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by dmead 8y ago
this is tractor beam yes?
542.
by dmead 8y ago
I'm an engineer and i have valve disease. whats up.
543.
by dmead 8y ago
is it true the sushi guy was interviewed by jobs?
544.
by dmead 8y ago
This is a very panglossian statement. You just recited a version of the "Best of all worlds" fallacy.
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by dmead 8y ago
Nope. better them than putin or steve bannon, or anyone who works at breitbart
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by dmead 8y ago
react-native?
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by dmead 8y ago
I have similar issues with cyberpunk novels. Telling me how the internet is supposed to work is not a fun time for me. Though, for foundation they do have other cool tech that is definitely still completely futuristic. (i'm thinking ab
548.
by dmead 8y ago
it definitely is/was not profitable. you need a vast subscriber base to make economies of scale become useful
549.
by dmead 8y ago
How does the load have to reach orbital velocity? I think there is some disconnect here..
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by dmead 8y ago
Sure, but you'll have to pick your poison. Most of the time people need to eat and feed their families so they do whatever gets the quickest buck. The ethical calculus is really that simple. As humans, we have a hard time extending our
551.
by dmead 8y ago
This is great, but can this really be followed by companies that have shareholders and investors?
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by dmead 8y ago
It's a false dichotomy and your constraint of "The constraint is that X is inevitable" I reject outright. Invention/engineering/development... whatever you want to call it is in the end an act or series of acts. You
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by dmead 8y ago
The best thing we can do is to have a realistic expectation about what is going to happen if technology 'X' is introduced. Saying that "oh we just have to be wary" is like an a priori version of "we were just follow
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by dmead 8y ago
This is really fascinating. I want to know about the culture of the person who authorized this. They seemed to be lacking essential cultural norms for north america. Some questions I'd start asking are: -Have they ever been diagnosed w
555.
by dmead 8y ago
Isn't that illegal? Didn't Microsoft lose a huge case about IE just like this?
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by dmead 8y ago
What do you mean? It's almost exactly the same.. packaging wine in a distribution with a gui to run and configure some specific games...
557.
by dmead 8y ago
For what it's worth, this seems reminiscent of other wine distributions like crossover office (for office) or cedega (for games)
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by dmead 8y ago
oh, I was talking about the racism.
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by dmead 8y ago
he looks exhausted. whats your point?
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by dmead 8y ago
Many insane people do not go on racist tirades.
561.
by dmead 8y ago
So you're suggesting that archive.org should tell a half truth about the man?
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by dmead 8y ago
I am not, but I'm also not suggesting they need the services of the internet archive.
563.
by dmead 8y ago
this is the wrong way to do translation problems in lisp.
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by dmead 8y ago
perhaps. I'm hazarding a guess that I found it from slashdot and the slashdot search comes up with nothing for that.. so maybe not. But what i'm thinking of definitely added a drawing overlay and a chat capability to any arbitrary
565.
by dmead 8y ago
It did exist and was decently popular in the 2000s... The name escapes me. It was a firefox plugin ...
566.
by dmead 8y ago
I think it's assumed they'd drop off to hubs that would be near highways.
567.
by dmead 8y ago
Marianne, I'd like to chat with you about this article not in public. Whats the easiest way to do that?
568.
by dmead 8y ago
"And now their team's attention is on AI..." is quite the hype thing to say. Just because you can build a bigger bridge doesn't mean you're a good car designer.
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by dmead 8y ago
People also died riding them in philly http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/du...
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by dmead 8y ago
whats the exchange rate with wikipedia articles?

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