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by sevenless 10y ago
Nothing has changed yet. In what way are Leave voters able to say "I told you so"? I very much doubt the UK will exist in 10 years. It will fall, and Scotland will be free again :-)
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by sevenless 10y ago
If the EU really wanted to hurt the UK they'd declare the following things, in increasing order of nastiness: 1. Britain can swap immigrants for retirees. The residency rights of all Britons in Europe are contingent on residency righ
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by sevenless 10y ago
There's a few thousand years of Mediterranean cargo and shipping distributed over the seabed. And I'm sure Atlantis is down there somewhere...
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by sevenless 10y ago
But the archaeology would be fantastic .
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by sevenless 10y ago
How do you learn quantum field theory? I took a tiny amount of QM in school - basically, solving the Schrodinger equation for a few simple systems. What's the next step?
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by sevenless 10y ago
Also an opinion held by many conservatives. But what else could they say - would anyone air an openly pro-Trump cartoon show on US TV? I don't dislike the show because it's conservative - King of the Hill is an example of a good
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by sevenless 10y ago
I don't like the show - it's devolved into lazy one-sided caricaturing of 'progressive' causes - but the Make Love Not Warcraft episode still holds up as one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Automation and IT in the US has little to do with free markets and a whole lot to do with enormous government expenditure, often war related. The internet is the obvious one. But if you go to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, yo
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by sevenless 10y ago
It's not like those are the only alternatives. We should try communism with modern IT infrastructure and AI. The big problem with many command economies was the inability to collect and act on the data. Call it a "just-in-time com
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by sevenless 10y ago
It doesn't really though. You have no choice on whether to participate in the market economy, and forming labor unions is restricted. Compared to other developed countries, work hours are long, minimum wage low and holidays short. If y
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by sevenless 10y ago
Most countries founded on invasion and genocide don't want to think about the victims, or acknowledge they had a 'real' civilization. Especially when their nationalism and Constitution-worship glorifies the genociders.
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by sevenless 10y ago
How about a small drone, with a camera, that follows you around at all times? That would be perfect.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Companies that do this should stop saying 'employees' and use 'meat robots'.
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by sevenless 10y ago
One of the great things about programming a computer to do something is that it forces you to expose and make explicit every hidden assumption. "Computers are very stupid: they only do exactly what you tell them to do." With biase
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by sevenless 10y ago
If you look at a plot of human population in the last century, it's similar to log-phase bacterial growth. We've had uncontrolled proliferation based on non-renewable resources - especially the capacity of the biosphere to deal wi
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by sevenless 10y ago
What exactly are western values , other than a not-so-subtle way of asserting hostility to Muslims? The people who go on about the importance of opposing immigration in the name of maintaining liberal and tolerant values (a code word for &
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by sevenless 10y ago
Would it be better if they were dead? It's hard to take these kinds of rationalizations seriously. Simply, most people in our society find this sort of pornography revolting, and the law, which reflects public outrage, has banned it. W
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by sevenless 10y ago
The key advantage of silicon, as I understand it, is that we can mass produce ICs on wafers via light-directed etching and epitaxy. I don't know of an equivalent process for carbon that's been proposed yet.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Violence isn't inherently wrong. Nonviolence is less important than ending injustice and continuing to innovate, such as building megaprojects, forming new states or restructuring existing political systems. Those who say otherwise are
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by sevenless 10y ago
The way I've heard this explained, fuel is 3% of the mass of a modern car, 45% of the mass of a passenger jet, and 90% of the mass of a rocket. That means the structural engineering margins of safety for a rocket are much smaller, as t
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by sevenless 10y ago
You not cheating will not lead to the powerful being less corrupt. It will actually reward them for being corrupt. In a prisoners' dilemma, they are constantly defecting without cost, and you are refusing to defect on principle. That m
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by sevenless 10y ago
We're ruled by politicians, bankers and corporations who lie, cheat, bribe, tax-dodge, and break the law with impunity. Why shouldn't the rest of us?
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by sevenless 10y ago
What about the reverse scenario, though? Should someone who watches videos about refugee suffering be given anti-refugee video recommendations, lest they be dragged into a 'left wing ideology'? I don't see how that would be a
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by sevenless 10y ago
I don't see how those links back up that assertion. The second one gives a more detailed explanation of the mechanism I outlined. If you're saying the market always checks excessive leverage by pricing risk fairly, we saw how well
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by sevenless 10y ago
It has a lot to do with it. If you deposit X to the bank, and the reserve requirement is R (say R=0.1), then the bank can loan out X(1-R) to someone else, who can deposit that money. Then on the basis of that deposit, they can loan out X(
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by sevenless 10y ago
It's also possible that cyclists can adapt to sharing roads with robots. Perhaps by RFID-tagging their bikes, or wearing something LIDAR-visible. At least the autonomous vehicles aren't deliberately hostile, and conflicts betwee
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by sevenless 10y ago
I've read that bicycles might be even more challenging for autonomous vehicles than other human drivers.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Most money is created by commercial banks through fractional-reserve lending though.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Nice! Lucky the annotations aren't accurate, I wouldn't like to have 68mph plate tectonics... :) Interesting that there seem to be the plate tectonic versions of cyclones, like off Baja California. Also, is the absence of data at
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by sevenless 10y ago
Presumably they could've also gone back to a gold and silver standard. (This would be a terrible idea for other reasons, but it wouldn't inflate, right?)

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