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by nemof 13y ago
>So? Once you add feedback (blood tests, medical supervision) to your dietary "loop", these mistakes have the potential to sort themselves out. except the ones that take years to present, and are things that we don't neces
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by nemof 13y ago
most amusing watching people getting trolled. The paragraph towards the end is particularly cutting: > Rhinehart might not realise it, but he is a classic symptom of a generation and, even, a cultural movement within the United States th
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by nemof 13y ago
from the sale of products they've invested years of research in. From angel funding and capital from the market, wealthy backers and philanthropists. I find it hard to imagine that you could keep asking for more and more funding on a p
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by nemof 13y ago
There's something to be said for that, which is why charities and philanthropic organisations exist. the question is whether money is being funnelled efficiently in the right direction and used efficiently. Who's to say that layme
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by nemof 13y ago
Do you really think that people can afford to crowdfund multi-year complex research into illnesses and diseases? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1551949/ > It often takes more than 10 years to
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by nemof 13y ago
the amount of money and lack of tangible immediate results would make this untenable. This is way outside the scope of normal crowd funding. This is why large companies with deep pockets and wealthy philanthropic concerns exist.
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by nemof 13y ago
strangely I wasn't suggesting all of the internet should be patrolled, why would you conflate my statement with that? I think content platforms like twitter do have a responsibility to make their spaces reasonably safe for their users.
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by nemof 13y ago
This seems kind of facile. Women are being threatened with violence, rape and death. Even if these are not threats people intend to carry out, to those receiving them they are deeply distressing. The threats are meant to intimidate and sile
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by nemof 13y ago
whilst I strongly disagree with the filtering, it's utter bs, it's also untrue that porn isn't having an affect on younger generations. The real thing that needs to be happening is an honest and frank discussion about sex and
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by nemof 13y ago
The primary benefit is weight reduction: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/sabre_howworks.html This approach enables SABRE-powered vehicles to save carrying over 250 tons of on-board oxidant on their way to orbit, and remov
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by nemof 13y ago
I think the lesson here is that people should stop just thinking of Valve as just a games company. And as has been noted below, dota is an insane money maker. Add to that, tf2 is now self funded through people making virtual hats. This isn&
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by nemof 13y ago
unless you can physically prove he has a valid US passport everything indicates it's been cancelled. Recent chatter suggests he's had a world passport issued: https://twitter.com/worldcitizengov/status/35
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by nemof 13y ago
having done 40 man raiding in wow, you need to repeat a helluva lot of commands constantly to keep people on their toes. similarly so with pvp, but that's more about making sure your partners are always on top of what's going on.
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by nemof 13y ago
Valve is really not a slow company. I've heard this expressed before and never really seen it. Please see this list of IP developed by valve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation#Games That's not an
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by nemof 13y ago
tweet from Spencer Ackerman 'DOD wants me to know it's not deciding to block the Guardian's website, its automatic classification content filters are. So there's that.' https://twitter.com/attackerma
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by nemof 13y ago
People are the way that they are. It doesn't mean they cannot be more. The constraints of physical scarcity make us less (good/kind/moral) than we otherwise might be. My statement was a simple description of the behaviour of
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by nemof 13y ago
So what are you willing to give up to see this peaceful progress? You're on hacker news, so quite possibly work in the tech industry. Would you give up everything you knew, if it could be shown that technology by its nature encourages
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by nemof 13y ago
A good overview of the the bunkum Assangians have been making up: http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-... http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/media/2012/09
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by nemof 13y ago
As long as we live in a world where scarcity exists, we will compete for resources, or compete to provide them. Spying on each other is a natural consequence of needing to have an edge on the competition. Therefore, it's actually harde
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by nemof 13y ago
The US has only ever been the gold standard to itself, it's a nice story to tell the kids as you tuck them in for the night, but it's just not true.
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by nemof 13y ago
That make a huge assumption, that you can work within the constraints of the Institution and not become institutionalised in the process. The reason that governments (I'm in the UK) keep on doing this is that by its nature institutions
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by nemof 13y ago
They are currently in discussions as to what they can release: https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/343432706484490240
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by nemof 13y ago
they're not just maximising impact, they are most likely currently having discussions as to what they can legally release without getting into too much trouble or causing a national security problem (e.g. see redacted names on latest s
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Obama defends NSA spying program as new Prism details emerge(guardian.co.uk)
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by nemof 13y ago
seems like http://www.snapchat.com/sexgod696969 is doing really well. on a related note. it would be amusing to trace all these relationships by scraping the site for common usernames and then following jumping down through their friends
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by nemof 13y ago
one possibility which has never seen the light of day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor#Nuclear_w...
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by nemof 13y ago
Imagine a world where a little eye stares balefully at you from above your TV. If it sees what it thinks is a recording device, say a phone or a video camera pointed at the TV, it turns the screen off until you lower your device. Kinect the
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by nemof 13y ago
some vocal gamers hate them, the overwhelming number of gamers who don't moan on kotaku or neogaf probably don't care at all.
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by nemof 13y ago
If any of you are foolhardy enough to try this stuff, please please please get your physician to do a full workup before, and do regular repeat checkups.
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by nemof 13y ago
are you a games journalist or a youtube/twitcher?

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