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by beobab 9y ago
Annnnd... Now I'm reading about black holes, no-hair theorems, how zero mass particles behave around black holes. Goodbye productivity! :)
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by beobab 9y ago
Honest question: What are a vegan's views on pets and work animals, such as a horse who pulls a cart to the vegetable market.
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by beobab 9y ago
I was thinking about this yesterday. Dozens of times I type a search into cortana - see my item - click on it, and milliseconds before I click (but before I can avert the action) the item changes. I have at times almost felt the electrons r
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by beobab 9y ago
It might make things harder, but it probably wouldn't end it entirely. These humans we have here are remarkably ingenious, have a high risk tolerance, and would probably come up with some way of dealing with it.
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by beobab 9y ago
Well, Google tried a while back, but got shut down over legal issues, if I recall correctly.
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by beobab 9y ago
Are you saying that after a certain level of accuracy, it is impossible to be sure, but you CAN say for certain within an error radius?
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by beobab 9y ago
I don't use the voice features of whatsapp, but my wife often does. Nuances of voice communication, such as "how worried does X sound" are important to both her and the group she is in.
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by beobab 9y ago
Good point. This sort of thing serves to remind me that "Country" is an arbitrary label we humans put on geographical locations. The land doesn't care what country it belongs to.
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by beobab 9y ago
Isn't this the plot of Minority Report? :)
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by beobab 9y ago
I think it's fair to say that this is not a normal situation.
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by beobab 9y ago
I remember one particular set of pictures with both buses and coaches (and some with neither) on it, and it asked me to click on the buses. It said I'd got it wrong, but presented an almost identical set afterwards, and I included the
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by beobab 9y ago
I hate it when I fail the Turing test, and can't log in to stuff.
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by beobab 9y ago
We have this in spades here: Two types of people clash regularly. The "doers", who demand that they be working on something all the time, and the "completers", who insist that they can't start something new because
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by beobab 9y ago
Completely accurate, whilst being impractical and a bit dangerous. You are a genius. I love it.
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by beobab 9y ago
I want one of those "Mr Fusion" devices from Back to the Future for my car (and my house too, now I think about it).
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by beobab 9y ago
The amount of times whilst pulling out of my driveway that I've thought "I wish I had a cameras pointing left and right from about where my indicators are" is quite large. It's always worse when large vans are parked up
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by beobab 9y ago
Yes, and suddenly you're in a tunnel frequented by characters you're likely to find in a crime thriller who like to find out-of-the-way places to practice their craft.
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by beobab 9y ago
I think a requirement of a year's worth of cycling on the road before you can have a driver's license would increase cycling awareness significantly. Nothing raises your appreciation of the difficulties faced by a group more than
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by beobab 9y ago
Are you calling these people children, or suggesting that children eat up emergency funds? I suspect the latter.
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by beobab 9y ago
It seems like you are saying: If anyone in an organisation does something stupid which makes a bad impact outside the organisation, then they must be punished by losing their job. I humbly suggest that your message might be a little harsh a
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by beobab 9y ago
I actually get the feeling that he's going to do something about pollution and climate change, but on his terms. Probably by suggesting something outrageous off the bat, then winding back to something better than we'd currently ex
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by beobab 9y ago
That's an interesting take on it. Is there anything that makes you think that they would spend it on climate issues and pollution if it wasn't spent on space exploration?
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by beobab 9y ago
Am I the only one who read it as "time travel", and thought it'd be some map of how it used to be?
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by beobab 9y ago
Where are you?
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by beobab 9y ago
I would suggest that the author is attempting to use the "thinking past the sale" strategy to influence people, and it's causing cognitive dissonance in the readers who disagree with his position. The typical reader's mi
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by beobab 9y ago
Been there: "No. The old is correct. Make the new way match."
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by beobab 9y ago
I want to see this working. I want to try it out myself. Sadly, I'm not part of a multi-million customer company, so I don't know if I am the demographic they are looking for.
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by beobab 9y ago
I actually have a Casio watch that is identical to one that I used to have 30 years ago. No frills or whistles. Roughly the same price now as it was back then, too. Under ten pounds. (this obviously does not contradict your point - I mentio
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by beobab 9y ago
Look up a bit on your phone. ;)
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by beobab 9y ago
Anecdotal data point: 3rd generation computer programmer here, and I hope that one of my sons also takes up the mantle, although I haven't seen any evidence that it's likely yet. I took it up because I had computers to play with a

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