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by beobab 8y ago
Also, (and almost totally unrelated) Azimov predicted tunnels for autonomous vehicles in his Daneel Olivaw books. Mind you, he also predicted "rolling roadways", like a big conveyor belt instead of trains.
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by beobab 8y ago
I humbly suggest that that law has lost it's moral compass and needs to be addressed. Once you reject the principle that "all people are created equally human", then you run the risk of being on the "wrong side", an
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by beobab 8y ago
And I do actually remember the amazement in the community when she stayed dead, rather than springing back to life as though it had never happened in the next episode.
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by beobab 8y ago
An Englishman's word is his bond. ;)
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by beobab 8y ago
A blame mentality is a dangerous and self-defeating road to travel. It is only a matter of time before the blamer makes a mistake. Punishments are for the discouragement of others. How long before everyone is too paralysed by fear to make a
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by beobab 8y ago
As I recall, there was a pretty even split amongst the population. Approximately half my friends wanted to stay, and half wanted to leave. Which pretty much mirrored the actual result. It was very close.
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by beobab 8y ago
Pretty sure I'd go with option 2 for all my children. :)
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by beobab 8y ago
Too many! We started off all ad-hoc, in the room chatting about stuff, and when we got a remote team, we switched to TFS, with phone calls and Skype. Someone suggested Slack, so we tried that, and then someone else suggested Teams, so we tr
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by beobab 8y ago
Which made me chuckle for very similar reasons.
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by beobab 8y ago
The Complete Robot by Issac Azimov. Well actually, I couldn't decide between "I-Robot" and "The rest of the robots", but luckily there's a compendium with them both in.
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by beobab 8y ago
Now try it with an unpopular view. People can lose their job over a racist tweet, get fired for a sexist comment. Bear in mind that I personally reject those things as abhorent, but "no fear of reprisal"? Mind you, I do agree that
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by beobab 8y ago
I believe that Eudora used the standard email format of the day (RFC822), so it was really easy to extract emails to use/store as you wish.
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by beobab 8y ago
Yep. Good and valid point. I should do my homework before posting. :)
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by beobab 8y ago
A reasonable hypothesis. I like it. I'm not a scientist, so I do not know how to specifically verify or disprove it, but my understanding is that the only way to be sure is to actually perform an experiment to check; removing or contro
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by beobab 8y ago
I don't think so either, but that's not science. I haven't checked, and apparently neither has anyone else. yet Further study is required. Facts must be established.
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by beobab 8y ago
That would comply with GDPR, and is a valid solution.
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by beobab 8y ago
Trouble is that NAT solved a huge chunk of the problem. The current setup is not quite painful enough for people to want to fix it. The good is the enemy of the great, as it were.
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by beobab 8y ago
I, too, was expecting instructions on how to control dreams. It's something I can do with varying success when I become aware that I'm dreaming, and I was hoping that this might help me improve the chances of becoming aware that I
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by beobab 8y ago
Because they want a phone line that they can talk to their spouse and children without having to field thousands of calls from well-meaning people who want to wish them a good day?
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by beobab 8y ago
Interestingly, I read a while back about polarized light being visible to a portion of the naked eye. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1811/2015... I found that I was able to see Haidinger&#
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by beobab 9y ago
The way the concrete is laid there gives mis-clues. I had a funny brain-wobble whilst watching the video, playing “hunt for the lane”. I guess the car decided on the wrong one, with fatal consequences.
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by beobab 9y ago
Another anecdotal tale: My dad once didn't bother slowing down for "cardboard tubes" that had fallen off a lorry. It turned out they were ceramic tubes, and caused quite a bit of damage.
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by beobab 9y ago
Good old Randall Monroe has come up with a theory in his What If series (it's in the book) whereby it's almost safe to touch one with your bare hands if it's immersed in a liquid which your hand is more buoyant than, but he c
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by beobab 9y ago
I read an interesting book which suggested that what we call luck was a learnable skill in and of itself. It suggested that luck is no more than effective noticing, and a "lucky" person is simply more likely to notice something th
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by beobab 9y ago
I don't know of an open source version, but Supercard is still available for the mac, and will even play a large proportion of Hypercard stacks. http://www.supercard.us/ Pricey, mind!
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by beobab 9y ago
This. I spent a good long while trying to find out how I was "supposed to do it", only to find out "there are loads of ways", and "it depends". This left me feeling like nobody really knew, and that everyone wa
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by beobab 9y ago
Yeah, my dad was always quick to remind me that 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2. He said he came across that particular problem in a system which handled rounding numbers in a very suspect manner.
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by beobab 9y ago
I really like this idea. I have had dreams of small self-drive RV's taking me to and from work whilst I read or play games for years.
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by beobab 9y ago
I would be interested to find this out.
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by beobab 9y ago
I loved that show so much! It was ages after Enterprise came out that I stopped expecting Captain Archer to say "Oh boy!" just before the main title.

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