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by saulrh 11y ago
The obvious counterargument is that every ideology that tries to force theories to be accepted for aesthetic or subjective reasons is just as fundamentally anti-science. This situation is more complex than these quotes can handle. The most
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> It's very possible that it's not possible to deploy fiber profitably. So, I have an honest question about this: why is fiber so much more expensive than copper? Is it just that the boxes the ends are bigger and more expensive
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That'd be fine if this was just voice. Unfortunately , they're also failing to maintain landline internet, which is a much bigger deal. You can't do your homework on a phone. You can't download updates over a phone&#x27
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> Before the end of the first month, a weight is lifted off my shoulders. The dwarves will still gain unhappy thoughts when caught in the freakish weather, but compared to some of the procedurally generated horrors I've dealt with i
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by saulrh 11y ago
I think what he meant is that the game is usually at beta quality - which is to say, it has funky bugs sometimes but it's rare that it corrupts your saves or lights your computer on fire - so this "beta" release is actually c
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by saulrh 11y ago
Didn't know this was a medical device. Was expecting it to be classified more like a ladder or a pair of shoes. On the one hand, being a medical device means that it can be purchased with insurance money and by hospitals and so on. On
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by saulrh 11y ago
Yes, because they can't hurt you in absolute terms (as pointed out by the OP) and if you fight back you just make them stronger .
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Given the way terrorism works ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ ), "being OK with it" translates pretty directly into denying it a chance to reproduce and thereby kil
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"My words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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Yep, one of the images at the bottom shows that they're welding flat sheets of metal together by using a capacitor bank to vaporize a foil sheet to provide a plasma blast that smashes the target metals together. So, yes, more controlle
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by saulrh 11y ago
I think I'd just woken up and didn't realize that I could have insulted your argument more strongly and directly. I apologize for that. Ignore that comment in favor of "The article could have concluded more correctly by disam
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by saulrh 11y ago
I am aware. How does this affect my point? The essay here would have been just as correctly concluded by disambiguating the police statement into "A black person shot a police officer."
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The way this works is: * We take a set of axioms, just like any other mathematics. Say ZFC. * We construct an isomorphism - a bijective mapping - between states of universes and the reals. This step is honestly pretty trivial. Our laws of p
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by saulrh 11y ago
Affirming the consequent. Jumping to conclusions. Appeal to emotion. Also, there's a reason they use language like this. Namely, say they wrote the sentence you arrived at; what do you think the reaction would be? Riots, right? Violent
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If you define "pie" as a physical chunk of matter under an implied laundry list of restrictions, maaaaaaybe. If you define "pie" as real wealth , then it becomes effectively unbounded; see fractional-reserve banking for
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by saulrh 11y ago
I wasn't even defining it economically, although that's one very concrete way this mentality appears. It also appears in discussions of civil rights, in everyday social interactions, and even when people are offered sterilized gam
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by saulrh 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game When given the choice between fair-pie-on-the-floor and unfair-everybody-gets-more-pie, humans reliably choose fair-pie-on-the-floor.
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by saulrh 11y ago
I guess I should have worded it to better indicate that what I gave is a simple, obvious, and uncontroversial example of things that go into causal coupling between parental and child intelligence, but not the only or even remotely the stro
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Even "Fairness" isn't quite as useful a metric - where do you draw the line between things that should be eliminated as being unfair and things that are valuable culture and individuality? Parental intelligence is strongly ca
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Ah, yeah, meant gamma there.
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Right, forgot about that part. Thanks.
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Bananas throw out beta radiation. It's not as penetrating as alpha - attenuation depth in water on the order of centimeters rather than millimeters? - but I think a banana-equivalent dose will be pretty solidly concentrated in your dig
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Maybe there'll be a DIY exception like firearms have?
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I haven't seen a lot of "drones" that weren't being teleoperated at the level of aerodynamic controls. The ones that aren't ([1] is a good example) fly low enough that they wouldn't be visible to ATC in the fir
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by saulrh 11y ago
Oh, certainly. I just also want them registered and generally recognised as being "drones". I get really annoyed at people who scream about "future killer drones changing warfare" and "how can they possibly be safe&
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And now we hope that their definition of "drone" doesn't include traditional RC aircraft, ten-dollar indoor micro-quadcopters, paper airplanes, RC cars, model rockets, or children's balloons. Edit: oh, and that it does
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Cadmium never decays. It isn't dangerous for 10 kiloyears. It's dangerous forever . And I guarantee you that your average barrel of cadmium is worse to deal with than your average nuclear waste flask. Even more than that, a nuke
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Thanks, my bad.
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If a suspect had a gun drawn before officers were even involved, then society has failed. I don't expect us to suddenly not have violence at all. Few people are going to admit that they're part of the problem. But it's clea

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