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by hugh4 11y ago
Okay, I stand corrected on that one. However, the Chinese traditional medicine market would do just as well with chalk dust, I assume.
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by hugh4 11y ago
In my limited experience of the South, I found Nashville a bit dull. I'd much rather live in Charleston or Savannah or Mobile or Asheville or even New Orleans, personally.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Obvious problems with elephant farming, as an industry: 1. You need very large fences to keep elephants in. 2. Elephants eat a lot. 3. Elephants take about fifteen years to grow to full size. 4. Elephants don't breed very often. 5. You
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by hugh4 11y ago
Surely rising pitch to indicate a question isn't universal?
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by hugh4 11y ago
All I know is that my organisation recently replaced some horrible SAP-based things with some faster, neater, clearer Atlassian-based things. And the Atlassian things don't require launching a virtual Windows machine on my mac every ti
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm not sure. If it were a history of barbed wire it could be interesting, but instead it just seems to be an excuse for the author to parrot his own political opinions about the current situation at the Hungarian border via guilt-by-a
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by hugh4 11y ago
>I hear this all the time, and it's absurd. The high P/Es of innumerable companies (like Amazon) are compelling evidence that investors are well aware of the long game companies play and they approve of it. The sorts of people
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by hugh4 11y ago
NIMBYs are people who want something built but don't want it built near them, which is sorta obnoxious. Saying that something shouldn't be built at all is rather different.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Like most epidemics, it's difficult to trace back to patient zero. Somewhere out there was the first cool bar/cafe/whatever to start using Mason jars. They may have been doing it for years before someone else saw it and copie
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by hugh4 11y ago
Yes, but people are inevitably disappointed by the "Supermoon", which isn't really noticeably larger or brighter than it would be at any other time. If you woke up from a coma and looked at the moon, would you be able to tell
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by hugh4 11y ago
>Practically speaking you'd never un-friend people unless they personally bother you. I've started unfriending people the moment they start posting baby photos. My friends list is shrinking fast! The only people who don't
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by hugh4 11y ago
No, I'm saying that the people who get to live there should be the people who can afford to pay the ridiculous prices, and people who can't afford to get in should quit whining. I'd like to live in Blenheim Palace. But I can&
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by hugh4 11y ago
My generous assumption is that the ridiculous home-delivery business model is designed to get people talking ahead of a fully intended pivot to selling the condoms in stores. Or something. Otherwise it's a ridiculously terrible idea. T
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sure, you could pack more people in, at the cost of quality of life for people who live there. But why would you want to destroy a nice city full of historic buildings just to cram more people in? It's ridiculous. A forest of skyscrape
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't buy the idea that San Francisco has a housing shortage. San Francisco already has rather a lot of houses for 47 square miles of land. What San Francisco has is is a ridiculous oversupply of people who want to live there. The ti
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by hugh4 11y ago
The trouble with this article is that it goes around mixing its scientific arguments (it's not necessarily possible to extract particular genes which cause particular phenotypic effects even though it's very easy to find ones whic
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by hugh4 11y ago
> Brands will love it, media outlets will love it (BuzzFeed is gonna embed the shit out them, and oh…the presidential election!@#!@#), and sports teams asking questions of fans this Sunday will love it. So, given that twitter's core
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by hugh4 11y ago
You seem to be correct -- Wikipedia says the USAF has about 200 helicopters for search and rescue and "utility". Presumably an exception to the rule.
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by hugh4 11y ago
And another issue: if we squeamishly restrict these things how will we compete against societies that don't?
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by hugh4 11y ago
An interesting question (which I would have phrased differently) but very weirdly written, going off into tangents about golems and the like. Is it ever not right to try and make human beings better? And aren't we already doing it -- e
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by hugh4 11y ago
Good work!
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by hugh4 11y ago
But when your own personal definition of what you think a word ought to mean and the legal definition of that word collide, whose definition do you think matters? Choose your own definitions of words if you like, but don't be surprised
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by hugh4 11y ago
You'd think it would be cheaper just to breed more animals.
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's the nature of mathematical knowledge though. If you can't understand basic calculus then there's a helluva lot that's downstream from there that you won't understand either.
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by hugh4 11y ago
This being fivethirtyeight, I wish they could display a bit more statistical sophistication. Okay, so we've got six out of sixteen. That's not a large number, but it's not small enough to be meaningless either. Let's tal
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by hugh4 11y ago
> At the end of the war, Hitler said, ‘Well the Germans lost, that just shows the Russians are stronger. So be it. That’s the verdict of nature.’ I don’t think a nationalist would say that. No, but a fatalist would. And failure makes fat
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't think this guy is doing a great job of trying to understand Hitler by using his own "intuition" and then searching back through Mein Kampf to find things that support it. The guy is acting like Hitler invented anti-Se
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by hugh4 11y ago
What I wonder is whether it's necessary to teach it the wrong way before we teach it the right way. Neither answer to that question would surprise me. As an example, I remember that as a high school maths student I had real trouble bel
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by hugh4 11y ago
Police vehicles seem like one of the last things that should go electric, because they get used around the clock.
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by hugh4 11y ago
We could generously assume some words are missing and it means "numbers larger than the number of particles in the universe". But there's only 10^80 particles in the universe, so that's not very impressive. You could do

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