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by jbattle 7y ago
Deciding on what choices to make in response to the climate changing is inherently political. Science can inform the process but can't tell us which selection of responses is "most valid".
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by jbattle 7y ago
Did you read the article? That's not what it's about at all. The author is saying that we aren't going to "stop" climate change. So instead we should be strategizing how to proactively invest in systems (both natura
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by jbattle 7y ago
Origin made a ton of great games. "We make worlds" was their motto and I feel they lived up to that lofty ambition. One game I remember fondly that would appeal to this crowd was called Omega. There was some light but well-done ch
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by jbattle 7y ago
I just got an email from Segment reporting something very similar. I think you are right
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by jbattle 7y ago
We have three kids and the amount each of them eat varies wildly from day to day. Sometimes they are fighting over who gets the swipe the last sauce out of the pot, other days they are "not hungry" and hardly eat anything. So some
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by jbattle 7y ago
And kept them SO FAR away from their families with no apparent intention of ever returning. I wonder if some of his generals were able to get 'leave' and go back to Macedonia, though I imagine the trip back must have been quite ha
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by jbattle 7y ago
"It is normal for tech companies to hoover up behavioral data about us, to package it up, and to sell it on to others for whatever purposes they want"
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by jbattle 7y ago
The alternative is often vigilante justice, which is worse for everyone. Apparently the 'coffee throwing guy' was beaten by the child's father after he threw coffee - certainly an understandable reaction from a father who saw
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by jbattle 7y ago
I'm going to assume you are posting in good faith but to give you an honest answer I have a hard time engaging with posts like this because it reads like you've done no work to inform yourself. > I'd just like to know, in
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by jbattle 7y ago
> “Personally, I have actually been told by others that we are one of the most transparent agencies out there” Are there really voting-age citizens that are persuaded by a comment like this?
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by jbattle 7y ago
By the time reserve US forces arrive in theatre, China has troops on Taiwan. How well situated is the US to do a cross-Pacific amphibious invasion of Taiwan? How likely is the US political system to be willing to take on that project?
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by jbattle 7y ago
Fun trick: Look at a photograph with one eye closed. Your brain will do ... something and the picture will look 3d
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by jbattle 7y ago
Wouldn't the boomers be heavily allocated in bonds at this point? Even the youngest of them are basically at or nearly at retirement age (at least the ones with enough resources to hold much in stocks)
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by jbattle 7y ago
I thought the Baltic strategy was to have a force in place that the Russians would have to kill to get the baltics. That force couldn't stop the Russians but their defeat would cause a casus belli that gives NATO enough domestic politi
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by jbattle 7y ago
Ostia to Rome was only 30km and they could use barges on the Tiber to send goods up/down
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by jbattle 7y ago
That's an amazing story, I'd have loved that as a kid (or now!)
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by jbattle 7y ago
Ethiopia is a gorgeous country. I highly recommend it as a place to visit. I've been a handful of times and there's so much to see. The people are awesome, the food can't be beat, and coffee is everywhere. Its a multi-cultura
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by jbattle 7y ago
Tocqueville wrote about something similar in Democracy in America (this is talking about American society around 1830). He talks at length how he was struck by American's social connections. Everyone was in at least one social club. Or
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by jbattle 7y ago
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html Diatomaceous Earth is a dusty substance made from the shells of tiny sea creatures. The shells are so tiny (and then ground finer) they wedge into the exoskeletons of insects
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by jbattle 7y ago
To show my kids a bit about programming we made a simple rabbits-and-foxes simulation. Little dots moving around a rectangle drawn on the screen. The red ones were rabbits, would move mostly randomly, and would periodically make a baby rabb
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by jbattle 7y ago
Given the exponential nature of Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation, I don't understand why its not common to perform multiple launches from the ground to LEO, and then rendezvous in orbit and go to the moon, or mars, or whereever. If I
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by jbattle 7y ago
5000 is still the blink of an eye. Homo Sapiens as a species is something like 300,000 years old and arose from prior species that were already more advanced than any other animal living today.
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by jbattle 7y ago
I've always thought the best thing would be to have a time-travel machine. You could spend a day with your kids as infants and enjoy it. The next day you could spend with them as teens and enjoy it. Then the third day spend with them a
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by jbattle 7y ago
That's a dishonest reading of what I wrote. To clear up any potential misunderstanding, I have no problem having anyone for a neighbor. I chose where I live in part because our school district has kids where literally dozens of languag
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by jbattle 7y ago
Yes. Our quality of life will probably go down. That's going to happen. If we do nothing, our quality of life will go down because Florida floods so regularly people mass-migrate out. That'll be a drop in a bucket. Enormous swaths
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by jbattle 7y ago
I really can't follow you. I spent a few minutes googling and it looks like 1) Twitter punishes 'dehumanizing tweets' 2) One author on kotaku argued that the NPC meme could be considered 'dehumanizing' 3 ???
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by jbattle 7y ago
Did you read the article? They give some fairly vivid examples
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by jbattle 7y ago
Gold is quite dense, I wonder if you could use this asteroid to build shielding for long-term habitats. I imagine you'd still need something stronger to provide the structural elements, but for managing radiation aboard space stations
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by jbattle 7y ago
Ah, but who would pay you $50 for that gold?
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by jbattle 7y ago
I know a guy that was using discarded bakery products as the fish food. Made good use of food that was otherwise destined for a landfill (I assume)

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