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by topmonk 8y ago
The Bible makes no mention of humans living on other planets. Mars is also named after a Greek god. It would be a good bet you'd be out of His jurisdiction.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Alien invasion. Gray goo. The Book of Revelations.
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by topmonk 8y ago
How is that any different from using SSL? In both cases, someone you trust is giving you code to execute, unseen.
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by topmonk 8y ago
> He put tarrifs on Canadian steel ffs Doesn't Canada put tariffs on the USA? Aren't they also “fucking up relations” with us as well?
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by topmonk 8y ago
They actually aren't very tough unless they are prodded into going into a sort of hibernation called cryptobiosis. If the temperature changes too quickly, they die quite easily. https://venturebeat.com/2017/02&#x2F
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by topmonk 8y ago
This may be a little out of the box, but have you considered teaching English? As long as you have a college degree (in any field) and are a native speaker, you could work as an English teacher in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. pretty eas
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by topmonk 8y ago
It's definitely a lot easier. To argue that an idea is flawed, you only need to find one possible reason it wouldn't work. If you are correct, you are cheered for it. To argue an idea will succeed, you need to know and understand
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by topmonk 8y ago
Mine some alt-coin such as ETC and then exchange it for BTC using shapeshift or changelly.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Mine it
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by topmonk 8y ago
If my Lemma 1 is wrong, then the solution proposed by the article is also incorrect, because it also assumes this.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Or even another way. Let's say instead of seeing statues, each prisoner was given a piece of paper that had an integer on it (ranging from -infinity to +infinity) and on your paper was written 12. Would the problem be unsolvable? If so
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by topmonk 8y ago
Say there was 1 million statues or 1 million + 2 statues, and you saw 456,892. Would it really be clear to her that you would pass 200,000+ times, even though you both know that you each had over 400,000 statues, respectively? The answer gi
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by topmonk 8y ago
I think that, yes, on her turn, she did know that I knew that she knew that I could not see 20. Postulate 1: Total number of statues are 18 or 20 Lemma 1, she knows that I can either see 10 or 12 statues. Proof: She saw 8 statues
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by topmonk 8y ago
If you were given steroids, you'd know you were doped up with something strong. It affects you mentally as well as physically.
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by topmonk 8y ago
The following is conjecture, but I'm guessing that insects of the last century mainly survived off of crops from farmland, either directly or indirectly. So, if true, that means that it was hardly natural beforehand either. It may be w
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by topmonk 8y ago
They can also refuse any transaction, so they could prevent stolen funds from being moved, for example. Seems much more benign, but is far more insidious, IMO.
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by topmonk 8y ago
I agree, maybe he should try another strain
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by topmonk 8y ago
That's exactly my point. Stating that seizure is 'very typical' as fact, and if someone says you have no evidence, the retort shouldn't be "Prove it isn't."
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by topmonk 8y ago
His main point was we don't have enough data for the 'very typically' label. To prove this, you need some sort of data. Instead lostcolony was asking for evidence that this is not the case, implying that we should accept &#x2
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by topmonk 8y ago
You're asking him to prove a negative. The onus should be on you.
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by topmonk 8y ago
I don't know what you're referring to, but here is an study that supports my belief: https://example123456789615.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/holt...
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by topmonk 8y ago
I think his success gave him a shield from consequences, so it was easy for him to become a jerk. It's the same theory as the reason that the most attractive people are often jerks. No one is willing to push back.
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by topmonk 8y ago
You might be interested in this (start on page 6): https://www.scribd.com/document/326903960/Feynman-Thinking According to Feyman's experiment, above, it turns out there are at least two kinds of people, thos
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Scott Adams gives a whiteboard talk on ego and morality(youtube.com)
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by topmonk 8y ago
If, as the article states, the cost for reducing an early death for a minuscule number of children is depression and anxiety for a much larger percentage of them when they become adults, is it still worth it?
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by topmonk 8y ago
That would be a hard sell to parents, I think.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Don't forget leaded gasoline: https://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/
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by topmonk 8y ago
Google may not be making money from direct payments from businesses, but getting access to yet another aspect of the life of their users (in this case, appointments made with what business and when), would be invaluable to them. Just one mo
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by topmonk 8y ago
I've found that if I get up and write down my thoughts, afterwards I'll be able to sleep. I just write whatever I'm thinking at the moment. Sometimes I end up with some very interesting insights by doing this. After an hour o
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by topmonk 8y ago
Sounds like a rule for being a master thief

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