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by why_at 3y ago
Yeah this article is kind of annoying. I've started foraging for mushrooms in the past few months and I've never found a morel but I know they're poisonous when raw. It even says so on wikipedia: https://en.wikiped
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by why_at 3y ago
I get that using lights makes it easier, the part I don't get is why it should be illegal for it to be easier. It would make sense to me if there was a "hunting league" like the NFL or something which had rules on what you&
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by why_at 3y ago
I've never hunted before in my life and I only just learned about "Spotlighting" in hunting, so I'm a little confused. I get that using a light makes it easier to hunt deer and other animals since they will stay still as
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by why_at 3y ago
>In broad strokes you have the majority which are physicalists, which leads to strong determinism. I'm not an expert in the philosophy of consciousness or free will or anything, but it's my understanding that most philosophers
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by why_at 3y ago
I think a key part is they need less fuel since they aren't going all the way to orbit. Getting to orbit is the difficult part and it's why they need the whole gigantic first stage booster. When they first developed the second sta
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by why_at 3y ago
I don't really understand what the difference is between the government owning Starship vs contracting it. Are they thinking they would operate the thing without any support from SpaceX? Would they have their own team of engineers or w
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by why_at 3y ago
Random thought I just had: What are the odds of a rocket launch crossing through one of these laser links on its way to a higher orbit and disrupting traffic for a fraction of a second? I know space is really big and so the odds of a rocket
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by why_at 3y ago
Polls like this are always interesting to me because there's so much that can go into a person's answer to any of these questions. For instance, per the article most of these "Nones" still believe in God or Gods but don&
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by why_at 3y ago
Yes, he logged into the server using the credentials embedded in the app. Since the server contained information from other users, this would clearly be some kind of crime if used this access maliciously or maybe even if he just logged in k
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by why_at 3y ago
I mean, it's pretty hard to tell what's going on inside any other creature's brain, from dogs to bees to humans. It's generally easier the closer they are to yourself, so it's easier with dogs than with bees. I thin
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by why_at 3y ago
I think you're leaving out a bit of context there, just before that sentence it says: > Surely culture has something to do with it. Decades of advertising have told the world that to eat meat is to be powerful and virile, an ideal o
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by why_at 3y ago
It's interesting how the phrasing in the headline leads to different readings of its meaning. I read it as "SpaceX launches [their] first phone service satellites" which is how I think the author meant it. The first sentence
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by why_at 3y ago
Yeah I agree having a different app for each station sucks, but I don't really understand how plug-and-charge would solve this. For anything that does support plug-and-charge, don't you still need to register the payment method so
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by why_at 3y ago
Can you explain why you feel plug-and-charge is so important? I have used chargers with and without it and while it is slightly more convenient to just plug in and go, it doesn't feel like such a huge improvement that I absolutely need
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by why_at 3y ago
Fair enough I guess, this could be total BS. FWIW the dissenting FCC commissioners made similar arguments. >In 2022, many RDOF recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at all, and they had no obligation to do so Ma
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by why_at 3y ago
The part that makes me question the legitimacy of this decision is the fact that there are still other companies receiving the subsidy. Quote from the article: >Starlink is the only company actually solving rural broadband at scale! They
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by why_at 3y ago
Wow, I stand corrected. I did not think that was physically possible for a person.
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by why_at 3y ago
Given what I know about humans, Lucia was obviously a newborn. I'm less confident when it comes to dogs so I don't know if Milly was a baby or not. Either way, doesn't including babies throw things off a bit? I feel like the
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by why_at 3y ago
Do you know the actual number of employees at each of these services? I'm not doubting you, only asking because I'm curious and have no idea personally. It's interesting if their headcounts are similar, although maybe not ent
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by why_at 3y ago
I think this captures a lot of what I find so frustrating about all the big tech services today. It seems like so many of them could be a similar model to Signal where they have a minimal team and rely on donations or some small revenue str
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by why_at 3y ago
I get what you mean. Whenever I read one of these scenarios that tries to show some absurd conclusion about a moral theory like utilitarianism, it makes me wonder if there is something about the outlandishness of the situation that makes it
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by why_at 3y ago
I can sympathize with the sentiment that scientists should just report the objective facts and not inject their own opinions into what they tell the public. Another comment suggested that this can lead to distrust like with COVID-19. That
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by why_at 3y ago
Have you had any success using that site (vegancheese.co)? I want to try them but a lot are only available in very specific regions. I found one that was supposedly available at a farmers' market near me (bay area) but when I went ther
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by why_at 3y ago
> Basically, this boils down to a simple means versus ends debate; "preventative" punishment cares only about results, while the author only cares that the "means" (the act) punishment is morally right. Yeah, after th
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by why_at 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand why this is a problem for consequentialists any more than it is a problem for the author's own position. The basic idea seems to be: In some cases it might prevent more harm to punish innocent people i.e.
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by why_at 3y ago
Interesting site, but it's not clear to me what they count as a failed launch. My guess is some of the Starship tests since I don't think there has been a failed Falcon 9 launch is a few years. Also, unrelated: This site is the wo
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by why_at 3y ago
I usually lean towards consumer rights on this type of thing, and the idea of paying a subscription for something like heated seats is annoying to me. That said I am trying to play devil's advocate here. Other people have mentioned the
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by why_at 4y ago
Nice. I guess I should have tried googling it but I was convinced it was some kind of code.
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by why_at 4y ago
Does anybody understand the ad that is just a long string of numbers? They give a translation but it still doesn't make sense to me. >9781529035698 >1 >12* >*We placed this ad here for you to start practicing private commun