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11971.
by api 10y ago
Yes, but "funny" may still involve new physics unless it turns out to be something mundane but very sneaky.
11972.
by api 10y ago
Wow... what a particularly bad article. The Emdrive is an experiment that has so far provided an anomalous result. If that result holds up to replication and deeper investigation, only then will we proceed to the theory stage. There is pres
11973.
by api 10y ago
The claim has been made by the losing side in every election since Bush II in 2000. I take it as a sign of a widening gulf between political factions.
11974.
by api 10y ago
Horrible user experience.
11975.
by api 10y ago
This will almost certainly be used everywhere, not just China. Us crypto cyber libertarian geeks have been warning about the problem of closed silos and Internet centralization for over a decade. I kind of hate being right, given that the r
11976.
by api 10y ago
This is a special case of a general principle. Engineering and coding are crafts, not assembly line work. A craft is a field where the individual human being matters a lot. No "methodology" will make less skilled or experienced cr
11977.
by api 10y ago
This is starting to sound like the Windows Vista of Macs. :(
11978.
by api 10y ago
Don't some number of acquisitions count as this more or less?
11979.
by api 10y ago
What if it's moving dark matter or some other kind of unknown substrate?
11980.
by api 10y ago
I've seen lots of comparisons of Trump and Hitler, Mussolini, or Franco. Personally I'm seeing more parallels to Hugo Chavez. Chavez wrecked Venezuela in part by trying to "purge the insiders." That never works. Problem
11981.
by api 10y ago
Pretty really isn't the problem and hasn't been for a very long time. You can make Linux IMHO prettier than a Mac or Windows pretty easily. The problem is having to tinker. Tinkering is fine if you've got the time and enjoy i
11982.
by api 10y ago
There's a good summary post on Reddit on evidence for Russian infiltration or influence of Wikileaks: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wik... The timeline suggests that Wikil
11983.
by api 10y ago
Isn't it illegal for Federal employees to attempt in any way to influence an election? Couldn't such a thing be considered "attempting to influence" and expose them to losing their jobs or worse? That and much of what th
11984.
by api 10y ago
Welcome to the future where everyone is surrounded by a virtual reality bubble that endlessly strokes their ego by reinforcing their preexisting beliefs. Honestly I see a lot of people doing this and agitating for it. Everyone wants a &quot
11985.
by api 10y ago
I've always been a bit concerned about VR being highly addictive, especially for people who want something to 'escape'. This seems to bolster this concern. Of course people can and will get addicted to almost anything. VR may
11986.
by api 10y ago
There's a Stephen King novel called The Lawnmower Man that's basically this premise exactly. The film version is decent too and kind of fun in a 90s cyberpunk throwback sense too. Stay away from the sequels since as usual they are
11987.
by api 10y ago
There are lots of brilliant young women. It may have played a role but probably a minimal one. What this does show is that the genders are also equal in their capacity to engage in this kind of asshattery.
11988.
by api 10y ago
Sounds like a really inefficient data structure in stateful firewalls.
11989.
by api 10y ago
There are many more possibilities. Another is that we are late. The universe has already been bum rushed by von Neumann probes and other such things. This happened a billion years ago. The cowboy era of the cosmos is now over. We are now in
11990.
by api 10y ago
Not even close. Cattle are labor and space intensive as well as guzzling feed and water. All of the latter has to be shipped via trucks and pipes.
11991.
by api 10y ago
Nearly everything in UFOlogy is obvious folklore, hoaxes, and wishful thinking, with probably some misinformation to cover up classified aircraft projects thrown in. But here's the thing... If life and intelligence are natural phenomen
11992.
by api 10y ago
This is shallow and is part of the reason Trump won. They prioritize culture, heritage, tradition, community, and stability (economic and social) over academic knowledge, mobility, novelty, etc. They are not dumb or more dishonest on averag
11993.
by api 10y ago
Having to move constantly is one of the core grievances people have against modernity and globalism. Some people care about having friends, roots, history, community.
11994.
by api 10y ago
"We" don't capture most of the value though. Most of the value goes to a tiny percentage of Americans at the very top and everyone else loses their jobs. (Ironically many of the rich I've spoken with agree, while it&#x27
11995.
by api 10y ago
If people make more they can afford to spend more. What we need is an upward spiral in place of the downward (deflationary) spiral we have now.
11996.
by api 10y ago
You're falling for the fallacy of the excluded middle. The alliterative is fairness. If we're going to have an EPA and OSHA and the rest, then we have to tax imports from places that don't in proportion to the degree that th
11997.
by api 10y ago
I've been hammering on this issue for a while. While I can't stand Trump personally and many of the things he stands for, the fact is that the American left has enclosed itself in a small number of alpha cities (look at the county
11998.
by api 10y ago
I've heard this called "weaponized Keynesianism." The use of Keynesian here is somewhat off-base since this is nothing like what Keynes advocated, so a better term would be "politically weaponized stimulus." In its
11999.
by api 10y ago
Doesn't this show that yes you can do police work in the post crypto age?
12000.
by api 10y ago
The trend of middle class and blue collar hollowing-out and economic decimation began in the early 1970s. Find any graph of median wage, etc., if you need confirmation. You can't blame SV for a trend that began 30 years before its rise

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