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by science4sail 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442922
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by science4sail 2y ago
That's actually kind of brilliant - akin to putting "David Mayer" into your documents to poison them for OpenAI [0]. That said, I wonder: what's the motive here? Too many spammy applications from Chinese? Affirmative act
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Maybe the white dwarf captures a rogue planet? The planet doesn't need to be from the star's original accretion disk.
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How crazy and bureaucratic the Internet has grown! RFC #1 was basically a one-pager: https://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc?rfc=1#gsc.tab=0 RFC #371 was literally a conference advertisement: https://www.rfc-archive.o
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by science4sail 2y ago
Yeah, this sort of thing is unlikely to replace lithium batteries in EVs or portable electronics (unless you want to play with more intensely radioactive materials, which is a can of worms). The more likely use case would be for extremely l
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by science4sail 2y ago
"several years" is an understatement - given that carbon-14's half-life is ~5000 years, it's more like several Pluto years, not Earth years.
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by science4sail 2y ago
From an abstract perspective, I guess that makes sense given local cultural norms? I don't think that many Americans would appreciate someone eating horse or dog meat in public even though that is normal in other countries. On the othe
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> What's more? Have in mind that an airplane is not a restaurant. It should not even serve food. Although the food industry wants people to believe we need to eat every 3 hours, that's very far from being true. Have you travele
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by science4sail 2y ago
I must confess that I have an irrational fondness for the use of weird symbols in math and technical documents, whether it's for a homework assignment in school or a white-paper for work. My unit tests are literally full of hieroglyphi
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by science4sail 2y ago
On an ecosystem (not geological) level, one could argue that space colonization is reproduction and that spaceships are the ecosystem's spores.
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by science4sail 2y ago
What does this mean for journalists and historians then? Both are professionally obligated to expose themselves to power brokers (either in person or through textual records), many of whom are pathologically dishonest. Any serious biographe
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The All-In podcast should not be listened to as a reliable source of news, but rather as a data point providing insight into the perspectives and attitudes of Silicon Valley's leadership class. If one finds their views to be objectiona
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> Lord Harlech—or Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore—at 38 is the youngest of the hereditary peers. He said they check the power of political appointees, at least until some better system comes along. > The House of Lords actually does a g
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by science4sail 2y ago
Annoyance so that bystanders support the protesters' demands or annoyance so that bystanders act against the protesters out of spite? After all, the Westboro Baptist Church's protests don't seem to have been very effective at
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by science4sail 2y ago
The problem is that inclusive housing is expensive - if you build a inclusive space with parking or wheelchair accessibility or extra bedrooms, then you're silently excluding those who cannot afford those features. This was basically H
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by science4sail 2y ago
China itself is probably a good example of what will happen. Slang will have to continuously evolve to stay one step ahead of the censors. Dead -> unalive -> ?
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by science4sail 2y ago
From the cold blooded business perspective, MSFT is probably doing the right thing for its here. The FTC is currently looking to break up Google; the military industrial complex would have likely discouraged the FTC from this course of acti
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by science4sail 2y ago
Irreversibly, like all political concepts, is a fiction that humans choose to believe in rather than a law of physics. If social security became insolvent while the US was distracted by some other future national crisis, I'm certain th
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by science4sail 2y ago
Not necessarily. The Roman emperor Diocletian's response to labor shortages was to revoke civil rights: tie peasants to the land and make many urban jobs hereditary.
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by science4sail 2y ago
As long as they think that they're getting fixed, then that's recurring revenue! You can blame any regressions on the EM emissions of the outside world.
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by science4sail 2y ago
I wonder if it's similar to the deaf community's outcry against cochlear implants? People love their subcultures; seeing new medical technology wipe out their culture probably feels like genocide[0] to them (even if the majority p
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by science4sail 2y ago
I think that they meant the monthly mortgage payments, not the total price of the house.
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by science4sail 2y ago
> Given all this history, to me it is utterly bizarre that Trudeau cares to defend this dubious group of alleged terrorists more than maintaining diplomatic and economic ties with India Setting aside the morality of who is right or wrong
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> Is that a commonly reasonable goal for folks? Why not? Humans have been pursuing immortality for time immemorial. "The Epic of Gilgamesh", one of the first known stories, features such a pursuit.
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by science4sail 2y ago
This reminds me of a Soviet joke. An American and a Russian were discussing their two countries. The American said: "In my country, we have free speech. I can go to the White House, stand in front of the president, yell 'Down with
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by science4sail 2y ago
This reminds me of Futurama's coin operated self-termination booths. Maybe that'll be a profitable way to repurpose phone booths made obsolete by cell phones. That said, if you want to leave this world, then why not go out in styl
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by science4sail 2y ago
Maybe if you live in an Anglophone country. In East Asian countries, anime-style corporate mascots are everywhere!
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by science4sail 2y ago
I sure hope that this modern-day Habsburg isn't promoting royal incest, otherwise you end up with fine specimens like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
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I think that's a common scenario in historical fiction depicting conflicts between upright barbarians and decadent empires. The empire could easily crush the barbarians, but it's too preoccupied with internal politics and power
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I can see how this would be useful for research, but on the other hand it feels like a step towards the dystopian servitors[0] from Warhammer 40k. [0] "robots" made from criminals/clones since AI is banned

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