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by jabretti 9y ago
I saw a good documentary on grizzly bears catching salmon. While the younger, less successful bears will eat any salmon they can catch, the older and more experienced bears can catch so many salmon that they'll just slit them open, eat
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by jabretti 9y ago
Orcas seem to have fairly specialised diets -- there's different subspecies, each of which eats something different. https://seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-infobooks/killer-wha... >Type A whales eat mostl
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by jabretti 9y ago
That'd have roughly as many characters as a 338,000 word book... longer than The Brothers Karamazov (365,000) but shorter than Gone With The Wind (418,000). Just over half the length of A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, and probably just
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by jabretti 9y ago
Didn't we have automats in the 1930s?
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by jabretti 9y ago
Motley Fool seems to be the leaders in this -- if you search google news for any stock you're interested in then you'll find that Motley Fool seems to be cranking out largely-boilerplate articles about it; sometimes they seem to h
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by jabretti 9y ago
Yes, but step back and consider the immense intellect and creativity being devoted to getting laid, or speculating about what's going to happen on Game of Thrones, or thinking up clever things you should have said half an hour ago, or
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by jabretti 9y ago
>The idea that "telling people what to believe" is a phenomenon unique to one side of the political spectrum is absurd. What's been the most watched cable news network in recent years? This is true, but there's an asy
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by jabretti 9y ago
It's a feature, not of capitalism, but of human interactions in general. (It should not have escaped our attention that any time an "alternative to capitalism" is tried it inevitably winds up with wealth and power even more h
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by jabretti 9y ago
It would be equally interesting if you could find one who disagrees with the statement, so they can tell us about other languages that are more irregular and in what ways.
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by jabretti 9y ago
Cranking out one buzzfeed-grade article a day doesn't seem like much work. I'm pretty sure I've already put more thought into this comment than they put into most of their articles.
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by jabretti 9y ago
> We are all born with the same brain (see the ted talk on the "After 83,000 brain scans"). Some of us just aren't born in the right environment to curate it and never learn the best ways to use it That's blatantly un
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by jabretti 9y ago
The question is: who are the ones abusing their power? The alleged perps, or those who are claiming to be victims?
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by jabretti 9y ago
Here's what I found from googling: https://www.forensicsciencedegree.org/wp-content/uploads/201... I really can't escape the thought that it's just pumping out a generic face of a particular race, t
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by jabretti 9y ago
Honestly, that "diversity drives innovation" is a total goddamn lie. Hiring the best people available drives innovation. Diversity itself has never been shown to be of any value. If you look at some of the most innovative places i
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by jabretti 9y ago
I assume by 2050 it will all spell out some obscene message which Elon Musk will read to us as he departs for Mars.
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by jabretti 9y ago
I've been back and forth from Australia to the US enough times that it takes about five minutes for my brain to adjust to driving on the other side of the road each time. That said, my brain takes the cue from looking at what side the
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by jabretti 9y ago
Spelling difficulties are are artefact of what makes English so powerful, though -- its ability to simply adopt foreign words any time it feels the need to do so. The base language was formed by crashing two major European language families
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by jabretti 9y ago
>Too many people have dismissed SL foolishly. Glad it survived and proved them mostly wrong. I dunno, ten years ago a lot of people were predicting that Second Life would be the Next Big Thing, and assuring me that I should really be buy
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by jabretti 9y ago
> Seriously, no one is concerned that Tesla is announcing, not one, but two new products, while they are failing to deliver on all three they are currently producing (in terms of production ramp-up)? I dunno man, every time before I&#x27
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by jabretti 9y ago
Let's see if that makes it from prototype to production, though; if you could meet the legal requirements with cameras and displays I think someone else would have done it by now. Concept cars often lack mirrors, or have ridiculously s
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by jabretti 9y ago
Serviced apartments typically aren't "permanent", though, they're rented by the night like a hotel rather than on a longer-term basis, so they cost a lot more, to compensate for the high vacancy rate.
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by jabretti 9y ago
Yep, my car has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron, and yours probably does too. A Chevy Tahoe has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron. One of those super-boxy 80s Volvos has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron. https:/&#x2F
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by jabretti 9y ago
You'd think that the ability for the wheels to deliver power to the ground has to be the limiting factor at some point.
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by jabretti 9y ago
Also I'd really want to be able to buy one for less than $200K. Cost is still the real problem.
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by jabretti 9y ago
That's still only 1.5g. That's a lot for a straight-line acceleration, but it's not that crazy for a turning acceleration. Fighter pilots and race car drivers pull much greater gs all the time. So do rollercoaster passengers,
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by jabretti 9y ago
For the most part, as in this case, it seems like idolatry tends to emerge from the bottom up rather than being decreed from the top down. The Pope and Cardinals would really prefer it if people would pray to a nice abstract God in a nice a
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by jabretti 9y ago
"Hauling stuff in rough terrain" seems like the PR-friendly version of what they want this technology for, but I don't think it takes too much imagination to think up other uses.
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by jabretti 9y ago
Headline contradicted by actual article. From the first few paragraphs you'd swear that Walmart was busy supplementing its stocks of cheap crap with Maseratis and superyachts. Instead it seems that they're actually supplementing t
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by jabretti 9y ago
No, but a butler could. I can't afford a butler, but if I could, then I'd get one. He'd live in my house and know all about me and my personal life; knowing about my personal life would help him do his job better. I wouldn&#x
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by jabretti 9y ago
Indeed, which is why it was a terrible idea to go ahead with this doomed compromise.

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