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by lopmotr 6y ago
Sounds like the Human Rights Act in New Zealand, and probably lots of countries. You're not allowed to discriminate based on race, sex, age, etc. except for all the cases where people routinely do discriminate in those ways. It prett
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by lopmotr 6y ago
What's wrong with housing the poor in cheap isolated areas? If they're not working, they don't need to be occupying more valuable locations near town. Doesn't the government fund cheap houses on purpose to prevent homele
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by lopmotr 6y ago
This article is really trying to put a negative spin on something that could easily have been spun in a positive way. There's nothing clearly wrong with them, just a long list of minor discomforts from the author's perspective. Po
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That's quite a different concept. Agriculture techniques would have evolved that way but entirely devoid of science or understanding of how they worked, just evolution of ideas ossified into wisdom. Colonists in new countries experienc
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I'd say so but only once the science is advanced enough to be of more use than technology developed by trail and error and intuition, which is a pretty high bar. Just think that when steam engines were already in use commercially, we d
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I wonder if that's always been the case. Maybe humans quickly cleaned up all the easily accessible fossils before realizing what they were. Ancient Greeks thought they'd found a giant's bone and other cultures seem to have us
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Is that unit PetaFLOPS/day right? I think it should be PetaFLOPS-day which has dimensions of FLOP (total number of operations), rather than FLOP/time^2. The cost wouldn't be the cost of the hardware because it still exists af
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by lopmotr 6y ago
How about a normal book placed on a big empty tabletop? That's a more fitting analogy since you provide your own browser but not your own pages for a book.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Many of the cases we hear about don't seem to be mistakes, including this one. Sometimes nobody can figure out any possible reason for a ban and sometimes it gets reinstated (that's the undo feature in action). But often there are
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If that lesson was broadcast on TV, the music would have been licensed, not "publish and pray". If he was really just teaching how to play the guitar, and not taking advantage of the fame of someone else's work that they paid
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It quickly stops being a mystery when he admits he uses other people's copyright material but "no more of the original subject matter than is necessary". That right after dishonestly asserting "every aspect of every vide
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It might work if intelligence wasn't important for members of lower castes but was for higher castes, perhaps due to the nature of their culture or work. Then low castes wouldn't select for intelligence but high castes would. Not
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Your reason for asserting that it doesn't exist is that you have 7 years experience of not seeing it. That's simply logically invalid. You shouldn't be believing yourself. You're speaking in overly certain terms without
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Potentiometers have that problem too when they get worn, which they always do if they also double as on/off switch like on most cheap radios.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That's a different problem from the typical rotary encoder used on most modern knobs that can respond instantly but still has discrete steps.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I was careful to buy a benchtop oven and microwave with mechanical knobs. They just work instantly and intuitively as well as being cheaper than all the stupid electronic button and display nonsense. I can even use the oven's timer to
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by lopmotr 6y ago
No way. You'll never remember which thing you last set to silent or too loud and next time it'll come out surprisingly wrong. You might not know which window is in focus, and it might not be the one playing the sound. If you do ac
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The 2 seconds would be a bug or maybe a design fault in his computer. I use a big USB volume knob [1] which is also a mute button and it always responds instantaneously as far as I can tell. I just bash it when an unexpected video starts pl
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If politics is consequential, then one of the worst ways to handle it is have people digging themselves into entrenched extreme positions just to "win" the ideological war against their dehumanized imaginary enemy. Better to shut
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I though they weren't banned for their amount of plastic usage, which was surely negligible compared to the packaging of the products people put in them, but for their tendency to blow away and end up in the environment. Thicker bags m
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Who has the authority to identify which facts are not somebody's own? Can a fact be converted to an opinion by prefacing it with "I believe..."? Is an opinion forbidden if, like your own opinion here, it's stated in the
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Isn't it the police's job to be seizing property from criminals to prevent crime? Not individual victims. If the police won't demand Namecheap remove it, then sorry? They don't have to. It's not like Namecheap commi
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Probably still not economically feasible: "Lloyd’s of London puts the odds of a structure in Tornado Alley ever taking a direct hit from a tornado at 5,000 to 1." [1] [1] https://www.builderonline.com/building&#x2F
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I've seen it justified as every single member of the marginalized group has some life experience that no member of the majority/powerful group has. So although it's a prejudice, it's a correct one. That's different
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Engineers used to use the shape of a soap bubble to calculate the torsional stiffness or perhaps stress distribution of a non-circular shaft. http://www.newsteelconstruction.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Te...
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by lopmotr 6y ago
How can the problem seem too massive to you but invisible to me? Could to explain the problem and quantify why you believe it's a massive problem?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Glass is about the most harmless thing you could put in a landfill. Right down there with naturally occurring rocks. What environmental problem are they causing by burying it?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
My country banned single use supermarket bags, which they defined by the thickness of the material and whether they had cut-out handles. So a supermarket that used to charge 10c for one of those bags replaced them with 20c bags of slightly
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by lopmotr 6y ago
At some point, won't it be cheaper to just bury it in a landfill away from any cities and drinking water? We can already afford to ship it to other countries, so why not ship it to the desert where there's unlimited capacity and i
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That used to be my strategy until a salesman knocked on my door offering heavily discounted ceiling insulation, which is something I had half-heartedly always wanted but never got round to buying. He said my address was one chosen by the go

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