cuboidGoat

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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Unless any of us on here are personally representing nation states at a diplomatic level with roughly similar levels of violent shenanigans as each other, whataboutism really does not apply. I've seen it referred to as the hypocrites f
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
If you wanted them to stop, you'd have to change the law so as to disallow interpretation, as the law as written already codifies that the law can be critically interpreted by courts. However I am not sure how that would even work, giv
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
The vast majority of the large scale increase in human lifespan you can put down to improvements in medical knowledge. People used to get their teeth knocked out and replaced with wooden ones as a wedding present, the idea being that the lu
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Could you indicate which health care systems you think are skewing the results in this manner? As it would seem to require keeping large numbers of the very elderly alive in comas while also not providing widespread elderly care, which seem
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
One thing about how laws work, is that they only become facts on the ground, so to speak, in the interpretation. Courts change the followed interpretation of law all the time without amending the written law. Often the written law only gets
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Should a scientist accidentally fall into the mdma infused tank full of octupuses, I think the damage to their academic career could be substantial due to these kinds of childish attitudes. And that is the only reason all of the security fo
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
My theory is that Jobs' main task at Apple was to create theater to distract the press and business folk, so that Woz and the rest of Apple's technical staff could get some decent work done while nobody was looking.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Can't really fault you on any of that. Also, I do appreciate that I am carping from the sidelines here as I am not living in the US, so whatever works for you. My intent is only in passing commentary, not in trying to tell people what
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Oh good point, cookers and heaters. Especially gas heaters.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
All cooker controls should be timers. I never want to turn on any part of the cooker for ever and ideally this should not be an option available to me when tired.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
There are backpack nukes specifically designed for individuals to carry, like the B-54. If your legal cutoff was 'designed for a single person to carry', they would be included as legal.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
'Arms', in the general sense, is up to and including nukes though.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> Thomas Jefferson wanted a revolution every 20 years, but we don't string up, draw and quarter our entire government every other decade. Not your own one. Jefferson did get his wish granted in some ways however. Possibly by a mali
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
“political speech is forbidden in the dorms” That sounds a bit political. When the supervisor said this, were they inside or outside of the dorms?
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
It says so; Dölen designed an experiment with three connected water chambers: one empty, one with a plastic action figure under a cage and one with a female or male laboratory-bred octopus under a cage. Four male and female octopuses wer
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Also, we are writing modern english, not ancient latin or greek, so the anglicanised form is fine anyway, as it isn't a sudden neologism looking to find widespread use. Rather it is the common natural pluralisation of octopus in englis
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Probably the least interesting part of the entire article, but if you want to go there - "Although it is often supposed that octopi is the ‘correct’ plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> You'd probably only get a photo of some random thing behind you, and only learn of your mistake a week later. Instantly made me think of Buzz Aldrin's 1966 space selfie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> “The scale of the hit of RAZR is hard to comprehend. Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse ordered a quarter of a million in pink. We thought he was mad, this was a third of the global projected sales. He wanted this crazy volume of t
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
In Maryland, did they actually take away any guns particularly?
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Deaths through weather and other natural disasters can scale perfectly fine, due to the scaling up of interlinked dependencies that are then run with minimum overhead. Puerto Rico was a Wexelblat disaster, through and through.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I thought they ended up doing that because the bodies were piling up uncounted and the governor admitted that that the civilian infrastructure required to keep track of the dead had itself failed and so asked for outside help from academics
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> the immense liability associated with accepting traffic from those that are "protected" by it. A third of the 100 most viewed US newspapers have shuttered themselves to the EU, however this mass blocking has not seemingly be
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
"You use the word intuitive a couple of times, and suggest there's a natural way to exit interactive cli programs (and it's not ctrl-d)." Surely it is when you detect the angry mashing of keys? There should really be a
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Tell me about it. That point when you realise that fiction and comedy really are not exaggerating all that much, if at all. "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Theranos is an example of commercial dishonesty leading to the top of political power and even snares people such as Mattis, who is possibly the only individual in the current US executive with any kind of reputation for being honest. And t
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
"Al Qaeda" can be translated as "The Foundation", and there is apparently some discussion about Bin Laden being an Asimov fan and basing the name of his organisation on the Foundation Series. Also, I am reliably informed
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
They appear to have stolen the plot of the film "Shooting Fish". Trailer - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120122/videoplayer/vi276031106...
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Looking around the world, lying seems to have been redefined as; "a perfectly reasonable business strategy" . One of the biggest shocks I had going from childhood to adulthood was the sudden flip between people telling you that y
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I do not like defining myself with '-ists' . Instead I will generally refer to the '-ism' and point out where I agree and where I differ. I have found this position has the side-effect of being an easy way to spot who

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