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by hugh4 10y ago
So go with the four-years-ago version.
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by hugh4 10y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if someone could set up a "next Silicon Valley" somewhere that doesn't already have an outrageous cost of living?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Whatever happened to National Brotherhood Week as an institution? It seems like the sort of thing which the US could do with more of, given how much race relations have deteriorated since the 60s.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Why, when romanising their alphabet, did the Vietnamese do it in a way that didn't line up with any European language?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Strikes me as a combination of (a) gimmick, and (b) solution in search of a problem. How far are you really going to get through the car-buying process without being able to see a physical vehicle? This technology may have its uses, but sel
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by hugh4 11y ago
To the extent that chess players can really be considered geniuses, it seems like a horrendous waste of genius.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I take this as evidence that the word "racism" has completely lost whatever meaning it may have had, and that we should probably make up a new word to mean what "racism" used to mean, if we still think that's a usef
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by hugh4 11y ago
Firstly the Eskimos probably didnt have quite such fancy kayaks eighteen thousand years ago. Secondly though, if you're struggling to survive in a vast empty landscape already you don't have a lot of time or motivation for ten tho
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by hugh4 11y ago
An hour ago I'd never heard of bumble. Now I've heard of it through two unrelated articles found on two different social news sites. Bumble's PR people deserve a pat on the back (and the profession of modern journalism deserv
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by hugh4 11y ago
A more significant point is that the 747 carries only fuel, the rocket carries fuel and oxidiser, which substantially increases the variety of ways in which things can go interestingly wrong.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>I'm not trying to pose a rhetorical question. I think this is literally a choice that societies have to make. It would be nice if we could actually make that choice. Better still, it would be nice if we had a whole lot of societies
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by hugh4 11y ago
Kids don't care, as long as they have a yard to play in and some other kids to play with.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I have a proposition. How about anyone who wants to live in a society with a UBI can organise one privately between themselves, and the rest of us can avoid it? Start an organisation which takes from each member according to his means and s
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by hugh4 11y ago
In practice yes, but not in moral terms.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Why is your solution more government involvement? Why not less? If there's so much money to be made in child are, why aren't childcare centres popping up on every street corner? It's the kind of business you can easily run fr
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by hugh4 11y ago
Just as long as I'm still allowed to own a car, much as I'm still allowed to own a horse, I'm okay with this.
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by hugh4 11y ago
"Progressive" is such a stupid word. Who gets to decide what is, and isn't, progress?
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by hugh4 11y ago
The only people who seem to be making money off twitter are journalists, who can now dash off a 1000-word "Thing trends on twitter" article in seven minutes without having to leave the office.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I dunno, there's a lot of cheap 1880s "workers cottages" around here which have nonetheless been built with a lot more style and care than the average new building.
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by hugh4 11y ago
And I think it's a shame that anyone thinks they deserve "recognition" based on who their ancestors were.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I guess I'd prefer it to a situation where anyone at all could make a clone of me on their 3D printer slash uterus. There are an awful lot of ethical and legal considerations when custom-designed intelligent organisms become possible,
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by hugh4 11y ago
Not at all, you need money and a good sob story. Nobody cares about the sob story of the rich hedge fund which isn't making as much money as it could be, they want sob stories with blue-collar workers sitting at a kitchen table looking
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by hugh4 11y ago
Go electric. Hydrogen is a zombie technology. Twenty or ten years ago hydrogen seemed like a pretty good way to go, and these products are the end result of projects started way back then. But batteries have pretty much leapfrogged hydrogen
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by hugh4 11y ago
But the relevant comparison is to batteries, which are more efficient.
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by hugh4 11y ago
The fact that you don't hear about it is largely because employees tend to be better at whining to the media when they don't get their way than shareholders. The American landscape is littered with many large companies which have
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by hugh4 11y ago
And I'm sure we can keep that formula updated.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Just let it drift, yes, I assume. Then maybe in a few thousand years when we're a full hour out we can think about having a leap hour. Abolishing leap years, on the other hand, would cause the calendar to shift relative to the seasons
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by hugh4 11y ago
Dealing with twenty people doesn't sound like solitude. Plenty of places in the world you can get in a car, drive out somewhere, and be completely alone.
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by hugh4 11y ago
You'd think that if anywhere on Earth stands to benefit from global warming it's Canada.
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's a fairly Manhattanite-level concept of personal space.

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