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Which is prob just as fun and pleasant of an experience as delivery by drone.
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Perhaps someone should fork this behavior and start dropping care packages for prisoners. Good chocolate. Textbooks, self help books, poetry and literature. Letters from family members. Comfortable underwear. Assistance for those soon to be
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If that is all it will do why not write and release. Interesting analogy. Viruses are now understood to facilitate horizontal gene transfer. Viruses and the rest of our microbiome are functionally key constituents of the "human"
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Baltimorean here. Most days these blimps can be seen aloft. They appear less distant than I know they must be (given they are tethered at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds). They are very,,, present. It is unsettling. I lived in NYC for five yea
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Hear, hear!
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And orcas have vastly greater social intelligence than humans, but that doesn't stop humans from separating mother from calf at birth. Don't get the point of this article. "We slaughter billions of cows, but walk up to one, l
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>polite people who couldn't care less about you baldly lying with a smile; constantly appeasing you as if you're a docile imbecile Same here. Was attempting to figure out if this was sarcasm or not. This is how I'd describ
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Indeed. Attention is given to patent trolls, but not so much (that I'm familiar with anyhow) the incentives around awarding (there are incentives in place to bias the granting of a patent, as opposed to denying one or claw back clauses
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Someone please come up with a butter that uses only algae produced inputs. You'll save the world.
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Cowspiracy
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So, that initial photo is really depressing. My take away, they can now be forced to work for next to nothing at night too.
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I could share my personal experience, such as the time when I told a boss of mine with whom I had a great relationship that I was going to take a day off before I got close to burning out, using the actual words "burning out", but
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I guess I was saying, back up even more, why the heck, given Google's stated mission of "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful", are they in this part of the mar
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The profit motive is showing its true colors. It'd be a very tough argument to claim that "YouTube Red" is playing a vital role in Google's attempt to organize the world's data. It's purely a grab for revenue&#
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also, I don't trust them with my DNA data anymore.
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Even if statistical analysis checks out, the premise seems to be all wrong. Speaking generally now. I rarely read HN comments as having predictive intentions, but rather constructive (or not) criticism on things as they stand. Listening to
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Headline should read: "Legislators' arbitrary implementation of laws targeting drug use creates dangerous environment around a previously legal substance which is even now being safely used in clinical trials"
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Bordering on victim blaming. We don't say to the people killed by Firestone Tires, they should have independently tested their tires. Unfortunately, victim blaming typically crops up when the circumstances involve illegal or morally co
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I spent one sentence (the middle one) out of the three sentences in my reply explaining why I thought it could be (please note, "could be", as in, I did not say it was, as in, I did not accuse ) interpreted as such. My reasoning
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Racism can manifest itself in ways that can be measured, thus hypothesis can be formed and tested for validity.
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Here's to hoping that you're just trolling. Your reply injects very specific racial and socio-economic biases as if they were already assumed and understood. Which, in this context, is basically racism.
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So,,, at what point does this become accepted (as opposed to tolerated) business practice? Or, more optimistic, no longer tolerated. At one point it was ok to say, "This is all new and still being worked out." But, it is no longer
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Now if we can just teach AI to get sidetracked reading all this content we'd also prevent Judgement Day. SkyNet: (speaking to self?) "Unleash hell on humans. Launch all missiles." SkyNet: (responding to self?) "Not now,
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...because we don't have enough stuff and we always have to be doing something? How about, work less, live more.
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I'll second that. I first went to a therapist years ago for a visit precipitated by a professional "crisis" (not that crisis-y in retrospect). I found therapy to be so helpful I resolved to continue going after that was worke
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One step closer to WALL-E
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Used to be in local goverment. Now in SE. I am fully aware of the aspects of human nature epressed by SEs. Perhaps you are are not personally familiar with the polital version of humans. I dare say you would find yourself dissapointed after
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See: Systems Theory Sometimes the greatest harm is born out of the most sincere intentions. Anything founded on false, internally inconsistent premises will fail. Often, the longer it takes to fail, the more harm is done. Like it or not, hu
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Silly software engineers. So cute. They think taxes should be logical, effective, relevant. Should someone tell them that taxes are a political issue? (Sarcasm aside, I look forward to the day when our political bodies become composed of a
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This has been said about a billion times before, in many different periods, in many different ways. Breakthroughs often come only after long incubation periods, which to me should be counted as part of the breakthrough, just an unseen part

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