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by gotocake 8y ago
You can vaccinate against some bacteria, but I’ve never heard of a vaccine for a protist although there are ongoing attempts. This rundown is pretty thorough as to why it’s chalenging, and why that challenge is related to the complexity of
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by gotocake 8y ago
Grey Goo is self-replication which is only optimized to self-replicate without bound, while consuming any and all local resources.
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The Microphones That May Be Hidden in Your Home(theatlantic.com)
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ICANN Warns of “Ongoing and Significant” Threat to DNS Infrastructure(techcrunch.com)
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by gotocake 8y ago
By that definition explosives are chemical weapons, and you know that isn’t what’s meant by the term. Napalm is an incendiary and equally effective against military and civilians. Agent Orange is a defoliant, and while it’s long term effect
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by gotocake 8y ago
It’s not really risk that’s an issue, it’s a combination of expensive production, dangerous and expensive storage, and expensive deployment contrasted with a total lack of efficacy in killing the intended target. Unless your goal is to murd
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by gotocake 8y ago
Actually federal law enforcement has had a long preference for 10mm auto, and its shortened successor the .40 S&W. In particular the FBI HRT and SWAT still use it despite a history of over penetration.
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by gotocake 8y ago
It’s both. They help with over penetration, and increase damage. Both aspects are routinely advertised by ammo manufacturers, and the terminal ballistics are often advertised as having enhanced “hydrostatic shock” and larger wound channels.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Lack of sleep, sudden change of routine, total immersion in a new mindset, and withholding food is the classic playbook of cult indoctrination. The point is to weaken existing barriers that would otherwise keep people aloof, disengaged, and
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by gotocake 8y ago
You’re talking just about casinos while ignoring, for some reason, lotteries and scratch cards. Framing this as regulatory or political capture is laughable when prior to the internet taking off, state and national lotteries were the most c
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by gotocake 8y ago
do you stone adulterers where you live? how about homosexuals? soothsayers/crypto-pagans/fortune tellers? stay out of the synagogue when you have ejaculated until taking a ritual purity bath? Me? No, but I make “lapsed” seem obs
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by gotocake 8y ago
The second worst way to help people who are sick is to flood the market with their addiction, and then justify that as a way to essentially redistribute money from the desperate and the stupid, to the rich and cruel. That the latter then sh
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by gotocake 8y ago
Really? I’d be worried about doing R&D in China, given the track record of outright stealing anything that isn’t nailed down. You’d also have to wade through a Byzantine network of graft and family connections to get anything done, deal
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by gotocake 8y ago
Yeah, that’s a far cry from telling people to stone them to death, drop a wall on them, or some other nonsense. “You’re not going to heaven” is a nasty thing to say to someone, but it’s a long way from roadhauling them or denying them emplo
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by gotocake 8y ago
I can’t speak for Christian interpretations, but the Torah is very clear on this subject, and Saturday is Shabbat. Because of how Jewish law is structured that leads to it being from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. I’m also under
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by gotocake 8y ago
Even the existence of a god wouldn’t necessarily imply that a heaven could exist the way it exists in Christian theology. Frankly if you’re going to pick a religion for intellectually compelling narratives Christianity isn’t it. Gnosticism
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by gotocake 8y ago
That’s the point; it’s illustrating a technicality which in no way impacts the uselessness of the clock.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Mark, your work greatly improved my life. I completely understand you needed to walk away from this though, and I’m sorry the least among us have taken so much from you.
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by gotocake 8y ago
My mother has a wild lawn, dominated by ferns, moss, wildflowers and other nifty things. This replaced the previous owner’s typically sterile American lawn. When she first moved in a few decades ago there wasn’t much in the way of wildlife.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Fun fact, the toroidal cat is actually a stable gravitational configuration along with a spheroid. There are upper and lower bounds on angular momentum and mass of course, but within those bounds you can have a toroidal cat orbiting its pri
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by gotocake 8y ago
Yes absolutely, the countermeasures aren’t produced because the only laser weapons deployed for the last two decades are either giant chemical lasers mounted on 747’s and designed to imtercept ICBM’s, smaller (but still quite large) ground
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by gotocake 8y ago
I’m half Russian, so yeah I have.
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by gotocake 8y ago
You haven’t met many New Yorkers have you?
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by gotocake 8y ago
You got to be kidding. Here are the things I can safely say about most Indians, not all, "most": 1. They eat roti and rice. 2. They speak Hindi 3. They wash not wipe their ass. 4. They are Hindu and worship one of the Avtars of s
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by gotocake 8y ago
In order... It would not have to be night time, modern NVG is quite adaptable. It would also be trivial to deliver something using the same tech as primative NVGs or basic FLIR as a countermeasure. Dust isn’t required with IR, the whole bea
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by gotocake 8y ago
My bad, I should have clarified. When a laser hits a target in this context, the target material ablates and burns. This kicks up “dust” and other fine particulates as well as water, and this causes more bloom. It’s also a good defense agai
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by gotocake 8y ago
I would argue that reducing more than a billion people who don’t even speak the same language, eat the same food, listen to the same music, worship the same gods... to a single stereotype is the sweaty face of ingorance, no matter how you t
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by gotocake 8y ago
I hope you’re right, but the skeptic in me says that people who commit crimes tend to do so thinking they won’t get caught. It’s the problem with the death penalty or any harsh regime of sentencing; the deterrence effect is nonexistent.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Fair enough, but those wavelengths are visible with night vision gear. Either you work in visible wavelengths and worry about dust, or you work in IR and draw bright lines for anyone with NVG.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Pretending that “Indian” describes a single culture composed of more than a billion people is the defintion of racism. India is an incredibly diverse place full of people who have less in common in terms of culture (not to mention language)

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