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by averagewall 9y ago
Sure, that kind of stereotyping by parents teaching their children to be bigots is probably harmful overall! Harmful neighbor country rivalries last centuries, probably because of just this kind of reinforcement. Then every now and then you
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by averagewall 9y ago
Nevermind fellow citizens. The NSA openly spies on other countries people and certainly doesn't do it with their interests at heart. Americans hypocritically don't like being spied on but they're more than happy to do it to e
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by averagewall 9y ago
You wouldn't need nuclear. It could surface for solar/wave generation as needed. That wouldn't necessarily slow it down because the reduced cost would allow you to have more of them operating simultaneously.
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by averagewall 9y ago
Native used to mean machine code for the hardware but there's so little of that nowadays that I think people often use it to mean anything that's more tied to one platform than a web app so it's a bit ambiguous.
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by averagewall 9y ago
Most people shot in the US are already involved in a problem beforehand. You're not at much risk as a stranger. Death by driving or overeating are more realistic risks in the US. It's like worrying about terrorism. It really does
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by averagewall 9y ago
That happened in New Zealand a few years ago. The police missed their target (an actual active shooter running on foot) and instead killed the driver of a nearby van. I don't know how you can be trained to use a gun and not learn about
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by averagewall 9y ago
Would anyone else honestly blame tech companies for generating the costs of deradicalizing UK people? Doesn't the blame lie more on the people themselves or the ones radicalizing them? The UK is free to block access to parts of the int
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by averagewall 9y ago
Stop radicalization by limiting free speech and spying on everyone's communications? That's similar to what America did with McCarthyism. Communism is arguably more deadly and harmful than Islamic extremism but we accept it as a t
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by averagewall 9y ago
It's terrible that you can buy expensive security camera systems that still store the data locally so thieves can steal the evidence too. Even an old cellphone with motion detection and a cloud uploading app might have helped identify
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by averagewall 9y ago
In CAD, it's called parametric modeling, at least the part about being able to regenerate from the start. "feature-based" seems to be the aspect of having features attached to other features in a tree structure rather than a
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by averagewall 9y ago
Huh? We stopped using lead in petrol about 40 years ago. You do have to make a tradeoff between keeping the economy going and unknown risks. We continued to use concrete despite early fears about the danger of cement dust. We still use soci
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by averagewall 9y ago
It may be an overall improvement in efficiency, but it's not going to help patients long term. Whoever pays for the ambulances is going to eventually reduce their funding because they're being under used and revert them to the sam
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by averagewall 9y ago
A bit off the topic but I always wondered why social scientists need funding or even a university for their experiments. I mean the kind where they put 20 people in a room and show them some pictures and ask them some questions. What resour
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by averagewall 9y ago
I find that when you're talking about technical things on the internet, it's best to assume the other person knows common knowledge and only doesn't know the idea you're trying to express. It's almost impossible tha
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by averagewall 9y ago
Actually the lower bound for sea level rise by 2100 predicted by IPCC (0.2 m) is about the same as the natural rate of rise that's been happening since the ice age. So, no, we're not sure climate change will cause significant sea
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by averagewall 9y ago
People often say that about climate change but isn't it fairly general and obvious that widespread problems hurt poor people the most? In a food shortage, the people who can't afford for food starve first. In developed coastal lan
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by averagewall 9y ago
This is a bit of a nitpick but saying a country has nice people bothers me. It sounds like an empty platitude when they don't have much else to be proud of. Do you really mean Indonesians are nicer than people from somewhere else? What
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by averagewall 9y ago
It did stop the TPP trade agreement which would have extended copyright terms in other countries.
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by averagewall 9y ago
That's not as important as the fact that it spies on foreigners and hacks their computers. Americans somehow decided spying and hacking is OK as long as it's being done to others, not themselves. They shouldn't be surprised t
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by averagewall 9y ago
It's still politicians that pass laws. Politicians are voted for by American people. Those people just can't help themselves voting for the most well funded candidates. They're blind to the fact that their so called free will
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by averagewall 9y ago
Whenever someone says they're sure of a crash, I assume their true feeling is isn't confidence of a crash but frustration at having missed out. Have you shorted Bitcoin? That would help you to profit from your belief.
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by averagewall 9y ago
Instead of demanding net neutrality, why don't Americans want rule changes that would enable competition among ISPs? Wouldn't that solve many more problems - like low speeds and high prices as well?
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by averagewall 9y ago
> it would be ~90% of your after tax take home pay. Why? Because you'll pay. What's to stop a competitor offering it for 89%? And so on until the market finds its fair price.
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by averagewall 9y ago
IQ strongly predicts academic success. Whatever other forms of intelligence it might be missing, are either unknown or don't correlate with academic success so strongly. Google is concerned with academic success and so IQ is also bound
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by averagewall 9y ago
Are you saying that it's right to stifle ideas because they're difficult or or people will be abused for sharing them? That's enforcing your culture on people. Why not let arguments stand or fall on their own without the need
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by averagewall 9y ago
Only if you learnt about the topic from popular politically correct culture. The relationship between race and IQ has been well established in psychology for almost as long as IQ has existed. They can't seem to stop testing it again an
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by averagewall 9y ago
Strangely, hiring your friends is seen as corruption when it's for the government, but it's somehow the proper way to do things for the private sector. If companies really do exist to serve potential employees, then we should requ
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by averagewall 9y ago
It's present behaviour is no better, and that's something you, if you're an American, can actually influence.
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by averagewall 9y ago
In this case, it turns out the relocation did cause problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atol...
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by averagewall 9y ago
This "finger wagging" is chronic in any article related to some kind of environmental change made by people. There's really no disaster here. Far more nuclear bombs were exploded in California. Far more rocks and soil were di

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