lotsofmangos

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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Well, it could be cold war thinking, a line from Dr Strangelove gives one plausible reason. "Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, Eh?" Benway&#x27
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I am not sure that describing creationists to be in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance is anything to do with the argument presented by the article. Also, I was not addressing the article, I was addressing th
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I half agree with you. I do think that the language used to describe religious viewpoints includes off the cuff insults far too often. The word benighted was unnecessary in that sentence and does detract from the article. I don't think
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Is this aspect of security work that makes me wonder in the back of my mind whether Snowden is a modified limited hang out.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
If energy is not conserved across distortions in space time, then neither is momentum. That em-drive people have been testing is forcing a distortion in a resonating wave that should just be varying the flux density from one end to the othe
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
In his new book “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics”, Richard Thaler uses a different term: econs. He writes that “compared to this fictional world of econs, humans do a lot of misbehaving, and that means that economic models
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Reminds me a little of the floating point precision bug in the patriot missile targeting systems, where the longer it was left on, the less accurate it got. http://fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I wonder how stuff like this will effect that scary head-transplant idea.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I really like 'Citizen Kane', but to be honest, when it comes to films involving Orson Welles, by far my favourite is 'The Third Man'. Though many of Orson's scenes he isn't actually in as he refused to leave t
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Reminds me of a line from "Inherent Vice". "People like you lose all claim to respect the first time they pay anybody rent"
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
From a Bayesian perspective, it isn't. One experiment that is difficult to disprove does not carry the same weight as 5 different ones giving similar results.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Go read up on Eratosthenes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Was going to ask if you are ever planning on doing a home system, as although compressed air tanks can be risky, presumably they are slightly less risky than normal gas supplies.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Hey, don't forget the British. We tried to build them that super-gun thingy.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
That was one experimental setup, that was not replicated by other experiments though. It is a bit different when you get multiple experiments by lots of different teams.
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EM Drive Developments – related to space flight applications(forum.nasaspaceflight.com)
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I am not trying to help anyone's preferred narrative. I am saying it is far more complex than thugs trashing their own neighborhood for a laugh.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
You should probably go read David Simon's take on it. It is brilliant and depressing and might provide you with some of the nuance you are evidently lacking. - http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/david-simon-talks-
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
They tried basing it on other body parts, but none of them flew very well. The lung rocket in particular was a complete disaster.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
You're not talking of the past, you're confusing dream with memory.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
requiring one's brother to be one's keeper I'm not religious, but given that the context of that quote, being your brother's keeper is not that bad a plan. Better than murdering them. To be simultaneously jingoistic ab
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
It worked for the LHC - http://wlcg-public.web.cern.ch/about
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Is a different take on a similar joke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XpvH-j9BHg The idea that social networks are useful for surveillance and the joke that the users are just useful idiots, massively predates the onion
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Has already led to worse results, when you take into account corporate lobbying and regulatory capture.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Perhaps we are in a bubble-bubble, where the idea of being in a bubble is so popular that many investors are betting on being in a bubble even when there isn't one.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
No need to worry, if that happens we will just reactivate Jeremy Bentham.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Just because the state owns lots of stuff does not mean the state is being communist. State capitalism is also a thing. As far as enterprise goes, after finding out that keeping everything in house was not working, nearly all state enterpri
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
The only reason to seriously object would be if it somehow went against his wishes. It did go against his wishes.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
He reportedly wanted a private funeral and to be buried next to his mother. I do wonder how they keep him from spinning.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I like Stewart Lee's take on it. "a government surveillance operation run by gullible volunteers, a Stasi for the Angry Birds generation”

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