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by akiselev 4y ago
> mm. if we are going by anecdata, my dad grew up in Europe in latter 20th century and they could not afford shoes or electricity. his siblings were put up for adoption. things have certainly changed, but that is intense material depriv
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by akiselev 4y ago
Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Once everything is automated away, I suspect it won't be the Star Trekian Utopia we'd like. The Star Trekian utopia grew out of a 21st century devastated by a world war that saw a third of the Earth's population wiped
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by akiselev 4y ago
I believe it's in Vertigo Park And Other Tall Tales by Mark O'Donnell but it's appeared in the Spy magazine December 1987 before that. If you search Google Books for "Do you not be happy with me as the translator of t
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by akiselev 4y ago
So much so that it's actually kind of a trope in the UK music industry [1]. A lot of the most famous British musicians from the 70s and 80s were "on the dole" receiving welfare before they made it big. [1] https://
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by akiselev 4y ago
I mean in the context of actual use by humans in the day to day operation of a colony or other off-world facility. There's obviously plenty of large vacuum chambers than can fit a door mechanism or even a small test room (the ones JPL
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by akiselev 4y ago
I love that blog! I think that door post is a perfect example of why we won't learn anything useful on Antarctica: > Most (but not all!) doors open inward. There is a huge amount of snowdrift during the winter, and if the doors ope
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Let's figure out how to house and sustain, say, 20K people in Antarctica for 100 years before we even dream about doing the same on Mars. Why? We established a colony there in the 50s and by now the population of Antarctica rang
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by akiselev 4y ago
Priced at $9,999, who actually buys these? Spec ops snipper spotters who can’t afford to run out of battery using Canon’s IS? Mechanical binocular enthusiasts like with mechanical watches? Professional astrophotographers? It seems all the p
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by akiselev 4y ago
You might be thinking of this comment here [1]? The problem isn't the medium used to grow the calories per se, it's the overall cost per calorie which is mostly energy either in the form of fertilizer (which everyone pays, vertica
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by akiselev 4y ago
They are but someone has to be in possession of the book and go through the trouble of digitizing it. Usually it’s museums, libraries, and private collections and a variety of enthusiasts eventually upload from those sources to Zlib/li
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by akiselev 4y ago
At this point I think that the definition of truth is just another wedge issue introduced to the political teamsport - the process of searching for truth was already so noisy that it's best left to the people nearest to the feedback lo
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by akiselev 4y ago
It's a series of misspellings, puns, and tortured logic. > It has two hind legs, aside from its fourlegs. Hind legs are the opposite of forelegs so the statement is true but misspelled, and [---tortured logic here---] two hind l
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think the OP just made a fly-by comment using very imprecise language. Most people assume drug exclusivity works through patents without giving generics with expired patents (like HCQ) much thought. They wouldn't need to modify it fo
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think that really depends on the type of book. I've found the large PDFs to be by far the most reliable for books printed before the 20th century because - save for Google Books - no one's OCR is tuned for the kind of printing e
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by akiselev 4y ago
It's... complicated but I assume the GP meant new drug product exclusivity [1] which is a process by which a pharmaceutical manufacturer can get a short window of exclusivity for a new approved use without rights over the original pate
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by akiselev 4y ago
> It's probably best to assume good faith from the commenter, especially when their username is "transcoderx"! Given that HN is a site by nerds for nerds, I think you’re leaping to conclusions: https://en.m.wi
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by akiselev 4y ago
Germany has the legal concept of Mitbestimmung [1] and Betriebsverfassungsgesetz legislation [2] US Laws = European common sense. You did stick us with the protestants after all :-) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by akiselev 4y ago
> after the VP of operations out of Dallas sent a demanding (and possibly unreasonable) memo to the Denver staff banning sick time without a doctors note and requiring mandatory overtime IANAL but that’s not just unreasonable, it’s dow
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by akiselev 4y ago
The FBI? The party that tried to blackmail MLK into killing himself? That FBI?
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by akiselev 4y ago
They’re still liable for paying taxes, which they do largely by mailing the IRS shoeboxes full of cash. By paying taxes they’re essentially admitting to a felony to the US government, which makes them trivially easy to raid. That said, raid
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by akiselev 4y ago
In woodworking and other crafts this is called the "Harbor Freight rule": when you need a tool for the first time, you go buy the cheapest one from Harbor Freight. Either the tool will never break in which case you don't use
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Maybe. Premature optimization is said to be the root of all evil... The full quote, because it always gets butchered to "premature optimization is the root of all evil": Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinkin
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by akiselev 4y ago
> This is simply not true. Having happy employees is very good for business profitability. That probably explains why most VC-funded businesses these days aren't profitable, even after they IPO :-) Liquidation preference does not
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by akiselev 4y ago
Huperchild has the words “per child” in it, which is exclusionary to people who choose not to worsen overpopulation by not procreating. How about huperperson? Uh wait, that’s recursi- political correctness overflow error .
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by akiselev 4y ago
The automotive equivalent to the cheap pair of boots is a beater off craigslist, not a cheaper new car from the dealer. It’s not a choice between a Toyota and an entry level BMW but between a 20 year old gas guzzler that can break down at a
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by akiselev 4y ago
Actually, it’s almost exactly the other way around. The Gutenberg Bible may be famous as the first thing printed but publishing exploded in the second half of the fifteenth century across all genres. The competition was intense and with no
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by akiselev 4y ago
The point is she didn’t pounce at the delicious blahfefe staring at her. :-)
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by akiselev 4y ago
Is it just me or does that IHOP dumpster bear [1] look obese? If they're used to fattening up for the winter and going into torpor to burn off that fat, what happens when there's enough food to last them all winter too? Are we ess
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by akiselev 4y ago
> "submit" ("Depending on the context, the term can imply allowing others to have power over you.") And they’re simultaneously kink shaming!

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