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by pharke 6y ago
I think you're strawmaning Musk's popularity. People aren't fantasizing about living his life, they're adoring him for building the future that a lot of people want to live to see. Honestly, philanthropy should not be
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by pharke 6y ago
I guess you missed the decades before Bill went big on philanthropy and was much reviled as an anti-social workaholic, tyrannical CEO, and rabid monopolist.
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by pharke 6y ago
That doesn't appear to be a defect inherent to nations since there seems to be a pretty even split between free and non-free nations[0] Rather, it seems to be a problem of bad governance, corruption, ineffective or non-existent institu
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by pharke 6y ago
I think the premise to the article is this part > High-density should of course be available to those who prefer it and it is not suggested that there is anything wrong with this style of living but there are good reasons why it should n
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by pharke 6y ago
Perhaps not if it were a single, directed pulse. It's hard to detect one off events that happen at unpredictable times.
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by pharke 6y ago
If you read the first link you gave you'll find several instances explaining that while dialects from nearby locales are understandable, ones from further away eventually become unintelligible. Nation states emerged after the improveme
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by pharke 6y ago
I think that may be verifiably false. If I speak French with a heavy English accent (as in pronounce the words as I would in English, not with what is commonly thought of as an "accent from England") any native French speaker will
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by pharke 6y ago
To your point about the difficulty of finding a good coach to train enunciation, you should look for a parallel track. A trite example is the scene from Pumping Iron where Schwarzenegger takes ballet classes to help improve his posing. You
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by pharke 6y ago
A simpler solution is to stock your shelves from back to front so the oldest items are always the first you grab. Don't buy things that you don't eat on a regular basis because: a) they'll sit in the back of the pantry and ex
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by pharke 6y ago
A simple way to do this is to just shut off the main breaker in your fuse box, instant power outage. Leave it off for whatever amount of time you want to practice for. Same thing goes for the main water shut off. You could leave those two o
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by pharke 6y ago
You only have to debug the code if you're going to keep it. I'm not going to spend days debugging a prototype made of spaghetti, it'll have served its purpose and I'll start over with optimization in mind and refine the
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by pharke 6y ago
That's counter productive when it comes to gamedev. Most of the code you write for a game is going to be thrown out at some point. Being able to get the idea onto the screen and iterate rapidly is worth a lot more than not having a dev
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by pharke 6y ago
Did the Aztecs execute criminals in similar proportion to Europeans?
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by pharke 6y ago
> it would make our overpopulation situation even worse More healthy, longer lived people doesn't just equal more mouths to feed. It means there are more productive members of society with vast troves of experience and skill, all of
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by pharke 6y ago
I don't know if the monitor is as big of an issue, a quick search on walmart.com yields their cheapest option at $69.99 for a 19". That's if you have to buy one new. I'm sure the local craigslist would have second hand T
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by pharke 6y ago
If only there were a decentralized file sharing protocol that anyone can use to distribute source code and binaries...
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by pharke 6y ago
I don't think the intent was ever to attract more immigrants. It's simply prestige for your own values and a snub for the opposition.
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by pharke 6y ago
It's more interesting to think that evolution is guided by the selective pressures that exist in the environment. That means that all of the current forms of life are finding the optimal design for their environment and interaction wit
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by pharke 6y ago
I don't think we know enough to say that for sure. If you are defining the great filter as the cause of the Fermi Paradox then it very well could be in our past. For example, the conditions or specific mutation that gave rise to multi-
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by pharke 6y ago
If increasing the number of places in the lattice where fusion can occur is the problem it would really just be a matter of experimentation with different techniques for allowing the lattice to be further saturated. The article seems to ind
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by pharke 6y ago
That sounds more like an engineering problem. As long as you can reliably produce grains or pellets of the metal with enough lattice locations to produce a net positive amount of energy then the problem becomes simply how do you move those
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by pharke 6y ago
It's both for me. It locks on to a few categories or channels and occasionally, almost randomly decides to start showing some other category or channel based entirely upon a single view. This is not the same algorithm that they've
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by pharke 6y ago
Ctrl-f also returns no results for Lent. I haven't tried for other religious fasting or abstinent holidays but I'm sure there would be 0 to few mentions. HN skews strongly towards certain industries and demographics so it's a
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by pharke 6y ago
and branding, never forget the branding.
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by pharke 6y ago
Exactly, people are having a hissy fit over exclusive content that has no further price than downloading a free store app. It's like whingeing about driving to another store to get the brand of ice cream that you like. I have no proble
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by pharke 6y ago
If they set a precedent then it is likely we will get at least a few more stores if not an abundance. That's at least some improvement. There's an off chance of a complete opening up of iOS devices but I wouldn't bet on it.
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by pharke 6y ago
The problem with a reactionary halt in some area due to a perceived sense of danger is that we often go too far. The campaign against nuclear arms also leaked out into a campaign against all things nuclear. We're only now starting to r
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by pharke 6y ago
I would look to England for answers to those questions.
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by pharke 6y ago
Let alone the billions that will benefit from the opening of Earth orbit as a new frontier of industry. Good satellite internet is the profitable usecase that will drive development of space. The article already points out that we're a
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by pharke 6y ago
We are rational creatures but we have imperfect knowledge. It's in our nature to advance through search and competition rather than attempt to preplan everything.

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