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by winfred 7y ago
>Does that mean Americans are poor people who can only afford empty calories? I don't know if it's because they can't afford better or don't want to eat better, but in the US there is a considerable relationship betwe
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by winfred 7y ago
Private prisons only amount to 8.4% of the prison system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
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by winfred 8y ago
Ssssssttt. Don't wake the children yet.
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by winfred 9y ago
>i learned about 5 years ago that changing peoples' minds is an impossible, pointless task. And you learned the wrong thing. It is possible to change peoples minds and behavior with online conversation. It just isn't easy and i
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by winfred 9y ago
>To which the response is who are Google to influence how or what people think? But they are already doing just that. I watched a few Youtube videos related to Quantum Mechanics and my recommended queue was flooded with videos full of ps
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by winfred 9y ago
Haha, thanks buddy, I didn't know websites could trigger nostalgia. Brings back memories from twenty years ago, amazing it's still around with the exact same layout.
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by winfred 9y ago
These radio telescopes have a fairly narrow focus and when two telescopes located on different continents aim at a source several billion light years away, their focal points do not overlap anywhere near earth, so that rules out anything on
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by winfred 9y ago
Here you go: http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/scien... Mining wasn't banned until 1991. And as the article outlines, Antarctica is a really, really inhospitable place, to the point that it mi
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by winfred 10y ago
Or obscuring the source. If I wanted to cause a Chinese-North Korea conflict, I'd do it in a way that gives me enough time to tie up loose ends and points in a certain direction. Same with Litvinenko. We will never find out the true st
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by winfred 10y ago
>As for why this discrepancy exists, that's really a very different question, and it's one that I don't know the answer to. That's caused by IQ distribution differences between males and females. On average men and wo
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by winfred 10y ago
Nvidia, Intel, YKK, Standard Oil.
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by winfred 10y ago
I worry about the same things he does and I also lean towards his approach (although I'm not as involved as he is). Think of it like this, if you're worried a certain technological development will change life in ways you do not t
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by winfred 10y ago
>We need 40 lashes instead of 2 years in prison. Masochists all over the world support your cause.
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by winfred 10y ago
I think you stopped watching half way through. If you'd watch the rest of the documentary, they provide some details on how that "finders fee" was paid, it was paid out in contracts to one of the judges side businesses and th
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by winfred 10y ago
>Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order. This makes it more likely that they’ll put the company’s mission above their individual interests and that they’ll set t
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by winfred 10y ago
I'm probably classified as intermediate in 3d design and printing. It takes a while to get it right, there are so many factors that influence the outcome, so initially it might seem like the failures are random. Thingiverse models freq
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by winfred 10y ago
>Is it possible for a person to simply "think" themselves into a certain states or flavors of insanity, or rather the more proper term, mental illness? Of course it is possible to think yourself mentally ill. Paranoia, various
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by winfred 10y ago
Yeah to be honest, I considered that myself as well, if we take that approach then 100% of internet services do not qualify as public goods (and never will), since it's always possible to limit the service in such a manner.
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by winfred 10y ago
being a public good isn't a binary state, it's a continuum. I think there are internet services that approach the theoretical definition of a public good (non-rivalrous and non-excludable) close enough to consider them actual publ
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by winfred 10y ago
Then in 10 years, someone, somewhere decides that 90 is acceptable on a specific road. Now all cars with limiters need to be modified. Want to be able to change it remotely? Now you add an attack vector. Throw in a GPS? Now you're aski
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by winfred 10y ago
It isn't as much the fact that the asset will move, as the direction and the timeline that matters, as well as the availability of investment vehicles. If I'd wanted to profit on the knowledge that coal will go down, I'd have
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by winfred 10y ago
I totally agree. Although I must add, that I've recently shifted more towards the much more ancient and even much more prominent Astrology. Astrology is both far older and has a solidly proven track record, particularly in the field of
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by winfred 11y ago
Hmmm I can invest my capital in 30 countries easily with a carefully selected index fund. If I could move across borders freely, it would be hard (if not impossible) to do the same thing. So I'd say it isn't the same footing that
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by winfred 11y ago
"One such story was from a couple who were out of town when their furnace went nuts and raised the temperature in the house high enough that it melted every piece of plastic in the entire home." There's just no way that a hom
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by winfred 11y ago
I worked in large data centers before and I just don't see how this can be done practically. Data centers require quite a bit of physical maintenance. Every computer design has some element that will render a large part of the design i
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by winfred 11y ago
What makes you think the Chinese aren't equally irrational?
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by winfred 12y ago
The main uses for satellites are observation and communication. Both are appealing markets for HAPS. Hovering drones could act as relays for telephone calls and internet traffic in places that do not have good enough infrastructure on the g
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by winfred 12y ago
I'm not sure you get all the nuances of the story. Caesar is just as nuts as Vladimir Putin, who goes bear hunting bare chested. It's just a piece of political propaganda that has survived through the ages, all the way until today
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by winfred 12y ago
If that's the case (and it doesn't seem that unlikely to me), I think a thank you is in order. Thanks buddy!

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