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by ardy42 6y ago
> This kid apparently didn't even understand that 1:1 dictionary look-ups aren't a form of translation, and definitely did not understand/anticipate the immense damage he was doing. There's plenty of blame to go aroun
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by ardy42 6y ago
> So how are you going to get "hundreds" of drones up to 50K feet where the F-22 operates? Since we're being realistic, you could use the launcher I sketched out as an elementary school student. It had missile tubes on ev
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Over the past few years, I've been hoping to run into an 80s soviet movie with heavily armed evil american antagonists. The soviet ideological indoctrination and censorship game must've been strong, because so far everything
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by ardy42 6y ago
> How much of a chance do you have if you don't have missiles, but your enemy still has some? Isn't it better to just retreat? It probably depends on the situation and what you do. IIRC, missiles lose effectiveness at the kind
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm thinking of a plane built from the ground up to never be piloted by a human. A missile like drone really. I'm not sure if that would work. Missiles can put a lot more stress on the airframe because they're literally
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> iPhone users cannot set another browser as the default browser > iOS 14: Here’s an early look at how you’ll be able to change default apps I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing. IIRC, Apple forbids other br
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I've said the exact same thing in other threads. You can do fakeouts a human can't possibly do like corkscrew at 500rpm and pull 50gs randomly and repeatedly when a radar is trying to predict your path. Those maneuvers sound
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Sample size is not everything "Literary Digest poll was also one of the largest and most expensive polls ever conducted, with a sample size of around 2.4 million people" The large size by itself does not guarantee correctness
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I personally know several people who equate a vote for Biden as a vote to bring exactly this type of toxic behavior mainstream - they have told me exactly that. These sorts of extreme tactics on the left push many right-leaning people
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's similar in some ways to the concept of block time, in which there is no progression of time. The universe simply exists and the perception of the 'present' is an illusion. Similarly for Minsky the perception of real
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think the events at those meetings are more about the joy of the gotcha than anti-racism versus non-racism. It just feels good to catch someone out, to be the one who sees it first. Like most pleasures it has addictive power. I think
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 20% of the African population is dependent on food aid. There are now more Africans living in Poverty than at any time in history. > How much of our agricultural bounty is sent as food aid, and serves to create only more hungry mout
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> ultimately failing to achieve anything other than even more instability in the middle east > Hate to break it to you but this was the exact desired outcome. That's not actually true. It doesn't seem like it was deeply
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by ardy42 6y ago
> What are the "obvious limitations"? There are many problems with today's industrialized agriculture, but I wouldn't call the limitations obvious. The article says it doesn't work well in Africa for instance, an
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by ardy42 6y ago
> We can "call out" whatever you want. People vote with their dollar. Target, Walmart, cheap resellers on AliExpress/Amazon are "winning" every day because the most important thing most consumers care about is ro
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by ardy42 6y ago
> We are now on month 7 of being told to not socialize or see or do anything. What? That's a pretty exaggerated misrepresentation of what's actually being recommended. You can socialize and see or do plenty while still obeyi
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You’re right, I’m an economist, not a doctor. So I look at the world in terms of trade offs. And the trade offs western societies have made with this virus are so unlike the trade offs made with any other infectious disease in recent m
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You could have one pamphlet with the policy, and a separate book with the reasoning, and instruct people to check the book when proposing a change or exception. That's still a significant trade-off: putting together a book with th
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by ardy42 6y ago
> On the other hand, a reason can convince people, while a policy can be avoided, worked around or ignored while creating zero feelings of guilt. Though, I'd imagine that, in many cases, adding reasons would turn a policy pamphlet i
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Here's my thinking: as a society, we should decide on what needs to be handled by the government. Defense, roads, pandemic response, scientific research, welfare, healthcare, whatever. Make your own list, we can all hash that out.
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Inequality in your country has risen dramatically the past 30 years. > Why should I or anyone care? Are you inside or outside the gated community?
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by ardy42 6y ago
> We have examples of this in modern society. Actual prisons where people can spend an entire lifetime. > Most people don't commit suicide. Eh, not so much. Most solitary confinement in modern prisons is temporary and prisons ha
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by ardy42 6y ago
Not really. In an open society, courts and government bodies will sometimes have to make private things public if there's a compelling public-interest reason for doing so. That's needed for public oversight, and all that can be
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If anything, the lesson to be learned here is that if your business depends exclusively on another company for its survival then it’s not your business. > To the authors point - yes, Apple can change it’s policies whenever it likes,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Just quit. Who cares. You're stuck in this mindset of eternity under management. You're immortal. Do the vanlife for a month, Live on an island, start a business. Chill. That's assuming that you're going to have the
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Humans generally prefer being bored over being dead, period. Solitary confinement sounds like the ultimate form of boredom. If you were locked in it with no hope of release, there's a good chance you'd eventually start looki
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by ardy42 6y ago
> What would change if we could live for even just a million years? ... First, tenure in academia would have to be capped. Universities would have to limit faculty appointments to a century at most in order to refresh their talent pool a
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by ardy42 6y ago
> How are you able to make more local friends in a less dense location? Not the GP, but the social changes that happen with population density may make starting friendships more difficult (e.g. people adapting by being more standoffish t
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by ardy42 6y ago
> "The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 metres (5 ft) above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight intensity" [1] And they use enclosure like this to do that: https://en.wikipe
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's a good example of the Tragedy of the Commons. We mostly solved that problem on land, and even ended up with industrial farming by allowing people to own pieces of land to run their own farming operations. That's a myth.

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