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by cortic 8y ago
Swerve (with 60% chance of survival) or break (with a 40% chance of survival). This may sound like sci-fi, but its simple math; if you know the distance of the hazard, coefficient of friction and speed. And you can crunch numbers really fa
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by cortic 8y ago
Should a car, generally prioritize the survival of its occupant or pedestrian? Not answering this is the same as answering it with ' surprise me '. And either answer is wrong.
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by cortic 8y ago
Can't find anywhere in Lyon airport to book this service; https://www.lyonaeroports.com/en/parkings-airport/car-parks-... Also they seem to use ectorparking.com at Lyon, are you affiliated with Ector?
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by cortic 8y ago
Your video is the only non-animated one i can find, and really, its just of a dolly bumping into a car, then cut to 'car being on dolly' and disappearing out of view. All the pictures in the article seem taken from the animated p
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by cortic 8y ago
>Education is the greatest weapon against obesity that we have. Yet the most educated societies have the worst problems with obesity. A fair statistical case could be made that Education causes obesity, albeit it too would miss most of t
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by cortic 8y ago
Thats like saying the main source of famine is to low calorie intake. It may be technically true but it misses almost every part of the problem.
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by cortic 8y ago
Causes about the same disruption as a hoax call from a burner phone... for about 90 times the cost.
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by cortic 8y ago
I wonder if the things like ship, deck, sea, sky, rigging have sub-hierarchical tags that are missing in the same way the shirt or trousers colors were missing from the concept of a pirate.
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by cortic 8y ago
If vision was actually made up of conceptually 'tagged' zones, then it would stand to reason that the hierarchical structure would only be developed within our 'focus', so that makes sense. However, if i had a picture of
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by cortic 8y ago
I remember a talk (Ted maybe) about this, the theory being no one actually saw in pictures. As a demonstration the audience was asked to 'picture' a pirate with a peg leg; Once the picture was firmly in their mind they were then
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by cortic 8y ago
You don't have to go far back but yes, its not infallible logic.
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by cortic 8y ago
Its back down to what it was at last September, six times higher than it was the September before that, fifteen times higher than it was the September before that.. i think I'll hodl.
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by cortic 8y ago
Yes. And its a bit creepy you think the answer should be no.
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by cortic 8y ago
i struggle to find a definition of virus that applies to us and not also every other species on the planet.. consume, multiply, destroy.. all species are trying their best to do these things, sure we are better at it, but we're also th
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by cortic 8y ago
>noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away that's only 0.00051 of a light year, or a few light hours away.. either me or them has a big math problem.
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by cortic 8y ago
> innocence in the face of absolute proof? this is just childish, you can only establish the existence of 'absolute proof' in a court of law. If you really want some jobsworth to sit in their office and dispense justice, then
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by cortic 8y ago
i worked out those numbers roughly for myself. My point though, was; most of, or at least the majority of my working life is to enrich someone who is richer that could can ever be. This is the nature of the relationship between the shareh
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by cortic 8y ago
The reason advice from successful entrepreneurs is generally considered worthless is because for every successful person there are thousands or millions of unsuccessful people who did exactly the same thing, worked just as hard and weren&
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by cortic 8y ago
>What would you change? I would like the presumption of innocence before due process and i would like the due process to involve a British jury. I would like an absolute time limit on detention of innocent people. And if these things
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by cortic 8y ago
thank you for your advice, i think you missed my point though.
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by cortic 8y ago
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/contents more specifically section 29, 1, (d): http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/schedule/8/part/... Though
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by cortic 8y ago
maybe. History shows me that, unregulated, our system makes kings and queens that own not only own land and wealth but people as well. If i wanted to make a system that insured the absolute minimum advancement and progress, the absolute ma
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by cortic 8y ago
>Maybe try to rework this sentence The current state of our market system requires massive bailouts and massive funding into research and development, massive subsidies (e.g. arms), and an overworked and underpaid workforce to limp along
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by cortic 8y ago
Terrorism Act 2000 (which was partially ruled unlawful by the House of Lords for what its worth) allows for theoretically infinite extensions to the detention period with only a police superintendent needed to sign off on it. as for imigr
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by cortic 8y ago
Having a system to enriches the few who don't need more wealth reinforced by impoverishing the many is better than chattel slavery and worse than a system which offers real choice and ownership of ones labor.
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by cortic 8y ago
..in your opinion. But in reality the current system doesn't work and needs constant massive bailouts and public funding R&D to just barely operate for the minority.. The entire point of the current economic system is to motivat
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by cortic 8y ago
That's just speculation, what system are you imagining in place of 'wage labour'? chattel? I imagine UBI and an explosion in the sciences; When anyone with interest can afford to follow that interest.
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by cortic 8y ago
I'm glad too, but some of your numbers are a bit off; https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-... Also its worth noting our anti-terror laws seem to allow indefinite detention without charge. A
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by cortic 8y ago
>"waiting" isn't an actual action. semantics. you feel like you can only be critical of action, while inaction gets a pass? 'thinking' quietly is not inherently more valuable than being entertained. And while
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by cortic 8y ago
>millions of man years wasted streaming mind numbing video. ..millions of man years wasted waiting. >zoning out of the real world people around you to doodle on your phone that’s sad. ..humoring pointless gossip so people will like yo

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