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by gotocake 8y ago
Having humans being the ones playing Universal Paperclips is a very interesting phenomenon, though. What does it say about us that as we fear a paperclip automaton annihilating us, we find it irresistable just to see some numbers get bigge
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by gotocake 8y ago
That was such an amazing series, and I found it had a lasting emotional impact. I still feel vaguely hurt and angry when I think about it!
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by gotocake 8y ago
Except it has failed, twice. It’s not as though shoving it back out the door and crossing fingers isn’t potentially going to lead to more tragedy and an even worse image, plus the potential for ruinous lawsuits. Boeing is in a terrible posi
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by gotocake 8y ago
Naively it makes sense, pain is just a sensation, but suffering is more complex. I doubt that we can truly shit off sensitivity to noxious stimuli, but meditation (and maybe some generic factors) seem like a way to manage reactions to that
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Gutter Oil(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by gotocake 8y ago|1 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
The people who talk about opposing mass surveillance are, on average, better educated and higher paid than the average American. When they can't bother to show up, it's noted. It’s expected, because they are a minute fraction of
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by gotocake 8y ago
Simply labeling anyone without the time to join you, or the belief that it can help as the problem is bullshit. Your premise, that if more people banded together is a false one. The ability of politicians and corporate entities to divide pe
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by gotocake 8y ago
I despise Facebook and never use it, but I don’t buy this. All of the fringe nuts, hatemongers and free speech absolutists combined are a drop in their DAU bucket. Most people don’t care if anti-vaxxers, Nazis, or the extremes of civil libe
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by gotocake 8y ago
I think “loophole” already covers the fact that this is technically legal. The issue raised in TFA is a question of whether or not this should be legal.
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Tesla Delaying Deliveries of Standard Range Model 3(thedrive.com)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
That’s a very good point, but of course the government is going to have to pay in some fashion for the health impacts of smoking. It’s sort of a weird situation for a government to be in, making profit from tobacco and shouldering the inevi
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by gotocake 8y ago
Well Cyprus is hot and muggy as hell in the summer, I wonder if that’s a factor? Malta is lovely and sunny, hot in the summer, and has torrential rains in fall. It’s famously hot and dry in summer, and when the rains do come they’re so brut
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by gotocake 8y ago
Very cool pictures, but a correction: Although it is understandable to see how it could be naturally assumed a vapor cone (as the singularity is also known)... This is incorrect. The P-G Singularity is a hypothesized pressure singularity
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by gotocake 8y ago
Instead of attacking the person who is making a fairly lengthy and supportable argument, and basing your stance on the notion of some nebulous value “people” find, maybe you could respond in kind? I have to say that I find myself in the cam
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by gotocake 8y ago
My immediate thought is that smoking overall is falling and falling, so maybe advertising does more than shift brand loyalty of existing customers. Smoking in the United States and other developed nations is declining, but it’s rising wor
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by gotocake 8y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/05/12/how-saf... Nationwide, you’re more than twice as likely to die while riding a bike than riding in a car, per trip, according to a 2007 study led
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by gotocake 8y ago
Oh they get it, they’re just looking out for themselves. Property owners account for 72% of the voting block and have strong roots in the community where renters tend to be more transient [1]. In America, as a property owner, your home is
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by gotocake 8y ago
Cars do just fine in snowy places. I don’t see a reason why bikes shouldn’t. Stability, slippage, being exposed to freezing cold and wet, the lack of an engine assist, no heat, two fewer wheels, and did I mention cold? Just throw in the
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Big Pharma’s Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn’t Add Up(theatlantic.com)
11 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
Per the same link all forms of injury have also dropped, from serious to minor. They’ve been dropping for decades, despite rising population, car ownership, and traffic rates (with the exception of 2010).
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by gotocake 8y ago
At some point however we are going to face the fact that roads are a cheap form of transport because they are shared and so are dangerous - the UK has 4500 deaths a year Well that’s untrue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by gotocake 8y ago
I think you may have ignored both the post I was replying to, and the 95% of my post you didn’t chop into sentence fragments and choose to respond to.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Of course places such as the Northeast (USA) are also the worst candidates for the SF dream of bike dominance. Where I’m from (Colorado) the idea of bike-first is something we roll our eyes at, and generally rightly assume that the loudest
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by gotocake 8y ago
I can’t help not being offended, and “this slope is so slippery only being offended by trifles can save us” isn’t the compelling position you seem to think it is. The fact is that the slope is rarely slippery, there are often May chances to
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by gotocake 8y ago
Yeah, and when addressing your userbase I can see how that’s very much a choice Discord is free and fairly making. Failing to draw a distinction between “stuff said to fans” and “rejection letter contents” seems like a real problem to me.
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by gotocake 8y ago
You’re a champion, thanks!
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by gotocake 8y ago
The thing is a pound of copper has a pretty significant specific heat, and that’s a feature rather than a bug. A thin graphene film may be more conductive, but what is it thermal capacity? If it’s just a thin film that gets blazing hot it’s
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by gotocake 8y ago
More concerning to me is that I’m unclear how much heat capacity this thin film has. If you can’t layer it, then you’d neee vast sheets of the stuff to be useful as an energy source. Maybe it could be useful, but at the moment it seems more
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by gotocake 8y ago
Honest question, granted you’re not 12, and I don’t care if you or your colleagues are furries or whatever. What I’m curious about is how you or anyone you work with could think that rejection email was anything other than cloying, obnoxiou
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Valve Software Dreams of Analyzing Your Brainwaves to Tailor In-Game Rewards(arstechnica.com)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments

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