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by nyhc99 6y ago
I personally liked the Hyperion duo better, but found all 4 books to be incredible. As for Ringworld, I didn't enjoy it, but would be willing to give Niven another try if given a strong and specific recommendation. Maybe something that
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by nyhc99 6y ago
The sequels have some big and original ideas that I don't regret being exposed to, but they were painful to get through. Especially the 2nd book. It took me months to finish because I just couldn't stay interested.
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by nyhc99 6y ago
What was the explanation again? The only one I've heard is that they lied to us so that medical first responders would have masks available. Which seems strange and unforgivable if true, seeing as how a simple piece of cotton fabric ea
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by nyhc99 6y ago
I would describe it more as taking the substance I've already decided to take regularly and speculating on the effects that it might have on various parts of my life. I certainly don't have fitful sleep anymore.
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by nyhc99 6y ago
Here's what I wonder, and this is somewhat tangential to the issue-- the effects of cannabis are thought to be disruptive to some of the various stages of the sleep cycle, but at the same time, it can sure help you to achieve a full ni
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by nyhc99 6y ago
I don't know about you, but I don't really want my various encounters with the police to be broadcast to the public. They would need to algorithmically blur out all of our faces or something in order to make that palatable.
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by nyhc99 6y ago
SpaceX was talking about trying to recover the 2nd stage back in 2018, Elon suggested they would use a giant "party balloon" and land it on a "giant bounce house." I haven't heard any talk of progress made since the
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by nyhc99 6y ago
Apparently you don't understand what a tax on consumption is.
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by nyhc99 6y ago
This is a great point and is also true of Facebook and a number of other platforms. Roger McNamee spoke at length about this issue with Sam Harris on his podcast back when it was called Making Sense. His point was essentially that the AI th
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by nyhc99 6y ago
Bob needs to work because Bob wants to buy nicer things and lead a fuller life than sitting around playing video games in a dirty shack like Fred. Bob's work isn't subsidizing Fred's lifestyle unfairly (at least under Yang&#x
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by nyhc99 6y ago
Not really a fair comparison because in order to get the unemployment you have to stop working.
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by nyhc99 6y ago
What's wrong with competition as a price control? Isn't that the basis of capitalism? If someone else wants to raise their prices because "free money" then I'll just keep my prices the same and steal all their busin
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by nyhc99 6y ago
On the Diamond Princess Cruise, they found lung damage in 54% of asymptomatic cases. I would call that a cause for concern. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryct.2020200110
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by nyhc99 6y ago
I've had this problem quite a lot with both the default keyboard and with GBoard, although seemingly a little less frequently with GBoard. I also find that the speech-to-text often fails to grasp the contextual clues and blatantly uses
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by nyhc99 6y ago
A vaccine isn't the be-all-end-all. We can still potentially hold out until there's an effective treatment. Famotidine? Remdesivir? Anything that would reduce the severity of the infection would lead to a better outcome than you&#
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by nyhc99 6y ago
I read that there was visible lung tissue damage forming the characteristic broken glass pattern on CT scans of 58% of the infected but asymptomatic carriers on the Diamond Princess cruise. That to me adds a sobering footnote to the process
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by nyhc99 7y ago
I have to agree with this. If exaggerating health claims about a plant is what it takes to convince the country that you shouldn't be thrown in prison for choosing to consume that plant, then have at it. The older generations will find
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by nyhc99 7y ago
>Because there are still unresolved pronouns in (Q2). When something is self-referential and resolves to itself, that's the end of the recursive process. There's no need to produce a Q2 that is Q layered inside itself. You go a
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by nyhc99 7y ago
I don't agree with that. The pronoun "this" does not appear in the example question you just provided. There's a difference between "this" and "his" and the difference is how they resolve contextually
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by nyhc99 7y ago
I think some of your premises are mistaken. >>If I ask 'what is the weather in this city?' >>Does that question make sense without mentioning the city's name either before or after? Yes, it does, if we're sta
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by nyhc99 7y ago
So this one is an actual paradox, right? If they would accept both correct answers, then the answer would be 50%, but then if it's 50% those two correct answers would be incorrect.
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by nyhc99 7y ago
All those questions can be answered with "charge them with a crime after they commit one, not because you think they might commit one because they're [on drugs/obsessed with swinging fists around]" Stealing from you? Cha
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by nyhc99 7y ago
Does this automatically lead back to total prohibition of any mind-altering substance, since you might be a threat to someone under the influence? It's easy to argue 'no' there, because the key word is "might." In
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by nyhc99 7y ago
There were a slew of anti-yang articles that came out from the leftmost media sources immediately after the debate, owing to the fact that Yang made Elizabeth Warren look unprepared in her answer about job loss. Andrew Yang, snake oil sales
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by nyhc99 7y ago
Oh of course, but that added advantage can be minimized as the lag increases between the time you issue commands and the time you see results. You wouldn't want to eliminate that advantage though--all things being equal, you want the p
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by nyhc99 7y ago
I never liked the move to really fast-paced, micro-intensive play. Real Time doesn't have to mean such a flurry of movement and clicking. From Starcraft on it seems like the genre has pushed more and more towards the micromanagement ga
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by nyhc99 8y ago
Thomas Wolfe was right--You Can't Go Home Again.
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by nyhc99 9y ago
I find it infuriating that autocorrect constantly subs out correctly spelled words with other words it thinks I meant to type. It would be understandable if their suggestion made more sense contextually than what I typed, but that is freque
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by nyhc99 10y ago
Look up: Schmilk
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by nyhc99 10y ago
I played through quest for infamy as the thief character (of course) and I'd say it was at least as good as QFG3. Not without faults but worthwhile for any fans of the Coles' games.

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