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by earthtourist 6y ago
Besides the U.S. Navy videos, there's only one video (out of hundreds I've seen) that has me genuinely wondering if it might be real evidence of an advanced vehicle (aliens or not). It seems to match this American Airpline pilot&#
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by earthtourist 6y ago
The Patriot Act was not inherently time-limited. A virus will have an end at some point through a vaccine or therapies. Terrorism does not have any end. In fact it is timeless.
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by earthtourist 6y ago
If you want to convert this from a contentless ad hominem to an actual argument feel free to point to some relevant examples in history, if you can.
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by earthtourist 6y ago
You seem to have two basic arguments: 1. That the lock downs were unnecessary/ineffective. And since the evidence and experts disagree with you, it seems incredibly dubious that you're right. As with climate change denial, there i
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by earthtourist 6y ago
It is a huge hammer and this is a huge problem. We normally arrest people for endangering the public. People not abiding by the lock down are clearly endangering the public. They should be arrested. I don't see any slippery slope or
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by earthtourist 6y ago
Your personal liberty ends where my nose begins. When it comes to rights, we always have to ask "what are the reasonable trade-offs?". There are no absolute rights, even in the U.S. Most people believe it's clearly reasonable
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by earthtourist 6y ago
The local government is doing what the majority of its citizens want it to do. This is exactly the purpose of having a government. Every libertarian I know believes governments should provide intervention in these kinds of situations. If yo
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by earthtourist 6y ago
IIRC this is why the U.S. military (in certain cases?) uses a pre-generated list of code names. If you let humans do the code names, they'll choose names that leak info.
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by earthtourist 6y ago
I wonder how it is cleaned. Parts of it look like they might be hard to clean effectively. Is it water resistant and capable of being (safely) sprayed down with a disinfectant?
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by earthtourist 6y ago
I like the idea of supersonic passenger jets existing again. I'm not sure I really see the point though. Would you rather fly in business class comfort for 8 hours or with less comfort for 4 hours? Almost doesn't seem worth the ex
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by earthtourist 6y ago
Yes, and no one should try to play competitive games across a continent. Competitions must be regional. Internet latency is great within a few hundred miles.
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by earthtourist 6y ago
You can't run a server for yourself for most games. You have to sign into a proprietary service to download/run games. We already lost this battle. I'd like to at least get some advantages like less cheating!
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by earthtourist 6y ago
The main benefit of cloud gaming might end up being a significant reduction in cheating. The problem historically has been that game clients have access to a lot of game state that enables cheats. With a "thin client" like Google
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by earthtourist 6y ago
It is true that you can succeed well at tech companies without a degree from a top school. Class, race, gender, sexual orientation are not barriers to success. That's the positive thing. The negative thing is that most tech companies h
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by earthtourist 6y ago
I've really enjoyed this series. I do wish they just told stories about developing their games without the contrived framing of every one as a "near death" story. It's just unnecessary and rings pretty false in most case
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by earthtourist 6y ago
Of course there are productivity boosters. The dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, vehicles, computerized booking, and many other pieces of technology have replaced the need for many additional workers. The problem is that, as states, we are not
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by earthtourist 7y ago
Real heros exist. But only children believe they are infallible. As the pretend hero, Malcolm Reynolds, said "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another."
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by earthtourist 7y ago
Unless the spread was much faster in some areas than others due to population density, for instance. Back to the confounding variables question...
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by earthtourist 7y ago
1. Early mass testing might have have flooded hospitals with scared people, the same way it seem to in Italy. Whether it was incompetence or reluctance, it may have been a positive thing that there wasn't mass testing. 2. Containment w
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by earthtourist 7y ago
Everyone knew what was happening in China. The starting line was the same for all countries. I became 100% sure we were in for a hospital-overrunning pandemic by mid-January. I can tell because that's when I started emailing friends&#x
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by earthtourist 7y ago
By that metric, California is doing 10x better than Switzerland with 4x the population. And 10x better than the UK with 0.6x the population. There are so many variables involved that it's hard to know how to rationally compare differen
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by earthtourist 7y ago
I'm basing my comments on data: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ In what way did the U.S. "completely drop the ball"? As far as I can tell there are two things that could have been done better
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by earthtourist 7y ago
You're espousing an unfounded conspiracy theory based on a very forced interpretation of one person's offhanded remark. Instantly disprovable with facts: 1. NY is not politically aligned with Trump in the least. They have received
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by earthtourist 7y ago
No question it's been suboptimal but "insanely incompetent" seems a stretch. The most logical comparison would be to other similar countries. The U.S. handling seems to have been much better than UK, France, Belgium, Spain, I
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by earthtourist 7y ago
Why not in practice? One of the positive features of this pandemic is that the infection is peaking at different times across cities. That means it should be possible to surge PPE/ventilators/personnel to the hot spots, and shift
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by earthtourist 7y ago
Startup idea: make it easy for a company to pay for testing for their workforce. If every workplace had a 15 minute test required before an employee could begin work, we could get a lot of people back to work with relatively low risk. Addit
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by earthtourist 7y ago
The word "spy" isn't specific enough. It's enough to say that you don't want your Fourth Amendment rights violated. It should be possible to do mass surveillance of Covid-19 without violating people's rights. I
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by earthtourist 7y ago
Careful giving medical advice. Fasting can be dangerous in some cases. The advice I got from my doctor is to start with 24 hour fasts. And then try 48 hours. And then probably stop there. (I am not a medical expert)
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John Carmack building an AI on years of TV, video games, and chat rooms(mobile.twitter.com)
5 points by earthtourist 7y ago|0 comments
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by earthtourist 7y ago
Our legal system does usually involve "proving damages". Obtaining autonomous vehicle IP is not equivalent to having autonomous vehicle product in the market. As an example: Boeing could almost certainly publish all of the IP for

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