lopmotr

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by lopmotr 8y ago
Phase information is already used by precise GPS receivers. The electronic components and software are probably much cheaper than wires in the ground everywhere. Also, the guy did say they have centimeter precision, not sub-mm. cm is the wa
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by lopmotr 8y ago
That's a lucky coincidence for now, not the reason for doing it. Historically, automation did the opposite and put human assembly line workers on mind-numbing repetitive tasks. Robots these days often do more skilled tasks like welding
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by lopmotr 8y ago
The problem is that science agrees with it. Surely setting policies that accommodate nature will be more effective than pretending nature fits whatever the popular ideology says. About abilities, it's well known that men have a higher
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by lopmotr 8y ago
> No, my idea of human decency is to respect the wrongs of the past and to not try and sweep them under the rug under the guise of equality now. Don't try to make a workplace more attractive to women because it's better to crit
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It doesn't even need a potential career path. Especially now that many people can be unemployed for life and still survive, being able to enjoy an unproductive hobby is itself a useful goal.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
There's a gender imbalance towards girls being interested in working with animals. It might be an extension of that.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
By doing what? Pulling the curtain open on psychological findings? Your idea of human decency is to keep science secret if it has politically inconvenient conclusions? He was trying to support Google's goal or hiring more women. What r
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yes, that was painful to see. The strings are even capitalized in a particular way so it doesn't look like it had already been processed to normalize the formatting.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Surely plastic waste is a local problem for only some places? America has no shortage of empty land for landfills, but perhaps India or Singapore has more of a struggle to put it all somewhere. I live in a country with plenty of wasteland c
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by lopmotr 8y ago
So you're on the side of the baker in the gay wedding cake case? The difference here is that that was one small shop among many so the customers aren't completely screwed. Social media is dominated by a small number of huge compan
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by lopmotr 8y ago
If you use that standard to judge what speech should be censored, then you need to censor just about everything. Perhaps starting with any talk about international relations because it might lead to war, and violent rap music, and criticism
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by lopmotr 8y ago
> Of course, private companies reserve the right to refuse business and services to whomever they want. In a healthy society this is no problem. Did you notice that you just said that civil rights laws prohibiting racial and sexual discr
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by lopmotr 8y ago
> The fact that more CO2 means more energy coming into the system is easy to work out Not easy to work out that it'll be a problem. We've known that for 100 years haven't we? But people didn't seem to be sure it would
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Whenever someone does a bad job, there are others who could have done it better, but you couldn't have done that person's entire job better because you weren't available and didn't apply and probably weren't qualifi
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I once built a very simple one in my backyard using a shock absorber from a car as the barrel, which just worked like a syringe with no screw. It was driven by a threaded rod powered by an electric drill. The heater was a spiral stove eleme
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It's embarrassing but that's what I routinely do when declaring and indexing arrays. I imagine an array with 2 items (index 0 and index 1) and say "that's got length 2 and maximum index 1", so for my length 50 array
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I count in 3's because that's how I was taught to count newspapers when I was a paper boy. I didn't really question it but you're quite right that it's just as easy to see 3 items as 2, and it's faster. You jus
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by lopmotr 8y ago
You're assuming that 'unchecked destruction of the environment" means all important species will be made extinct. That's not true. We do our best to destroy various pests but they keep surviving. Many species have been w
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yes, that's pretty much in agreement with how I imagined it would be. I'm not personally trying to model it, though it might be a fun project one-day when I'm not feeling so against fighting a steaming pile of professor-writt
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by lopmotr 8y ago
They can't make predictions from them. Can you tell me what the temperature in 100 years will be? How do you do the math? Do you need some hand-made closed-source HPC simulation software with no manual that nobody knows how to use exce
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by lopmotr 8y ago
That's political. Of course it's a disorder in the sense that it causes abnormal poor performance (reproduction is harder!). Peadophilia is also still called a disorder but only if it negatively affects the person's life. It
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by lopmotr 8y ago
How can you destroy water? It literally falls out of the sky. Israel makes drinking water from sea water. How can you destroy all food? There's no way we can wipe out all plants and animals, and we can eat lots of them, even if they&#x
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Sure, but what about sea organisms turning into limestone and trapping carbon in the ground? What about cloud cover changing the rate of heat absorbed from the sun? What about the plants that created the fossil fuels in the first place? How
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Isn't that a problem that could be solved with law enforcement and cleaners like what developed countries do? That still seems to be cheaper than glass bottles.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What's wrong with putting it in landfills? The world has no shortage of wasteland. If we can afford to ship it to China, can't we spend the same money driving it on trucks into a nearby desert or valley?
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by lopmotr 8y ago
You misunderstand me. These are all the same type of qualitative arguments that aren't convincing. They do explain the principles, which is a good start, and they can convince someone of the mechanism that it could work by but you can&
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yes. Having goals for the future is part of human nature. It's what motivates many people to get up each day. Perhaps these people's motivation to not be embarrassed overwhelmed that but it sounds like a more extrinsic goal to fit
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Life on Earth has never been wiped out, no matter how bad it got. And we're not even talking about glaciers over every continent bad (humans survived that), just less fish and some other things. Not even always making them extinct, jus
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by lopmotr 8y ago
That's the kind of argument that sounds OK only if you already accept the conclusion. Here's another one - The amount of radioactive material in the atmosphere is higher since nuclear testing than ever before in human history. Rad
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Since you can't see the fault in your analogy, I'll tell you. People have already tried that and we have biology that tells us what would happen without those things. So we know the answer without having to test it again. It'

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