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by air7 7y ago
No, it seems to be on purpose and the puns just keep going south. > "If they work as researchers hypothesize, they could rub out many common problems at once. And based on what we know of vaginas, they could be far less messy than t
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by air7 7y ago
> An octopus, with its richly complex behavior and its large eyes filled with focused attention, is a far more compelling inkblot test, so to speak, triggering a strong social perception in us. Not only do we know, intellectually, that i
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by air7 7y ago
> I refused a ton of money to either sell the trademark and domain-name Out of curiosity, could you give ball-park numbers?
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by air7 7y ago
Thinking about the reasons why people engage in smalltalk (in other areas of life too such as family and friends, dating, service providers, etc) helps (me) cope with its banality and even enjoy it; The irrationality is quite rational. A co
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by air7 7y ago
I used to think similarly but I found that both "other people" and "small talk" can be rather interesting if you approach them with a bit of an anthropological pov: Everyone is interesting if you dig just a bit (and I do
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by air7 7y ago
Wow the Mongol Rally sounds amazing. Can I get in touch to ask you about it?
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by air7 7y ago
That's FUD. The percentage of our waste we send is quite small. Also the percentage of these countries' waste that is imported is small (far from being the main source of trash). And also arguably, if they buy trash to recycle an
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Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)(bbc.com)
58 points by air7 7y ago|39 comments
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by air7 7y ago
Important to note that western countries (almost) don't contribute plastic that ends up in the ocean (that later becomes microplastics) because of modern waste management. [0] Plastic in the oceans comes from poorer countries where a h
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by air7 7y ago
Deterministic in the sense of determining things to their "value" instead of leaving them as a continuous probability.
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by air7 7y ago
Maybe I'm a naive optimist but I doubt that will ever happen (or until we have AGI). We as a species dont really like to give up control. See for example the "Auto Pilot": we have the tech to fly planes safer than human pilot
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by air7 7y ago
For comparison calculate the percentage of the earth covered with nuclear power plants to reach the same goal.
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by air7 7y ago
That's what I thought too until I saw The Shining staring Jim Carrey. https://youtu.be/HG_NZpkttXE
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by air7 7y ago
Imo the problem with fake news is that by the time it's debunked (if), its effect has already happened and can't be undone.
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by air7 7y ago
> Were people not happy before we took flights so often and ate meat for every meal? Not doing something because you can't and not doing something out of choice are two different things. It's much harder (and annoying g) not ea
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by air7 7y ago
Like you I enjoy learning through argument. It rarely works though. This is my conclusion: Most people only pretend to be having a discussion. Actually they are engaged in an emotional battle. Usually the subject matter is part of their sel
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by air7 7y ago
I don't. In the age old debate between security and convince I sometimes want the latter and willing to ease on the former. To me being prepared for the worst is not fun. I use reputation of the software creator to manage my risks.
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by air7 7y ago
I feel that a major part of the problem is misguided activism. I'll give one example. IMO, the solution to the energy problem is obvious: Nuclear. Nuclear is the safest, cleanest, and most stable form of energy production we have right
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Matrix 4 Is Happening(vox.com)
3 points by air7 7y ago|1 comments
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The spooky thing is that the physicist that "finds things that correspond nicely to the mathematician's list" is so freaking good at predicting nature and yielding it to his will. People always looked at nature through the le
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by air7 7y ago
I adamantly agree. The only caveat is some (I don't know the percentage) of the trash being disposed of in these developing countries comes from developed nations that sell it for recycling/dumping but don't do it properly. I
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by air7 7y ago
This oddly makes me feel less anxious about this issue. If everyone is ingesting microplastics all the time for a while now, it proves that at least in the short term there aren't any really bad effects. Otherwise we would've noti
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by air7 7y ago
The question then becomes: Does the "true jerk" have more control over his actions, or is he bound by his personality traits just as much as the "remorseful jerk"? Can we not say that the former can't control his re
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by air7 7y ago
> When a man explodes in anger over something seemingly insignificant, he may appear like just a jerk. But he could be anxious. What's in a name... Its amazing the difference a title makes. Being "a jerk" is frowned upon,
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by air7 7y ago
Third. Though the content discovery should improve. It's a bit overwhelming at the moment.
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by air7 7y ago
> why is it so difficult for me to contemplate foregoing the relative wealth afforded to me by my currency, education, medical health and passport Because deep down you know that's silly. Fundamentally, the world is a leveled playin
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by air7 7y ago
Dictionaries make up words for this reason... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-...
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by air7 7y ago
Other comments have addressed the questionable environmental benefits of plastic bags over multi-use bags. However in terms of ocean pollution this is totally missing the mark. This is an unpleasant thing to discuss, but perhaps times are p
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by air7 7y ago
This is fear mongering. Every website could try 0-days exploits or drive-by downloads . Every app can abuse its permissions and track you/upload your photos/eavesdrop on your conversations. Every neighbor you have could spy on y
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by air7 7y ago
That's such a ridiculous consequence of our field/times. Edit: How about the backend just returns pointers to the text (word #x till word #y) and the js just (re)assembles it?

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