Semirhage

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by Semirhage 8y ago
Why would a species want to colonize a galaxy? You’re talking about insane travel and communication times after all, and spreading very thin. Sticking to a single system or handful of systems while controlling reproduction rates is a solu
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by Semirhage 8y ago
The AVR was also not a Gen IV reactor (about which the parent/gp claims were made), and was built over 40 years ago. In fact construction began in 1961, and it was commissioned in ‘69, so really it was tech from 57 years ago that was p
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I’m notable for a few talents and abilities. But self-replication and spaceworthiness aren’t among them. I appreciate the baffling non-sequitur though.
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by Semirhage 8y ago
1. No. The current bulk of research focuses on this pathway because d-t is both energetically favorable, and occurs at lower temps than other energetically favorable pathways. Tritium is a key component of fusion as it is currently studied
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by Semirhage 8y ago
People have no choice but to accept the economic conditions they face. My whole point is that as I said, people don’t just accept, they riot and revolt. I agree with minimum wage laws, but not because of some hyper-extreme scenario in whi
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I’m not judging the validity of rights, I’m examining the practicality of embracing those rights up to their logical extremes. I didn’t despute the right to self defense, I just pointed out that as written by the person I replied to, it coi
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by Semirhage 8y ago
People will ultimately work for their minimum survivable wage and economies will adjust to support ever decreasing wages among a subset of the population. People live in favelas in Rio. They live in tiny, one room flats in Hong Kong withou
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I think there’s definitely an argument to be made in that direction, but it runs into some problems. Guns were state of the art quite a while ago, and the current state of the art is just too dangerous for individual control. I don’t think
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Exactly, and how many want to be found, or find other species? Of those, how many are so far away that communication is a pointless enterprise? Not to mention that the more difficult and costly communication becomes with distance, the furth
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Speech is an intrinsic quality of people, with purposes as diverse as thought and central to human expression. Guns are tools to kill something, and while they can in theory be used to kill or threaten to kill in a myriad of situations, the
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by Semirhage 8y ago
The arc of technology that would matter or be detectable to a distant civilization is less than 200 years of our history so far. It is yet to be seen how far that arc extends to the future. Even if it does, we’ve already passed the peak of
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Fusion requires lots of time, or a few miracles. Renewable storage and transmission requires some breakthroughs. Maybe we could do it Soon, maybe in decades. Fission requires political will, no miracles, no breakthroughs. We could have been
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Before flipping off the site rules and implying that I didn’t read the article, you could think about what I actually said and the comment I responded to. Nothing about a civilization dying off in millions rather than billions of years im
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by Semirhage 8y ago
If advanced technological civilizations are on average, short-lived, then the separation could be orders of magnitude smaller and your point would still stand. All of human evolution is in the millions of years, modern civilization in the t
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Nowhere close, but as you rightly stated, that isn’t the goal of this experimental device. For what it is, which is an exploration of the dynamics of containing high temperature plasmas, it is a resounding success. What you’re asking is sor
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I couldn’t agree more, I think they just got lost in the easy money. If we’re lucky they might fall on some hard times that fall short of killing them, and rememember that making really great games was how they became huge the first time. O
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Anytime you make a significant claim, especially a disputed one that is central to your thesis, it is helpful to at least attempt to back it up. Most people won’t call you on not doing it or talk about burden of proof, they’ll just dismiss
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by Semirhage 8y ago
That isn’t a problem on IOS, but it has some weird text-wrapping. Reader mode fixed it though, can that be done on Android?
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Fair enough. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2018/02/01/479262... The latest disengagement report showed that Waymo vehicles, in tests conducted from December 2016 through November 2017,
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by Semirhage 8y ago
It is not just you. It reminds me of Taco Bell. They’re only working with a dozen or so ingredients, sometimes fried, sometimes grilled, in various combinations. After a while though, you start to realize it’s just a “new” arrangement of
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Try Nioh or Dark Souls, you’ll have gameplay coming out of your ears. If you want cutscenes and dialogue with balance, try Persona 5, which is balanced by very tight gameplay; likewise with Yakuza 0. Avoid anything from Ubisoft like it was
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Right now I’d be thrilled with doing just as well as humans without fudging the numbers. We’re orders of magnitude away from that, so frankly this is all a non-issue. We’re far from demonstrating reliability because they’re far from relia
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by Semirhage 8y ago
And for the record, since you seem to think you know all about me and my government-shilling ways Did you miss me specifically saying that I didn’t buy into the shilling thing? Please don’t claim that I said or implied something I went
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Am I wrong? Going back over a month, you already had your mind made up. Every comment on the topic since is singing the same tune. You’ve characterized an indictment as “pretty convincing” and scoffed at the notion that a government could f
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Reading all of Cacti’s comments on this topic, I get the sense that the answer to your question is a resounding “No.”
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by Semirhage 8y ago
It’s an indictment, aka one side of the story presented in the best possible light. Of course it’s convincing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t completely accurate, but judging guilt or innocence based on limited information provided from one par
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by Semirhage 8y ago
I’ve been on IRC for decades, a few years running a file distribution for audiobooks, which sadly meant I ran across some things I’ll never unsee. I’ve never seen anyone actually say “kiddie porn” who was actually looking for or offering it
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Call me paranoid, but this is the second time you’ve decided to cherrypick my comments and play the victim rather than just saying “nope, no personal financial or ideological stake.” I’ll ask again, do either of those apply to you?
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by Semirhage 8y ago
Shilling is a very different thing from just being biased because of a personal stake in something. Shilling is dishonesty, bias is just human. I know you’re not shilling, I’m asking if you might be biased due to a personal stake, or ideolo
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by Semirhage 8y ago
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there! He wasn't there again today, Oh how I wish he'd go away! When I came home last night at three, The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall, I c

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