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by industriousthou 10y ago
Are dogs able to safely digest some foods that humans aren't? I mean, does it really need to be pointed out that dogs have different nutritional and hygiene requirements than human children?
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by industriousthou 10y ago
Even creationists usually understand that microevolution happens.
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by industriousthou 10y ago
Yeah, I could get a solid four to five hours of sleep if I took public transit to work since it would take so long. And then the bus system in my area is shut down by the time I get out of work... This is exactly what makes autonomous vehic
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by industriousthou 11y ago
What a strange comment. Rats can climb stuff.
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Non-college grad here (well, AA from a community college, but that doesn't really count). I get the impression that that some kids did really challenging programs or went to prestigious schools and that paid off really well, but a lot
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Did you intend to reply to the grandparent comment?
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by industriousthou 11y ago
>Don't neglect mobility work. It's boring, but it'll save you in the long run. Dude, yeah. Been lifting on and off for about five years and made a little progress. Just started working with a trainer and realized that I&#x
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Wow, this is a great article. I just assumed that the sun's gravity would assist in pulling a payload in, making it less costly than trying to launch out of the solar system. Really, really, interesting. Edit: Just wanted to mention th
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by industriousthou 11y ago
So, I've worked in the nuclear industry (just a scaffold builder), so take this with a grain of salt, but there are a few things I think get left out of the conversation. One is how absolutely catastrophic coal fired plants are. People
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by industriousthou 11y ago
In my mid-twenties I had a pretty bad cavity that for various reasons I didn't have filled right away. Although it was painful, I found myself sort of instinctively digging into it with different tools pretty much all the time. It just
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Yeah, a lot of people have jobs that suck.
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I think for the same reason that you might hang out and converse with people. I've unfollowed a lot of people, so my feed has been pruned down to mostly interesting content. I occasionally post something that I think is interesting, re
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Everyone is biased. Presenting your arguments and declaring your biases so others can take them into account is the ethical thing to do. This reminds me of the illusion of objectivity in journalism. If you pretend to be perfectly objective
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I'm not sure where you're from, but my understanding is that "extreme poverty" literally means that people are dying of hunger. So, if you are able to consistently secure food, you're not living in extreme poverty,
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Yes, this is exactly the distinction you seem to be having trouble with.
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Oh, it's totally poverty. Just not extreme poverty.
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I guess I could get by on $1.90 per day for food in the US if I had to, but it would really suck. But the article is about extreme poverty. People who don't know if they're going to survive the next week or month. In the developin
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Ask HN: What is the legality of hacking systems in lawless jurisdictions?
3 points by industriousthou 11y ago|2 comments
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I'm not really well read on this stuff, but do most people think that deep brain computer interfaces are farther off than self-improving artificial general intelligence? I usually see arguments about harmful AGI based on the idea that
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I used to have exactly this attitude about ghosts. I don't believe in them, but if I did, they would be this incredibly scary thing and my whole worldview would be different. Over time, though, I've talked to and read about people
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Eh, these days it's pretty easy to translate technical ideas between languages, so I doubt major breakthroughs are confined to the language they're discovered in. I think there probably is some siloing of more subtle cultural arti
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Using Javascript has pros and cons, but the idea that it's fundamentally flawed is amusing. It certainly has had its warts, but the community has figured out how to use it efficiently and reliably. You're views on JS would have be
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Well, it seems like employees should be able to verify that the security information matches what's on file without actually seeing. So, an employee could enter the last four digits of the CC number into a form and then get verificatio
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I think that's pretty reasonable, but if martian life has a completely different biochemical basis, it might be much less able to adapt. So, maybe, it has managed to hold on for a billion years, but terrestrial microbes may come equipp
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Wow, the uptake of caesium-137 in mushrooms was something I was not aware of. That's really interesting, as I thought it was something that mostly just bio-accumulated in higher-order predators. I might just be mixing it up with mercur
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I'm intrigued by the mention of farmers growing crops in contaminated areas. Presumably the soil has detectable levels of radioactive isotopes, but is there any evidence that this is taken up into the crops themselves? Same with the ha
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Would you be okay with spending cash on a project with 75% waste? I mean, I get that debt exacerbates the cost, but I think waste/fraud is a just a different topic than optimal debt levels. I've done construction work for large pr
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by industriousthou 11y ago
Yeah, I would argue that these are kata rather than koan. edit: changed to plural.
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by industriousthou 11y ago
I would say a substantial amount of time is spent by most users using applications. For instance, Facebook might eat up more than 50% of some users time on the internet, which I think falls under the category of application. Or Youtube, Gma
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by industriousthou 12y ago
Man, this sucks. I'm hoping, out of loyalty to his staff and readers, he'll keep the thing going but maybe take a back seat. When he took a month off a while back, his guest bloggers did a pretty good job and his full-time staff d

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