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by civilian 9y ago
What is the article talking about when they say "radiation-hardened materials"? What kind of materials might that be?
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by civilian 9y ago
Just for a balanced outlook, you might listen to Freakonomics' interview of Charles Koch: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...
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by civilian 9y ago
To some extent, everything competes in markets. I could spend $500 on a guitar, or on a clunky car. Which one should I get? Well, it kind of depends on my needs. Both Electronic music production and guitars exist in the "music producti
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by civilian 9y ago
The author is a communist, and communists killed more people than the Nazis did. The difference was that it was "self-genocide", and had a few more ideological layers involved. Still, I would rather meet communists with words, rat
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by civilian 9y ago
The problem isn't privatization, it's the payment structure. Crassus should have set up an insurance or subscription based system. I imagine that a firefighting startup would not actually replace the operations of fire departments
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by civilian 9y ago
I'm excited that you're stumbled into "taxation is theft" :) Yup, taxation is inherently immoral, and they will lock you in a cage if you don't pay. But. As long as we're comfortable taxing people, then why i
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by civilian 9y ago
Yup! Similarly, in a large developed city, LVT would probably _help_ existing property owners, if their property has a substantial building on it and is collecting good rent. If you own a parking lot or a crummy 2-story retail/2-apt bu
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by civilian 9y ago
I kind of lost all sympathy with him when he advocated violence for opposing views. Live by the fist, die by the fist. He's living his own Hell, where his own vices are coming back to torture him.
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by civilian 9y ago
"hocus pocus fe fi fo fum, play Taylor Swift's latest album"
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by civilian 9y ago
Aren't curecoin and foldingcoin both centralized? Isn't that a bad property to have as a cryptocurrency?
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by civilian 9y ago
A lot of my non-techie peers in Seattle are choosing Lyft over Uber due to ethical concerns. Even when they're not making that much money, it's important to them.
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by civilian 9y ago
The reviewing sites thing is silly. However, it sure seems like an opportunity for new beer reviewing websites to pop up!
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by civilian 9y ago
Or Goliaths with +Missile damage and long-range missiles!
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by civilian 9y ago
The "Free media attention" was encouraged by the Clinton campaign. It was their "pied piper" strategy. They wanted to go against The Donald, because they felt it was their best chance of winning. https://www.s
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by civilian 9y ago
I was working for a tech company that liked to pride itself on being "one of the good guys". They gave us pretty lavish benefits, that often seemed kind of silly, and had a massive well-designed office. Although the office was sti
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by civilian 9y ago
Is there that much of a difference? If the graduate students need to pay the tax, then new grad students will take that into account when comparing stipends.
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by civilian 9y ago
Yup! My cousin & cousin-in-law work to maintain human health at some nuclear power plants in Canada. They use the swiss-cheese model, and whenever they notice that one layer missed something, they do a re-evaulation of that safety layer
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by civilian 9y ago
It's _not_ just about an oil CEO. It's about everyone who uses energy. Gas tends to be a high percentage of poor people's cost-of-living, and cheap oil tends to act as a progressive reverse-tax. In cold climates, heating one
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by civilian 9y ago
If this is such a big problem, why don't we execute scientists when they're 50? Or at the very least, ban them from writing about their field? My argument is hyperbole, but an "anti-life-extension" position is literally
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by civilian 9y ago
"if you don't have data, you're just another person with an opinion"
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by civilian 9y ago
You'd enjoy "Harrison Bergeron", a short story by Kurt Vonnegut http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
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by civilian 9y ago
I agree that I would also find it annoying. We also have social mechanics around asking people's names, and referring to them when we don't know their name. I think one of the big complaints about the gendered pronouns is that the
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by civilian 9y ago
And if you have gallstones, ride a rollercoaster! Specifically Disney World's Magic Kingdom Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/health/kidney-stone-roller-coa...
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by civilian 9y ago
Because computers are just logic combined with numbers. (The 32gb RAM is attached to the motherboard, which has 32gb.) And for art, we _also_ have other brain systems that understand how to judge beauty in people and landscapes. I think a m
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by civilian 9y ago
It is! But it's better just to check the SES queue for "email was delivered".
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by civilian 9y ago
The transactional email wasn't adding someone to a newsletter. But you can mark 'spam' on any email at all, and some people felt that our anniversary-of-them-signing-up emails or "you've had a problem being billed&q
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by civilian 9y ago
Yup, the "Spam" button is a true signal. A company I worked for had problems with the number of times people hit 'spam' on the emails (not even a newsletter, but transactional emails), and AWS SimpleEmailService put us o
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by civilian 9y ago
Relevant username?
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by civilian 9y ago
My grandmother was pretty "anti-tech", and thought that e-mail was just a passing fad, but I think that even she would have tried this if it meant her flowers would have been spared by the deer.
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by civilian 9y ago
I mean, I agree that this rule applies to everything. But I'm more worried about the organizations that have a monopoly on force, not on social networks.

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