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by nkoren 9y ago
First: yes I am absolutely saying that Muslims in Myanmar are not engaged in a vast conscious conspiracy to change the demographics of the country. Yes, different cultural groups can have different fertility rates, but to say that this is a
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by nkoren 9y ago
Watched for a few minutes. "Muslims are like African Carp. They breed rapidly [... yadda yadda yadda ...] Our entire race has been suffering under the burden of this minority..." That's grade-A genocidal rhetoric he's de
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by nkoren 9y ago
Hm, I'm using the Google DNS: 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4; it should be pretty robust.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Please tell me it's just a coincidence that the independent.co.uk domain name is no longer resolving...
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by nkoren 9y ago
I suspect it would be relatively straightforward. Treat each datapoint as origin of a voronoi cell, in both realspace and travel-timespace. This would give you appropriate cage boundaries on both maps, and the transformation between them sh
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by nkoren 9y ago
It's worse than that. Even in the households with vehicles, there will be members who are unable to use them due to age or disability. So at the very least they will be dependent on another family member for basic getting-around-town
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by nkoren 9y ago
They wouldn't be targeting spiritual healers as consumers -- the number would be far lower than you suggest -- they would be targeting them as the "brand ambassadors" and "thought leaders" within their community.
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by nkoren 9y ago
I also remember him well from Space Access. Seems to me that one can draw line directly from his advocacy for the DC-X, through Armadillo & company, to SpaceX and Blue Origin's spectacular accomplishments. He planted one hell of a
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by nkoren 9y ago
Absolutely. Both privilege and oppression are real and worth understanding, and at an academic level, intersectional feminism has done a lot of good work in this regard. Recognising that structures of oppression with regards to race, gender
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by nkoren 9y ago
This, absolutely. I actually care passionately about racial, gender, orientation, and economic equality. I've been an activist for these causes for nearly my whole life. I want more people to care about these issues and speak up ab
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by nkoren 9y ago
Almost a decade ago, I invited Elon to speak at a conference I was helping to organise at Oxford. Would've been very on-topic for him, but he declined with a pithy one-line reply. Was a solid enough opportunity that it was probably wor
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by nkoren 9y ago
I don't get the impression that its relevance is due to any particular currency within actual philosophy circles, but rather because postmodernism is the motte to which the more academic strains intersectional feminism retreat when pre
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by nkoren 9y ago
Falcons are held down at full throttle for three seconds prior to launch, to ensure that everything is working perfectly before letting go. (They've aborted during this period in the past, although that was a long while ago.) As far as
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by nkoren 9y ago
> The UK is insane for immigration. Completely. I could immigrate to Germany for about 1/20th of the cost (in application and legal fees) that it is taking me to simply maintain my residency in the UK. And is despite being a native
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by nkoren 9y ago
As a non-EU immigrant who has lived here for 10 years and is still struggling with visa issues, the idea that it will involve just "a bit" more bureaucracy is laughable. The bureaucracy is appalling. Europeans who have any altern
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by nkoren 9y ago
There's a common school of thought which holds that it's immoral to look to space until all problems have been solved on Earth. I despair of reasoning with such people. With attitudes like that, we would never have left the rift v
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by nkoren 9y ago
Fair enough, but margarine is not a good analogy to in-vitro meat. It's a substance that has very little molecular resemblance to butter. In-vitro meat, however, is meat. It's not a different substance -- it's just produced
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by nkoren 9y ago
I had a similar experience, which was more concise and, for me personally, more transformative. My career as an architect had reached a point where I knew it wasn't going to satisfy my life goals. I needed to understand more about fina
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by nkoren 9y ago
That's because catapults are used in places where space is at a premium. Catapult + full throttle will minimize takeoff length. But if space wasn't at a premium, then surely throttles could be reduced, no?
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by nkoren 9y ago
This is orthogonal to the question of whether California needs new public transport infrastructure, which it unquestionably does. However that infrastructure only makes sense in the context of sufficiently dense city, such that both transit
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The past has a dizzying power to ground us(aeon.co)
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by nkoren 9y ago
This is not how economics works. Here's a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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by nkoren 9y ago
That's roughly correct for on-street parking. In a parking lo or garage, the parking space + associated room for lanes and turnarounds works adds up to about 330 sqft per space.
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by nkoren 9y ago
> I am genuinely curious why none of the recent Deep NLP approaches work here. To my understanding, it's because deep learning is fundamentally aimed at pattern-recognition, but makes no attempt to have a model of "reality&quot
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by nkoren 9y ago
Thank you. Yes, apologies for building too many assumptions; I guess this is a bit of a hot-trigger issue for me. I've seen people genuinely believe that if one makes life sufficiently difficult for the homeless, they'll just go a
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by nkoren 9y ago
Huh. I grew up very poor -- there were months when the bins behind supermarkets were a primary source of food -- and I've seen rough-sleepers die from exposure. It's hard to reconcile that one could make a "simple neutral com
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by nkoren 9y ago
> It's harder to sleep on the streets if there is nowhere to go. I'm puzzled by what kind of psyche underlies a statement like this. I'm sorry to frame it in these terms, but honestly it seems... evil to me. Do you not und
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by nkoren 9y ago
Good grief, which London do you live in? I've lived here for nine years, mostly in Brixton and Bermondsey. > Drug dealing and use Barely visible compared to virtually every other city I've been to > prostitues loi
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by nkoren 9y ago
Engineering can easily trump Geography in this case: you could just tunnel under the Golden Gate and keep going north. This would be a utterly trivial compared to something like the Seikan Tunnel[1]. Just to be clear: not knocking Amtrak
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by nkoren 9y ago
Have you ridden trains in America? I've travelled almost every Amtrak route across the country. In a country that properly maintains its rail infrastructure, Cabin will definitely lose much of its competitive advantage. In America, h

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