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With Entangled Particles, Can You Tell When/How the Other Particle Is Measuree?(askamathematician.com)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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New federal rules blamed in disappearance of Kindle erotica titles(techcrunch.com)
6 points by portofcall 9y ago|1 comments
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Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter(torrentfreak.com)
202 points by portofcall 9y ago|111 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
You’re the fourth person on a tech site, out of five who commented, who didn’t even know it existed. That’s pretty telling.
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by portofcall 9y ago
It’s also always worth thinking about the health impact of eating a lot of restaurant/fast/chain food simply from a nutritional perspective. If you’re eating a double quarter pounder with cheese, fries and a soda, the actual food
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Need to make a molecule? Ask this AI for instructions(nature.com)
3 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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Battery Breakthrough Could Lead to Lighter EVs with Longer Ranges(thedrive.com)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
No, but neither does the EM force, it all just asymptotically approaches zero. Don’t let that fool you though, in that it really approaches zero to a high degree.
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by portofcall 9y ago
In a vacuum, at infinity.
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by portofcall 9y ago
Betteridge’s law strikes again! No, you shouldn’t trust Facebook for anything.
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Neighbor, a p2p self-storage marketplace, bags $2.5M seed(techcrunch.com)
2 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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Uber Scales Back Number of Sensors on Self Driving Cars(theverge.com)
3 points by portofcall 9y ago|2 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
The difference in Silicon Valley is that the shipments go out and there’s nobody checking. It’s a big fucking difference too.
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by portofcall 9y ago
This is what you get with no oversight, tons of money, s lot of arrogance, and a focus on “hustle” over anything else. It definitely works for a while, but when it comes crashing down it’s going to take out a lot of innocent players with it
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by portofcall 9y ago
More like shades of black.
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by portofcall 9y ago
all of the following points are perfectly clear: Uber is guilty of killing Elaine Herzberg. Uber's hardware and/or software failed. Many people at Uber need to be fired. The Arizona officials who greenlit testing need to resign.
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by portofcall 9y ago
It’s just experience in dealing with people online. I apply the same filter to “cuck,” “Overton window” and “Hegelian dialectic” for example. Offline it’s much easier to ascertain intentions and attitudes, and there aren’t millions of peopl
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by portofcall 9y ago
Please don't feign surprise that facebook has been collecting your data. Everyone knew, but expected some level of privacy and security with the platform. That's what was breached here. I’ve never had an account with them, but t
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by portofcall 9y ago
3. Don’t apologize if it’s obvious that you’re being incredibly insincere, unless you’re a great actor. People can smell that kind of non-apology a mile off, and they’ll hate you for it, and distrust any apology that comes later. 4. Don’t m
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by portofcall 9y ago
The single greatest risk factor for someone committing suicide is a first-order relative who committed suicide. Everything in life isn’t as obvious as crashing a car into someone, but the harm of suicide extends far beyond the victim.
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by portofcall 9y ago
One: They’re sneaking suicide in with the data, and then obfuscating that inclusion with rhetoric. Alternative hypothesis: they’re including suicide data because it’s relevent. Suicide is homicide (not murder), and they’re including the c
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by portofcall 9y ago
This is definitely the right attitude, and I’d add the critical step of talking about these issues with people who don’t know about them. It’s frustrating, it can be alienating and it definitely takes time, but it can pay off. Nothing beats
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by portofcall 9y ago
People are not evenly distributed on the surface of the earth, most of which is ocean. Nukes do. It target randomly, they target population centers and strategically valuable regions. Most people live where nukes are aimed, which is why the
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When Scientists Perform Experiments on Themselves(daily.jstor.org)
4 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
Unless you’re offering a similarly objectionable issue with current ethical standards, you’re playing word games instead of a real argument. Which is obnoxious.
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by portofcall 9y ago
Of course there’s going back, and the history of progress is rebuilding, growth, advancement, entrenchment, stagnation and collapse. In the past that involved people with swords and spears or muskets, today it involves CBRN weapons. We can
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by portofcall 9y ago
Not at all, but that’s definitely a cheap and easy shortcut to giving ourselves license to sink to the lowest common denominator. Don’t sell everyone short based on the actions and attitudes of the loudest.
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by portofcall 9y ago
The Bar in every state, the AMA, the APA, and many other bodies enforce ethical standards.
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by portofcall 9y ago
I agree, if we had the viable and affordable tech to do this, it would be low environmental impact. When you consider the impact of large scale ocean desalination, it would be a clear green choice.
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Drones Aren’t F*&king Magic, People(taskandpurpose.com)
2 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments

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