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by deciplex 11y ago
The negotiations do not need to be public - as noted elsewhere opening them up would also come with a cost. International agreements like this are often negotiated behind closed doors. What is a problem, is we can be sure that once the ne
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by deciplex 11y ago
So, in other words: "I don't care about freedom to bear arms because I don't have a gun."
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by deciplex 11y ago
Seeing that makes me wince. It was not long ago that you would have instead typed "or roughly $10". I'm not sure to what extent that's affected minimum-wage workers in Japan though, if at all.
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by deciplex 11y ago
That depends on Windows 10 being a huge success, and they are kind of fucking it up. Aside from the interface still apparently missing the point, I don't think a lot of people appreciated the ad/nag showing up in their system tray
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by deciplex 11y ago
You think they should begin paying moderators? Any suggestions where that money should come from? Any thoughts on whether it will lead to conflicts of interest on the larger subreddits which could harm the site (such as, and especially, IAm
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by deciplex 11y ago
The Nazis did not act on behalf of the German people in the sense that the German people mostly did not want to exterminate the Jewish race along with several other demographic categories. However, limiting the scope to antisemitism itself,
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by deciplex 11y ago
The Chinese military drive the tanks, not the CCP leadership.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Not sure what the upshot will be. China's rulers will also be torn to shreds?
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by deciplex 11y ago
I'm pretty sure science has the words for it. Also, supernatural things, by definition, do not exist. Pedophiles unfortunately do exist.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Fair enough. I brought up thermodynamics because you seemed to be implying that intelligent agents would assign meaning to things without doing any work. It wasn't clear to me from where the "information" was being created. W
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by deciplex 11y ago
Are you denying the existence of tax havens in the EU?
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by deciplex 11y ago
> The German regime that racked up the WWII debts was destroyed and its leaders suicided or executed. Yes, but most of the people who enabled that regime to do its work, were still around. It's not as though the entire population
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by deciplex 11y ago
> The movement of electrons that gives rise to consciousness (or is interpreted as consciousness), creates information. This process is an abstraction from the physical world. It's not clear to me what you mean when you say consci
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by deciplex 11y ago
> A mathematical model of hurricanes won't create rain What about a detailed simulation of global climate at a granularity of, let's say, individual quarks. Is there a point at which a map is so detailed that it becomes, in s
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by deciplex 11y ago
You seem to be making a statement about the law - I don't think anyone is suggesting that what Reddit has done here is against the law. Instead, what Reddit has done here strikes many people as rather stupid.
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by deciplex 11y ago
They could have, and should have, simply stated that she will be gone in a month and laid out at the same time what the handover process would be, given her a generous severance conditional on not stating publicly that she was actually fire
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by deciplex 11y ago
> At 23, I turned down the shot to be first engineer at Palantir (now rumored to be worth $20 billion!) even though Peter Thiel personally took me out to dinner to recruit me. So he left (a lot of) money on the table, but aside from th
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by deciplex 11y ago
Why would you shut off your phone? Just leave it behind.
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by deciplex 11y ago
"Divide the cake into two pieces" does not mean I'm giving you another cake.
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by deciplex 11y ago
"Republican leadership... free market people... patriot... small government types" Figure out which of these does not belong, and you will have your answer.
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by deciplex 11y ago
You're assuming that other intelligent life has a lifespan similar to our own, and that our own lifespan will remain the same forever. Remove those assumptions and our galaxy gets a lot smaller even with radio communication and sub-lig
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by deciplex 11y ago
Professional photographs on your careers webpage of your open-plan office, perhaps with a ping-pong table or arcade cabinet in the middle of a sea of whimsically-arranged single-monitor workstations, will count against you. This is mainly b
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by deciplex 11y ago
> The EU was never meant to be a transfer union, if it headed that way all the rich nations would likely bail and current politicians would face political defeat. Is that why it's so easy for the rich over there to hide all their
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by deciplex 11y ago
I thought this has been the case for over a decade?
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by deciplex 11y ago
Most physicists or, depending on who you talk to, nearly half of physicists, would appear to agree with you. I'm convinced that the Copenhagen interpretation remains popular because by making observation itself an integral part of the
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by deciplex 11y ago
John Wheeler's delayed choice thought experiment was already confirmed in the lab over ten years ago. It's neat that they were able to get results with baryonic matter, and it was definitely worthwhile to try to do that, but this
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by deciplex 11y ago
> There are many theories on it but no observed or experimental effects of dark matter to date. FTFA: > And most spectacularly, you get an entirely new prediction: that when you get two clusters of galaxies colliding, the gas insid
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Give it a hundred years and hundreds of thousands of grad student hours, and something quite clean emerges. Ugh, and we just had this on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9779206 :-)
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yes. GDP per capita is a meaningless statistic - what we want to know is GDP per kilogram. Likewise, American productivity as measured per worker is a meaningless statistic, but the productivity of the American worker-kilogram will determin
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by deciplex 11y ago
Your standard 2010s American is also roughly 3x as large as the typical 1950s American, though.

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