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by lopmotr 6y ago
Duodecimal measurement units are overcomplicated if you don't also use a duodecimal number system, and converting anybody to that is a far bigger challenge than just changing unit systems. The digits "10" will now mean 12! So
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Don't forget significant figures like your science teacher taught you. 841 mm has only 3, and both answers are correct to 3 sig. figs. So it's correct. Another way to see it. What dimensions should it have for you to deem it corre
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by lopmotr 6y ago
This is such an arrogant and narrow minded attitude that's strangely popular. Just because they happen to encounter more people in trouble than most of us, doesn't mean those people don't deserve help. Imagine seeing a homele
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yea, it feeds on itself. If people get upset, that prompts more people to use it to shock them. When offended people finally get bored with it (ie they stop finding it offensive), I'm sure it'll die down. But some new thing will b
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by lopmotr 6y ago
With Naziism, the shock value seems to have actually strengthened over the decades and years. Do you see any sign of it wearing off? I'd say it won't wear off until it becomes an acceptable ideology. Communist or satanist symbols
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Funny that the first sentence of your comment also contains 14 words. I'm not saying it's also a coincidence in the ad, but trying to do numerology without statistics is pointless. A big pile of examples isn't statistics.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yes. Just because the Nazis did it, doesn't make it "hateful" (racist, etc.). People are going off the rails worrying about any kind of symbols or hints related to Nazis because they've somehow become a popular bogeyman.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The red triangle was used by the Nazis to identify political prisoners (eg communists), not Jews or blacks or anything "hateful" like that. It's completely normal for countries at war to have political prisoners and even in p
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I'm going to get in trouble for saying this too often but why do Americans persistently complain about lobbying until an election when they suddenly forget that and instead vote for whoever from their favorite party spends the most mon
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Corrected. Thanks.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's not taking a zig-zag path like you imply. That would be scattering and it would end up in a random direction.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You can't make a directed neutrino beam because the direction they're emitted in a reaction is random. That includes particle accelerators which make neutrinos by colliding other particles. A single reaction product comes out in a
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by lopmotr 6y ago
To use land for something productive, you usually have to have exclusive rights to it. That's exactly what this process does - gives exclusive access to whoever wants to do something productive with it. Selling land at auction is a goo
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by lopmotr 6y ago
What happened to sensor fusion? There's no reason self-driving AI has to be as unreliable as toy or research AI. People made these same FUD arguments about computer in cars decades ago. Home computers were unreliable so cars will surel
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Try moving in the other direction. Have the browser always show a little bit of the HTML code or some Javascript variables. Will that make it better or worse? What's the correct amount of internal coding information to display to all u
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I think web developers are so used to URLs they don't realize how ridiculous they are. If you were inventing the web from scratch, there's no way you'd require a non-human-readable string displayed in the most prominent posit
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Then you wouldn't accept credit cards in any country because merchants pay a fee for fraud on top of the lost revenue. Nor the US where, for example, Target paid millions in a settlement for getting hacked.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Isn't that morality though? Doing what's best for the greater good even if it's against their immediate interests?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The Georgian word for mother sounds more like "dayda", so no, not really.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Shi means "is", not "yes" in Mandarin.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
What do you mean? It's selective breeding for humans the same as we do for farm animals and cats and dogs. It's not pseudoscientific.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
We've successfully applied it to animals so it works. Just because it's against your sense of morals doesn't mean it's not based on real science.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Even if they're sold, they're not going to go to poor people. If poor people could improve their lives with a scooter that requires money, skills and effort to charge and maintain it, they wouldn't be poor. The whole reason t
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Would you be fooled by that? No because once it became well known, people would adjust their heuristics for judging who's real. If that's too hard, platforms would help, such as by verifying identity more thoroughly. I've nev
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Why did you change your belief? I've heard both beliefs too but never seen evidence for the blame-the-owner one so I'm never sure. I hope your logic is not: "I can imagine how A might cause X, therefore I believe B cannot pos
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Inventing just about everything ever? America also has 50% more GDP per capita than the UK. Perhaps the extra 200% traffic deaths are needed to provide that boost.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
But how do you exclude all those other causes? We know that cigarettes kill people too so if you intentionally sell them to somebody, you're being reckless or negligent too. It's a continuum so where do you draw the line? At break
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Cars are obviously important for the economy which provides money for all life saving things. Stopping all driving would certainly cause many deaths.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Your aim isn't to kill anybody. A careless maintenance worker in a factory also doesn't intent to kill someone when he intentionally skips a job. Or a shopkeeper when he sells cigarettes to a customer. You would end up including n
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Some people are materialistic - that is they place a high value on material things. It's often older people who grew up when manufactured goods were valuable. I'm like this myself. Other people aren't - they don't form a

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