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by shadofx 5y ago
It means that the US had a responsibility to prevent anyone else from landing on Mars, and has failed in that. Should have used NORAD to intercept the Chinese rocket while it goes up, I suppose? That's what you get for sleeping on the
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by shadofx 5y ago
Small studio MMORPGs focused on PvE don't exist because they can't compete with WoW and FFXIV on content generation, small studios don't have hundreds of artists, quest designers, and programmers needed to churn out enough co
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by shadofx 5y ago
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Isreal. The US reliably puts its money in places that are under threat. That's not something a profit - driven free market would normally do. It is US setting the geopolitical stage.
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by shadofx 5y ago
>It doesn't matter much when the engines involved are BSD license vs GPL Without a competing engine, Google is free to cease development on Chromium and start a new private fork, and autoupdate all Chrome browsers to that new fork.
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by shadofx 5y ago
Carbon is capable of fusion, in a sufficiently compressed stellar mass. Everything up to Iron-56 can theoretically sustain fusion.
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by shadofx 6y ago
You concur that there may be a case for "Asians" being fetishized. So Gizmodo has a totally valid case for mentioning Asians in the title, by your own admission? Plus the title is factually true. What was your complaint about in t
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by shadofx 6y ago
>The money that had been spent on that RAIDed NVMe storage, could have been much-better spent on just adding more RAM to the system. It is organizationally costly to upgrade the human brain to increase RAM. Much cheaper to increase HDD s
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by shadofx 7y ago
Yang specifically addressed it in allowing people to choose one or the other.
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by shadofx 7y ago
Nobody claimed that China is the only one to steal. Brits stole tea trees from China. Americans stole textile manufacturing from Brits. Perhaps if those Yankees could have pointed at the Brits stealing tea trees, then the Brits would have b
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by shadofx 7y ago
Ancient China had foot-binding. Perhaps in the future we'll have finger-binding, where teens wrap bandages around their fingertips so they'll still be able to manipulate small electronics in their later years?
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by shadofx 7y ago
Taiwan and South Korea were both bloody, autocratic military regimes. Many nations have walked the bridge to hell and back, but the cultural revolution meant that China burned the bridge after crossing it.
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by shadofx 7y ago
Historical observations of the logarithmic expansion of one's descendant-set are based off historical procreation rates. If your ideology is to have one child, and all your descendants adopt that ideology too, then you won't exper
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by shadofx 7y ago
Ideologies aren't genetic traits though. Ever-increasing numbers of atheists in America signal that those Conservative Christians aren't all giving birth to Conservative Christians.
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by shadofx 7y ago
>It's also the case that the James Damore memo suggests the opposite problem the author complains about -- diversity policies which are too progressive. I'm not suggesting Damore is correct, and the author is incorrect, but ins
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by shadofx 7y ago
The trick is to never have more than one human per ship. We would "wear" our space vehicles like an extension of our bodies, in the same way we consider clothing today.
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by shadofx 7y ago
Best-case scenario if you want to consolidate power: Dirty westerners blew up our IT industry to maintain dominance!
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by shadofx 7y ago
>When you treat the police like your enemy, how do you expect them to rush to your help the moment you need it? And seeing that the protesters were more than capable of violence themselves, why would the police rush to help? Because you
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by shadofx 7y ago
Those aren't recent enough to be comparable. Better examples would be Puerto Rico or Guam.
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by shadofx 7y ago
>just die altogether Sounds good. I preferred when websites existed as a result of a person's individual passion on a particular topic, not the network of fake news clickbait vying for attention that we have now.
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by shadofx 7y ago
Next step is to gauge the amount of blood underneath the fingernail to tell the amount of pressure being applied.
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by shadofx 7y ago
Maybe there's a part of the body that stops exchanging carbon with the lungs after a certain point? Like maybe the teeth or the corneas.
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by shadofx 7y ago
I remember using Opera coupled with a Java program which repeatedly took screenshots to create rudimentary online streaming. This was back before Twitch.tv, when web streaming was low-quality. The screenshot stream allowed me to clearly rea
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by shadofx 7y ago
The fear is understandable, but then they should understand why the US is reciprocating on limiting markets, right?
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by shadofx 7y ago
Painful experiences that are the direct result of believing fake news simply gets misattributed to something totally irrelevant after consuming more fake news. People don't like admitting that they're gullible.
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by shadofx 7y ago
Pale Moon exists if you want the old school Firefox add-in capabilities
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by shadofx 7y ago
What would you do if your needed websites start blocking Firefox?
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by shadofx 7y ago
Uses Blink and therefore dependent on Google for security updates.
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by shadofx 7y ago
Step 0 in enlightened crisis management: don't be perceived as corrupt and greedy Which they've mostly already failed, so that strategy is a wash
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by shadofx 8y ago
Probably still worse with an authoritarian government manipulating the news. It did not take long after the Huawei arrest scandal for brand new TV channels focused on Canadian news to pop up from nowhere.
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by shadofx 8y ago
It's easy to achieve such "freedoms" in a small ethnostate. Not so easy to do in the racially, economically diverse US.

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