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by dbingham 9y ago
But said political resistance has also been largely ineffective for the last 50 to 100 years at addressing the aforementioned problems.
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by dbingham 9y ago
It shouldn't matter that this is an obvious thing to do or easily circumvented (for the time being). It is 1) an invasion of privacy and 2) anti-competitive behavior. Version 1 may be easily circumvented, but future versions could easi
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by dbingham 9y ago
They're doing it based on engagement? Great.. it's just going to surface the jokes. Seriously, there's a lot of important information that passes through our slack channels, but, for the most part, we don't "engag
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by dbingham 9y ago
Please, someone build an open source solution similar to Lastpass backed by a Vault instance with browser plugins and a web front end to allow for key management. That would be amazing. Lastpass is almost necessary for me to keep all my p
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by dbingham 9y ago
We can achieve much of the carbon capture we need to by changing the way we do agriculture. Currently, our approach to agriculture - CAFO meat production, monocropping vast fields of corn, soy, and wheat - is a contributor to greenhouse ga
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by dbingham 9y ago
This one idea is a massively pervasive, invasive meme. It is not remotely true and it is used to justify so much of the harm caused by current neoliberal policy and the growing inequality in wealth and power it creates. Most major advances
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by dbingham 9y ago
Nope. I don't really own any formal wear and I've always kind of hated it. I don't think I would get a similar placebo effect to you, because I have very different associations with it. I think, for me, it would be uncomfor
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by dbingham 9y ago
I am the polar opposite of you, apparently. I work from home, and there's no guarantee I'll even be wearing a shirt on any particular day (provided it's warm enough). I enjoy the bleed over of work and home life -- I work a
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by dbingham 9y ago
What an incredibly arrogant and conceited thing to say. As someone who favors chat this amounts to a personal attack on me and everyone like me -- a personal attack completely devoid of supporting evidence. I've worked at two differen
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by dbingham 9y ago
I understand why a corporate entity being the state sounds appealing -- the theory that you at least _can_ go to another company seems really appealing on its face. But in reality, there is no difference. What you're missing here is th
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by dbingham 9y ago
> ...as long as the market is more or less zero-sum game, one always go in hand with the other. This statement derives from pure propaganda. It has almost never played out that way in history. What almost always actually happens is tha
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by dbingham 10y ago
Australia had 94 fatal police shootings in the 19 years from 1992 to 2011. That's about 5 per year. Australia didn't institute significant gun control until the gun buy back in 1996, so for at least 4 of those years Australia was
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by dbingham 10y ago
At this point drilling is objectively evil. Climate scientists have been saying for a while that we can't afford to burn our existing reserves, let alone burn what comes out of new wells, if we're to have any chance of averting c
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Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet(theguardian.com)
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by dbingham 10y ago
What your link is describing is the size of the Genome encoded into bits . In other words, that's the size of the file containing an entire genome compressed into base pairs in order to store the raw base pair encoding on disk as dig
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by dbingham 10y ago
The moment we get overconfident in our understanding of the universe is the moment that understanding stops advancing.
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by dbingham 10y ago
There's a degree to which it is a zero sum system. If wind and solar is where we should be eventually, then resources put into nuclear now aren't going into wind/solar research and infrastructure building. And nuclear'
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by dbingham 10y ago
Yeah, with respect to your footnote, I grew up on Apple products. Sometime in college (2009) I switched to using Linux primarily. For my last dev job, I was given a MacBook Pro (previous generation). It lacked an optical drive, it lacked
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by dbingham 10y ago
I think some of the fear is justified. Climate change is a very real threat and it's justifiably scary. Our government, in the last 8 years, used remotely operated drones to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens -- inc
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by dbingham 10y ago
If you're using meditation hoping to solve problems while your meditating, then you're doing it wrong. Meditation is like sleep or taking a rest day in a work out regimen. It's all about clearing your mind of noise so that w
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by dbingham 10y ago
Location: Bloomington, IN Remote: Yes - 3 years experience on distributed teams Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Have experience with Javascript (Backbone, JQuery, Underscore), PHP (Laravel, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter), Ruby (Rails), H
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by dbingham 10y ago
Hence the "in our models".
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by dbingham 10y ago
So, you're the intellectual authority on politics then, capable of declaring with certainty that Noam's ideas in that arena are flawed?
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by dbingham 10y ago
I'm not so sure the energy requirements are all that high. Alcubierre suggested that the sort of exotic matter needed would actually be fairly easy to create. NASA's been running experiments hoping to measure it with inconclusiv
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by dbingham 10y ago
Wormholes are another. There's some debate whether or not the idea of creatable wormholes really exists in our physical models. But the idea of existing shortcuts through space time certainly does.
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by dbingham 10y ago
We are, by no means, sure of that. There are numerous theoretical possibilities that fit current theory. Not least of which is the Alcubierre Drive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
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by dbingham 10y ago
There's also the EmDrive ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster ), which is controversial because it seems to violate all known physical laws. But there are prototypes that seem to work and hav
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by dbingham 10y ago
Not sure, I haven't done all that much physics since undergrad (it was my major). But with regard to the negative matter issue mentioned by another commenter, there is this in the wikipedia article: > However, at the close of his o
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by dbingham 10y ago
How about the Alcubierre drive ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive )? Yes, there are many unknowns and in filling in those gaps, we might discover warp is impossible after all. But we could also discover th
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by dbingham 10y ago
But if we take into account damage to reputation aren't we getting dangerously close to infringing on free speech / freedom of the press? If the projected accusations are true, then the damage to reputation is really coming from t

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