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by ciphol 5y ago
...to a mentally ill person. Marriage means you share your spouse's life and well-being. Often for better, sometimes for worse.
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by ciphol 5y ago
In that case, they should build tall apartment buildings, so that people can have a large indoor floor area. Normally that is at the cost of having a garden/yard, but you are telling me they don't have a garden anyway.
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by ciphol 5y ago
My experience is that Western people are generally against the Chinese government, not the Chinese culture. The Chinese government is currently authoritarian, expansionist, and genocidal. Japan's government is none of these things (it
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by ciphol 5y ago
Both. They offer us search and we offer them ads. They have to both at a high enough technical level in order to succeed.
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by ciphol 5y ago
It's not designed around cars, but it is designed around motorbikes! Worse in many ways, although perhaps not in terms of "scale".
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by ciphol 5y ago
Why assume that "hacker culture", whatever exactly that is, is immune to racism?
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by ciphol 5y ago
Soma, in Brave New World, made you more passive (as well as happier). Curing/alleviating depression makes you more active. It gives more meaning to life, not less.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Ancient Rome had a population of 800k though, compared to 10k in Great Zimbabwe.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Corporations, whether giant or not, create products which people chose to purchase because they are useful. That's creating value, not sucking value. Sometimes a corporation can "suck value" by using anticompetitive behavior
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by ciphol 5y ago
Probably commercial/industrial usage involves a few large consumers, not many smaller consumers. So there are fewer opportunities for leaks or explosions.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Who's going to pay for your Google search, maps, and Gmail if there are no ads?
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by ciphol 5y ago
Ads are designed for whoever is doing the buying. I would guess that most underwear is bought by individuals, not their opposite-sex partners.
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by ciphol 5y ago
As soon as you start typing your search, it starts making search suggestions. That's a complex feature which must involve lots of code. Also, the search page is not just the search page, it's the portal for all Google services and
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by ciphol 5y ago
I think "El" is just the word for God, not a proper name? So it's like "Doctor" vs "George", not "Robert" vs "George".
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by ciphol 5y ago
Title seems to be backwards. It's more like "Biblical history illuminates the history of the magnetic field"
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by ciphol 5y ago
Those garish colors probably aren't the real colors either. The researchers found one speck of paint and assumed the whole surface was the same color, when in reality the paint probably had complex gradations of color, like any normal
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by ciphol 5y ago
My infectious diseases professor said of Ebola "that's a horrible bug". It seems to be standard slang in the field.
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by ciphol 5y ago
The SSC post is MUCH better written than that Wikipedia article.
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by ciphol 5y ago
This reminds me of how adblocking software worked great when only a handful of nerds used it. Then when adblocking became more mainstream, sites bothered to develop workarounds to make ads show up anyway. Adblockers now try to develop worka
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by ciphol 5y ago
As a former academian, I mostly disagree. In my experience, papers are difficult to read because they are as concise as possible, striving to refer to previous work for anything that's not original, and only elaborating on original thi
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by ciphol 5y ago
How is his account shadow banned? You saw the comment. I saw the comment.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Sometimes when this happens, I rotate my phone 90 degrees so that the whole width of the table can be easily seen.
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by ciphol 5y ago
Wow, that is shockingly bad. Different objects just floating in space without lines between them to visually differentiate them.
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by ciphol 5y ago
That is very nice looking. But I want the hyperlinks because the information I want is often spread out over more than one page (often Wikipedia achieves more concision than a traditional encyclopedia by hyperlinking rather than defining th
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by ciphol 5y ago
Anyone can fudge data to get a result that objective evidence doesn't support. The more self-confident scientists might actually be more likely to fudge data - they can self-justify by thinking "this idea must be true, so even i
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by ciphol 5y ago
So they will do stuff like show you ads. They won't do stuff like steal your credit card details, passwords, or identity which an internet rando might do.
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by ciphol 5y ago
"once a piece of data gets confirmed and buried under a few days worth of bitcoin's PoW, it can never be changed or removed from the blockchain." Could someone put child porn in the blockchain? Would that have legal consequen
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by ciphol 5y ago
Vaccine efficacy decays with time. If you've had a 3rd vaccine recently, it will be much more than 60% effective.
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by ciphol 5y ago
I hear Africans have similar opinions of elephants - they eat everything in sight
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by ciphol 5y ago
In my experience, Caltrain in Silicon Valley smells of urine. So it's not just a third world thing.

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