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by kbenson 3y ago
> people being motivated by ego, power, and social status, which is basically always what you eventually end up with in any non-profit. I've only really been close to one (the owner of the small company i worked at started one), and
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by kbenson 3y ago
Well, you said digital, but that's not the only way to do it. Blood in a stabilizer of some sort (if it exists) or some other carrier of genetic material was more along the lines of what I meant. That's much easier to do (maybe? I
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Some of these are qualities that I could see leading to someone thinking he was "aimless" or a "confused mess", but these are also things that engender a lot of respect from employees. Respect from employees is a fi
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I would assume you'd want that digital archive in a vault for the same reasons we put seeds kn the seed vault. Like the seed vault, the only copy doesn't need to (nor should it) exist just in the vault, but that's a good loca
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I would assume you would just take genetic samples in the easiest, and most durable form. I think the answer to your question is that if it's easier to reverse our course then a bunch of species will be dead with no way to revive them.
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> By calling into question their results Did they? I took it more as a clarification of a point so people could more easily know what it meant, and wishing they did more so we could know more. Their last sentence in fact notes that what
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by kbenson 3y ago
> I sometimes wonder if NASA has a dedicated team paid just to "debunk" people who claim that Moon landing is faked. > After leaving a recent reply and getting negative karma on several other unrelated comments in like 5 min
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by kbenson 3y ago
I'm confused by your stance here, because it's like you aren't aware that the Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX has launched 80 times this year so far, and 60 times last year, and those are all commercial launches with payloads. That
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by kbenson 3y ago
I'm not making an argument for or against thr free market, I'm making a an argument about human nature. If we want people not not do something that they see as beneficial for themselves (and the negative effects are not necessaril
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by kbenson 3y ago
If by government you mean local agencies staffed by local people using this tech to make their job easier for what to them is the small concession of reigning in how they speak of it, then sure, I guess people can can just go against what t
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by kbenson 3y ago
It's entirely context dependent. For me and the people I deal with (which deal with various wikis in our lives for both work and play), "the wiki" refers to the specialized wiki on the topic we are speaking (for work it'
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by kbenson 3y ago
There are plenty of places. Under a forest canopy. Underground, under a large overhang from a cliff. And those are just the types of privacy you don't create for yourself, or you don't naturally get through large structures. They
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by kbenson 3y ago
Or contain, or counter, or be used as a deterrent. At least, I think that's the idea being espoused here (in general, if not in the GP comment). I think U. S. VS Japan is not.necessarily the right model to be thinking here, but U.S. VS
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What you count as success depends on what your goal is. It's entirely possibly SpaceX could have thrown extra billions at it and had a higher chance of successful orbit, but that doesn't mean they deemed that the most efficient us
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by kbenson 3y ago
SpaceX is well in their way to doing it, but 50+ years later, relying on advances in material sciences and production capabilities to reduce the cost. None of this seems fishy to me. As a nation we decided to do something, damn the cost, an
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by kbenson 3y ago
Have you never seen old Datsun and Nissan trucks? Very small, probably not much bigger than this, and those saw plenty of use.
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by kbenson 3y ago
I don't think it's any smaller than a smart car, and people drive those around all the time. I'm not sure why this would be limited to a farm while an F-150 is not. I'm not sure the Datsun and Nissan trucks of the 80&#x
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yeah, what the "best effort" actually means in practice is usually a result of how much resources you want to throw at the problem. Those give you runway on how much of a problem you can withstand and perhaps recover from without
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yeah, as someone that knows liyyle to nothing about music theory, I was hoping to learn something interesting along those lines, even if I admit it's unlikely to be useful to me. Instead it's about storage schemas and correctly ma
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by kbenson 3y ago
There's a huge difference between the occasional company getting the occasional boost when some individual lawmaker or a small group of them can finagle something good for a company compared to every single lawmaker being aligned and
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by kbenson 3y ago
What's with people in this thread spouting absolutes as if they aren't obviously full of obvious mistakes and rebuttals? "Power" also seeks competence. There's no one aspect that is sought is enough to to drown out
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Wouldn't that just incentive those people to always favor the items in that fund, therefore providing an advantage to anything that makes in on the fund? Given two competitors in a market, what if the existing but inefficient one is in
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by kbenson 3y ago
Some delineation between a core function of driving the car and ancillary services is probably warranted, so things like car-talk and sirius aren't the responsibility of the manufacturer. I suspect the devil's in the details for e
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Sometimes what some people think of as clean is really more "optimized for the current state or the project." that seems fine, until next month the new feature requires that "clean" code be ripped apart because it encode
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Because "residents" is a group defined by perspective. If the residents in a city don't want something, but the residents of a neighborhood do, which has authority? What about residents of a city compared to a state? How does
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Just call it the bonus day. I'm sure the equivalent of all the leap year babies that get to call themselves bonus babies will thank us.
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I'm not sure if it's a matter of good faith or not to see that you were responding to statements that not only the person you're responding to didn't say, but weren't actually said by the original person (trivia !=
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In the past, "solving" games has often been done through novel changes in hardware and/or approaches and algorithms as I understand it. The person you replied to stated that they didn't know why Othello was an achievemen
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"Evolutionary decorporation"?
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It's a spectrum along fiction, often along how possibly something is given our known knowledge of the world and possibly future extrapolations. Science fiction can be about something entirely possible today that hasn't been done

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