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by afafsd 12y ago
>But genes or not, I brought it up as an example of something that we're clearly NOT comfortable removing (even if we could) Why are "we" clearly not comfortable with that? Indeed, if "we" are all uncomfortable w
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by afafsd 12y ago
>The comments in the article point out that this is not special to Chinese society with specific examples that happen in America Of course they do. It's an iron-clad rule of the internet that if you ever mention anything that happen
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by afafsd 12y ago
Could it be a poorly-disciplined employee somewhere? At one of the phone companies? (Or, dare I say it, the NSA?)
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by afafsd 12y ago
> You can't price businesses as though they will have incredible growth without some discount for the risk involved. One of the risks is competition. I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that the investors understand this basic p
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by afafsd 12y ago
If there is one man out there who has been "overly friendly" with all these women then... a) Wow! Nice work dude. I'm genuinely impressed. However... b) He will be ridiculously easy to track down and catch and the consequ
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by afafsd 12y ago
>This is great work! Most comments here are always going to go negative on the data he collects That's because the "data" is crap. He's picked numbers to get an unreasonably high idea of the cost of owning a car, then
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by afafsd 12y ago
Well, I'd imagine your average client won't object to being taken to lunch in an Uber Black, so this oughtn't be too big an issue.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Yeah, you'll note that even Elon Musk hasn't mentioned the Hyperloop (as far as I've heard) since he sent out a press release and a back-of-the-napkin drawing. A small-scale prototype wouldn't cost that much, surely?
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by afafsd 12y ago
Oh, I'm sure they'll begin it. We'll get a shiny new sixty-billion dollar rail line from Bakersfield to Fresno, and probably two or three trains a day along it.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Firefox 3.5.19 on Mac OS 10.4.11 Yeah yeah, I know.
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by afafsd 12y ago
Isn't this a bit like "Students who take too many science classes are likely to be ungodly?" The article starts off from the presumption that greed is bad, and then whines that people who understand economics better are more
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by afafsd 12y ago
I looked into the AAA's "depreciation" and "interest" numbers, and it turns out the calculations are based on buying a car brand new with borrowed money, paying it off over the course of five years (at what must be
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by afafsd 12y ago
Shows nothing except a grey rectangle on my browser.
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by afafsd 12y ago
>The US is 31st worldwide on bandwidth speed (which really can't be explained by the US's size alone) So? That's like saying the US is 31st on average car speed. Very few people need a car that goes more than 70mph, just l
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by afafsd 12y ago
Net worth of American households overall is shit. Americans don't save money for retirement, they expect Uncle Sam to take care of them. Yet another way in which America, whose left-wing politicians like to pretend is some kind of capi
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by afafsd 12y ago
And tell me, New York Times, what is it that blacks don't get?
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by afafsd 12y ago
Big deal, we've been "3D printing" buildings by hand for centuries. How does 3D printing work? You lay down layers of grains of your material and sinter or otherwise stick them together, and build up an arbitrary structure th
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by afafsd 12y ago
I don't understand why Bayesian statistics needs to be an "-ism", and still less why other statistics needs to be an "-ism" too. I don't understand why people feel the need to line up on one side or the other o
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by afafsd 12y ago
That's fine, but the amount of reasonably accessible wind, tidal and geothermal power is far below global requirements.
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by afafsd 12y ago
I'd imagine this would function much like the Star Wars hoverbikes too, particularly in its tendency to kill four out of five riders within the first couple of minutes. No seriously, good on him if he can get it to work, though I have
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by afafsd 12y ago
(a) Society is currently less stratified than pretty much any point in recorded history, so if you don't like stratification then don't complain. (b) On the other hand, popular and in-demand restaurants already have schemes for le
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by afafsd 12y ago
I certainly agree with the idea that a fairly large amount of private indoor/outdoor space is conducive to happiness and mental health. The tendency of central planners to want everybody to live in a small space and commute by public t
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by afafsd 12y ago
If you spilled paint on a canvas and accidentally produced a fresco by Raphael, it would be considered one of the wonders of the world. It would sell for a higher price than any real artwork ever, and people come from all over the world to
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by afafsd 12y ago
Not one hiding between us and Alpha Centauri (which is unlikely), but one of the hundred or so stars between us and Gliese 581. Closer exoplanets aren't necessarily easier to spot, we've spotted those around Gliese 581 because the
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by afafsd 12y ago
Depends what you mean by "just a matter of money". If you could enslave the entire population of Earth to work full-time on the project for a couple of decades or so then, yeah, you could do it easily. In a world of free will and
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by afafsd 12y ago
Stross says Gliese 581c on the grounds that it's the closest currently known vaguely-habitable exoplanet. Most likely there are others closer and we haven't found them yet. Probably not Alpha Centauri since it's a binary syst
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by afafsd 12y ago
I disagree. The conversation here isn't analogous to a bunch of fine arts majors talking about programming languages, it's analogous to a bunch of fine arts majors talking about (say) iPhone vs Android user experience. Their opini
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by afafsd 12y ago
> If we repeal both CA prop 13, which freezes property taxes at a certain value when the property is sold, we can repeal rent control as well. As a non-American I think that property taxes are an abomination anyway. Tax people on their i
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by afafsd 12y ago
>It would be interesting to see how quickly your attitude would change if you weren't wealthy and were living under a landlord such as yourself. It's funny because I do live under a landlord such as myself, in a different cit
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by afafsd 12y ago
>There is this belief propagated among physicists that smaller scales somehow have more to do with reality Only among high-energy physicists. Perhaps not coincidentally there's also a belief among high-energy physicists that only t

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