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by rlanday 10y ago
Nothing makes me feel like a sucker more than tipping before service is rendered, and then getting bad service!
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by rlanday 10y ago
Yes it was… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_GLONASS “The first launch took place in 1982. Until its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union launched 43 GLONASS-related satellites. Work on the system was continue
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by rlanday 10y ago
Uhh yes and where do you think they show the ads?
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by rlanday 10y ago
No, many people believe the value of money in non-linear but most of those people believe that the marginal utility of each additional dollars diminishes as your wealth increases, rather than increasing. I.e. even if you might earn more mon
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by rlanday 10y ago
The Falcon only has to solve the problem of getting the payload into orbit. The Shuttle had to both get payload into orbit and return its crew (and the Orbiter, and any return payload) safely to Earth (the Dragon capsule has to do this as w
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by rlanday 10y ago
And one of the Shuttle failures was actually on landing
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by rlanday 10y ago
Right, it’s not known. Although technically we don’t know for sure if classical computers can solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time either (that’s the P vs. NP problem).
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by rlanday 10y ago
Getting people to use less oil is easy. Tax it to make it more expensive. I don’t mean to say that that would necessarily be good policy, but it would be a hell of a lot more effective than just giving a speech.
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by rlanday 11y ago
Possible but far from certain.
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by rlanday 11y ago
So they lost something on the order of $10 million (if my math is right) and waited a year and a half before telling anyone? This is some Mt. Gox-level sleaze.
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by rlanday 11y ago
Most medicine doesn’t happen on an emergency basis. E.g. if you’re diagnosed with cancer, or find out you should get a heart bypass, you have time to shop around for doctors.
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by rlanday 12y ago
x86-64 programs run faster regardless of how much memory they use because they get access to more registers. There’s also the issue that loading a 32-bit application when everything else running is 64-bit requires loading 32-bit versions of
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by rlanday 12y ago
There’s already an evil version of Tetris called Bastet (“bastard Tetris”).
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by rlanday 12y ago
Yeah, and we can replace capitalism with a more efficient centrally-planned economy. In theory.
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by rlanday 12y ago
All property rights are artificial. Intellectual property rights make us richer by encouraging people to develop intellectual property, just as physical property rights make us richer by allowing us to own and control the use of physical po
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by rlanday 12y ago
Marketing is solely about tricking people into buying things? What about informing people of goods and services they might want but didn’t know about?
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by rlanday 12y ago
Monkeys are much more similar to humans, and presumably much more able to experience suffering, than bacteria are. People like to draw an arbitrary line between humans and other animals, and there are good reasons for that in a lot of cases
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by rlanday 12y ago
I had the same thought: you can always shoot digital and make a film transfer; unless, of course, the only company making movie film goes under…
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by rlanday 12y ago
Logically, preventing carnivores from eating other animals would have a similar effect on animal suffering as humans not eating other animals. This is not a valid argument against vegetarianism unless you think we should do things just beca
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by rlanday 12y ago
He’s not saying it should be done on human beings, he’s arguing it’s also wrong to do it on monkeys for the same reason it’s wrong to do on humans. You, and many other people, are making an argument that I find at least somewhat uncomfortab
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by rlanday 12y ago
Isn’t that the basic justification for why we treat humans much differently than other animals? I think this is because we each know we’re capable of suffering and assume other humans are as well, and in the lack of other evidence, assume t
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by rlanday 12y ago
Why does it matter if something happens in nature? Do you think animals don’t suffer in the process of being killed by other animals? I’m not necessarily saying that we should all be vegetarians (what if we raise and slaughter animals so th
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by rlanday 12y ago
The fact that Ph.D. holders have the lowest unemployment rate is not at all surprising, given that these people have all undergone extensive selection to be smart and hard-working. This would still be the case even if holding a Ph.D. were c
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by rlanday 12y ago
Children seem to always figure out the details eventually, whereas many second language learners seem to miss out on some details unless explicitly corrected, and even then find it hard to change established speaking habits. I’m not sure an
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by rlanday 12y ago
Remember when the US government kept talking about the dangers of another country writing something like Stuxnet before it came out that they were behind it?
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by rlanday 12y ago
You are confusing “energy use” with “electricity use.” Things like natural gas heating (especially if you live somewhere with really cold winters), gasoline for ground transportation, and jet fuel for air travel, as well as all the differen
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by rlanday 12y ago
There’s a non-sequiter in that statement: the authors jump directly from “the sun emits an enormous amount of energy” to “it is feasible to capture and store several orders of magnitude more electricity than is currently consumed by human c
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by rlanday 12y ago
It might be the case that the techniques, etc. being taught to failing students were already known to the not-failing ones, so in that case, there would be diminishing returns to having the students who were already doing better do the same
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by rlanday 12y ago
Do you not think the SAT/ACT work well for measuring aptitude? Quite a bit of research has gone into these tests, although the organizations behind these tests are not very forthcoming about what they measure (for example, the FAQ on t

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