GW150914

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by GW150914 8y ago
The whole point of a black hole is that nothing can support its own mass past a certain point. A black hole is a region more than it is an object, with a singularity beyond an event horizon. If there really is a singularity, it is a point o
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by GW150914 8y ago
If you really meant dense then you have to rememberer that the average density of a black hole enjoys an inverse proportionality to its volume. In other words a supermassive black hole is far less dense on average than a much smaller hole.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Well at least I nailed the personality disorder bit.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Three articles of “data” yes... So we have a HuffPo article, an article from MarriPedia (a religious site) and an abstract from the Sociology and Religion department of The Association of Sociolgy and Religion. Three famously unbiased, data
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by GW150914 8y ago
I mean, he said it outright: “I think you'll find that most people who 'keep the wallet' are probably not religious...” I don’t think it’s so much a carried or implied assumption as his central thesis, and his justification d
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by GW150914 8y ago
Tesla is facing the prospect of needing to sell a honking load of stock at a discount to deal with their debt, and to do that they need a high stock price. While Musk appears to be a liability in many areas, he is the focus for a cult of pe
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by GW150914 8y ago
Well that totally doesn’t sound like someone with a personality disorder. /s I’m fairly sure that history will almost instantly forget them, because they exist to be disposable, to be replaced, and as interest and attention moves on th
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s a giant country, and despite what people in the Silicon Valley bubble think, there are a lot of cities with a lot of space. This is an insoluble problem if everyone demands acces to a spot in one or two major cities, because that’s whe
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by GW150914 8y ago
Considering that “cars owners” in America represent 88%, maybe it’s just an alignment of interests. Maybe alternatives are rejected not because of these subtle systemic issues, but rather because a supermajority of Americans own cars and do
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by GW150914 8y ago
People will just “pirate” the web. As for no ads, people who want that experience already get it for free. Given the incredibly low quality of most ad supported content, maybe the real solution is for much of it to die.
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by GW150914 8y ago
We already do pay to help raise other poeple’s kids through a variety of taxes, including public schools via property tax. This would be more of a subsidy for reproducing, rather than helping to raise them. I think it’s only rational for a
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s sad that you can’t opt out and just pay for coffee. If it were just an option it would be fine, but this is the only way.
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by GW150914 8y ago
The article itself is... not worth commenting on, but I’ll just comment on the irony of referring to Bitcoin as a “meteor” when far from enjoying a meteoric rise, it has crashed and burned. Beyond that, it looks like they don’t actually ref
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by GW150914 8y ago
Plus, he’s still facing a raft of civil suits beyond the SEC, even beyond the one from the man he kept accusing of being a pedophile. As I said, beyond that suit, i.e. the suits he’s facing over the tweets. And the DOJ investigation.
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by GW150914 8y ago
I buy my music, then I pirate a copy for archival and portable use. The artist and publishers get their money, and I get my fair use. I’m not willing to steal stuff, but I’m also not willing to jump through arbitrary hoops once I’ve paid. I
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by GW150914 8y ago
Their cases were already incredibly strong, given the nature of the tweet and his Twitter account’s status as an official corporate mouthpiece for five years. From a purely legal perspective the no contest nature of this settlement doesn’t
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by GW150914 8y ago
There’s the still the DOJ investigation, so he’s very much in potential hot water, albeit less so than before. The odds of him facing criminal charges was always lower than the civil side, but he’s still at risk. Plus, he’s still facing a r
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by GW150914 8y ago
Having been there too, I strongly endorse your opinion. Did you make it to Tikal and check out the pyramids? Climbing Pyramid 4 and staring over the canopy at endless jungle was one of the better experiences of my life.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Spider goat! That’s really amazing, and the promise of spider silk and related materials to everything from body armor to surgery can’t be overstated. Also... Spider goat, spider goat, doing whatever a spider goat does. Is it a spider? No i
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by GW150914 8y ago
That strategy can be very successful, but sometimes what you discover is that nature often depends on things like regenerating materials, and other things we can’t come close to replicating. We can understand how a dragonfly flies, but we c
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by GW150914 8y ago
People like a vast majority of people want the ability to recover after a fuckup or theft. The FDIC exists for a reason, as do chargebacks. With the exception of a paltry minority who care more about their ideology than anything else, rever
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by GW150914 8y ago
Permitting and perpetuating this kind of myth-making is practically part of Elon's fiduciary duty to his shareholders at this point. You can't fault him for doing it, because he has to. You have to admit though, based on comment
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by GW150914 8y ago
Permitting and perpetuating this kind of myth-making is practically part of Elon's fiduciary duty to his shareholders at this point. You can't fault him for doing it, because he has to. Plus he clearly lives for it, and when any
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by GW150914 8y ago
I’m somewhat familiar with Finnish culture, and to be honest I sort of wish the world worked that way. The Finnish version of the example conversation could have just been: Merge my code! It’s great! No. Aaaand scene. Hell, that “no” could
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by GW150914 8y ago
It costs time and energy, because there is no end to this kind of debate. The end is “nothing more to talk about,” and then you stop replying. As to time and energy, if you’re so depleted than an extra few sentences will materially impact
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by GW150914 8y ago
It would cost you nothing to replace your last line with, “I’m sorry, but that’s not what we’re seeing and we won’t merge it until you fix it. I understand your passion, but I won’t sacrifice the quality of this project for that. Fix the co
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by GW150914 8y ago
Is this the study that's based on some extremely small amount of bees (45?) being completely submerged in glyohosate? "We found that babies, when submerged in 100% water for ONLY 5 MINUTES, had extremely averse reactions. We must
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by GW150914 8y ago
Yeah, time will tell, although to be fair the same was said incessantly by the likes of GamerGate and they’ve just been folded into the larger alt-right and forgotten by most. In a sense, time has already told, and at the end of the day nob
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by GW150914 8y ago
Presumably they realize that it would be an unproductive dead end next to the original, and don’t want to become a subject of mockery. They want to make noise and rattle their cages, and that’s where their commitment ends. It’s hard to see
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by GW150914 8y ago
You seem very dedicated to making this a case of “everyone is bad, so no one is bad.” I’ll repeat that old saw, two wrongs don’t make a right. The injustices and acts of violence committed by America against others don’t justify, excuse, or

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