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by rjf72 8y ago
While I do not necessarily agree with the article, I think it provides a reasonably solid argument explaining why your reaction is not necessarily as obvious as it might seem. The big deal about privacy is that it's not immediately obv
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I'll give you a choice. You can either give yourself a million dollars or give everybody in this world five dollars. We'll also say that the $5 will not cause inflation, so it is $5 'real' dollars. Your answer to this qu
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Space is like programming in that mistakes don't tend to be glorious, but just simple and mundane. The most famous example of this is almost certainly the Mars Climate Orbiter. [2] This probe was successfully launched and made it all t
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by rjf72 8y ago
It gets even better than that. They also have audio. Seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jZDW53U8qQ A chronology of that audio is: --------- 00:33 - Landing 00:41 - Camera lens cap being ejected off 01:00 - 02:09 -
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I can definitely understand this point of view, but there's also another way of looking at things. Nobody in a million years would have ever wished for something like the Black Death. It was a catastrophe like none before (at least tha
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I think there are two big issues there. The first is softball and obvious. Things can work on a small scale and collapse on a large scale. We started with around 30,000 citizens per congressional district (and thus per representative). And
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Look at our own history as a species. We seem to have expanded outward from equatorial regions that were lush, warm, and filled with wildlife. Nearly every need we had could be met with minimal effort. And we rapidly moved outward into area
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I'd be hesitant to attribute any sort of hypothetical causes, but it's fun to also consider such scenarios when thinking just one rock a bit further out. Mars was at one time a warm, watery planet not dissimilar to Earth. It'
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I think it's somewhat interesting to consider this issue while thinking about the history of medical developments. Many things we now take for granted are the result of extremely unethical scientific work that often involved literal to
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There's something that I think is relatively simple - design experiments not to try to prove your hypothesis, but to disprove it. I'm not talking about hypothesis vs null hypothesis here, but the experimental design itself from wh
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Just last week even the NYT [1] acknowledged a Russian false flag used for political purposes. In Roy Moore's election his opponent funded a campaign that did things such as create thousands of fake 'Russian linked' social me
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600mg is not a large dose. Ibuprofen over the counter recommends 400mg (two tablets) every 4-6 hours with up to 6 tablets (1200mg) per day.
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There's a great paradox with weapons. Imagine a world where somehow we agreed to stop development of any and all things that could be even somewhat effectively used as weapons, all the way down to the butter knife. The problem you&#x27
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think the most dangerous thing to do is to rewrite history to appeal to a point of view that it does not substantiate. The Nazi party was officially formed in 1920 and it was still an extremely fringe group. It was a renaming of the Germa
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The danger in this point of view is that if not held to an extremely strict interpretation and substantial burden of evidence, this is indeed precisely how you end up getting eradications. The greatest irony though is that so often the peop
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Trafficking or major dealing in drugs can get the death penalty. But small scale use is often little more than a "fine". One major exception is yaba. It's a sort of metamphetamine that's associated with unpredictable beh
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by rjf72 8y ago
One of the best examples of this problem is something entirely outside of software. Coke and Pepsi. It's well known that people prefer Pepsi to Coke in blind taste tests by a very wide margin. Yet in the market Coke outsells Pepsi by a
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You have to think about how people respond to things. Social media in its current state has basically turned into a system that takes an event, removes all context, spins it in the most negative way imaginable, and then dogpiles on it to no
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I see no reason to think this has anything to do with the US. For instance Steam recently decided to allow openly sexualized games. The relevance there being that they've absolutely made sure that they're not going to run into leg
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You're alluding primarily to AAA games that target consoles. Nothing wrong with these games, but they are generally built to target the widest possible demographic and so you're going to get some typical patterns: action + simpl
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Why do you think changes would be as likely to cause good as to cause harm? In complex, yet structured, systems - I think changes without fully understanding what you're doing are vastly more likely to cause harm than good. Software is
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There are a lot of crimes that have no direct victim or 'offender' at all - drugs, prostitution, etc. And these crimes are actively prosecuted. I'd fully agree with you in cases like this that the enforcement is a complete wa
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If you haven't seen the exact video he's referencing it's here [1]. It certainly was nothing like just "fuzzy phone video". He had 360 degree video with fine detail clearly showing the thieves' faces up close,
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I would agree with you in general but this is probably not the best example of it. Sergey Brin and Larry Page own a majority of the voting shares at Google. So even though it's technically a public company, it's still for all inte
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Traditionally I think it's fair to describe the classes in terms of their future which I'll just describe as 'economic planning.' - Lower class: No economic planning and living hand to mouth. Nearly all of what they earn
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There's one correlation I find really interesting here. The time frame where physics started to "dry up" as the article puts it, corresponds extremely strongly with the transition away from a strong connection between experim