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by gotocake 8y ago
They both seem to pay a lot of lip service while the reality greatly undermines the verbiage. I’d argue that in acting the representation of women is far better than in software development. The degree to which software development is an as
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by gotocake 8y ago
Basically unless you were having a very prolonged and loving relationship with the bucket, you were exposed to nothing of consequence. That doesn’t excuse the morons who kept this stuff, and if a kid took a souvenir home or there had been a
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by gotocake 8y ago
Lasers only travel in straight lines, and any moisture or dust will reveal its trajectory and draw a straight line to the shooter. Worse, you need to keep the laser on target for a while. With a .50 BMG sniper rifle you can be moving before
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by gotocake 8y ago
It’s also seriously impacted by bloom on the target, which is trivial to produce with even moderate shielding. There’s a reason some very smart people still struggle with adaptive optics and phase arrays, instead of revealing comical sci-fi
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by gotocake 8y ago
So in ideal conditions you have a big, heavy gun that can sort of harm an immobile target that isn’t using basic countermeasures. Meanwhile a BMG .50 rifle can put a hole in an engine block from twice the distance, is cheaper and more relia
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by gotocake 8y ago
That’s even more stark when you put it that way. Men leave at a rate of 9% more than their background rate when they have children, women leave 19% more with kids, over a base rate that even without children exceeds the male rate by 8%.
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A Lab Discovering DNA in Old Books(theatlantic.com)
46 points by gotocake 8y ago|2 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
I’m not opposed to you volunteering for medical experiments.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Blood transfusion comes with a host of risks which increase the more you do it. Call me old fashioned, but I’d like to save up for a time when my life depends on not having an infusion reaction! I’m also getting the sense that you’re not qu
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by gotocake 8y ago
Proof if it were needed that money can’t buy you brains. Making the leap from rodent models where a juvenile and elderly rodent shared a circulatory system to transfusions is so breathtaking in its lack of basic sense that you have to won
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by gotocake 8y ago
The LIBOR scandal was predicated on them using online chat rooms, instead of just the kind of proven “wink and a nod over drinks” that’s being alleged here. In essence, they took an even bigger risk than what is being described in this arti
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by gotocake 8y ago
My cynical impression is that OpenAI figured out a way to get tons of free PR, with the ultimate “humblebrag” of all time. I don’t think they honestly believe that what they’re doing has a material impact, beyond media coverage and people t
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by gotocake 8y ago
I am; the stupidest thing anyone can do is try to save some time at the expense of placing faith in the justice system. I’d add, how screwed up is a system that punishes you for exercising your constitutional rights.
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by gotocake 8y ago
The original and open paper is a good read: https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(1... Obligatory “in a Petri dish” codicil. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by gotocake 8y ago
Depending on how close it is, you could destroy or at least damage the sattelite without even needing to launch anything. As a weapon, it would be downright silly to threaten a major world power with it. Of course if your goal is just to te
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by gotocake 8y ago
The only words that should ever come out of your mouth and float to a cop’s ears are, “I’m invoking my rights to an attorney, and silence.” Rinse and repeat as needed, and ignore ideological arguments from strangers on the internet that don
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by gotocake 8y ago
3.5) The giant MASER in space is also a sitting duck target, so it’s shit as a weapon, and disrupting a nation’s power supply is as easy as “shooting” back.
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Man discovers working 30-year-old Apple IIe in parents' attic(techspot.com)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|2 comments
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Rethinking Love and Autism(daily.jstor.org)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
I think it can be helpful to move away from pat generalizations like “progressive” or “liberal” for the most part. I have no doubt that if we first met while I was talking about my views on gender equality and redistribution of wealth you’d
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by gotocake 8y ago
Goddamn, I really really didn’t expect that level of extreme creepiness. The honey thing was weird, but the “sassy” policewoman thing? Wow. If you walked in on someone watching that, you’d be seriously concerned. Again, my asmptiom going
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by gotocake 8y ago
Unless this magically doesn’t apply to every other developed nation, how do you explain why it’s only extortionate pricing we find in the US specifically? Even with creative and generous accounting pharmaceutical giants make a literal and
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by gotocake 8y ago
Nuclear power is cost prohibitive. Really, because it’s widely employed around the world. If you have some evidence that it’s “cost prohibitive” though I’d love to see it. Evidence mind you, not flat declarations devoid of substance. Add
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by gotocake 8y ago
I believe the rods were graphite, just like the moderators. Of course the problem with that was that by the time they were inserted the reactor was already out of control. All the graphite rods did was burn, which certainly didn’t help matt
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by gotocake 8y ago
I’m always amazed and appalled at just how bad most people I’ve met are with basic probabilities. Now that’s just my anecdote, but I think your ratio would strongly favor the casinos, which I guess explains why the casinos exist and thrive
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by gotocake 8y ago
I agree with most of your points, however: most of the accidents have more to do with flaws in regulations than mistakes from the nuclear engineers. Chernobyl, which is arguably the worst and most iconic nuclear disaster of all times was m
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by gotocake 8y ago
The overall incredible ignorance around nuclear is staggering. If you ask the average person how many people have died as a result of the Chernobyl incident, they’re usually going to estimate high by orders of magnitude. In general what peo
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by gotocake 8y ago
It’s a contest, is that really a surprise? The hypocrisy is just the marketing spin on the contest for people who can’t accept that it is a competiton. If the honest question isn’t about right and wrong, but about winners and losers, the
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Biological Sex Shapes Tumour Evolution Across Cancer Types(nature.com)
2 points by gotocake 8y ago|1 comments
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Why Cryptoanarchy Is Not a Revolutionary Movement(opaque.link)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments

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