels? Or just the money actually. If you can’t replace my broken item, a refund is always appreciated.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
We might not be better off, but the rest of the planet sure as hell would be. Not to mention that the history of overpopulation would be very different without those things.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s an old con that has worked for far longer than we’ve been alive. It’s just a quirk in us humans, that we can be distracted from the politicians, corporations, and billionaires, by the idea that some poor folks might get a cent they did
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by QAPereo 9y ago
This would definitely be more useful for one-way probes, or as a drive mode for some far-future generational voyage. Maybe this could even be combined with some form of charged particle collection as well, a low-grade ramscoop.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Is it ever something you want to hear/doesn’t make you want to cut off your ears?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Doesn’t this have the potential to inform a potential adversary as to your habits regarding those levels? “Ah he’s back on “tier 1” so this might be juicy!”
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by QAPereo 9y ago
...And of course under such pressure, your CO2 vessel may come to strongly resemble a bomb. It won’t burn though, so that’s something?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
There are serious limitations to the current application of phage therapy, not the least of which is the need to positively identify a given strain you want to attack. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy#Obsta
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by QAPereo 9y ago
My bad, that was supposed to be a “can’t”
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by QAPereo 9y ago
If it were so obvious there would be no comment for me to reply to.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Most police and governments will go to serious lengths to apprehend someone who makes a public show of evading their control/justice systems. See: Martha Stewart. Trotsky. Etc...
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Governments can disappear you if they’re weak, if they’re strong they vilify you and toss you in prison.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
You can’t sue the power structure of the PRC. Ditto for 2, and certainly 3 unless you have resources, luck, and manage to get away. 4. Experts. In what? Toeing the party line? 5. True, although mobs are easier kick off than new patterns in
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Really? I thought they were still denying that this is a flaw, and not, “working as intended.”
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That’s a literal Gish Gallop of propaganda, especially: I wonder which country don't censor movies? Tu Quoque is boring.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
You might want to add uMatrix or NoScript, but having said that I don’t know if uBlock might not be enough.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Cynicism != Skepticism.

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