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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying. Perhaps if you could say what you mean instead of sarcastically saying something you don't mean, you could communicate more clearly. If you're implying that a meat-heavy diet is some kind
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Wow, it's like there's a government department which sees its job as serving the people instead of ruling over them.
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by hugh4 11y ago
So you lie to people because you think they can't understand the subtleties of the truth, then you complain that they detect they're being lied to, which obliges you to lie even harder.
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A question for people who think their preferred ends justify deplorable means.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Qantas assigns FF numbers sequentially -- mine was in the first million so it's six digits. So any number is associated with someone's account. Other schemes seem to assign only a tiny fraction of possible codes, which is why my S
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by hugh4 11y ago
How could the average garment worker afford a sewing robot?
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by hugh4 11y ago
This is true, and if only global warming people would start phrasing it in that way instead of the rather less scientific "It's an undeniable fact! You can't deny it! Expressing skepticism makes you a bad person!" then I
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by hugh4 11y ago
And do you approve of uncompromising extremists when they support causes you deplore, or only when they support causes you support?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Scare people away from doing what?
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by hugh4 11y ago
The most bizarre thing about this is that it's all over HN and voat, but I can't find any mention of it on reddit.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Feynman was asked by a journalist if he could please explain what he got his Nobel for in terms the average person could understand. He said no, if he could so that it wouldn't be worth a Nobel Prize. In this case, they got it for disc
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by hugh4 11y ago
Or if CO2 had never risen at all, right? End of ice age and all that?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Until you express an opinion which certain groups of users don't like, at which point you get downvoted, harassed, brigaded, shadowbanned, and your whole community gets quarantined or banned.
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"Better framed" in the sense "tells you what you want to hear"?
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Perhaps once labour costs are eliminated you can also improve efficiency by driving more slowly (in a truck-only lane on the freeway). You could also draft just behind other trucks. Finally I suppose you could be whatever shape is most effi
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by hugh4 11y ago
"Modern" here seems to be pretty broad and consists largely of works made when horse was the main mode of transport. And in fact, works after Muybridge in the 1880s are more accurate than those before. So I don't know if lack
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by hugh4 11y ago
I can't escape the odour of sour grapes in discussions like these, where people who could have gone into finance reassure themselves and each other that they made the right decision to take a less lucrative path through life.
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Yes I do. But I don't go round labelling myself as a "skinnysexual" (macrescosexual?) for liking skinny girls, because that would be silly.
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One could argue that the experiences of people at both ends of the attractiveness bell curve are so atypical that they will emerge with a poor understanding of how it works for everyone else. Also, please don't use "omg did you sa
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by hugh4 11y ago
Isn't this whole thing just another case of the upper middle class sneering at the lower middle class for not being as educated, sophisticated and clever as we are? This time through the lens of dinner?
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Poe's law meets Muphry's Law.
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I never realised that "speaking English as a first language" was a race.
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I don't know, I thought he did a remarkably good job of looking at the existing trends (automation, motorisation, flight) and figuring out what they might be useful for with continued development.
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Every time I read about the US admissions process, I'm so grateful for the Australian one Do exams, get single number ranking you against everyone else. Send it to a centralised system along with your university and course preferences.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Nice idea, but is the risk of being slightly off target and having your linac destroyed by a high-speed projectile worth the savings?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Doesn't look like a small SUV, too close to the ground. If it's not simply a renamed 3, perhaps it's a two-door grand tourer? Possibly built on a Model S platform. Or heck, maybe a high-priced supercar, why the hell not? Ther
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> Under current Japanese law, the man can be charged with damage to property, but not injury, since injury is a charge reserved for humans. Dr. Yueh-Hsuan Weng, who is cofounder of the ROBOLAW.ASIA Initiative at Peking University in Chin
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm worried in the long term. The way I see it, automation destroys jobs for stupider people and creates jobs for smarter people. Ten jobs making widgets are replaced by one job as a widget robot repairman (and 0.001 of a job of a widg
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by hugh4 11y ago
Given the smugness of many meditation enthusiasts I would worry that meditation would only work to make my ego louder .
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Why do you think there's a debate? Because they're in the interests of some people, and they're against the interests of others. Once something is in someone's interest, they will always, always manage to dream up a mo

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