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by npo9 7y ago
It’s funny how people will try to make you feel guilty for walking away from a bad deal.
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by npo9 7y ago
A great short term solution would be to increase the investment in the local bus system. Full buses have a much better carbon footprint than single passenger cars. The article highlights a real need for more bus stops and 24/hr bus se
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by npo9 7y ago
Cloud services are so much more profitable that a single purchase item cannot compete.
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by npo9 7y ago
> Likewise, what factors, events, and socioeconomic circumstances have driven people into the throes of addiction? It’s not the whole story, but access to cheap addictive substances is part of the equation of how someone becomes addicted
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s illegal to pretend to sell drugs. It’s illegal to sell fake drugs. (in the US) You don’t have to worry about a customer complaining to the police. You have to worry about the police attempting to buy and collecting evidence against
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by npo9 7y ago
I think haptic feedback and novel controls are just as important as the VR. How much force does it take to [do critical part of open heart surgery]? What’s the exact hand motion for [neurosurgeon technique]? It would be great if a doctor
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by npo9 7y ago
To me it looks strong for a cpu release.
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by npo9 7y ago
I have never paid for cable in my life. The youngest generation hasn’t. Comparing subscription services to cable won’t work for the newest customers because they aren’t use to cable.
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by npo9 7y ago
Receiving two 4K streams is ~50mbps. This is a pretty common modern use case for home internet. At 1000mbps downloading any file takes roughly the same time, regardless of size. Offsite storage becomes practical for multimedia files. Not e
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by npo9 7y ago
That’s because it theoretically has less side effects of the repository system — the fatal part of an opioid overdose.
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by npo9 7y ago
Yeah but A) military gear is more than automatic weapons. Sometimes they send out things harder to come by than guns to police departments. B) This scheme costs less than pennies on the dollar.
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by npo9 7y ago
Psilocybin has the opposite of a numbing effect. It increases emotional sensitivity.
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by npo9 7y ago
> Our current accepted definition of intelligence in schools is to get a score that is higher than the average I don’t even think educators mistake that for intelligence. It’s, at best, a proxy for intelligence mixed with other factors.
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s the pure simplicity.
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by npo9 7y ago
The transaction fee hits two places. Once when money goes into the system and once when money goes out. If I spend $5/month and split it 50 ways there is no reason to pay a transaction fee on each 5cent transfer because it’s within t
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by npo9 7y ago
Not only that, .net core is now essentially the only active branch of .net. The windows only .net framework is becoming legacy.
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by npo9 7y ago
Both? Google helped shape the internet by connecting customers to businesses. The internet helped shape Google because it’s Google’s primary data source.
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by npo9 7y ago
No. You misunderstand. Why do you want to do both creative work and sales?
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by npo9 7y ago
Why do you do both? Why not stick with the one you enjoy the most?
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by npo9 7y ago
I was speaking about linear decreases. Cheaper power, more refined manufacturing processes, and economy of scale benefits are where I expect some of the linear benefits to come from. We can also expect CPU manufactures to compete for awhi
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by npo9 7y ago
Let me fuel your paranoia a little. It’s likely that cloud computing will continue to see decreases in costs, which means the availability of computing will continue to raise after Mores Law has stopped giving. Quantum computers might play
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by npo9 7y ago
Is Quantum Computing computational power increasing exponentially now?
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by npo9 7y ago
> Trend began before the internet Exactly. It’s almost like the internet isn’t the most important thing happening right now. Combining the world’s networks into one is really powerful, but the world is a big place. The internet isn’t g
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by npo9 7y ago
> Having freedom and liberty does not automatically result in increased wealth distribution, individual rights or equality. I was actually arguing the reverse. > the current information dystopia My position is that we are not living i
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by npo9 7y ago
I’m not sure what you mean. I thought my examples were meaningful freedoms and liberties more people are getting access too all the time.
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by npo9 7y ago
I disagree. We are moving into a world where people have more freedom and liberty. Sometimes we take a (big) step backwards, but the trend is towards more. These new freedoms and liberties are created by technology, increased wealth distri
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by npo9 7y ago
I disagree. The biggest (technical) disadvantage of fission is the creation and use of radioactive materials. Fusion solves this problem in large part because it uses and produces significantly less radioactive materials... materials that
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by npo9 7y ago
> I have not the remotest idea how I would test a cancer drug for myself As someone with only a high school level of chemistry training I would check the melting temperature. Although seriously get it professionally tested. The delta be
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by npo9 7y ago
I’m not criticizing people working on the problem. I’m criticizing the viewpoint that we are right around the bend and the fight is almost over. This is an unrealistic viewpoint. We aren’t right around the bend. There is no indication tha
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by npo9 7y ago
> Saying that a problem has not yet been solved and therefore cannot be solved is a fallacy. I didn’t say the problem cannot be solved. I said the problem is continuing, and current data indicates it will continue to be a problem. You m

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