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by jbattle 7y ago
The real reason battleships fell out of favor is that aircraft (and eventually missiles) are better at basically everything.
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by jbattle 7y ago
I do like the atlantic but the way they rewrite their headlines as the page loads is super distracting. I assume they are AB testing which title is the most effective, but I see the switch and its jarring
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by jbattle 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
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by jbattle 7y ago
There must be some wrinkle of copyright law that offers a (legal) defense against this sort of unrestrained mass surveillance. It's my cynical take that courts will be far more respectful of property rights than privacy rights/civ
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by jbattle 7y ago
We should be able to make some approximations regarding sentience. If we only consider Homo Sapiens Sapiens, then yeah we only have one data point. If we consider other extinct hominid species, we have more. If we consider dolphins, ravens,
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by jbattle 7y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted, I think it's a good question. My understanding is that this is a 4 degree difference in the average temperature. Meaning there might be times of the year that don't change much at all bu
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by jbattle 7y ago
It has to do with the class of star. This star is so cool that the only way for the planet to be warm enough to support life is for the planet to be really close to the star. I don't really understand tidal locking but I think it happe
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by jbattle 7y ago
Like polio, malaria, yellow fever, rotavirus, trachoma, hepatitis? Sadly we have plenty of pathogens of all stripes in common circulation already. Maybe I'm misreading what you wrote - but it kind of sounds like you are suggesting we k
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by jbattle 7y ago
https://www.bugasalt.com/
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by jbattle 7y ago
I think it would be awesome for high school students to be taught about the patterns where our government has failed its people - absolutely. I don't know if I find these two cases as noteworthy as you do. I'd probably cover inste
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by jbattle 7y ago
Why would they spend time on these in a high school social studies class?
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by jbattle 7y ago
My prediction: In 2030 the people denying climate change now will say "Of course everyone believed in anthropogenic climate change! It was only some flat-earthers that denied it was happening. Don't blame us! We tried to do someth
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by jbattle 7y ago
I read it as about Hephaestus, not achilles. What happens when a god has seen too much
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by jbattle 7y ago
If you are in the market for a good story touching similar topics, I thought Pandora's Star (first of a two-book series) was a great read (I bounced hard off the dark forest)
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by jbattle 7y ago
I know people who genuinely believe that people in countries with socialized medicine have to wait months to see a doctor
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by jbattle 7y ago
So we should be approaching climate change with the attention and resources that we threw at the great depression, ww2, and the cold war - right? But we aren't, not even close I agree there have always/frequently been dire challen
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by jbattle 7y ago
This doesn't look like a freeform building game. It's really hard to tell from the trailer but it looks like you can pick some pre-fab constructions or animals and plop them down into specific places in the world. Maybe I'm w
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by jbattle 7y ago
They should show how your neighborhood is going to look when tens/hundreds of millions of people fleeing uninhabitable land in Mexico/Syria/Bangladesh are now living in your hood. I really don't like the idea of effectin
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by jbattle 7y ago
YTMND was the first time the notion of memes (in the dawkins sense of the word) made literal sense to me. There were a somewhat limited number of themes/motifs -> memes that you'd see combined and recombined. Some were more per
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by jbattle 7y ago
if my nerd history is correct - MTG almost killed dungeons and dragons in the 90's!
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by jbattle 7y ago
I never got the idea of paying more money to get the experience over with faster. Seems backwards
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by jbattle 7y ago
Aha - but the goal of the "Build the wall" slogan was to get elected. It wasn't a carefully crafted policy for border control. That slogan achieved it's primary goal
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by jbattle 7y ago
I always read that time in history as Wilhelm wanting to be "The Decider" and feeling too much under Bismark's long shadow. Young leader of a young country, striving for a place in the sun.
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by jbattle 7y ago
the pit bull is put down because it is dangerous to humans, not because it violates a human law. Relatedly, literal mules that carry drugs surely wouldn't be punished
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by jbattle 7y ago
Aphasia. It's happened to me a few times and it is awful https://migraineagain.com/migraine-babble-words-get-jumbled/
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by jbattle 7y ago
Not terribly impressive when you phrase it like that. I can make a machine that shakes up a bunch of words. But then if I pick out the words to make a poem I haven't invented a poem-writing machine
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by jbattle 7y ago
Thinking of your brain as a story-fitting machine also explains a lot. Everything we perceive our brain tries to fit into a narrative structure
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by jbattle 7y ago
I think that 'fluff' is actually interesting content to the bulk of people landing on that page. I know folks who read recipes for fun, I expect they genuinely enjoy reading the color commentary just like I might enjoy reading som
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by jbattle 7y ago
Is farming 0.07% of the US economy or of the US workforce? Those are totally different things. Its certainly not 0.07% of US arable land There were bread and rice riots around the globe just 10 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by jbattle 7y ago
sturmtruppen were 'invented' in WW1 to capture trenches, though yeah the term lived on to the next WW

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