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by hugh4 11y ago
Graphene is a hype cycle all of its own.
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And there's a lot of in-betweeners who don't need a wheelchair but also can't really ride an electric skateboard. Like, just about everyone over the age of 50. (Yes yes, I'm sure you have an anecdote about a 51 year old
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by hugh4 11y ago
Nah, it's more of a "ma" sound with a short "a". Now what's interesting is that this sound is closer to how an American might pronounce a short "o" (I think of a southern belle fanning herself and say
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by hugh4 11y ago
Just one of many pronunciation drifts that occurred between the UK and its American colonies at some point between 1620 and 1788. Largely it seems the Americans kept the old pronunciations while the mother country changed theirs, which is w
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by hugh4 11y ago
They shouldn't be on roads either. What bikes have that electric skateboards don't is stability -- it's extremely rare for a cyclist doing 20mph to suddenly fall off entirely, but falling off a skateboard is pretty easy.
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by hugh4 11y ago
A lot of people also aren't young and able bodies enough to ride such a thing.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Then we should be happy that some people are willing to humble themselves to this "low" art form.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Interesting. So although that particular mechanism is undesirable it seems like cancelling out a couple of degrees of warming is well within our capabilities.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Ethically your responsibility is to the shareholders who have given you their money to invest, not to some random government. The governments of the world aren't doing a good enough job with the money I'm already giving them for m
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by hugh4 11y ago
How hard would it be to stick a sufficient amount of dust in the atmosphere to give us a better handle on controlling the climate?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Interesting that nobody seems to have had anything particularly worth writing on the subject of stoicism for the past nearly-2000 years.
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by hugh4 11y ago
You're asking the wrong question. You should ask the question of how forcing people to use their legal name instead of any old random arbitrary name they might make up equals less money. And I think that's reasonably obvious. Fa
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by hugh4 11y ago
>Why not just say something along the lines of "it's alright, but I'm not able to speak right now"? Because he probably doesn't have superhuman levels of patience and tolerance.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Old-school dictatorships were so brash and clumsy the way they punished dissent with firing squads and trips to the gulag. It's just as effective to punish dissent by slowly but surely ruining the life of those who express dissenting o
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is stoicism having a cultural moment? I rather think that modern western culture is about as un-Stoic as it has been at any point since... sometime before Stoicism was invented, and that any explicit endorsement of Stoicism you may find amo
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by hugh4 11y ago
Most mathematicians prefer research to teaching. Some absolutely detest teaching and hate the fact that they're forced to do it, while some rather like teaching and just wish it didn't take up so much time, but pretty much all o
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by hugh4 11y ago
If he's really that great, and if everything he says about the rest of the department is true, then he shouldn't have to work there. Give the money to Stanford or something.
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by hugh4 11y ago
In a more traditional workplace, such as a law firm, your boss would tell you to take your Milennium Falcon home because it's unprofessional. Professionalism is a virtue which is deeply underrated by the computational professions. Part
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm not sure if "complaining about getting fired" counts as "whistleblowing". I'm not necessarily inclined to take this guy's side of the dispute just because I read it first.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm a scientist who doesn't like sci fi much. I don't hate it, I enjoy some of it, but not the genre as a whole. I like Star Wars for the big pew pew spaceships as much as anybody but I don't like Star Trek at all. To me
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by hugh4 11y ago
This is part of the cultural problem. Why should anyone be called upon to justify their non-interest in something?
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by hugh4 11y ago
More appropriate analogy: law students being put off by Sex In The City. That's in some hypothetical world where the law industry is for some bizarre reason as obsessed with Sex In The City as the tech industry is obsessed with science
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by hugh4 11y ago
Trouble is that San Francisco is a terrible place, geographically, for a large and ever-expanding industry. It's a tiny sliver of land on the end of a peninsula. There's only three roads out of town and no room to expand. Austin i
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sure, the state is what allows you to be alive at all, because without it you'd probably have been killed by or enslaved by roving Mad Max style marauders. Therefore you owe your life to the State and they can demand anything at all fr
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by hugh4 11y ago
I've been pushing for more affordable housing at Buckingham Palace. It sucks that there's only one house there and the Queen isn't selling. And what's with the lack of affordable housing in Yellowstone National Park? The
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by hugh4 11y ago
Handy hint for people who want to live in the Bay Area and can't afford to: tough cookies. Have you considered living somewhere else? I'd like to live on a private island in the Whitsundays, but there aren't enough to go arou
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by hugh4 11y ago
"Then I would have bought a different home, for slightly more money" But what if there had been no houses built here at all? "Then I guess I'd live somewhere else"
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's a rather odd perspective. Does this person also view murder as morally equivalent to contraception?
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>It's _very_ important to avoid discouraging teenagers and young adults from going on their own path. Alternative idea: it's important to discourage teenagers and young adults from going their own path, to make sure that only t
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by hugh4 11y ago
> No defensible moral framework regards foreigners as less deserving of rights than people born in the right place at the right time. In roughly the same way that no defensible moral framework says that you should feed your own child rat

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