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by hugh4 11y ago
If you are an idiot, it's better to recieve an idiot- appropriate education. Less calculus and Shakespeare and more how to get a steady job, handle your finances, and stay away from trouble. It would of course suck if you just had a co
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by hugh4 11y ago
If you were a CEO brought in to fix a failing company, would your first instinct be to say "The employees must suck! We need to fire all the employees and replace them with higher-paid ones!"? Or would you say "I bet these em
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by hugh4 11y ago
This was only ten thousand years ago, though. Anything that lived millions of years ago we're very unlikely to find enough intact genetic material to string a genome together anyway. You would of course need some kind of zoo, reintrodu
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by hugh4 11y ago
It doesn't appear to be windowless, it's just dark tinted glass.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>What additional knowledge do any of these story plot classifications give us? Well, at the very least, it's a nice store of writing prompts. What I would say is that it's less of a classification and more of a map. Out of the
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's nice, but is there any real advantage to hydrogen over batteries, or have batteries at this stage left hydrogen in the dust? Cost? Weight? Overall efficiency? No numbers are given for any of these, but they've all tradition
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by hugh4 11y ago
In Formula 1, where these sorts of things are both technologically easier and very useful, many forms of driver aid have already been banned. Because viewers want to see men drive cars, not robots. So I can't imagine the governing bodi
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sure, commuting, but it's not always practical to move closer to school.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Or the causation goes the other way, and they get rich because they're smart.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>It is very difficult to view normal life in the second poorest country in the western hemisphere with the moral compass or glasses of middle-class US. Things are very different here. Perhaps. But tolerance of "low-level" corru
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by hugh4 11y ago
Out of curiosity, for anyone who knows the history: how did southern central America manage to wind up split into a bunch of tiny countries? There's no obvious geographic, linguistic or cultural reason that I can see.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm gonna guess that this article isn't accessible from inside China.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is China's claim on authority at determining who the next "reincarnation" of the Dalai Lama might be any sillier than anyone else's claim of the same?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sounds legally fraught if you've already developed it using anything vaguely resembling company time, property or data. You could always go to your boss and tell him you've had an idea and that you'll need two years on an inc
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by hugh4 11y ago
Maybe not, but maybe one should be more circumspect about using a word like "slave", which has a very literal meaning, and which applies to actual slaves, who are still an actual thing, and not even slightly to you. If you want to
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by hugh4 11y ago
Right, and if the comment had been more specific about these sorts of links (ie that the NYT and the Obama administration are not only both "the establishment" but the same flavour thereof) I wouldn't have thought it was sill
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by hugh4 11y ago
Tell it to a twelve year old kid working a mine in Burundi, I'm sure he'll sympathise.
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by hugh4 11y ago
You're right, that's a relatively minor concern. How about the concern that the existence of a single government doesn't stop people shooting at each other, as indicated by, oh, say, the Syrian Civil War? Even in the optimal
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by hugh4 11y ago
Yep. But then you've got to ask yourself whether you've really got a business model that supports a big global company, as opposed to a business model that works best when you're one person in an office who has personal relat
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by hugh4 11y ago
The world is more complicated than "the establishment" vs "not the establishment".
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by hugh4 11y ago
Hey, I'm trying to throw some actual numbers into the discussion in response to the assertion that trains are more efficient. Perhaps those who want to make that claim can start supporting their own? Give me something to work with here
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by hugh4 11y ago
Does it excuse the mods who let it through? If you allow politically contentious articles, you're going to get politically charged discussion. Articles representing a left-wing worldview are let through and right-wingers are blamed for
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by hugh4 11y ago
No, they should stay in fucking Syria. If they're so keen on western values such as democracy and freedom of religion, they should take up arms and fight for them, just like our ancestors did. And if they're not keen on western va
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by hugh4 11y ago
And its replacement by what? The Caliphate? Oh, fabulous.
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by hugh4 11y ago
The posting of this article was guaranteed to produce a political flamewar.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is that your best argument for the end of national sovereignty? Economies of scale?
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by hugh4 11y ago
And how much will the cost be by 2045? The entire fucking country and its culture, presumably.
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by hugh4 11y ago
> It will still win energy-wise. What are we basing that on? Let's look at some numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV Let's take the Eurostar trains as an example: > The Three Capitals sets are 394
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'd never previously considered the question of what sort of speed a self-driving car could reach on an intercity freeway. No reason why it would need to be significantly slower than a high-speed train. Think individual cars are ineff
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by hugh4 11y ago
For $68 billion, you could fly everybody in San Francisco to Los Angeles, and everybody in Los Angeles to San Francisco, and back again, about forty times. And that's before it starts going over budget. But of course, the line doesn&

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