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by cmdli 8y ago
I think the criticism isn't that it couldn't possibly work, but rather that it was impractical and expensive. Basically, its the modern monorail.
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by cmdli 9y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I can speak for myself. There's a lot of anxiety in the idea that you're "wasting" your life. You feel anxious about every day, worrying that you aren't doing eno
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by cmdli 9y ago
Could a space enthusiast explain the utilitarian point of space travel to me? Space is cool, but it seems like most of the posited uses for space are either extremely speculative (asteroid mining) or a "solution" to a doomsday sce
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by cmdli 9y ago
> Anti-social, passive aggressive, and a hyperactive imagination? That’s a lot different from the image most of us hold. On the contrary, I think that's precisely the stereotypical image of smart people (e.g. Turing in The Imitation
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by cmdli 10y ago
From the $1 trillon stated in the article, spread across 300 million people, each person would get around $3000 a year. That honestly doesn't seem like it would help a lot, considering it would replace current welfare systems. The Swis
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by cmdli 11y ago
I am sorta curious about how they measured "cognitive enhancement", just because what changes in what activities could tell us something about how the brain is divided.
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by cmdli 11y ago
Have you seen this? https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator
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by cmdli 11y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but what service do you guys recommend for someone who just wants a cheap server to play around with (maybe getting something like an rsync script or BTsync and a website running)?
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by cmdli 11y ago
Possibly, but I personally prefer videos to articles, so I don't mind.
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by cmdli 11y ago
Since you are already doing it sequentially, why not do it in a loop? Something like: for(int i = 2; i <= 512; i *= 2) { if(x < i) { f(x); break; } } It could be the same performanc
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by cmdli 11y ago
At least in the US, up until the 50's/60's behaviorism (which at least claims to be based in observation) was a dominant school of thought in psychology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism In the 1
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by cmdli 12y ago
There could be a market for owning self-driving cars outside of major cities. Not everyone has access to a cab-like service now so unless that changes adding some sort of autopilot to regular cars would be useful.
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by cmdli 13y ago
Dilemma, noun (3b): a difficult or persistent problem. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dilemma
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by cmdli 13y ago
Wow. It fits the current aesthetic, solves a common interface problem I have, is only noticeable when you need it, fast, and doesn't look half-bad. I'm not a big design person so I can't comment on that, but color me impresse
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by cmdli 14y ago
The overall point seems to be true, but that may just be because of previously held beliefs which I would like to confirm (much like the author suggests with fireplaces). I think people have a hard time accepting scientific fact because the