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by cfadvan 8y ago
The idea is to give people from all over the world an equal shot, not to just skew in favor of one or two high population demographics. You can call that discrimination if you like, but in the “discriminating tastes” sense not the KKK sense
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by cfadvan 8y ago
This all assumes that for some strange reason you’re dropping the whole asteroid rather than packets of pre-processed material which is what you’d actually do. As a bonus you could use some of the cruft from the original body to make heat s
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by cfadvan 8y ago
There is no significant advance in tech regarding colonization, mining, and manufacturing in space without significant dual uses. If “that could be a weapon!” is the end of it, then we’re stuck on this rock until we all die. It’s all pretty
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by cfadvan 8y ago
You can limit immigration fairly. But don't tell me I have a lesser chance of working in USA than a Kenyan and that's not discrimination. You as one of over a billion people from the same country will understandably have more co
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by cfadvan 8y ago
There’s an extension to Hanlon’s Razor that too many forget: “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, but don’t dismiss malice.”
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by cfadvan 8y ago
In the US a yam is just what people call certain larger varieties of sweet potatoes, and are unrelated to true yams. Having had both, I can feel where you’re coming from!
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It’s probably also a reflection of the fact that the flaw in Theranos’ goal was a medical issue, namely uniformity of sampled blood, and this isn’t a site of mostly MD’s. Part of it may well have been fanboyism, but it may just have been th
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by cfadvan 8y ago
To the first part, it’s hard to imagine someone “stumbling across” child pornography by accident. The first post you linked is more realistic, in that she’s talking about knowing the images still exist, are still in collections and in that
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Other comments aside, it strikes me that it makes for an amazing way to: Launder money for black projects. Track people who think they’re beyond the reach of government.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
This is asking the wrong question. We don’t know how to create a robust artificial biosphere, we don’t know how to shield such a large ship from radiation efficiently, we don’t know how to maintain or create the human microbiome, because we
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by cfadvan 8y ago
In essence it’s the difference between what’s done here on HN, and the travesty that is Twitter.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
I can put my phone in a Faraday sleeve, not so easy for a scooter.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
That’s a very selective response, but ok, I can do that too. In terms of nuclear arguing what 'most people' believe is utterly pointless because 'most people' don't understand even the basics of nuclear physics. I
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It doesn’t help to capture all of that energy if we can’t store and transmit it efficiently.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
I’m very very pro nuclear, but you’re sort of bullshitting here. No pollution? Most people would consider nuclear waste to be polluting, and nothing is perfect, sometimes you get a Fukushima. It also pollutes down the line when you’remini
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by cfadvan 8y ago
The person is also despicable though, so what then? I’m not supporting death threats, but he’s still a thoroughly objectionable human. He’s a twitchy, dishonest shill for the most loathed companies in the country, and he used to work for th
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It’s possible that there is a god or something similar, but it’s not possible, as you say, to test it (at least not in the foreseeable future) in a meaningful way. We just don’t know, and have no way or knowing. Anyone can float a view from
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Exactly. At the end of the day science is all about “How” although some scientists being human, understandably do sometimes wade into the “Why” end of it. Science is great at delving into how something works, without bothering with a “why”
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It would be really interesting to read a theologians view of AI, maybe a question for Google's Vatican office (if there were one)? The problem with that view is that when you dig into it, it’s always a permutation of, “God did it,” o
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Total typo, or rather autocorrect-o, but I’m running with it now!
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by cfadvan 8y ago
The problem is that “deluded” and “personally invested in” form a venom diagram that looks a lot like a big circle, especially on business and tech sites.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
If the combustion occurs as the result of a crash, can that really be said to be “spontaneous?”
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It needs to be better than a sober, awake, human of the type who typically buys a Tesla. That would be the fair comparison, not just a random member of the public with a 20 year old car. Better than a drunk human driver, or a 90 year old is
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Only fingers-in-ears Musk fans cannot see that. Speak of the devil... It’s amazing that given the slander Tesla has been passing off as PR in this case, that anyone could defend them in this, yet here we go.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Even then, a lot of comic book super villains were essentially caricatures of CEOs, or actual CEOs. Green Goblin from Spider Man being a fine example of the crossover.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It’s not that simple. If the police or border patrol want to ID you they can compel you to remove a mask. There are also various regulations around wearing full face masks in banks and the like.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
It’s one thing to obscure an object designed to be recognizable, and another to regulate clothing, makeup, etc. if it’s not a mask, it’s going to probably be legal. The first amendment is very broad, and what you wear has been protected man
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by cfadvan 8y ago
Karl Kuttag was right all along I guess. Good for him, but a bit of a bummer for the dream ML was trying to sell. Of course that dream turns have been made of lies and horseshit, so...
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by cfadvan 8y ago
You don’t see a difference between rating products for consumption, and rating people and their behavior? Spooky.
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by cfadvan 8y ago
In theory, but in practice that money would never be used that way in the US of course.

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