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by api 11y ago
I don't think that explains the gusto behind this program, or the degree to which it was propagandized or maintained in the face of public unpopularity. If it's not that useful, why try so hard to protect and advance it as a polic
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by api 11y ago
Legitimate question: Given the objective evidence that this is not reliable as an interrogation technique, why was it done? I find it difficult to believe that US military brass are ignorant or stupid. These people spend their lives study
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by api 11y ago
Last time I was there it was more like 'what coffee shops in SF/SV will not be full of startup founders?'
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by api 11y ago
2011?
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by api 11y ago
There are independent replications, which IMO mostly rule out hoaxes -- or at least greatly reduce the likelihood to below other explanations. It's tough to create an independently reproducible hoax. Right now my guess is either measur
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by api 11y ago
I'm not suggesting it's explained by current physics. What I'm saying is that if it works, I'd consider new physical explanations that maximally preserve conservation laws first -- sort of for Ockham's Razor reaso
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by api 11y ago
In this case different tests have occurred at different power levels. Has anyone normalized the results? Of course with only a couple replications its early for a meta study.
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by api 11y ago
Why the assumption that if it works it must violate a conservation law? That's the last thing I would suggest after exhausting every other possibility, even weird ones like space time distortion thst would still operate within known co
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by api 11y ago
Careful. Detroit might become cool, which will bring real estate hyperinflation. Be sure to keep those crime rates up.
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by api 11y ago
Ok. I'll be the crazy person. At what point do we consider that at least some percentage of the more credible and interesting UFO sightings might be evidence of visitation? We now know with a high level of certainty that earth like wor
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by api 11y ago
Nature doesn't intend anything. Things just happen. People come along later and romanticize whatever occurred, tell stories about it.
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by api 11y ago
Antarctica is a terrible example. First of all, settlement of antarctica is illegal. It's all claimed and off limits by treaty. We don't know if anyone would settle it if it were open. Secondly, there is a qualitative difference b
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by api 11y ago
So public markets essentially make long-term thinking impossible?
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by api 11y ago
Unicorns feel like an artifact of making it a little too hard to go public.
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by api 11y ago
One thing a lot of people don't think about is the potential for abuse for financial reasons. Imagine insider trading with access to CEOs e-mail, industrial espionage, etc.
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by api 11y ago
That's really an excellent point! Thanks. Using renewables or nuclear power to extract fossil fuels amounts to something almost like indirect energy conversion/storage. It can also work between fossil sources. I've heard the
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by api 11y ago
Eventually we will hit the point at which oil prices do go up forever -- if they are measured as the inverse of EROEI. In other words: we'll reach the point at which every barrel of (conventional geological) oil that we produce takes m
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Why the US has a long-term edge over China(marketwatch.com)
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by api 11y ago
If a few -- and only a few -- things had gone differently, Commodore could be Apple. The Amiga was ahead of its time and was in many ways far better than the Macintosh (at the time, or even a bit later). Apple succeeded because it found two
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by api 11y ago
I wonder if this is why Apple backed away from ZFS? Would it mandate the use of more expensive ECC RAM?
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by api 11y ago
That's only part of the story. If you lose your job, you might not be able to stay -- and competitive pay may still be lower than a US candidate. So who do you want if you're Google? An H1-B with really heavy golden handcuffs, or
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by api 11y ago
This is normal for Google's byzantine hiring process. I got in once a while back (way before what I'm doing now) with a high recommendation from an insider, successfully cleared the interviews, and never heard anything. They even
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by api 11y ago
You're saying you won't even use something GPL? Linux is GPL, so do you use something else on your servers?
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by api 11y ago
Network effects are powerful. Silicon Valley largely runs (today) on monetizing network effects, and network effects are also why Silicon Valley is all concentrated in the Bay Area. The primary factor is concentration of capital: it is expo
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by api 11y ago
You can also blame subsidies and zoning laws. Free highway and road construction counted as a massive subsidy for sprawl, and zoning laws force sprawl in many cases by outright prohibiting the location of any place of business where people
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by api 11y ago
That's not what I mean. What I mean is: where is the creative stuff now?
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by api 11y ago
I've thought this for years. Basically SV is still just mining the stuff that came out of SRI/Engelbart and PARC. There has been very little fundamental innovation (a.k.a. invention ) since then, and we don't have a fundamen
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by api 11y ago
TL;DR: This piece is an exploration -- explicit/intentional or not -- of how countercultural, SF, and neo-pagan concepts like transhumanism, post-humanism, superhumans, sci-fi concepts, and visionary futurism have been co-opted for eco
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by api 11y ago
Two words: student loan.
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by api 11y ago
It can't be imposed. The term 'collectivism' is a poor choice due to its historical baggage of totalitarianism. 'Community' is slightly better. I don't think this article is really talking about 20th century ce

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