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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
For me it's only a little creepy, but not surprising. I constantly think of Snowden and just how much our completely (ostensibly) private data actually says about who we are and what we do. And then we're creeped out that an app
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
VS Code is by far the best optimized Electron app I've seen, but with a total of 5 files open, it will still turn my laptop into a pizza oven on my lap. It, and every JS/Desktop hybrid has so much promise, but my Lord, as a profic
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Long term ramifications I'm sure of. Long term harmful ramifications? I doubt it. That water has to go somewhere, whether it's captured in the ground or evaporates in the skies, the machinery of nature will keep ticking :)
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I've found a few chuckle worthy, or kind of witty, but the vast majority seem like the inside joke of people who come off as wanting you to think of them as more in the know than you. And they could be. But give me a good Far Side comi
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
How many have you been able to find and attract? Anyone who says "you could easily", wrt business, obviously is either a business genius unlike the rest of us, or has never tried. Trust me, finding top notch talent that you'r
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Now what about companies that have an uneven number of employees in other countries? Or where they're distributed throughout the US, and costs of living are quite varied? What median should they be tied to?
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I have to agree with you that the title to me is baffling. I remember reading in Wizard magazine when he passed the ebullient and effusive out pouring of praise from everyone in the comic book community and at the time, I just couldn't
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
> eventually, population growth will overwhelm the Earth’s ability to provide calories. Really? When? And how? Because I don't see how a planet that can support at least a factor of 10 times our population size currently is going to
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I'm super happy you brought up the infinite border aspect of the top menu, because that is the best aspect of it, and whenever I go back to Windows, that required fine touch control drives me nuts. But WRT hot corners, the best part of
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
That all sounds great, in theory, and sounds super fair. But how do you attract executive talent without large salaries and golden parachutes? When one person's choices can make the difference between bankruptcy and having surging prof
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
This is one is my favorite comments of all time, simply because while I was familiar with the Fermi Paradox, the rest of the links were new and unexpected. Thank you!
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I feel like the guy who's about to say "what about all of the good things Hitler did?", but does patent trolling invalidate the good things this guy has helped contribute? I feel like that the tech community, for all of our p
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I was simply asking how is a multiverse theory falsifiable? I'm not contending that the idea of God has the same evidence as a theory of a multiverse, but rather what makes the multiverse falsifiable? If neither are falsifiable then I&
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I thought about editing my response to add that neither of them were falsifiable. Is there anything in this universe that could falsify a multiverse theory? They both seem so meta as to be faith based, but I don't know enough to state
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Thank you for your response and I apologize for the delay in responding. I think you're using an ineffective metric to argue against something you're against ethically. Here's what I mean: saying it's benefit is immeasur
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I see it as a something that arises out of first principles. Everything in our world has a cause, and something always comes from something else. Now a deity, being outside of our universe and separate from it wouldn't be subject to t
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Even assuming a multiverse explanation doesn't exclude a deist view. It just kicks the can down the road to one more level. I think as long as we have a "something", we will want to understand where that comes from and what e
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
For anyone looking for a direct link to the skepticism of TIGHAR, here it is: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295 I don't have a dog in the fight either way, but I'd have appreciated a link to the criticism :)
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
FTA: > When did you last touch someone outside your family or intimate relationship? I don’t mean a brush of the fingers when you took your parcel from the delivery guy. I mean: when did you pat the arm or back of a stranger, colleague
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
It seems like Whirlpool and Maytag have long histories of repair and general reliability (at least as far as their marketing and the zeitgeist go), so I wonder what's different about them vs Samsung or LG (maybe it's a tech vs mec
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Do you mind expanding on the contrast a bit by explaining the more traditional society part? I was born and raised in southern California, and one thing that I can consistently remember since I was a child was just how transactional souther
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I wonder if some nominal fee might filter out those who wish to troll him and his content. Like maybe a buck a month to read his content, 2 to be able to comment and add to the discussion. It could still be moderated to filter the trolls wi
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I do too. Things like CRISPR scare the bejeezus out of me for reasons like you mention. I tend to think that's the killer equation in the US culture, which is incentives that are set up for exposing stuff like this. We don't need
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
This may get me some downvotes, but I imagine that the same ethical issue exists with any weapon. Guns and bullets exist to kill, and in both human society and the animal kingdom, elimination of a few people can increase the overall popula
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Ethically, I wonder if this would be any different if Google built a similar software for consumer applications and licensed it similarly to Android being used for surveillance in both the US and far more paranoid governments. I would imag
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I remember reading an intro to Orwell's Animal Farm that discussed Orwell's ability to see the dystopian use of technology, but couldn't see how it could liberate a citizenry from totalitarianism (like the shortwave, for exam
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Two things give me some hope. 1. I don't think totalitarianism lends itself to economic prosperity, long term. Sure, the right authoritarian can move much faster and implement beneficial changes much more quickly than a democratic gove
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
I have to completely agree. I remember hearing once that "convenience beats quality", but I also remember reading that "a restaurant with great food never goes out of business". I think the only avenue for some of these
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
This was such a good comment I'm sorry it took me so long to see it. Honestly, you've nailed it. I'm heartbroken that there isn't more that can be empirically proven, but I think those also hint at where we should doubl
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by natecavanaugh 9y ago
Thank you. I felt a weird mix of impressed and severely grossed out. I've thought about continuing my dog's different lines, but because of my (admittedly extremely superficial) understanding of epigenetics, I never considered it

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