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by hx87 10y ago
> This site is mostly college-aged leftist millennials. They're balanced (or perhaps more than balanced) out by the college-aged libertarian millennials, so that isn't a good explanation.
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by hx87 10y ago
If 99% of cars on the road are autonomous, it will probably be very difficult to hit one with a self-driven car, so liability costs won't be high. And unless Miata parts and labor skyrocket in price for some reason, comprehensive and c
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by hx87 10y ago
AGIs aren't necessary to drive safely; a sufficiently advanced ANI will do.
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by hx87 10y ago
> What if I drive 5x better and safer than the "average driver"? How do you know that you're actually 5x better than the average driver and not just deluding yourself?
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by hx87 10y ago
You'd have to know who to impersonate, successfully impersonate them (i.e. good luck trying to impersonate DeWayne Jamal Jones as an Ukrainian) and where (and on what date) they are supposed to vote, and for all that work you have affe
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by hx87 10y ago
> I certainly wouldn't want all my account access messages going to a lost phone … Wouldn't that be solved by a fail-deadly setup where your phone is automatically wiped unless you perform a specific action?
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by hx87 10y ago
Here in New England, there are a lot of 100-200 year old houses with beautiful green/red and green/blue color schemes. Much prettier (and better resale value) than beige, IMO.
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by hx87 10y ago
I might be wrong, but I thought that 1970s house design was pretty similar to today, except with orange and brown everywhere instead of beige. There are few McMansion features as tacky as popcorn ceilings and dark brown fake vertical floor-
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by hx87 10y ago
At least this site has an orange top bar, which is more color than the average house has anywhere.
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by hx87 10y ago
And the weird thing is, you can immediately tell a "premium" house (e.g. a Passive House) from a mass market one by the simplicity and lack of pretense.
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by hx87 10y ago
Why not just repaint it in more market-friendly colors when you decide to sell it?
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by hx87 10y ago
Seriously, what the hell is a STEMlord?
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by hx87 10y ago
You are free to do whatever you want with the dollars you have. So is the US Federal Reserve. That's the difference--not only does the PBOC insist on freedom of action for itself, its government insists on strict limits on freedom for
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by hx87 10y ago
It's in the interests of consumers and importers, and against the interests of producers and exporters. Given that 70% of GDP is consumption, consumers together have much more political and economic power than producers, so their inter
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by hx87 10y ago
Compared to giving the US cash in exchange for goods and services, though? That's a much murkier comparison.
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by hx87 10y ago
You can eat practically unlimited amounts of green leafy vegetables (and hence fiber) on a ketogenic diet. Perhaps that wasn't a major part of you diet before you went keto?
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by hx87 10y ago
Leafy vegetables can be difficult to eat in large quantities, but that's where the high-fat aspect of the diet comes in handy. Most vegetables are very tasty when stir fried in fats and oils.
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by hx87 10y ago
> The grand point I raised was we've tried this on earth, and failed. A grand point that you have failed to back up with anything other than a hunch, and are defending by rejecting numbers, that while are far from infallible, you di
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by hx87 10y ago
Pulling other crabs back into the pot is a pretty poor use of resources that could otherwise be used to improve conditions within it.
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by hx87 10y ago
Eradicating poverty is a political problem. Going to Mars is an engineering problem. Political problems are orders of magnitude harder to solve than engineering ones.
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by hx87 10y ago
He's very upfront about the risks to the first visitors/colonists. His first screening questions for applicants is literally "Are you prepared to die?"
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by hx87 10y ago
For the principle of explosion to work you have to actually confirm that a belief is false, or at least calculate a justifiable probability that it is false. You can't just assume that it is false and extrapolate from there.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Rich people remaking society in their own image If that were actually the case, then there would be no poor people, and we can all at least agree that all other things being held constant, a society where no one is poor is better than
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by hx87 10y ago
Then perhaps use sentiment analysis to remove the derailing part of both negative and negative comments? i.e., "I think these questions at IAC are great,..." "...they should be asking about <fascinating technical detail&gt
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm becoming more and more convinced that these magical guru stories are the south Asian equivalent of the National Enquirer, except more aimed towards gullible foreigners.
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by hx87 10y ago
True, technology doesn't necessarily make a person better, but it does make being a good person easier and more probable, and in a large population that probability makes all the difference.
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by hx87 10y ago
If "overpromise now and (under)deliver later" is the most effective and most efficient way of getting things done, isn't that worth all the disadvantages of such a strategy?
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by hx87 10y ago
I suppose one way to do so is to build an electro-thermal equivalent of a low-bypass turbofan, with a jet section to deliver high-velocity thrust and a fan section to deliver low-velocity thrust.
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by hx87 10y ago
> If that zeitgeisty soft morality issue changes I pray to god that our acceptance of flaws and realistic human behaviour from our political class changes too. Most countries aside from the USA are pretty blase about their politicians&#x
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> Instead of burning fuel, you can use electricity (something like an arc welder) to generate heat. Why go through all the trouble of using electricity as the heat source in a Brayton cycle engine instead of the obvious solution, using e

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