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by mLuby 5y ago
> There are plenty of cultures and practices that did not seek dominance over any and all resources. Maybe so (I'm skeptical of that claim), but anyway it only takes one culture that does to take over. At some level, a specific grou
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"Results not guaranteed" "Actor portrayal" "Real users compensated for appearing" If everything would have the warning label (like "Don't try this at home" or California's "known to c
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> making a sustainable economic system which does not exploit How about solving the actual actual root cause: humans are currently wired to seek dominance over any and all resources? Barring that, our alternatives are: 1) Open the
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Am I the only one surprised that nuclear-powered snow cruisers weren't used in Antarctic exploration, during the height of the atomic age? Maybe RTGs just don't produce enough power.
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If we're using 5 digits, add 10K years: we're in year 12021 of this Holocene calendar. (Happy palindrome year!) 0 is pre-history, some of the very first permanent construction. An 8min video by Kurzgesagt on it: https:/&#x
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It seems you're suffering from "neutron embitterment." ;P Space-based solar power generation (itself "fusion power" in the loosest sense) would be great in the inner planets. Though to open up the outer planets, Kui
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To quibble: terrorism is using dramatic violence to achieve political ends. It just so happens that the victimized society often wants to increase security. The US had at least 3 major responses to 9/11: 1) seek revenge (invade Afg
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> My company fixes recruiting process and software problems. Hats off to Amazon for this. I probably have the pot smoker conversation about once a month, usually with a 50-something or older executive that is running a factory short-staf
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By way of metaphor: When you hand your friend a letter and ask them to mail it from their mailbox, that friend acts as a forward proxy. The post office doesn't know from whom the letter originates, only that the friend sent it. When yo
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> Colloquial usage around here "Here" sounds like a strange place. Fragility means something is easily broken. The opposite is toughness, not callousness. Relatedly, resilience means something recovers or repairs easily. Sensit
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> But can you scare every single person out of [tampering with a home atomic reactor]? I'd bet there's a reactor design that's tamper-proof enough to be less lethal than vending machines. That just leaves very determined,
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Yes, it would. Wouldn't detectives watching through your windows as you type on your phone be functionally the same as having your phone surveilled? Warranted, targeted surveillance is less bad than surveilling everyone to see if t
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"Fear of the next election" is one of the few things that keeps elected leaders in line. You want a wise, just dictator for life, and maybe you luck out and get one who reigns beneficently for a few decades, but who's to say
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Thanks, I'll check those out! Loved Objects in Space (wish they'd open-source it or let modders at it) but it's single player. Unless… maybe my definition of bridge simulator is wrong? I thought they're inherently multip
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It's unfortunate for North Americans who want to work elsewhere too. A globalized workforce is good for peace, prosperity, and human rights. Another comment pointed out that shared time zone "remote working mercilessly exposes som
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Since you mention Overcooked, when last I played we actually used a non-player "captain" who was watching for bottlenecks, environmental hazards, and upcoming food orders; as a player you can get tunnel vision when working your sp
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Bridge sims seem to be having a moment; awesome! To Empty Epsilon's ranks, I'll add a few computer games I've come across: - Pulsar: Lost Colony ( https://youtu.be/p0HW9-VTCZg?t=110 ) - Carrier Command 2 - Spac
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> The logical end to the argument is that children should never appear in any kind of commercial media because they can't consent That's not so unreasonable, considering how child stardom seems to mess with kids. Maybe better
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The last time I interviewed, I did it full-time for about a month. Was kind of fun actually: you're solving isolated little coding problems, talking with companies about their engineering and business challenges, meeting smart and frie
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Marketing can only weakly rebuild trust; at some point trust has to be earned by difficult acts, like popularizing end-to-end encrypted messaging or not unlocking that San Bernardino iPhone. So far it sounds like Apple continues to talk one
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Will [US-collected] fingerprint data point Taliban to targets?(bbc.com)
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> they can choose to not give their number out to people I assure you, I did not give my number (or email) to the spammers who contact me multiple times a day. I'm sure they got it from some combination of public databases and dat
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HBO's Silicon Valley did something similar 7 years ago: https://youtu.be/9YOEEpWAXgU
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> the sender has committed no crime > they've done nothing illegal Perhaps that's true in the narrowest sense, but aren't the odds of generating a colliding file so low as to all but rule out coincidence and therefore s
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(I agree with your rant.) Stepping away to take a walk helps clear the air, gets the blood moving, and changes up the surroundings. It's rarely the full solution, but quite often a good first start. Good luck, and take care.
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I'd think the attack would be done in reverse: 1. Get a photo that the target already has. 2. Generate an objectionable image with the same hash as the target's photo. (This is obviously illegal.) 3. Submit the objectionable ima
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> When the hell did it become Apple’s job to do this? Apple provided a pathway, however unintentionally, to greater power. And those in power used their existing authority to gather even more for themselves, as they always do. Like dro
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"Impossible" has a certain appeal, at least for humans; we're all about building that tallest tower and longest bridge, and more recently building our own islands. I've heard Dyson spheres referred to as a K2 Civ'
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and that the debris is a cloud, and that it comes around again (which is very non-intuitive for us—explosions and shrapnel generally don't hit from the same direction more than once)
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In general we do, because launching from west to east at the equator lets you use the Earth's rotation for a 465m/s speed boost. Launching the other direction means you need an extra 465m/s just to counteract the rotation y

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