QAPereo

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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s almost like there should be some place to work out questions of fact, publicly, with a focus on evidence... maybe a judge and some lawyers, I don’t know, some kind of koort... quort... court .
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s just a proxy for power... and people have always worshipped power.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s sad... a friend bought me ‘For Honor’ and it became almost immediately clear that it was a cheaply made Skinner Box. It was also clear that plenty of people were stuck in it. I love games, but this emerging trend is boring, and worryin
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by QAPereo 9y ago
From a different source... (One possible barrier is a magnetic field of 50nT at or beyond 4 km. To create such a field using an electromagnet requires very large-scale engineering, for example a circular electromagnet 300m in radius carryi
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AT&T Drops Huawei’s New Smartphone Amid Security Worries(nytimes.com)
1 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Those nukes on Earth are heavily shielded, especially the physics package.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
There is a huge amount of work to do in this area still. Most of these kids with incredible abilities are not receiving the help and support they need in order to ever be in a position where they can join society and use them for good. A
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I have a cousin in law enforcement, so yes I can, but it’s still maddening. The formula is essentially: a problem arises. Everyone covers their asses with red tape, and new rules and regulations are born, and never die . It’s a classic, ye
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Nukes in orbit would be obvious unless you shielded the absolute crap out of them, and shielding is heavy. Besides, if you get caught with a nuke in orbit, you're in real trouble, and the benefit is...? A secret satellite though? Oh th
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What a $4,000 Treadmill Means for the Future of Gadgets(nytimes.com)
2 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Ah, that’s my bad sorry, I only searched for the NYT url, not the subject.
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Poop and Soda Bottles Threaten Air Force Rocket Program, Investigators Say(gazette.com)
33 points by QAPereo 9y ago|33 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
This won’t be Intel on the hook, or paying fines, and the SEC is the proverbial sleeping dragon. Do not pull the tail. They have a long arm, and high profile cases make careers.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Normally I’d chuckle, but with this who the hell knows?! I can think of a number of sound reasons to lie, but then again, it’s hardly unheard of to lose a payload. I guess we’ll have to see what happens with SpaceX in relation to the milita
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by QAPereo 9y ago
IIRC from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16067322 this was a scheduled sale, so it was already approved.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Exactly. I stick by my prediction from the thread when this came to light... he’s going to prison or at least going to be ruined, and someone at the SEC is going to make their career. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Thanks very much, and I agree on all counts; it’s really the only advice I can give that I know to be true. You have to want to lose the weight and keep it off, to change profoundly, more than what you’ve been doing for years. The specifics
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by QAPereo 9y ago
What you’re describing is not only the opposite of sound science and more likely to fool you than improve your life, but also a potentially hazardous money-grab. It is incredibly important not to fool yourself, to roughly paraphrase Feynman
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by QAPereo 9y ago
This is also the cause of rotating advice for decades, eg “eggs are/good/bad/good/bad/good” which is s feedback loop between terrible science, predatory media, and a credulous public.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Room temp superconductors would be the key for that I think, but yeah, I’m with you on this.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I’ve never actually talked about this online before, but now I’m going to. I used to weigh over 560lbs, and I’ve lost 190 of that, with more going every week. I spent a lot of time on this, tried a lot of diets, tried medication, and ultima
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by QAPereo 9y ago
When it comes to flying devices for the individual I think the thing we learned about all is just how little we want people raining down on us from the sky. Not to mention the difficulties of air traffic control with a few hundred million
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Well you pointed out one biggie: the known laws of physics. Anti-gravity may be possible, but there is no theory to explain it, and so it’s hard to predict in a positive way. By contrast advances in materials science, miniaturization, novel
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by QAPereo 9y ago
You’re not taking the resist mask into account, or multiple passes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning Not sure how to ELI5 it though...
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Maybe they want the connections that come with Harvard grads? You’re the one who’s invented “intelligence” as the reason... there are others. I’m not supporting the underlying practice, but it’s worth really asking why it exists. Laziness,
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The version I’ve been eating for a couple of decades goes like this: Good bread is key, I like olive sourdough or something chewy with grain. Layer of avocado, layer of hummus, sprinkle feta cheese, sliced tomatoes, lettuce on the side as a
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India Clings to Cash, Even as Tech Firms Push Digital Money(nytimes.com)
2 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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Total Recall: A Reader’s Guide to Memory Gain(nytimes.com)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That quality of a language is known as agglutination, and I wonder if other such languages would confer similar benefits? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I doubt both the veracity of your claims as regards the efficacy of your apps, and I doubt your stated goals/intentions. As I said, time will tell. I will say that you’re doing yourself no favors by selling this here. Call it cynicism,

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