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by hguant 11y ago
Boko Haram - death to western education. Yeah, good luck with that.
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by hguant 11y ago
Pulling over to the side of the road and putting your blinkers on is (almost) always an acceptable solution to an automotive error. Much harder to pull that off at 35,000 feet.
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by hguant 11y ago
The last line was a bit of a bummer, but it's in line with the US's non-military spending habits.
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by hguant 11y ago
I was thinking abut this, and it seems to me that the Third Law problem only exists when you're starting the drilling (pressing down) and removing the drill (pulling up). During the actual drilling procedure, there should be a force fr
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by hguant 11y ago
According to this [1] nature article, homing pigeons have an innate sense of where 'home' is and can use the Earth's magnetic field to point themselves in the right direction, thanks to iron in their beaks. They don't ne
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by hguant 11y ago
I would imagine a simple drill bit would do the trick - that action isn't dependent on gravity, and in an enclosed area (the bore) the simple action of the screw should do it. The real trick would be making sure the ejecta doesn't
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by hguant 11y ago
I live in City A and want to send messages to my friend in City B. We both have a coop of carrier pigeons on our respective roofs. We meet up one day, and swap a number of pigeons. Now, if I want to talk to my friend, I just go up to my pig
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by hguant 11y ago
There are a large number of political and practical reasons why the U.N. flag isn't going to be used to represent earth, the biggest one being that few nations would say the U.N. as a body represents anythijg more than the interests of
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by hguant 11y ago
Catholicism also promotes the idea of the sanctity of individual life, places moral burdens on business and political leaders in countries where brutality and exploitation are the norm, and creates a culture that emphasizes and encourages e
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by hguant 11y ago
Without doing the math - Djokovic is such a strong player that even if he's only returning a quarter of your serves, meaning you're 3/4's of the way to winning your set (I don't tennis, sorry if I'm getting the
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by hguant 11y ago
"Right" as in "more optimal", not "only correct solution".
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by hguant 11y ago
I thought you were going to post this - considerably longer, but an interesting take on future education. http://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
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by hguant 11y ago
Neither me, but you and I have agency and free will. This model has neither of those things. I think the crucial question is does this 'model' have the capacity to develop those things. If it does, that creates a serious problem f
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by hguant 11y ago
Right, but then one has to ask the question if this is pain that we (humanity as a whole) care about or not. We cause pain and suffering in hundreds of thousands of lab animals a year, not to mention our livestock, etc. While acknowledging
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by hguant 11y ago
Oh I agree - but I don't think that's likely. At 5 weeks a human fetus isn't viable in any way shape or form; this 'model' has even less of a case for, well, being considered alive seeing as it lacks a vascular sys
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by hguant 11y ago
Having the comparable structure to the brain of a 5 week old fetus is not the same as using the brain of a 5 week old fetus. This seems to be the same sort of technology as the lab grown meat stunt a few months back, only applied to neurosc
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by hguant 11y ago
tl;dr - the point of a weapon in this situation is to project and multiply force, not to kill. Firearms are the best means of doing so. > You think you need a gun in order to kill a would-be assailant. The OP says he used a knife to scar
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by hguant 11y ago
This comment made me get off my ass and remember my YC login. Your post parses correctly, but what you're saying doesn't really correspond with reality. > Guns can even fire accidentally, with an accidental discharge on droppin
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by hguant 11y ago
Thank you for this. I know janitors, housemaids, and carpenters, as well as engineers and college educators who managed getting a green card just fine. People come here not speaking the language and make their way through the system. It&#x2
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“The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information” [pdf](imrussia.org)
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