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by hugh4 11y ago
What evidence would you like? Embassy payroll documents annotated with "spy" and "not a spy"? Given the privileged status of the embassy and the protections offered by diplomatic status (eg the diplomatic pouch) you&#x27
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by hugh4 11y ago
The amount of human effort wasted producing food is probably pretty small compared to the amount wasted, say, filling out HR forms.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Whatever an advertiser thinks my eyeballs are worth to them, they're worth more to me. They're going to have to do better than subsidising the cost of my device.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Oil is just big long gooey hydrocarbons that we can make by other means, if we have energy. I'm not too worried about it. If you're desperate you can always squeeze a peanut or scrape a duck.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I was hoping for something a little more scientific...
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by hugh4 11y ago
You know the expression "if you meet jerks all day then you're the jerk?" That's what would go through my mind if someone complained about their previous team members in a job interview.
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by hugh4 11y ago
We simply don't know how likely life is to arise given the right chemical conditions. We also don't know what those conditions are. It may still be that life is so unlikely that it only happens on one out if every billion planets
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by hugh4 11y ago
Regardless of what Wikipedia says, chemists distinguish between molecules and atoms. Diatomic oxygen is extremely rare in the universe, because it's extremely unstable. Oxygen would rather be bonded to pretty much anything rather than
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by hugh4 11y ago
At school I tried to do the bare minimum amount of work that I thought I could get away with, so... probably the former?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Of course, but what I'm not convinced by is the idea that if you lop off two of those hours it all comes out of the goofing off pile instead of the hard work pile. My own experience when I work a short day does not match that. I set my
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't think it's worth getting more upset about an uneaten carrot or chicken than about an uneaten pine cone or bear.
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by hugh4 11y ago
And why would I pay someone the same for working less?
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by hugh4 11y ago
"More diverse" is, I believe, the term you're looking for. On reddit circa 2006, everybody had the same views on everything from politics to movies to cats to spiders. Eventually it acquired a more diverse cross-section of th
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by hugh4 11y ago
Would you personally adopt a six-hour workday? Assuming you got paid 25% less? (Also assuming you currently only work eight hours, which may be a stretch.) I wouldn't, not at this stage in my life anyway. I'm all for flexibility,
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is it really just a fun project? Or is Netflix trying to use this as the nose of the camel to get into the house automation business? I've always thought house automation was cool, but a lot of trouble and likely to wind up a waste of
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by hugh4 11y ago
They would have wound up in the hands of rich collectors, where they'd probably be a lot safer than they are in Baghdad right now, a few hundred km from an army which would happily destroy all pre-Islamic artefacts. Especially this one
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by hugh4 11y ago
You say that like upper class people want to exclude lower class people just because. Instead I think they're just happier hanging around with people they can relate to.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I wonder if there's a market for a Pygmalion- type service to help lower middle class kids learn the kinds of values and behaviours that will let them fit in a bit better with those higher on the food chain.
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by hugh4 11y ago
It seems to me that if the SAG wants to play hardball with video game studios, they'll quickly find that the studios aren't as beholden to them as the TV and movie studios are. If studios wound up having to use entirely non-union
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by hugh4 11y ago
They certainly will, so this is something that would only happen once Elsevier is in a death spiral.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Ok, assume gravitational influence travels at the speed of light. Now imagine you pick up a heavy object (the Earth, say) and wave it back and forth. Can you see how the spreading gravitational influence manifests itself as a wave?
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by hugh4 11y ago
True but I think lisper's answer is correct since I'm sure they haven't kept the Parkes radio telescope trained on one target for eleven years.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I doubt too many people will become permanently celibate due to porn. But they might forego a random risky encounter with a stranger in favour of ten minutes with tube-something. That seems like a win. Future sexbots, on the other hand...
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by hugh4 11y ago
I think the better question is: is population growth desirable? It appears to be one of those things which benefits those who own things for a living at the expense of those who work for a living. Population growth can't continue forev
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by hugh4 11y ago
The chance is zero. Treaties work in a situation where states are happy to stop doing something if they can be reassured that other states will do so too. But this isn't even really about state vs state, it's primarily about state
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by hugh4 11y ago
Elsevier et al have so far played very nice with arXiv, for instance by not demanding that papers submitted to Elsevier journals not appear on it. Technically the arxiv may right now be illegally hosting many thousands of papers whose autho
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by hugh4 11y ago
It still seems bizarre to need two thousand software engineers for something whose functionality is as simple as twitter.
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by hugh4 11y ago
The most conformist tendency I've noticed on the planet is this: that every single person on it considers himself a nonconformist. Most of us just congratulate ourselves on our nonconformist privately though, not publically, like this
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is US politics particularly polarised now, though? More polarised than 1968? More polarised than 1852? More polarised than 1983, when Reagan was President and all the left could talk about was how much they hated Reagan? (Not old enough to
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by hugh4 11y ago
I wonder if there's good ways to connect your offices via connections in physical locations, always on. I envisage a whole wall that's a screen with a camera, acting like a portal to a different office location. Stick it in a corr

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