magicnubs

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by magicnubs 8y ago
> I have no answers. I wish I did. I think this is something that VR tech good enough to make you feel like you're really in the same room as someone (meaning not just visuals, but sight, sound, touch, smell) will help with. That ma
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by magicnubs 8y ago
I think it depends on what "someday" means to you. Within our lifetimes? Almost certainly not. Within 100 generations? Still, probably not. But "eventually"? I could see that being likely, if : * humanity doesn't e
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by magicnubs 8y ago
Like being given antibiotics for a viral infection.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
Interesting. I wonder if readers of vertically written languages are less (or maybe more) prone to dyslexia?
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by magicnubs 8y ago
And it could be seen as a perverse incentive for governments to make it too easy for people who are an economic and budgetary burden to end their own lives.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
To a lesser extent, that's part of what hospice / palliative care is. Not to the extent that it's purely recreational, but often involve continued use of opiods for pain management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by magicnubs 8y ago
> These are things you can do in the low six figures, not mid six figures Did you mean mid-five-figures?
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by magicnubs 8y ago
I don't see any country adopting these policies, considering they want more and less expensive skilled workers, and depriving another country of their skilled workers isn't a deterrent (and may even be viewed as a positive, depe
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by magicnubs 8y ago
Or at least, having one big company serving 100 people can be more efficient than 10 smaller companies delivering 10 people each a similar service.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
Also because metformin (last I heard) is considered exceedingly safe and almost universally beneficial--so much so that some recommend prescribing it to everyone over a certain age.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
I agree--maybe it's because HN skews so heavily towards the other end, that the grass just looks that much greener, but it has a really strange and inaccurate perception of blue collar work. I've worked in a range of blue collar j
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by magicnubs 8y ago
> [...] if he looks into the looking-glass he sees every city and every country just as if he were standing over it. When I tried it I saw my family and my whole native land, but I cannot go further and say for certain whether they also
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by magicnubs 8y ago
And the things only weigh 2 pounds. All added weight has to count on these.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
> I'll never to fall for the least-common-denominator school of marketing. Ship your games and require the most high-end of hardware. :-) Worked for building hype for Crysis, for a while anyway
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by magicnubs 8y ago
Democracy is a 51% attack
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by magicnubs 8y ago
https://reddit.com/r/retrofuturism is good for these
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But if humans have an inherent need to be busy, why wouldn't they busy themselves with more interesting or useful things in the void left behind by their busy-work?
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Same. I miss early Everquest something fierce.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
> Good outcome for both fields. Well that is what agriculture is all about.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
IQVIA (and I'm sure other CROs as well) is spending a fair chunk of change focusing on improving their offering in this space right now. Will be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
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by magicnubs 8y ago
> Is the text in the pictures German? It's in German for me too
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by magicnubs 8y ago
Yeah, I think it's more likely to work like there's some psuedo-integration and more standard data-sharing between Uber/Lyft and transport hub owners. An added check-box to schedule an Uber or Lyft when you're purchasing