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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
think I can get YC to accept me based on a deck pitching a joint venture between porn and biotech on artificial skin?
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
This may be pedantic, but I wouldn't say DF is content rich exactly. Dwarf Fortress (and similar games, like Banished and RimWorld) shine because you can execute an infinitely different number of stories/scenarios/playthrou
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
Since we're evidently devolving to a reductionist game of "which is worse?", can I throw in a round? Choose one: a) mishandling of classified information b) insisting that as commander-in-chief, you will order the US military
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
Slightly orthogonal to your #5: are you in a current job role where you ever bring up the topic of your customers or your clients in casual discussion? Do you ever refer to either group in less-than-stellar terms? For my part, I do both. I
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
You have an outdated expectation of Greenwald; he is an outspoken opponent of "the view from nowhere."
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
Ah so you'd need a pretty large and specialized piece of hardware for this then, it seems. Not something that some clown could do on a whim with a .308 hunting rifle.
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
The day of the explosion, someone somewhere had asked the question "How much damage could a rifle shot do to a rocket on a launchpad." As I recall, this question was dismissed out of hand at the time, without an answer, owing to t
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
I have come to see the same. I want to reward game creators for giving me enjoyable entertainment, and taking the risk by going free-to-play rather than forcing me into an up-front purchase. I admit have become a bit jaded when it comes to
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
As another self-loathing millennial, it's also distressing to empirically see the detrimental effect of my elders making extremely poor choices that will fundamentally affect my life much more than theirs. Nobody really wants to disenf
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
Small correction: dates are for June 5th and 6th, not July!
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
Likely because Hillary is the one who uttered the phrase.
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
Glad you made this point. To expand on it a bit: Continuing abiogenesis may very well be occuring (in the very few locations that may still resemble the beginning), but at what complexity are we defining "life" when asking this qu
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
There used to be an alternative iPhone management tool created by some of the same developers who were jailbreaking iOS. Certain features only worked with jailbroken phones - but you could still manage your music library even on unmodified
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
> risk of maternal death for planned out-of hospital births more than double While your assertion is technically correct, this singular take is a misleading characterization of the source you linked. Per your source: > Perinatal m
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
This may be a first-world bias here, but would it be reasonable to expect that US midwives are generally better trained than their Bangladeshi peers, given the US's expanded access to educational resources and licensing oversight? Agai
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by mentalpiracy 10y ago
These are also all hospitals in higher-income areas that can be considered part of the larger NYC metro region, as it is home to many of the bridge-and-tunnel commuting workers. I would not be surprised if this demographic has a statistical
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
Would love to explore this further. ID: mentalpiracy
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
This is easier in theory than it is in practice. While obviously each branch puts together its own integrated units for various missions, th8e real detriment to this kind of idea is what you would lose when breaking down the larger command&
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
Good question. Not sure if there's an answer. This wouldn't be a story for us to read if he'd simply been recaptured.
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
This is a practice with sushi and certain fish, I don't know if it occurs with octopus though. I say this merely to confirm a fact, I am qualifying no judgement here.
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I think you need to do some self-directed reading. The GAO is widely credited from all sides for its standout analysis and data gathering, independent of partisan affiliation or regulatory capture. Its method
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
This might be a trendy idea (and is not wrong, per se) but honestly the data simply does not back it up. The GAO estimates that waste, fraud and corruption amounted to approximately $126 billion in 2014.[1] Sure, that's a huge number,
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
This model is a problem where a company (usually beyond the startup phase) has multiple profit centers. Success in one division can be dragged down by substandard performance elsewhere, if (poor/unethical/ignorant) management choo
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
I have the exact same issue. I've done well with trying to structure my days similarly, but there are inevitably times where something needs to be done immediately and of course it's never in tune with how I planned the day heh. T
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
This case isn't just about Apple though. If the FBI wins this case, it becomes a precedent that can then be turned around and used on ANY hardware or software company in the future.
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
They might have, it's certainly been a theme in some comments by supporters of the unlocking. He public move may be more about setting clear legal precedent - if Apple is forced to do this, the government certainly will rely on this de
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by mentalpiracy 11y ago
Because it sets an awful future legal precedent. If Apple did it once and didn't challenge it, you can be sure that all future government cases involving decryption will cite this case as the new standard of law.
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by mentalpiracy 13y ago
Rand is difficult for many people because her philosophy is essentially standalone; take it all or take none of it. You cannot really take one small lesson of Rand on its own - it always comes tightly bound to the premises it is derived fro