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by z2 7y ago
It all hinges on if brain death is the complete annihilation or degradation of the soul that lives on it, or not. One is gone to the extent that the patterns of information that live in the brain and comprise the individual are permanently
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by z2 7y ago
Noted--thank you!
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by z2 7y ago
Exactly. As just an anecdote, my intro do FP class in university was taught by a professor who tended to rant about different levels of purity and elegance between his favorite and least favorite languages. Of course, the favorite was his p
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by z2 7y ago
"While the Yoshikawa case appeared to retroactively justify the decision to intern Japanese Americans, he himself distrusted the Japanese-American community which in his mind was loyal to America over Japan." https://en
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by z2 7y ago
I think both GP and GGP are somewhat loaded questions. The first is a hypothetical question that, while possibly genuine, can have a scaremongering side-effect. The second (perhaps unnecessarily) takes this as flamebait and extrapolates tha
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by z2 7y ago
Well, it was also a tech transfer from Kawasaki (makers of Shinkansen trains), unless you think they bungled the technology, it's very possible these trains at least match the quality of Siemens and Kawasaki trains. You can see the spe
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by z2 7y ago
I'm confused by your main point. Do you mean, as opposed to other foreign workers and students on temporary work/student visas, who can somehow migrate their friends and family over and therefore be subject to less coercion?
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by z2 7y ago
First, thanks, it made me chuckle! I have no dog in this race, but it seems to me that a finger hook and stopper is a functional feature of the rotary dialer. If and only if the user put their finger in the hole to dial, then the finger sto
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by z2 7y ago
Interestingly and maybe ironically, Chinese navigation apps had speed trap warnings since day one. I wouldn't be surprised if it was officially sanctioned with a ton of false-positives thrown in, in a "speed traps are everywhere s
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by z2 7y ago
I'm conditioned to do this trick in reverse, say to look for a recipe or song in French. Speaking the title in a horrible American English accent gives at least a 20% chance that Alexa would understand the query, as opposed to 0%. I&#x
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by z2 7y ago
Hotels (and transit, and banks) in China have been doing this for a while now. If this is any similar, it would be some awkward police-sanctioned box with a webcam and RFID reader to first scan the person's ID card, and then make sure
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by z2 7y ago
>...plastic bottle I'm even confused by this point--given that some of the water (e.g. San Pellegrino) often comes in glass bottles, can we even assume all bottles measured were plastic? It seems like it should be obvious or else it
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by z2 7y ago
I guess it's all relative! I'm not home much of the day, live in a newish condo with LED lights, and heat and cooking use natural gas. 8 KWh feels like a lot to me as it's enough electricity to power an oven for several hours
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by z2 7y ago
By my power-wasting standards, I use about 8 KWh a day. A max 7 MW(h?) turbine generates at most 1.94 KWh of electricity a second. It seems to take 3-4 seconds for a single turn. The math checks out and this is, as you say, incredible.
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by z2 7y ago
Yeah, this part is what got me: > "... Over the course of hundreds of trips, our software has mapped an optimal way to drive for your comfort. Combining this unique dataset with real-time tracking of vehicle stability, speed and loc
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by z2 7y ago
I feel like a lot of this perception comes from a tendency for people to equate Kanji characters with words. I always explain to others that a character is kind of like a root, e.g. Sub-optimus-al = suboptimal. It would be crazy to say one
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by z2 7y ago
This is a good point. What if one spends $20,000 fixing up a property, and that contributes to what is ultimately a $50,000 increase in appraisal value? EDIT: There is an existing response from another comment thread: >That's a grea
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by z2 7y ago
I hope you make an artistic statement and patent some of these awesome ideas. 1) for conversation starter purposes, and 2) so that we can make sure auto manufacturers never actually do this, or at least you get fabulously rich in the proces
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by z2 7y ago
Isn't that the exact reason, as joining NATO would violate said neutrality? "Austria declared 'its permanent neutrality of its own accord.' The second section of this law stated that 'in all future times Austria wil
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by z2 7y ago
There may be plenty of unrealistic prerequisites before the machine revolution can start distributing its economic surplus to everyone, and give people not enough work to do, but-- "...while in communist society, where nobody has one e
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by z2 7y ago
Simply privately admonished, it seems, while the county picked up the bill for a $275,000 settlement. http://www.metnews.com/articles/2011/cjpx081711.htm
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by z2 7y ago
And so starts the next stage of the cat-and-mouse game: for instance detecting if the Incognito-allotted RAM filesystem is unrealistically small: https://9to5google.com/2019/07/23/researcher-discovers-new-w...
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by z2 7y ago
While I don't remember a single punchline on management, their media was rather expensive at a time when affordable CD-RW drives and media basically pulled the floor from under them. The response was kind of expected--after flailing ar
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by z2 7y ago
On an unrelated tangent, the way the page formats when printing is one of the best I've seen. No weird navigation cruft, and it seems there's even a style defined that sets book-style margins, such that the left and right margins
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by z2 7y ago
A nuance here is that China's nationality laws forbid dual-citizenship and border officials have been (anecdotally) cracking down on it in recent years. There are a lot of grey areas in enforcement, and I'm not sure how it would p
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by z2 7y ago
The bigger, the easier to get away with it from a social perspective--they could look more like people on official construction business.
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by z2 7y ago
Question--could a directional wifi antenna be used (plus amplification) to AirDrop things from HK across the border into Shenzhen? On that note, I stayed at an international hotel chain on the Shenzhen side's border that had terribly s
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by z2 7y ago
I suspect I used this very site years ago to help buy a ~$7 German calendar from the 60's for a friend, as a joke. Old calendars are cheap, being out of date and all!
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by z2 7y ago
For 1), isn't most high speed rail in the world standard gauge (1.435 meter width)? That's also what most of North America uses, though existing tracks are probably not up to spec for high speed in other regards, such as 'smo
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by z2 7y ago
Maybe it's a language thing, but I wonder if for the most of human history, people simply weren't bored in the same sense as they are today. Wikipedia's article on boredom seems to suggest the concept only gained traction in

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