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by pesmhey 9y ago
My household is a government. When I was a kid, I was in a couple of clans in Blizzard games - governments. Sometimes I go out with friends for drinks and we form a short-term government to make decisions. We select a Minister of Transporta
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Does this kill the crab?
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The "less capable" are a part of society as well. What do you think causes cancer and other fatal diseases? Alcohol, smoking, drug addiction, shitty food, all types of vices that are endemic to people who don't have a place i
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The type of worker who is being displaced by a scanning robot isn't normally the type of person who is going to be "curing cancer". This is more of a socioeconomic thing rather than any sort of innate ability to have the trai
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How could we get the government involved? There's public broadcasting, NPR, PRI, etc.... Is 'social media' so different rather than just being the next communications' platform? It's a serious question too, what wou
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Economic partnerships could be formed with the nations that surround China, especially the nations that could potentially restrict China’s access to global shipping. It would force them to spend huge amounts of capital on railroads to maint
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Yeah, you’re right! Wonder how they handle it then.
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Just a wild guess here, maybe they’re using a variant of a ramjet, skipping the inefficient speeds, and then propelling it to LEO speed once it’s launched.
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It’s a centrifuge, so the acceleration could be low enough to not cause damage to the payload.
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Being able to voice an opinion and have it be heard, although not necessarily followed, is kind of the definition of "having a voice" in this context.
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Normal and snobbery seem to be, by their very definitions, mutually exclusive. I guess the author has accomplished his goal in that we are paying attention to him - it certainly isn't to bring normal and curious onlookers into his excl
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Make the video please, I’d love to get your take.
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Shorting actually puts you in debt - you borrow the shares and immediately sell them. So yeah, from this point-of-view, it looks like you're assertion is correct.
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To your comment on borrowing bitcoin, a few exchanges are selling futures, which you can short. This started relatively recently - December.
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Is this related at all to octopuses rewriting their RNA to pass inter-cellular information? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
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Did the javascript rendition of algorithm S match? It looks like it will add any random int, regardless of whether or not it's already in the set, whereas algorithm S checks that that random int does not exist in the set. Or have I mis
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One thing that maybe differentiates it in the way you’re defining it: you can really see it. Gold jewelry, trinkets have social significance, and have for quite a long time. Crowns, regal adornments, religious altars, etc. are all ostentati
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A lot of the tech that has enabled the rise of the 'virtual class' is built on a marriage of public and private funds. The railroads that enabled westward expansion, the dams that powered it, so many things that enabled our situat
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You could also experience these effects if you were trying to build weapons. Or a monopoly. Or lots of things. The reason you haven't seen compelling evidence that regulation adds anything to technological progress is because it doesn&
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Imagine you're on a skateboard holding on to a bungee cord connected to the back of your buddy's truck - or some similar analogy. Imagine that truck starts going too fast, and you start lagging behind. Imagine your cord just snaps
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Race is an incredibly sensitive topic in America. The best analogy I can come up with for the author's statement is this: You're looking to pick the fastest runners out of a group of people. You run an optimization algorithm to pi
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A combination of belief and the threat of violence.