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by jbattle 7y ago
Then they should just paint black circles on the wall, as that's all you'd see after the first few minutes ;)
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by jbattle 7y ago
I thought I had the answer at hand but (for once) decided to check my facts BEFORE I wrote. Wikipedia has a really interesting article about this, well worth a (very short) read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunt
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by jbattle 7y ago
After a couple of asthmatic attacks after taking aspirin and ibuprofen I went to an allergist and she told me that I have an allergic reaction to all NSAIDs. The syndrome is called 'NSAIDs-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease'. I felt
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by jbattle 7y ago
> ingrained in human linguistics Or maybe more accurately it's deeply ingrained in Anglo-American culture?
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by jbattle 7y ago
I can imagine worse things
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by jbattle 7y ago
> It takes more delta-v to get to the moon than mars Is that true? I can't see how that'd be true, unless maybe you are considering aerobraking to enter mars orbit and parachutes for landing on the surface (?)
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by jbattle 7y ago
Isn't this the same as the "problem of other minds"? How do I know that YOU mr xamuel are actually sentient?! If we get to the point where a machine demonstrates "sufficiently" complex behavior, society will quickly
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by jbattle 7y ago
Yeah the red line in Chicago used to have fabric seats too. There was one day someone had put ... some kind of liquid in every window seat. Every single stop people would get on the train, see the open seats and every one of us in an aisle
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by jbattle 7y ago
The numbers on that page are over a month old > * This table represents cases detected and tested in the United States through U.S. public health surveillance systems since January 21, 2020.
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by jbattle 7y ago
You got me curious and I did a little digging. It seems like there are two facilities and it's not clear to me which one actually houses the samples in question. This facility "Wuhan Jianghan Disease Prevention and Control Cente
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by jbattle 7y ago
I know it'd be better to attack root causes - but is it possible to 'fertilize' the reefs with phosphorous? I don't honestly have a great sense for the scale of reefs, maybe they are impractically large
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by jbattle 7y ago
I ask this question out of more curiosity than skepticism, but how do the scientists in this article distinguish between stories that explain the 'appearance' of the volcano vs. the 'formation' of the volcano? As a point
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by jbattle 7y ago
I really don't think I'm misrepresenting. I tried to take a literal but good-faith reading of what the OP wrote: > You're not entitled to decide what other people do with their land. Zoning laws, development restrictions,
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by jbattle 7y ago
> I wonder why we’re still in emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases now Because enough people make a LOT of money from the status quo
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by jbattle 7y ago
This made me realize that there are no lifeforms getting energy by mechanical means (harness wind, waves, tides). That seems like an oversight on evolution's part!
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by jbattle 7y ago
A similar intuition may have led this team to skip spending the last few months on rollout / training / testing
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by jbattle 7y ago
Seems like very useful technology for fighter pilots or even race car drivers (maybe they already have something functionally similar)
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by jbattle 7y ago
How did you get from > It turns out simulated clouds often cause headaches for climate modelers. to > Which, evidence would seem to suggest, has not been modeled properly (at all?) by these climate models? Embarrassment may be prematu
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by jbattle 7y ago
ALSO. the people you are describing are (I'm guessing) immigrants. Meaning they are a subset of people from their home country with the internal initiative, drive, and resources to move halfway around the world and make their way in a
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by jbattle 7y ago
I mean sorta. But think about the incredible variety of life on Earth. Read some science fiction. I'm not saying our search space / our expectations are perfectly broad enough. But I've never seen any sign the people involved
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by jbattle 7y ago
This book and its sequel are AMAZING (Spoilers for the first page and a half or so): The plot point that kicks the whole thing off is when astronomers discover a star suddenly winking out of view. It turns out someone enclosed the star. But
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by jbattle 7y ago
Speed runs frequently rely on glitches. There was one for Oblivion where you could glitch through some geometry in the starting area and end up on the other side of the wall that was supposed to be inaccessible until the ending cut scene. T
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by jbattle 7y ago
Counterpoints: - Cave art from 44kya https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/440000-year-old-cave-art-d... - 'Venus' statues - some possibly as old as 300k years!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jbattle 7y ago
> because they are the ones that show up to do that work every day Because someone is motivated enough to pay them every day to do that work
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by jbattle 7y ago
Seems like it would have been easier to just take the paper tape and punch either circles (dots) or ovals (dashes) and have conductors pushed up against the tape. Whenever the conductors touch (through cut-out gaps in the paper), they trans
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by jbattle 7y ago
Cape Town came damn close in 2018
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by jbattle 7y ago
Faster than writing an AI that could pass the turing test ;) But yeah a voice actor seems like an even easier (if less press-worthy) way to run this grift
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by jbattle 7y ago
I assumed a human was listening in and typing responses for a text-to-voice program to speak out
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by jbattle 7y ago
The kind getting $600/hour to write sentences like that
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by jbattle 7y ago
Yet quantum mechanics is full of phenomenon that operate counter to our understanding of cause and effect. Physicists accept things like double slit interference - why do they seem to consider these time travel induced causal paradoxes so o

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