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by gotocake 8y ago
Not really, I think the literal Inquisition still has us beat.
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by gotocake 8y ago
That wasn’t my intention, I just meant that I didn’t understand the reasoning, not to infer something sinister.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Paralytics primarily effect voluntary muscles (and spontaneous respiration), but GA impacts the autonomic system to varying degrees. The blockade will keep you from moving (or breathing), the GA will depress your autonomic functioning. Now
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by gotocake 8y ago
Agreed on Project Rho, it mixes entertainment and intellectual stimulation to the point I occasionally find myself giggling. Good point about reactionless drives too!
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by gotocake 8y ago
Especially in the case of an intubated patient with neuromuscular blockade, I don’t think an EKG would be useful. You’re already going to have all kinds of fluctuations from the anesthesia, muscle relaxants, analgesics and just from the int
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by gotocake 8y ago
I’ve become convinced that anything which makes us experience strong feelings has the potential to be compelling. Add to that the difficulty many of us have with letting things go, and you have a recipe for intellectual/emotional “crac
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by gotocake 8y ago
I love the idea, either as a fusion drive or annihilation drive, but the world had better be damned peaceful before we start making that kind of thing. As Larry Niven explored several times, such a drive is also a weapon of mass destruction
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by gotocake 8y ago
Ever since I’ve been a little kid this one thing has stuck with me; if you can’t remember it, is it like it never happened? I used to wonder that about nightmares, but I tended to go with the view that a version of you did suffer, and on so
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by gotocake 8y ago
These arguments aren’t going to sway a judge or the SEC, it almost feels amateurish. Of course I presume that Musk and Tesla’s lawyer are very competent, but they have to work with what they’re given. I suppose the brief can be seen as red
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by gotocake 8y ago
Smart rule, that kind of thing is a bottomless pit second only to chained puns.
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by gotocake 8y ago
A discussion about the discussion.
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by gotocake 8y ago
You seem to have read something in my post that wasn’t there, namely that I was suggesting some kind of restriction on research, rather than what I did say, which was the need for more research. I can only guess how you interpreted my pos
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by gotocake 8y ago
You’ve quoted a single sentence out of two paragraphs, and then extrapolated from that fragment something I didn’t actually say. Even putting it in as neutral and fair terms as I could, I should have guessed that anything on this topic woul
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by gotocake 8y ago
There are two main reasons I’m aware of. First, a certain kind of person tries to make a deeply sexist argument and reaches for “science” to back it up. The overall experience with that kind of thing is profoundly negative, and it has a pre
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by gotocake 8y ago
Assuming the crisis is limited to just the U.S., maybe. Otherwise no, because everyone would be suffering and stockpiling what they could for their own citizens. There are also geopolitical concerns, such as pricing those exports very dearl
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Don’t Trust Facebook’s New Privacy Play(theatlantic.com)
12 points by gotocake 8y ago|1 comments
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Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
They’re also heavily used in paintball and airsoft, and some other quasi-combat games. The best ones I’ve used are sold by a company called Enola Gay, and they advertise simultaneously to photographers (as you said) and paintball/airso
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by gotocake 8y ago
Are you qualified to assess threats for credibility? It’s actually a fairly involved skillset, and unless you’re used to working with MOSAIC you might want to leave it to people who are qualified.
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by gotocake 8y ago
The only other predator I know of that sees humans as prey most of the time is the polar bear. Sharks sometimes bite humans as a “test” and then lose interest, wolves need to be desperate or sick to hunt humans, lions and other big cats ca
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by gotocake 8y ago
Great piece. Last year, I forced myself to release something every two weeks Out of habit I tend to check the comments here before reading the article, and um... I did a serious double-take between the title and your opening sentence. For
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by gotocake 8y ago
People have to care about those people, and have to believe in that reality instead of a pleasing fantasy, and they have to believe it will happen soon enough to matter to them. It turns out that a lot of corporate execs either believe in
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by gotocake 8y ago
Maybe, or maybe it would be unprofitable.
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by gotocake 8y ago
On the other hand in 2018 144 out of 850,000 sworn officers were killed. Roofers, farmers, and groundskeepers have higher fatality rates and cause a lot less harm in their daily work. As for encountering jerks, try nursing, and again their
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by gotocake 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War#Casualti... The war ranks with the worst famines and plagues as the greatest medical catastrophe in modern European history.[78][79] Lacking good census information,
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by gotocake 8y ago
Human drivers are just mechanical turks to build market share while self-driving cars become commercially viable. Don’t they have to exist before we worry about commercial viability? You’re not the only one talking like FSDV’s are just mi
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by gotocake 8y ago
I don’t think it’s the only “shameful” thing unfortunately. The claim of cars being capable of FSD is pretty clearly nonsense, although I recognize that some true believers will take some more years to accept that. Still, I think most of us
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by gotocake 8y ago
And yet the 1918 flu had profound effects, and there is no guarantee that any future pandemic wouldn’t have a much higher CFR and total mortality. We also have to consider the impact of societal collapse in the near term, and the deaths tha
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by gotocake 8y ago
It’s only painful in a stable, peaceful society with a strong rule of law. In any other context it’s downright lethal. Take the extreme of Dark Forest theory; you can try to explain your position and values all you like, and while you do it
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by gotocake 8y ago
The problem is that 2 opens you up to (using a phrase from some submissions on HN) “intellectual denial of service attacks.” You could spend a dozen lifetimes responding reasonably, with well researched and phrased rebuttals to anti-vaxxers

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