bluthru

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by bluthru 9y ago
Just imagine what you could do if humanity moved at the pace of the slowest individual.
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by bluthru 9y ago
http://i.imgur.com/nKcVpVU.png
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by bluthru 9y ago
>When millennials in western countries can no longer work, who will take care of them? What does this question even mean? There isn't a 1:1 ratio of nursing aids to nursing home residents. >But millennials are having even fewer k
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by bluthru 9y ago
I wonder if Apple Pay for the web has something to do with this.
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by bluthru 9y ago
No joke, they shouldn't even be allowed to sell that much caffeine to one person. I'm surprised Starbucks' lawyers haven't prevented that.
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by bluthru 9y ago
Muscle mass is a good thing: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/muscle-ma... More height means you have more cells that could potentially become cancerous.
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by bluthru 9y ago
That's where the rebar is located.
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by bluthru 9y ago
>While Tesla and Uber have both just recklessly (imo) jumped in and started setting loose self driving cars and making bold claims Do we know how many lives have been saved from Tesla's autopilot? I've only seen anecdotes but I
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by bluthru 10y ago
>Yes, it's a paradox, but it's not something that hasn't been addressed. It's quite the paradox, as you'll see: >You can make the argument solely on the grounds of the anti-muslim rhetoric, not to mention his
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by bluthru 10y ago
How is that different than a donor giving money to a SuperPAC to display a billboard? Should your employer care what non-profits you give money to?
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by bluthru 10y ago
Doubling drywall, making walls 2x6 instead of 2x4, and using insulation isn't prohibitively expensive. Of course the cheapest thing of all is making a building out of concrete or masonry that can last for over a century and has inheren
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by bluthru 10y ago
How is funding a pro-Trump non-profit intolerant? I voted for Bernie in the primary and Hillary in the general, but the hypocrisy of Zuckerberg publishing his travels to rural America like he's a politician while Palmer is pushed out o
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by bluthru 10y ago
Tech sphere: "After Trump's win, we need to get out of our bubble and learn about what others are thinking in America." What about engaging public figures in your industry who are Trump supporters? Tech sphere: "Palmer n
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by bluthru 10y ago
Only if statistics are racist.
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by bluthru 10y ago
Personally before it enabled inline images which turned it into a firehose of reaction gifs.
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by bluthru 10y ago
>but it's still perfectly usable for reading books on the Kindle app Reading books on a low-res display sounds terrible. Why not just buy a Kindle if you read a lot?
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by bluthru 10y ago
And how do you break that cycle?
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by bluthru 10y ago
If you want world prosperity this isn't a simple issue at all. Why should the richest country in the world get richer by taking the best and brightest who could have helped elevate their own countries? Isn't this just contributing
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by bluthru 10y ago
I much prefer that to being tracked.
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by bluthru 10y ago
No, the real credit really does go to the guy with a unique vision of how computers should relate to humans.
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by bluthru 10y ago
Yeah, they should have been matte to disguise the "oil canning".
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by bluthru 10y ago
About 40% of the people on this poster are black. Why? That doesn't represent the population of the US, attendants at WWDC, or worldwide developers. What's the motivation?
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by bluthru 10y ago
This is like how anti-abortion activists think that every aborted baby was going to be a doctor. In reality, abortion has likely reduced crime.
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by bluthru 10y ago
We're actually horrible at it, considering that we're producing CO2 at an unsustainable rate.
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by bluthru 10y ago
To support your point: look at the fertility rate of Mexican-Americans.
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by bluthru 10y ago
I'm not convinced. If we took a Star Trek "Prime Directive" approach and didn't interfere with Africa, why wouldn't their population be at a naturally lower carrying capacity? Is it really wise to use all of that mo
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by bluthru 10y ago
Yeah the case could be made for California. Is it true that residential houses now require sprinklers too?
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by bluthru 10y ago
>Houses can basically last an arbitrarily long amount of time and still remain functional. Not anymore. Contemporary houses only last about 40 years.
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by bluthru 10y ago
>They have no constraint on this as when they advance credit they do so by creating it. It blew my mind that this is how money is created. What would be the downside of banks having to buy this money from the government instead of creati
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by bluthru 10y ago
>Houses are also bigger now The cost of square footage is low compared to its price. Concrete is expensive per SF but that's about it. In the past it took a lot of labor to put up lathe and plaster walls and real hardwood floors, bu

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