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by robonerd 5y ago
The only "individual responsibility" we need in this context is holding tobacco executives personally responsible for millions of murders. Throw them all into the deepest dungeons and never let them see the light of day again.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Evidently the only reason menthol cigarettes aren't banned already like the rest of flavored cigarettes is because they predominantly kill black people. What an absolutely disgusting state of affairs. Seriously, what the fuck?
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by robonerd 5y ago
Plate tectonics is a fairly recent 20th century theory; I believe Australia's classification as a continent predates it. I think it might be considered a continent because people were looking for a continent. Since Roman times, there
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by robonerd 5y ago
For some people, getting funding is the only real goal.
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by robonerd 5y ago
> https://youtu.be/YM7QYx-LPSA That link is to a panel Rob Pike participated in at the same conference. I'm not sure if he makes similar remarks during that panel, but that "fairly young, fresh out of school&
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by robonerd 5y ago
There are two parts of my comment. The first part paraphrases what Rob Pike said about the purpose of Golang, in his presentation at Lang NEXT 2014: > "The key point here is that our programmers are Googlers, they're not rese
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by robonerd 5y ago
> However, the fanbase usually acts as a cult pretending that issues are features. Per Rob Pike (Lang NEXT 2014), golang was created for fairly young programmers that are fresh out of school and don't know many other languages. So
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by robonerd 5y ago
Sure, they just want to govern 'misinformation' but surely they don't mean to censor anything. Sure... Why would you even dream of giving the DHS the benefit of the doubt?
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by robonerd 5y ago
Apple customer support sucks. I had a macbook air with a dead battery under warranty that I wanted to get replaced. It took a month of discussions with their customer support before the Apple Store (University Village) actually got the da
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by robonerd 5y ago
> For example, the army, FEMA, etc. will ship in nurses Might ship in more nurses, and until they do, the beds that can't be staffed don't count towards capacity. > 50% occupancy Having the capacity to staff those beds i
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by robonerd 5y ago
> I am not a crypto-maxi but I do believe there is a grain of truth to the supposition that inflationary economies produce vast waste as we spend ourselves away on empty desires that make us sick. I'm no ecofascist, but this seems
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by robonerd 5y ago
If a hospital has 200 beds but only enough nurses to staff 100 of them, they have "100 beds".
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by robonerd 5y ago
> Capacity is the problem Capacity is generally limited by staffing, not space or actual beds. When hospitals report how many "beds" they have available, they're generally not talking about the furniture.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Well I'm genuinely curious about this so I continued to do more reading. I figured maybe economic prosperity is not the same as being happy, but alas, the CAR is very near the bottom of the UN's World Happiness Report; 149 out of
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by robonerd 5y ago
Besides the matter of heat pumps which others have covered, there is also the matter of how good your heating system is at getting heat to where you actually need it. A PC under your desk will keep your toes warm, and maybe with warm toes y
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by robonerd 5y ago
So the best you can say about the CAR is their ethnic diversity is not fundamentally incompatible with prosperity, but nevertheless the problem of prosperity in the CAR is nearly intractable? That's grim.
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by robonerd 5y ago
> they are incredibly ethnically rich with ~80+ ethnicities and languages. Okay, that's something at least. What are the economic, political and civil implications of this?
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by robonerd 5y ago
> What 'spying' are you worried about with your meter? What can it report, other than your power usage, that the power company would know anyway? Traditional electro-mechanical meters keep a running sum of power used, but can
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by robonerd 5y ago
> The meter has an encapsulated (notoriously shitty) photo diode. You need to flash a code with a flashlight to it! Only then will it display the power figures for the last week on the LCD display. Madness. That's simultaneously t
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by robonerd 5y ago
No, I admit I've never powercycled a fridge nor ever seen a reason to. Can you explain the mechanism by which a fridge unplugged then replugged a minute later sounds like a diesel truck? The compressor pumps aren't continuous dut
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by robonerd 5y ago
> the fridge is still functioning and performing work. It is sensing temperature and pressure and time I believe most fridges use bimetallic thermostats to control a relay to power the pump. And they don't sense pressure or keep
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by robonerd 5y ago
I can't help but notice you haven't volunteered anything good to say about the country either. I went looking and there isn't much to find, on wikipedia anyway. They have some substantial mineral resources, but diamonds are
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by robonerd 5y ago
Less than 1% of the people there even have a bank account.
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by robonerd 5y ago
As I said, I agree with most of what Krauss said. I object mainly to his assertion that empirical knowledge is the only kind of knowledge. Whether you restrict the scope of consideration to physical phenomena or not, he's going too f
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by robonerd 5y ago
> > Some of it, yes. Some of it seems to be encoded in our genes. > How do you arrive at that conclusion? Instinctual behaviors are simple to empirically observe. It's easy to demonstrate an instinctual fear of snakes in
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by robonerd 5y ago
All of human interaction and artistic expression exists in the 'real world', I think using that term to exclude everything other than simple physical phenomena is misguided at best. > nor is he saying that in the absence of em
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by robonerd 5y ago
Science classes should be reserved for teaching scientific things. I think you, I and Krauss would all agree on that much. I wish it were uncontroversial, but evidently it isn't. However Krauss seems to goes further. If knowledge i
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by robonerd 5y ago
> Are you saying we are born with that knowledge? Some of it, yes. Some of it seems to be encoded in our genes. It may also be culturally acquired. Furthermore, there exists a priori knowledge, without which you can throw away most
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by robonerd 5y ago
> Knowledge based on experience and trial-and-error is still empirical--i.e. based on "sense experience." [...] Artists paint stuff and then observe how people react to it. Artists do this, that is true. But they don't
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by robonerd 5y ago
Oral history of Mount Mazama in Oregon recounts an eruption that happened 7700 years ago. Don't be so quick to discount oral history.

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