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9511.
by api 7y ago
Sounds like psychopaths would do the best on these tests.
9512.
by api 7y ago
I've met a few and I run into them online a lot. It depends on your circles and where you live, but it's not nearly as small as you think.
9513.
by api 7y ago
Ever since the Bush II years I've felt like the right and the left have been engaged in a competition over who can be the most irrational and insane. It's a game of reacting to reaction to reaction ... all the way down. If we have
9514.
by api 7y ago
They're a public company owned by their shareholders. This isn't their job. What it will take is for the US and other countries to start prioritizing human rights in trade negotiations.
9515.
by api 7y ago
A new kind of thinner lighter design firm?
9516.
by api 7y ago
You and the parent are both "right." Psychedelics are notoriously unpredictable YMMV things, which is part of why they haven't been mainstreamed as a treatment for anything. For mainstream drugs we usually want something as p
9517.
by api 7y ago
Apparently if the target is the instance ID this can preserve public source IP and port. That can be a big deal for e.g. bootstrap nodes for P2P networks.
9518.
by api 7y ago
It happened with things like lignin after their evolution in the carboniferous, but it took hundreds of millions of years. In the meantime we got a significant fraction of the Earth's fossil fuels as indigestible plant fibers were depo
9519.
by api 7y ago
This starts happening the instant a medium becomes a potential source of revenue. Look at most average TV: endless repetitive nonsense plots, drama, and other filler to serve as a medium for ads.
9520.
by api 7y ago
Wait... you actually looked something up! That's not how you Internet! You make things up to argue your personal biases. Duh.
9521.
by api 7y ago
I've been talking about the decline of the interior for a decade or more, and listening to politicians and academics on both the left and the right (who mostly live on the coasts) deny it. If nothing is done about this we are going to
9522.
by api 7y ago
You are in the minority. Most IT and devops people are massively change averse and tend to blame all problems on the most recent change. They would rather pay more for a known quantity. This is even more the case for non technical manageme
9523.
by api 7y ago
I just ninja edited to add that. Hah. Anyway that could happen but keep in mind that a new ISA (for server workloads) is a much harder sell than a new chip brand. An ARM64 would need to be priced much lower (at least in $/perf/wat
9524.
by api 7y ago
Intel is the standard and that has amazing sticking power. AMD is trying to make an offer DC operators can't refuse to break that. Intel is reeling from major design flaws and process stagnation right now. It makes sense for AMD to pun
9525.
by api 7y ago
No. It's an incredibly deflationary currency. Even slight changes in demand cause its price to spike wildly, discouraging its use for actual commerce and encouraging speculation. This leads to a speculative bubble that finally crashes
9526.
by api 7y ago
I wonder what America would look like without the disease holocaust? Would the two cultures have traded, warred, and also blended? Would Navajo and Iroquois keyboard layouts be a thing? Would there be a totem pole on the Moon?
9527.
by api 7y ago
Not at all surprised to see Brandeis on there.
9528.
by api 7y ago
Modern computing analog: the first sentient AI to arrive in the Centauri system will contain CPU cores executing x86-64 instructions, a 64-bit extension to a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit segmented extension to an 8-bit teletype CPU.
9529.
by api 7y ago
It's really the only business model that ended up working for the Internet at a large scale, at least on the consumer side.
9530.
by api 7y ago
The mobile revolution really boiled that frog. For some reason a change in form factor caused everything to completely forget about freedom, openness, and privacy, because ooh shiny.
9531.
Senators receive classified briefings on UFO sightings(cnn.com)
2 points by api 7y ago|0 comments
9532.
by api 7y ago
Space is called space for a reason. Even in real life asteroid rich orbits the odds of hitting something are very low. Pulp sci-fi asteroid fields like the ones depicted in Star Wars are just not a thing. Outside the inner solar system the
9533.
by api 7y ago
Just needs truck nutz.
9534.
by api 7y ago
Not Daedalus, Orion. It was a 1960s research project involving Freeman Dyson and others. Google it. There is a fantastic documentary that I think is on YouTube. Orion is kind of shockingly practical. It was forgotten for some time as it was
9535.
by api 7y ago
The prophecies of William Gibson continue to unfold. I'm waiting for the Rastafarian colony in high orbit.
9536.
by api 7y ago
Little time dilation at 8%, so not a big difference.
9537.
by api 7y ago
Or extreme life extension, or fully digital AI. Life span is a big part of the problem. Personally I doubt that meat will go to the stars. Planets, sure, and maybe bases or settlements. The stars take too long.
9538.
by api 7y ago
Look into Project Orion. With thermonuclear bombs you could hit 8% c, which would get you there in "only" 150-200 years including acceleration and deceleration time. That is still beyond humans with present day life spans, but ext
9539.
by api 7y ago
I have a 2013 Leaf and would rather swap the battery somehow than upgrade because the newer ones all have less tactile controls and more worthless, brittle, privacy invading fad driven bullshit. Lower end cars are often more reliable too ow
9540.
by api 7y ago
> This decision is 100% business driven It's 100% fad driven. Expect block chain in a car at some point because the future.

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