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by D-Coder 1y ago
My partners prefer it to my not-breathing for 30 seconds or more, then gasping for air.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
By the legally-mandated "R." in front of their name. (Isaac Asimov, _The Caves of Steel_.)
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by D-Coder 1y ago
> the fact that no one is living unnaturally long or in some kind of cryosleep or AI simulation probably means one thing: It's simply not possible _Yet_. If you looked at the Wright Brothers aircraft, what real use is there for a ve
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Yes, "Reverse the polarity!" is not always going to be the right answer.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Hey, sometimes I say "Thanks!" to Siri. Might as well keep an automatic response even if it's not always useful.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
> 50% of fatalities involve alcohol or drugs and are often single vehicle accidents. This suggests that Waymo is cutting traffic fatalities by 50% (per million miles) right off the top.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
> Trump's thinking is: Objection, your Honor! Assuming facts not in evidence!
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Ah, just mix them up randomly: Staple Battery Correct Horse!
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by D-Coder 1y ago
_The Mote in God's Eye_: "Wrong," said Renner. "The tactful way," Rod said quietly, "the polite way to disagree with the Senator would be to say, 'That turns out not to be the case.'" Renner&#x27
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Also, if the pilot screws up, he can die too. Surgical screwups are not going to kill the surgeon.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
If their lifespan is 10,000 years, a five-year trip to exotic backwater Earth would be just a vacation.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Well, in the olden days, your choice was between being drafted, or being executed on the spot.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
I clicked on the link and saw the article was by Dr. Emily Conover, a name that I recognized as an excellent science writer. Then I looked at the top of the article... _Science News_, which I consider an excellent source for keeping up with
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by D-Coder 1y ago
DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
It's an alternate technique for raising taxes. It incidentally also reduces the social impact of a small number of extremely wealthy people, thus helping democracy. It's probably not legal without a Constitutional amendment, but o
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by D-Coder 1y ago
$7 a day is a step up from the olden days for those people. They're pleased with that. $7 a day would be a step down for first-world (and second-world) economies. I think people would be very unhappy. Very very very unhappy.
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by D-Coder 1y ago
"No more billionaires. None. After you reach $999 million, every red cent goes to schools and healthcare. You get a trophy that says, “I won capitalism,” and we name a dog park after you." — Mikel Jollett
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Not "Ratskolnikov"?
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Twice as much!
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by D-Coder 1y ago
Precedent, with this Supreme Court, is meaningless.
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RachelByTheBay: Atop issue is just a bug(theregister.com)
6 points by D-Coder 1y ago|2 comments
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by D-Coder 1y ago
The Register: "In summary, there was a bug in atop that allowed unrelated programs to cause the atop command to fail, and to crash in more than one way. This sort of behavior should not occur and typically signals a deeper problem. Thi
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by D-Coder 1y ago
> Being better than "average" is a laughably low bar for self-driving cars. Average drivers include people who drive while drunk and on drugs. It includes teenagers and those who otherwise have very little experience on the roa
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by D-Coder 1y ago
"Everything in biology is more complicated than it looks." DNA is where we get our physical attributes (modulo environment). No, a lot of DNA is "junk," i.e. we don't yet understand what it does. No, a lot of functi
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> It was very hard to explain to that person what was wrong with that line of reasoning. "So... you're the smartest person in the world?"
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by D-Coder 2y ago
I put "Stab self with fork" on my to-do list. Every other task gets done first.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
I've seen "BLUF": "Bottom Line Up Front."
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> Visicalc was first sold October 17, 1979, which is 859 days. And it still can't answer simple English-language questions.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Not yet. Give it another year.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Portland Maine?

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