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by anvandare 5y ago
It's not that they could not afford doing it. It's that it's more affordable to not do it. Companies are not people, they have no ethics, they have no morality, they have only simple stimulus-and-response behavior, based on p
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by anvandare 6y ago
>The US would instantly have at least one carrier sunk minutes after declaring and that alone could break morale. Isn't that the exact reasoning which led to the attack on Pearl Harbor? "One quick strike and they'll be out
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by anvandare 6y ago
>And you can bet the US has no intention to intervene. The most absolutely do. They might not want to, but they have no choice. Taiwan is a shackle in a long chain: From South Korea, across the Korean strait, to Japan. From Japan, along
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by anvandare 6y ago
You can't really out-man other men like we used to in the old days anymore. (i.e. raid another village, kill the men, take the women) Nowadays we do things more civilized by posing on social media with gym bods and expensive cars and
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by anvandare 6y ago
If I could do one thing in my life, it would be to visit the Cueva de las Manos in Argentina[0][1]. Every time I look at the picture of it I just get overwhelmed with emotion. It's the artistic level that goes on in kindergartens, and
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by anvandare 6y ago
Thankfully it will (probably) never get as bad as Stallman described it[1], but you never know. [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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by anvandare 6y ago
Thank you, but none of my ideas are novel in any way[ ] and there are far better writers than me already expounding the same points, no need to add to the noise. Stallman, Doctorow, et al. pretty much saw these developments coming years ago
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by anvandare 6y ago
True, but so far we just get the bad things (corporatocracy and the the gradual hollowing out of individual liberties) and none of the good things (gene-hacking, neural uplinks, and matrix-avatars) that cyberpunk promised. I demand a refund
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by anvandare 6y ago
The speed of technological development is faster than the speed of societal or legal development. So yes, right now we've woken up in a world that is not so much cyberpunk as it is techno-feudalism: more and more do you need a presence
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by anvandare 6y ago
"Cease quoting laws to us that have rocket boosters strapped to asteroids!" (with apologies to Plutarch)
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by anvandare 6y ago
In short, use the Socratic method. (But then again, that didn't end well for Socrates - or did it?)
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by anvandare 6y ago
Cool trick! Adding an additional :p modifier prevents the complaint about command not found: $ # This string 'has single' "and double" quotes and a $ $ !:q '# This string '\''has single'\
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by anvandare 6y ago
Well, this particular instance of the Universe popped into existence last Thursday[1] and will run until Tuesday at around 16:33:02. (internal time, that is) After which it's expected another 10^4943332110093! instances will run befo
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by anvandare 6y ago
Thankfully, we already have a source of constantly changing pressure: the Moon! (Well, the Earth's rotation) Since the Earth rotates around its own axis, you're oscillating closer to and further from the Moon every 24 hours. When
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by anvandare 6y ago
Not really a question, more of a remark: both the destructive and non-destructive approaches result in the same thing: a copy of 'you', not actually 'you'. (The same is true when you go to sleep, of course. Whoever wake
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by anvandare 6y ago
They should have a global leaderboard with "shortest time to dock". Tip: focus on one number at a time and zero out any rotation first. Then use only translation to move. Oh, and go fast and hard, just like Jebediah Kerman would.
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by anvandare 7y ago
But the European Starling is listed.[1] And we have Eugene Schieffelin to thank for that.[2] [1] https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/european_starling [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schie
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by anvandare 7y ago
Practice firing, hence direct fire. But unless I'm mistaken, it's an M777 UFH - conventional range 15 miles, rocket assisted projectile range 18.6 miles. More than capable of lobbing stuff a few horizons ahead.
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by anvandare 7y ago
Good to see the mask (and gloves) are finally coming off. No one can pretend anymore that the emperor has clothes.
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by anvandare 7y ago
Correct. >"... each book is of four hundred and ten pages; each page, of forty lines, each line, of some eighty letters which are black in color." >"The orthographical symbols are twenty-five in number." 25 ^ ( 410
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by anvandare 7y ago
>only peaceful non-violent struggle can bring about real change. Utterly false, but persistently preached by those in power to ensure there's never any real threat to their position. "Just lie down while I stomp your neck. Don&
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by anvandare 7y ago
So it's a smurf used when you don't smurfin' know the proper smurf? Smurfy. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Smurfing
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by anvandare 7y ago
The greatest risks to your health throughout history were (contagious) diseases and infections. With the advent of sanitation, food safety, modern medicine, etc., their percentage has dropped significantly. But "you gotta die of somet
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by anvandare 7y ago
The fact that they even started the project speaks for itself. Companies don't have ethical standards, only slick PR departments.
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by anvandare 7y ago
At this point I think that hardly matters anymore, the damage is done, there are already too many people. Even if population growth were to drop to < 0 (below replacement) today, this planet can simply not sustain 7.4 billion humans at t
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by anvandare 7y ago
Usually migration, or just because they got caught by the wind/hot air bubble. It's not like a fall from any height can harm them anyway. https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100204/full/news.2010.5
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by anvandare 7y ago
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealin
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by anvandare 7y ago
Probably (although it makes more sense for them to be vague) but you shouldn't really care about the paper rules anyway, instead here are the real rules: Rule One: there are no rules. Rule Two: you must pretend Rule One does not exist.
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by anvandare 7y ago
For the next revision: remove the mole from the SI. It's completely pointless. A number is not a unit! Instead replace it by the bit, the fundamental unit of information.
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by anvandare 7y ago
Sounds like "Aristotle and the Gun" by De Camp.

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