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by bnralt 2y ago
I’m not sure why we wouldn’t focus on technology, which seems to be the only actually useful part of this mission. I know that some people really like sticking people on objects in space for fun, but at this point it seems like a strange an
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by bnralt 3y ago
> - What forces would actually cause colleges to lower their tuition? Decoupling education from certification would work. Most people are willing to pay so much for college because they need certification; they're forced to pay for
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by bnralt 3y ago
> Education is important, missing a week can set a student back by a long way. It will set some back, it won’t set others back at all. Telling a kid who can keep up or who is ahead of the class that they can’t take a vacation because ano
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by bnralt 3y ago
I think one of the issues with this is that most people have pretty terrible diets, most people have pretty terrible diets that can be improved pretty easily, and when dietary improvements are suggested a lot of time the response is “this i
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by bnralt 3y ago
I’ve found most of the 60’s and 70’s building in the U.S. to be just the opposite myself. Often stairwells are hidden, sometimes behind multiple doors, so even going up a single flight of stairs usually involves waiting for an elevator. A l
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by bnralt 3y ago
What I dislike about all the comments here saying something similar is that it suggests that empathy only go in one direction. I sometimes run into situations where society isn’t set up for my needs in a particular way (for personal reasons
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by bnralt 3y ago
> If you can't differentiate between neurofunk and liquid, you're probably not a big dnb fan. I'll be honest with you, I thought this was satire before I read the next line.
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by bnralt 3y ago
I highly disagree. I'm not going to say someone isn't a a true fan of Bach and Vivaldi because they refer to the music as "Classical" instead of "Baroque." Saying they "merely enjoying the sound when [they
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by bnralt 3y ago
> That's the case for a lot of "normies", but it really feels insulting to the electronic music fans in general. Unlike say rock nobody's gonna ask you to know every band in existence and every album they put out deca
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by bnralt 3y ago
Dynetics’ proposal was the most expensive, and they also couldn’t figure out a way to make it work at the time when the choice was made[1]: > Of particular concern is the significant weakness within Dynetics’ proposal under Technical Are
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by bnralt 3y ago
Yeah, our government here spent years pouring money into low performing high schools to revitalize them, to little avail. Here's an interesting article on a very expensive (they spend $63,000 a year per student) boarding school they se
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by bnralt 3y ago
Yeah, I always get the impression that the people talking about this really haven't spoken to the people in these neighborhoods. I've walked in neighborhoods here where the longtime residents came up to me and told me I should lea
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by bnralt 3y ago
I've noticed a lot of people start with the desire to not enforce laws, and work from there. So when there's more law enforcement activity in poorer areas, we get claims that the poor are being targeted and overpoliced. But when t
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by bnralt 3y ago
Banks do this as well. I made a purchase, and within minutes got a very scammy looking e-mail from them - low quality gifs, asking me to click on links to a random non-bank website(something like purchase-verification-users.net/235532&
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by bnralt 3y ago
I thought that a Yale speaker giving a public talk disparaging white people where they say they fantasize about shooting white people in the head was pretty extreme[1]. Even more so since it didn’t seem to bother the attendees there, and th
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by bnralt 3y ago
I actually think if someone has a deep understanding of a classic, they have a good idea who would enjoy it and who wouldn't. For just about everything else, we accept that different people have different tastes, and just because somet
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by bnralt 3y ago
Yeah, but people often don't remember or aren't moved by classics as well. The response is usually to lament their lack of attention span, or tell them that they didn't get it. It ends up becoming an example of The Emperor&#x
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by bnralt 3y ago
From the first link: > In Jalalabad, deputy prime minister Haji Abdul Kabir - the third most powerful figure in the ruling Taliban regime - told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11
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by bnralt 3y ago
Additionally, just because it’s possible that this could happen doesn’t really give us an idea of how likely it is. Is it one of those theoretically possible, but it never actually happens events? there’s a huge difference between it impact
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by bnralt 3y ago
It's also strange because I've seen Tupac Shakur glamorized in popular culture (for example, hagiographic discussions about him on NPR). But Shakur was rapping about killing people, while those people were being targeted and kille
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by bnralt 3y ago
People thought Apple making a phone was odd. No one thought mobile phones, or even smart phones were odd. Mobile phones were common when the iPhone came out, and even smart phones weren't uncommon. And once the iPhone did come out, the
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by bnralt 3y ago
From when I've used them in the past, the issue is the difference between looking in the general direction of something and using your eye like a joystick that jumps around if you happen to glance a little to the left or right.
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by bnralt 3y ago
Here's an NPR article from 2011: > The country is now due to launch Tiangong-1, the first module of its own space station, possibly before the end of September this year. This will dock with an unmanned spaceship, Shenzhou-8, in Chi
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by bnralt 3y ago
I was disappointed that the article, despite it's title, never actually tells us how these group names came about. From some reading a while back, it seems that many started to be used after the 1968 book, An Exaltation of Larks, becam
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by bnralt 3y ago
Do you really think there should be no limit to the state refusing to protect citizens from violent criminals? Here are a few recent examples from my city: Woman’s violent stalked is let out of prison early. Goes and threatens woman, who ca
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by bnralt 3y ago
We’ve had numerous cases here where prosecutors declined to press charges or gave a small amount of time as part of a sweetheart plea deal, and the criminal went on and killed someone. We’ve also had cases where the judge let a violent crim
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by bnralt 3y ago
The whole reason why people think of it as being an incredible amount of longevity is because of the NASA spin. Both of those say the planned mission was for 90 days, and so you get things like the exchange in the Opportunity comic of &quot
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by bnralt 3y ago
The PR is how they're reporting it. "We want an minimum of 20, but it could make upwards of 200 flights before giving out" isn't as punch as they want. They want to say, "We only are planning on 5 flight. WOW, 15 fl
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by bnralt 3y ago
I've found NASA's communication to be misleading in general. A while back I tried to dive into their spinoff claims, and there were a lot of exaggerations there. There's a reason why you hear press releases from NASA saying t
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by bnralt 3y ago
The main problem is that everyone thinks that it's something we have to teach other people to do, but few see this as something that they themselves have to get better at. In fact, people become simply hostile to others for doing this

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