lopmotr

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by lopmotr 6y ago
Why should the political opinions of the employees be preferred over those of everyone else? They're a very unrepresentative sample of people that the company's actions affect. There's a reason we have democracy, not programm
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Donating to politicians only has an effect to the extent that some voters insist on voting for the most well-funded politicians. They are the real problem because they are the ones actually deciding who gets into government. You should vote
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by lopmotr 6y ago
As I understand it, there iron and nickel asteroids that aren't chemically combined with other substances like ore is on Earth. So perhaps the only processing required would be melting and reforming it.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You might be normal. MB doesn't have a type for being in the middle of the range in any dimension so those people would get random scores each time the take a test. If being normal in all 4 dimensions is correlated (unexceptional well
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Blasphemed against contemporary morality by taking the "wrong" side in the nature-vs-nurture debate. See his Wikipedia page for details.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Maybe things are different where you travel but I've travelled to many countries and I don't think my SIM card from the previous country has ever worked in the next one. Even if it did, I wouldn't dare talk to anyone on it in
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's possible that nature doesn't conform to your particular culture's ideology. Science hasn't actually shown him to be wrong.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Scientific achievement is the actual value of science, not getting a prize. We certainly don't need any kind of damping forces to make scientists rewarded for their effort if that in any way impedes the most successful from pushing the
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by lopmotr 6y ago
> the left in America is that its at least the arguably more humanitarian and ethical side. That's superficially true of the left everywhere and probably why it appeals so easily to young people. It's main purpose is to stand u
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That chart could mean just about anything. If a country has most of its plans with very generous data but expensive/limited talk, and vise versa, the data plans won't appear on the chart because they don't have 1000 minutes o
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I would call it sound in tennis balls. They're still using the same fundamental mechanism of pressure to transmit sound. But light isn't sound because the mechanism of propagation is fundamentally different, not just at a differen
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yea, it's not obvious whether we should be sacrificing people today to maybe save future people, especially if we can genetically engineer it all away. But our ancestors (or rather the humans that weren't our ancestors) were certa
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It seems like we're on a terrible path with this absence of evolutionary pressure. What's happening to all the babies who survive today that would have died in childbirth had they been born at any time in human history before 100
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Wikipedia requires sources for its information, especially anything contentious. If Twitter somehow obtained the manpower and speed to do that, then it might be OK but there's no hope of that ever being possible. The rate of content ge
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I imagine such detail wouldn't make it to the news. That probably exists but nobody cares because they'll lose interest before they get half way through reading it. Same way that (almost) nobody cares about side-by-side searching
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Not sure about data-driven but there's a clue in your name. The Proud Boys have denounced white supremacy.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees. The whole environmental problem with plastic in well managed landfills is filling up city landfills where land is expensive. Rural landfills will never run out of space. It's a non-pro
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Don't beat yourself up about Z. The Z axis is both a convention and commonly used for height in many fields, such as civil engineering, vehicles, and geology. All areas where the horizontal ground is important. It's computer graph
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Even if it was 10x the cost, it's supposed to last 5x as long so long-lived applications like perhaps commercial vehicles would only be 2x the cost even if they don't take advantage of the smaller size & weight to require less
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Probably to some extent. Movie makers anticipate what part of the screen viewers will look at. They can control it with content, motion, focus, etc. Maybe you're hoping for something more automatic? For a simple looping video we might
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Would eye tracking be fast enough to follow saccades and generate the high resolution parts on the fly? I assumed it would and we'll eventually have VR at resolution of human perception done that way. I hope so!
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The statement you're arguing against says nothing about having DNA from that ancestor, just about their existence as an ancestor. Instead, the article seems to agree with you, saying: "Not everyone of European ancestry carries gen
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Weren't Australian Aboriginals isolated for tens of thousands of years and some full blooded individuals still exist today? How could they have an ancestor outside Australia in only 1400 BC?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
No it doesn't at all. Those employees were always free to apply to Apple independently. This finder's fee sounds like the commission a recruitment agency would charge for literally finding workers. That's a perfectly reasonab
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by lopmotr 6y ago
While I'm sure it's usually for some personal emotional reasons, it's still a valuable service. Getting that wrong inhibits your ability to reason about the topic. What's the point of having thoughts that are just a soup
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Haha. I love how despite being so simple, it still has instructions below the one knob explaining how to use it: With the door closed, turn the timer to the desired time. Oven will begin operating immediately. To shut oven off manually, re
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Careful with the trick statistics. If you're ranking the size of groups, the result heavily depends on how you define the groups. That "4th largest" makes no sense because the 3 above it aren't broken down the same way a
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by lopmotr 6y ago
What if one race really is superior or inferior to another? For example "Tibetans are better at surviving at high altitudes than Han Chinese" Fact but racist according to that definition. Harsh consequences for scientists talking
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Criminals often have severe psychological problems that immigrants don't have. Their mothers didn't love them (that's surprisingly important!), their caregivers neglected or abused them. They have intellectual disabilities or
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by lopmotr 6y ago
To help gain perspective, you can read these generic opinions about "criminals" by replacing the word with "rapists" in your head. Does this feel just as noble?: ... resort to rape to try to stay afloat ... resort to kil

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