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by saulrh 11y ago
I know that reducing violence is a big, complicated problem. Not increasing violence is also hard. I'm just annoyed by this particular conversational gambit: I suspect that, when you say things like "the police are going to kill
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by saulrh 11y ago
Let me plagiarize a reddit comment here: America's LEOs may kill way people per capita, but our LEOs also get killed by people way more per capita. Even the most unhelpful lists of killings by police officers have an overwhelmingly c
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by saulrh 11y ago
"Thou shalt not do anything that could cause a huge fire". "Thou shalt not build buildings that could fall down in an earthquake". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_safety#List_of_some_typic... ht
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by saulrh 11y ago
There are people who can't be vaccinated, and instead depend on everybody near them being vaccinated so the disease can't spread to them, so leaving yourself unvaccinated is not a risk only to yourself. I, for example, have a fa
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by saulrh 11y ago
How about "Thou shalt not spread deadly diseases by leaving yourself unvaccinated", by analogy to "Thou shalt not spread deadly diseases by selling tained food" or "Thou shalt not spread deadly diseases by leaving y
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by saulrh 11y ago
I'm not surprised by this. I have TMJ and tinnitus, and the tinnitus gets worse when I bite down.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Proposal: Steganographic encoding of unique manufacturing ID using intentional, patterned "manufacturing defects"?
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by saulrh 11y ago
It'd be valuable for you to complain to Amazon when that happens. They probably can't get feedback on a service like this except through complaints like that.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Some of those cheap USB foot pedal switches have a disturbingly custom software architecture. When I bought one off Amazon, it turned out to not even be HID - it needed special drivers and everything. Even the ones that are HID-compliant us
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by saulrh 11y ago
But has its significant limitations, notably that it takes a colossal machine and days to weeks to design, optimize, and machine a mold. Injection molding works great if you want to get to Pluto, but it'll cost you two years, a partn
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by saulrh 11y ago
Quantitative improvement, not qualitative. They don't need to separate the resin from the base plate after every layer, which means vastly improved speed and precision and much less complexity. It's the difference between a car th
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by saulrh 11y ago
Yep. For me, the alternative to music is an open office. And I sit right on the edge of the dev area, next to a major thoroughfare. In an office with hardwood floors. I bought a pair of really nice insulating headphones and I still hear thi
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by saulrh 11y ago
Keep a suitable private key for signing firmware in the car, locked in a secure box that can only be unlocked with two copies of the car's ignition keys? I'd call that sufficient security, but it'd also clearly allow me to ge
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by saulrh 11y ago
I agree. I'm just pointing out that, since we're talking about unproven speculation, any statement that fits "Chernobyl killed >3e4 people" is also not statistics.
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by saulrh 11y ago
> Otherwise, all of these counter arguments could be interpreted as saying "Coal kills 1 million, so what if nuclear only kills 100k every once and a while". Well, yes. We are, unfortunately, stuck in a pretty awful region of t
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by saulrh 11y ago
Now this is interesting. The really good power sources really cant be achieved unless you already have a bunch of power. Nuclear, for example, absolutely requires purification industry, which both directly requires energy and indirectly req
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by saulrh 11y ago
And what he said above is also true of fossil fuel industry facilities operating normally. He doesn't consider pollution due to spills, oil well fires, or refinery explosions. If wells or refineries failed at the rate you're imply
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by saulrh 11y ago
OK, then, let's go tease out every iota of causality we possibly can from the statistics for various energy technologies. Let's start at the top. Hmm. "Global climate change resulting primarily from fossil fuel use has alread
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by saulrh 11y ago
Then you need to do more research. Fukushima was not part of the modern nuclear industry. Its technology and hardware and culture were fifty years old, every single part of them. If you go back fifty years in literally any other major techn
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by saulrh 11y ago
It's not a war. It's evolution. Nature, red in tooth and claw . Ideas live in you, and they die in you, and they evolve. Reproduction: ideas spread, through words, deeds, and creations. Variation: communication inherently introdu
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by saulrh 11y ago
Yep, I've had that. Sitting in a hospital bed after my appendectomy: "Hey, I'm awake! That was easy." "You've been awake for two hours." "...Oh. Huh."
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by saulrh 11y ago
Yep. I'm actually thinking that it'd end up less about drugs and more about high-power prostheses. Bottles of oxygen, tweaked pacemakers, artificial muscles, full-blown new limbs, that kind of thing. It'd rapidly become all a
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by saulrh 11y ago
There's a slight difference between "pro-developer" and "pro-company-that-develops-things". Microsoft has always provided excellent corporate support. If you have an issue and you're paying lots of money, Micro
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by saulrh 11y ago
It's not surprising, but it is disturbing. Because this result holds independent of the content being communicated. A good presentation doesn't just affect your evaluation of opinions, ethical arguments, or he-said-she-said judgem
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by saulrh 12y ago
Not true - sometimes a dumb question exposes confusion which when corrected reveals a smarter answer. Same reason testing works: if you're worried that your implementation (understanding) is wrong, put in malformed data (ask a dumb que
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by saulrh 12y ago
I can very easily believe that pesticides exist which are completely neutral to humans. I eat chocolate and garlic perfectly fine, but my pets certainly wouldn't enjoy them. Worst-case they're like acetaminophen and require liver
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by saulrh 12y ago
Disagree; we've had the tech for a while to keep coma and locked-in patients healthy (or healthy modulo extremely sedentary lifestyles). Same thing with cat food and dog food. Soylent is a trivial extension.
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by saulrh 12y ago
> your amazingly efficient human body will process it and you'll continue chugging along Yep! You know how you occasionally read some science-fiction story that spends a paragraph rhapsodizing about some monstrosity that evolved on
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by saulrh 12y ago
> the Soylent project's based on a very flawed assumption, that you can isolate the number of nutrients necessary for sustenance. Sorry, we certainly can. Ask anybody who's been in a coma for a while. We've had that techno
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by saulrh 12y ago
Aligns reasonably well with my (short) experience. I got a bag from a friend and ate a jar of Soylent every morning for breakfast for about a week. It was in fact pretty great: I'd pour out N calories, where N was how much I figured I&

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