midoridensha

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by midoridensha 4y ago
>And the amount of habitable planets suitable for colonization is also always somewhat limited. This part of ST doesn't really make sense. They're shown as having the tech to build enormous starbases (and with domed artificial
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>I watched TNG religiously as a kid, but once Berman took over and began infusing pointless interpersonal conflict, I lost interest. Really? So you actually liked Season 1, and lost interest at the start of Season 3? You're a re
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>After having de-facebooked myself, the contact list as authoratative friends list works ok, but it is a downgrade. Yeah, that doesn't work for me at all, because I don't actually have anyone's phone number, outside of a c
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by midoridensha 4y ago
I'm no fan of Facebook either, but if they collapse and die one day soon, one thing I'll really miss is FB Messenger. I just haven't found anything remotely like it that works as well for keeping a friends list, letting me c
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by midoridensha 4y ago
It has everything to do with it. You seem to be assuming the US is some kind of paradise that everyone would live to live in, despite the horrible culture, broken healthcare system, and mass shootings every other day. You can't just t
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by midoridensha 4y ago
I'm guessing that if Europeans had decided to adopt the Native American lifestyles and cultures, we would still be pre-industrial and living as a bunch of separate tribes that sometimes have wars between them. The way the European sett
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by midoridensha 4y ago
It sounds like you're describing our solar system. No, Mars is not habitable in any meaningful sense of the word, any more than the Moon is.
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by midoridensha 4y ago
I don't know about the parent, but I was a teenager back in the 90s, and back then when the wall fell and the USSR collapsed, we thought all the ugliness of the 20th century, two world wars and a cold war, were all behind us and that w
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by midoridensha 4y ago
What exactly are "they" going to do about it? Set up a surveillance police state where everything in public is monitored all the time, and then catch the thieves and "disappear" them so they don't re-offend? This
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by midoridensha 4y ago
1970: "It's kind of sad to see only one or two people with large-format cameras at any "vista point" I visit because it brings back memories of talking with other amateur photographers. Nowadays everyone has these stupi
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by midoridensha 4y ago
Do you mean because they're poor? There's plenty of poor people in Japan, but they don't resort to stealing people's phones or wallets. Again, it's cultural. And it's not just America; over in Europe where t
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>What followed was a vile and vitriolic rant about how their kid was the leader of the Lego robotics team, and maybe it's because you aren't assigning them the right work, and on and on. The quality of American parenting has ta
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by midoridensha 4y ago
None of those (except Costa Rica) are in the list of Presidential systems without a Prime Minister. France is in the list of "semi-presidential" systems. Look at the first list, the one the USA is in. I also don't conside
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by midoridensha 4y ago
This seems like a sensible solution to the FP. Alien communications would need to be directed towards us for us to detect them, and we're obviously so stupid that no one would want to communicate with us, though they might send obse
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by midoridensha 4y ago
It's really useful for small businesses that want to accept credit cards without having to get a full-blown merchant account. If your business is really tiny (like a little side project) and makes less than, say, $100k/year, a me
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by midoridensha 4y ago
Yep, here in Japan people will leave their valuables on a table to reserve it or to go to the bathroom. It's just a different culture; here, people are taught not to steal. In western cultures (particularly America), that just isn&#x
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by midoridensha 4y ago
Yeah, I just picked some representative examples out of that list. Check out the others: Brazil, Ecuador, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe for a few. None of these are what I'd consider stable, prosperous, well-r
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>It is how virtually every other representative democracy with a presidential system elects their executive leaders. And which countries are those? Russia Turkey El Salvador Philippines Not exactly paragons of democracy. Face it: the Pre
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by midoridensha 4y ago
You wouldn't get a one-party state. The US did this before: back in the 1800s, there were 2 parties, the Whigs and the Democratic-Republicans. The Whigs imploded, so the other party broke in 2, yielding the two present-day parties. I
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>I think at one time there were women-only boarding houses that forbade male guests, at least there were in old movies, but that's about it. These still exist in Japan: there's women-only apartment buildings where men are not a
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by midoridensha 4y ago
Why should taxpayer money be used to fund private ventures though? It's obviously not economically viable to make chips in America, otherwise it would already be happening. Taiwan is not a low cost-of-labor country; it excels in ch
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by midoridensha 4y ago
Why bother paying to be in a theater at all then? Why are you paying to be bored?
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by midoridensha 4y ago
I live in an small (by American standards) apartment and I have a reclining sofa and 65" TV. You don't need to own a house to have a decent viewing experience. All the other stuff I completely agree with. Movie theaters are obso
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by midoridensha 4y ago
I don't see why this is necessary or useful. Just press the "pause" button and go to the bathroom when you need to. While you're at it, you can grab a snack or drink from your kitchen before you unpause. Take a few mi
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>I would expect that a company like Google is able to find partners, but if not, there's always screen scraping. They can shut that down with laws banning the practice. It might not stop someone working on a personal project, but i
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by midoridensha 4y ago
Try playing an original Star Wars arcade game or a Vectrex system; that's something you cannot really reproduce with an emulator at all.
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>It's more jobs, especially different jobs. It's jobs that Americans can't do (or at least not in sufficient volume). These are high-skill jobs; you can't just grab some uneducated person and expect them to do the wo
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by midoridensha 4y ago
There's nothing stopping the state from renaming the courts now to conform with established convention in the rest of the nation, in order to reduce confusion.
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by midoridensha 4y ago
>If the AI is there, and it offers a superior experience to users, the companies that don't support it will disappear. For that to happen, the AI needs to already be working. If the companies proactively prevent this from happening
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by midoridensha 4y ago
This is really wishful thinking. >At best the AI could use the equivalent of screen scraping to use existing apps, but eventually all apps should be replaced by APIs that just extend the capabilities of the AI engine. Why would companies

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