anthony_romeo

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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
What if someone loses their legs on the eventual Mars base? Are they just SOL until another 20 years of research to accommodate people without limbs? There are an infinite number of what-if scenarios that can be cherry-picked to form an arg
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
Lol, as if you or I can meaningfully tell the difference between a "PR Stunt" and a valid hire. If you see an astronaut with a prosthetic leg in the next five years, are you going to just automatically presume that they are unwort
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
You can choose to believe that if you want. I don't see any meat to your argument beyond mere hunchery. For example, you merely identify that a "cost" exists, but you didn't bother to claim it was a meaningful cost in
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
This is a bad take and arbitrarily discriminatory, and I don't like this sort of reactionary anti-virtue signalling I've been seeing a lot on HN recently. You did not establish that the "new challenges" are especially d
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
I don't care for this sort of discrimination. What if the guy with no legs is also the best for the job? You're gonna exclude 'em "just because"?
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
This is great forward-thinking. It's rarely too early to think about people with disabilities. Setting up some structure to allow reasonable accommodations early will help avoid a need to later 'open up' space travel to other
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
You ignored the first bullet of the three, which was: "They have a lower limb deficiency (for example, due to amputation or congenital limb deficiency)"
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
It's in a number of linux package repos (it's at least in Ubuntu and Debian). Though I remember at least getting a few lines in Bastet. Hateris seemed to be a lot more difficult (as the article states should be the case).
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
In other Prion news, there's a prion disease, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), affecting populations of wild Deer, Elk, etc. in North America and other chunks of the world. It's not yet known to infect people, but please be careful
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
Makes sense... levying war against Congress wasn't a good look.
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
There’s an order to it: “Based on a true story”: loosely based on a book “Based on true events”: loosely based on some news articles “Inspired by true events”: The writer heard your story and thought of a more interesting one
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
There’s another aspect: there’s a horrible lack of common decency and respect by supervisors and managers of low-wage workers. Having worked menial data entry, warehouse, grocery store, fast food jobs, I’ve interacted with far too many stre
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
As with anything, all people have different priorities. Some people prioritize taste in their food. Some health. Some ethics. Though usually it’s some combination of many different priorities. Indeed there are different types of Vegans as w
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by anthony_romeo 5y ago
If you'd like a better sense of what they do, they have a number of RSS feeds: https://www.sec.gov/about/secrss.shtml . Most of the time, what I see is press releases about scammers they caught.
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
One helpful intuition not explicitly stated: To rotate a 2x2 matrix by 90°, you can multiply it by: ┌ ┐ │ 0 -1 │ │ 1 0 │ └ ┘ One could reason out how to expand this into 3 dimensions. For example:
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
To be more generous, I'd suggest an evolutionary explanation. In the days long ago, before shoes were a thing, having healthy feet would be pretty highly correlated with survivability, and thus spreading one's genes. So perhaps it
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
I smell a Pulitzer here
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
Like most memes and quips, it's a funny and apt observation... that generalizes too far and should have been a lengthier article with examples and suggestions of how to better manage FOSS projects to make projects more appealing, inste
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
Perhaps they could make use of all of those box-drawing characters that are just taking up space, and use them to pipe the characters in all sorts of directions! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
You’re exaggerating. I’ve seen plenty of valid and serious coverage of this from big outlets (NPR, Economist) explaining the plausibility of the scenario, not “disproving” in any manner. Which “the media” are you referring to? I’ve also see
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
I agree. Personally I’ve not dismissed this possibility at all. But as it stands, it’s just a hypothesis with suggestive information, but nothing concrete. There are verified wrongs to criticize them for right now, and can be a starting poi
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
So one element which kinda wraps all of these concepts together is what some have called the "Golden Age of Islam".[1] The [literal] Empire which emerged from Muhammad's legacy became a source of great intellectual thinking (
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
Who knows, maybe sufficiently advanced civilizations eventually discover some orthogonal means of existence far superior and “real” compared to our current universe, and we’re just too stupid to see it. Edit: Now that I think of it, I’m
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SEC Obtains Asset Freeze, Charges CA Trader with Posting False Stock Tweets(sec.gov)
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
Your overall stance seems to require the assumption that “diversity on paper” is the more common/significant outcome relative to “diversity of opinion”. Do you happen to have any info which might support such an assumption?
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
I have tendencies to want to do this, but I choose to stop myself, to remember that random (hopefully) people on the Internet aren't necessarily more reliable than some random article on the Internet. It's valuable to check one&#x
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
Just a note on the first paragraph and Columbus, I always liked to think in terms of 'Columbus wasn't the first person to discover America, but rather he was the last person to do so.'
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
Perhaps. Cynicism is highly valuable -- a smell test. But cynicism is not conclusory. Others have responded noting examples and rationales as to why paid speeches are not necessarily bribes. I'll also note that you include a citation a
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
IMO Slippery slope arguments can definitely be valid. Slippery slope fallacies are failed slippery slope arguments. To successfully argue for the slippery slope, one needs to actually argue that the slope exists and will lead to the ultim
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by anthony_romeo 6y ago
I’d just like to suggest the possibility that there’s nothing noble going on in /r/wallstreetbets and this is all being orchestrated by a small number of people taking advantage of useful idiots. I’m not attempting to proclaim thi

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