Retra

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by Retra 8y ago
The kind of insight that we value is obviously not a state of mind. Let's not nitpick verbiage and risk missing the point. Valuing different states of mind and interesting artwork is not the same as valuing insight. Just because psyche
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by Retra 8y ago
Pay employees when their company is fined for security breaches? Damn, good thing I'm a software developer.
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by Retra 8y ago
Obviously not.
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by Retra 8y ago
What I said was that there is no evidence that fusion on Earth will work that can be derived from simply looking up at the sun. Context matters.
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by Retra 8y ago
If that were the case, then those insights would be remain insightful when taught to someone who isn't on the drug. And if it isn't teachable, it's neither demonstrably true nor valuable. Alertness is a state of mind. Insight
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by Retra 8y ago
Fine everyone? Oh look, data breaches stop being reported. I guess we succeeded in reducing them?
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by Retra 8y ago
Some of us just want to be engineers but know full well how difficult that actually is and want to be paid well enough to seriously research that problem. Thus most of us are experimentalists and prototype engineers, not ones making claim
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by Retra 8y ago
The sun's fusion is powered by the gravitational attraction of ~10e30 Kg of matter. That is not even remotely an option on Earth, so there is no evidence of feasibility about the energy produced by the sun, aside from the fact that it
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by Retra 8y ago
We don't have any trouble creating fusion explosions. The whole trouble of fusion is sustaining a reaction. Fusion bombs already exist, and what you're describing isn't that different from an Ulam-Teller device.
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by Retra 8y ago
What I'm saying is that empathy is completely useless... other than the fact that it allows you to turn "someone I don't care about" into "someone I don't know, but care about enough to make meaningful sacrific
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by Retra 8y ago
If you took ten seconds before you placed your order, you could instead realize that the vast majority of these decisions you're making our irrelevant to your life and you could spend your time doing more enjoyable and worthwhile thi
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by Retra 8y ago
Seems that this is the problem empathy was meant to solve.
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by Retra 8y ago
You say it depends on the problem you're solving, but if you turn around and look at the problems people are solving, you could easily see them falling largely into a few common classes. Like, we all will admit that no natural language
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by Retra 8y ago
If you want to sustain a fusion reaction for generating power through heat, you're not going to do it at room temperature, and there're not many materials that will remain solid at fusion temperatures.
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by Retra 8y ago
Forcing someone to do a job without paying them is slavery. Don't conflate things just to suit a narrative. This kind of law is problematic for legitimate reasons, not made up BS like "it's slavery."
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by Retra 8y ago
It would seem then that anybody who fails to pay their end of a transaction would get off scot-free? Because they only way you can maintain the usefulness of money is if you enforce payment where it is due.
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by Retra 8y ago
Most fusion is powered by gravity, so at this point, low gravity has been nothing but an impediment.
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by Retra 8y ago
Solid in a vacuum at what temperature?
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by Retra 8y ago
It wouldn't expect it to mean much. You're probably just not waking up during your dreams and staying in bed to ruminate over them. Dreams don't go into recallable memory unless you hold onto them when you're waking. If
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by Retra 8y ago
The fear may be rational, but the response to it needs to be rational as well. That means treating the things that are known to do the most damage currently, while maintaining containment procedures that can handle your black swan epidemics
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by Retra 8y ago
Instructions themselves often encode a conventional interpretation of the bits...
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by Retra 8y ago
Scientific laws are just quantified observations.
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by Retra 8y ago
Energy distorts spacetime. Mass only distorts spacetime because it is a form of energy. Light is also a form of energy.
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by Retra 8y ago
Dictionaries are not written by physicists.
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by Retra 8y ago
Because physicists would find it totally unsuitable for their requirements?
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by Retra 8y ago
If they are living well within their means and can afford it...
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by Retra 8y ago
In my experience, I don't spend more than a few days in the hospital, and when I do spend my time there, my whole life is turned upside down regardless of how much sleep I'm getting.
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by Retra 8y ago
One would think a man who holds the same opinion as a woman would be just as capable of having a valid opinion as that woman. Which opinions are held and whether they are valid or not isn't really a function of what body parts one poss
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by Retra 8y ago
A corollary: if something is true, but not relevant, then why should anybody care if it is true? Know when you're putting your efforts into things that can't pay off.
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by Retra 8y ago
That doesn't do a lot when people are passing you and cutting into your lane immediately after doing so. Now you have to slow and and everyone behind you starts doing the same thing. It's irritating and unsafe.

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