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by freshair 5y ago
Suppose I am an alcoholic drinking myself to death, and my friend is as well. I tell my friend that he should stop drinking. That would make me a hypocrite, but it wouldn't make me wrong. Pointing out hypocrisy to 'dunk on&#x27
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by freshair 5y ago
The 'V' in that V2 stood for 'Vergeltungswaffen' (something like 'retaliation weapon'.)
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by freshair 5y ago
As a "serious rocket", New Shepard falls well short of Falcon 1, which made orbit 13 years ago. Blue Origin still hasn't put anything into space. Of New Shepard development, wikipedia tells me "Prototype engine and ve
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by freshair 5y ago
> slow and steady wins the race It's a popular saying but a lot of people don't seem to recall the parable. A slow and steady tortoise only wins the race if the rabbit sprints a little bit but then gets too cocky and decide
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by freshair 5y ago
This sort of comedy does not go over well here.
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by freshair 5y ago
I wonder if Bill Gates has been so publicly upset about internet conspiracy theories about himself because his own wife began to believe some of the internet's claims about him...
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by freshair 5y ago
How is that $50 drone hovering next to my face going to breatherlizer me to see if I'm drunk? Will I have to put my face next to the rotor blades? And if the drone thinks I'm drunk, will the drone pull me out of the car before I
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by freshair 5y ago
If it's truly for a life-saving purpose then a little bit of paperwork shouldn't stop them from using it. And you might think it's sad, but I'm not shedding a single tear for the police who don't have access to $5
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by freshair 5y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the other way around happens too. Quite a lot of people started off trusting their government by default; that's what public schools mostly teach after all. But when people witness these injustices ag
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by freshair 5y ago
That's fine by me, I like it when cops have to follow the same laws as the rest of us. If one of us wanted to fuck around with grenades, we'd have to do the paperwork for each one. Why should that rule be any different for the p
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by freshair 5y ago
But as I describe in my other comment, the value of a dollar varies not only with time but also with location and context. There are places in America today where $200 a month from a blue collar job will keep a roof over your head. In oth
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by freshair 5y ago
> I’d argue “2001 dollars” is a unit, Why though? Why dollars in a particular year, rather than dollars in general? Sure the value of a dollar changes from year to year, but the value of a dollar also changes constantly in any given
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by freshair 5y ago
I think you'd be in good company with that conclusion.
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by freshair 5y ago
That's a pretty shitty unit. Using those units, it's nontrivial to even compare two measurements made in the same country with the same currency, only one generation apart in time. When dealing with a decent unit like meters, y
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by freshair 5y ago
They could be fooling themselves too, not knowingly spreading falsehoods. A lot of of what we call p-hacking can happen by accident by somebody who isn't very good at statistics or just isn't being careful.
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by freshair 5y ago
Biology is huge. It encompasses everything from neuroscience to zoography. Somebody could probably make a good case for psychology being under the umbrella of biology, if they were inclined. I'd guess the replication crisis in biol
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by freshair 5y ago
They look very similar (though probably larger) to mock strawberries (which are not really strawberries either.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla_indica Incidentally: from a botanical perspective, strawberries
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by freshair 5y ago
From that github discussion: > "The default green is 0xb9ca4a [which is actually yellow]( https://www.color-hex.com/color/b9ca4a )." While I agree that 0xb9ca4a is not a good choice for a default green, I
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by freshair 5y ago
> "If you don't care about drawing decorations I don't see why you would care if it looks native." Don't you have this completely backwards? If I want my application to have special custom decorations, then it
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by freshair 5y ago
> What if someone loses their legs on the eventual Mars base? Are they just SOL Realistically? Yeah, I think they'd die. Even if the Mars base had a trauma surgeon, which is a big 'if', would they really be equipped t
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by freshair 5y ago
To be fair, supposing it were a recently introduced earth fungus, it would still be pretty incredible to learn that an earth fungus can evidently flourish on Mars.
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by freshair 5y ago
When we're talking about potential alien lifeforms, assumptions like "fungus eat plants" need to be loosely held. This may not be fungi as we know it at all, but rather an alien analogue that fills a similar role despite ha
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by freshair 5y ago
> - US military: last time I checked, one service allows laser surgery, and the others are evaluating it. HUGE caveat here: They only allow eye surgery if they were the ones that did it. My brother had eye surgery when he was 3 year
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by freshair 5y ago
> The problem occurs when someone thinks they can determine “best” from traits that probably don’t actually matter in space, like being shorter than average You got me curious so I looked it up. NASA requires that astronauts be at lea
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by freshair 5y ago
Brands have value insofar as the consuming public recognize those brands, right? I'd wager that Diablo is most famous for the first two games which both came out 20 years ago, and that the enthusiast segment of the market recognizes t
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by freshair 5y ago
"Do you guys not have phones?" -Blizzard staff in 2018, in response to booing fans upset that Blizzard wouldn't make a PC version of a game those same fans obviously wanted to play. This company has been contemptuous of t
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by freshair 5y ago
From where I am sitting, your characterization of seriousquestion's comment as a "very shallow dismissal" is itself a very shallow dismissal. Substantially shallower than seriousquestion's comment, which at least conta
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by freshair 5y ago
Because it's thankless. The bosses I've had generally seem to think that writing documentation beyond inline comments is a waste of time; something that shouldn't be done unless scheduled for. And of course it's alway
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by freshair 5y ago
> 2. A neutral supernatural spirit. > An hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demon#Noun