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by lotu 11y ago
We are likely to hit zero global population grown sometime between 2040 and 2070. It's not around the corner but I hoping to still be alive at that point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_g
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by lotu 11y ago
Honestly I doubt it will become a big deal outside of the tech community. Most people realize luggage locks aren't really there to protect against a determined adversary, or a person with a ballpoint pen https://youtu.be&#x
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by lotu 11y ago
Actually I'm pretty impressed they managed to keep them secrete for as long as they did.
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by lotu 11y ago
It's not just winners typically don't find themselves living peachy, winning a large lottery is one of the best ways to ruin your life. Fully 1/3 of lottery winners eventually declare bankruptcy. Not only that they have a x2
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by lotu 11y ago
What about sales tax? Is that not a tax? After all buying things is voluntary, you could (and some people do) live a self sufficient lifestyle and not have to pay any sales tax.
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by lotu 11y ago
>It's unclear what exactly it means to "not understand" the tradeoff - presumably if you said the words to them they would repeat them back and tell you they "understand" that this will happen in the future; it&#
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by lotu 11y ago
Sometimes, the easiest person to fool is yourself.
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by lotu 11y ago
Look I want strong AI too. But I'm unsure that this is going to a viable avenue to producing one. Furthermore, I'm not even sure the a strong AI will necessarily be incorruptible, I even less confident about those people that bu
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by lotu 11y ago
Something to rember about the "powerful interests" they only remain powerful because vast majority of voting Americans either agree with them on that don't care about that about that issue or care so little about the issue th
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by lotu 11y ago
Because the main site owner then has to spend time coordinating with literally thousands of advertisers to get their ads for their champagnes. They then have a build an maintain an adverser that is hosted in their domain, right now ad se
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by lotu 11y ago
One practical if very niche use I could see for this would be doing steady shots when filming. I don't think it would let you do anything new but it might make doing some types of shots easier.
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by lotu 11y ago
If WWIII results in mass extreme inconvenience I will be a happy man.
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by lotu 11y ago
It is possible this is a leak by someone in the administration that opposes retaliation and thinks it will be less likely if there is press coverage.
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by lotu 11y ago
Yes, imagine if undercover cops weren't allowed to abuse a child. All a drug lord would have to to figure out if someone was a cop was ask them to abuse a child and then shoot them in the head if they refuse. Sure there is probally a f
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by lotu 11y ago
There were pretty close to Main Engine Cutoff so there would have been relatively little fuel left.
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by lotu 11y ago
This was something that Elon Musk really got right with Tesla, he made it a point for his cars to have sex appeal. His model names are even S3X. On the other hand I think this little car is probably going to be geared to the elderly or the
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by lotu 11y ago
I had to continue: > Work before farming resembles what the rich do on holiday today. The rich spend their holidays intimidating lions of their own kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpu4DAvwI8 or running for 8 hours
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by lotu 11y ago
Did you watch the latest movie? It is heavily implied that the rivers had all dried up or were poisoned. The people lived near an under ground aquifer controlled by the local warlord Immortal Joe.
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by lotu 11y ago
>Imagine a machine that creates gourmet meals out of thin air. It is solar powered, cheap to use , can be manufactured for less than a plasma screen TV. ... Every restaurant in the world goes out of business. Chefs, waitresses, and dis
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by lotu 11y ago
Extracting gold from rock is inefficient compared to panning for it in a river. That doesn't mean we are running out of gold.
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by lotu 11y ago
You could also make it so an H1-B worker has several months after quitting or getting fired to find a new job in the states. This would mean the employe isn't afraid of loosing their job as much. So they could demand a higher salary.
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by lotu 11y ago
As a person with ADHD I actually think that it makes this type of addiction less likely, almost impossible. People with ADHD crave novelty and these free to play games are anything but novel. For example I spent several consecutive hours
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by lotu 11y ago
You don't want a massive tower in the middle of the street. It interferes with traffic.
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by lotu 11y ago
Realistically the self-driving car isn't going to be smart or fast enough to make these choices. We are assuming some infallible perfect AI when if-fact you have a bunch of (relatively) simple algorithms a bunch of mapping data. The
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by lotu 11y ago
I think it obvious that he did not sort the bills. The article say that he and his wife spend all their time going through stacks of bills, stopping only to eat and bathe (and they couldn't even check all the money in time). If they
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by lotu 11y ago
No, you are going to pay all the monthly subscriptions at once up front before you buy the laptop. It will work like this average laptop life span is say 42 months, and the monthly fee is $1.50. So the cost of a windows license is 42 * $1
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by lotu 12y ago
What part of passive did you miss?
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by lotu 12y ago
I would put it more on the fact that attacking a foreign government is kinda usurping the role US government and they won't take kindly to that.
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by lotu 12y ago
Doesn't that apply toTwitter as well? If the child is under 13 Twitter can't store their tweets?
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by lotu 12y ago
Perhaps the government could post "suggested" prices online that way people could easily check if they are getting ripped off.

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