angli

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What Happens If China Makes First Contact?(theatlantic.com)
68 points by angli 9y ago|77 comments
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by angli 9y ago
"Beyond immoral" seems to me somewhere between excessive and totally wrongheaded. Bad advice has consequences and bad legal advice often doubly so. The law is nuanced, convoluted and often unintuitive. People really are better
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by angli 9y ago
Something like "well then why not? Shouldn't you make the little moments memorable, joyful ones?" presumably
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by angli 9y ago
He thinks that the majority reached the right conclusion (the result - that the defendants were entitled to the money) but not for the right reason (the particular argument that the majority opinion made)
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by angli 10y ago
Deep Space 9 has an arc where a Starfleet officer attempts to launch a coup against the (elected) President of the Federation - we do see an elected leader there, but you're right that it isn't spelled out in much detail.
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by angli 10y ago
Yes, slower. 24x faster would be a miracle!
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by angli 10y ago
It's possible that you'll design a safe that the government cannot get into without destroying the contents. We say that the government can do their best to get into that safe if they have a warrant. There is no requirement that
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by angli 10y ago
In retrospect the fact that the cable is responsible for making headphones fall out makes so much sense, and I've even experienced it while running, but I hadn't thought of it. Thank you! I don't think I'm alone in that
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by angli 10y ago
I think the problem here is more nuanced. The first, cold fusion claim that they made belongs in the almost-certainly-false bucket; the many critiques of the work were decisive and clear. I'm not qualified to assess the merits of this
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by angli 10y ago
Texting also became more common with the widespread adoption of smartphones - we'd of course see more accidents as a result, but the medium became massively more useful to a lot more people.
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by angli 10y ago
There most certainly is. You've pointed out some exceptions but do you really think that on the whole they're not correlated? Having more money means people can afford to dress better and are more likely to travel in circles in wh
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by angli 10y ago
It's not as surprising as you'd think. The basic problem is energy density and availability . Human beings don't directly photosynthesize for clear reasons. Solar power isn't available constantly and is too diffuse to
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by angli 10y ago
Perhaps it's not their fault but it doesn't make it any better for a prospective job hunter. Perhaps competitive salaries need to be part of this push
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by angli 10y ago
I'm an iPhone user myself but I understand this impulse. Having safety and compatibility sorted out for you really is an important time-saver and convenience. However, when you want to do something that isn't part of the manufactu
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Dear Tech, You Suck at Delight(medium.com)
2 points by angli 11y ago|0 comments
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by angli 11y ago
It's possible that it's more acute for him because he's not used to it, the same way someone who's lived at high altitude for years doesn't feel out of breath. Most people, I think, are affected by the presence of s
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by angli 11y ago
This is interesting. Could you (or someone else whose had this experience) elaborate?
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by angli 11y ago
To be honest I expected a bit more. If not more endorsement of Apple, some more, well, opinion . This read like a news piece with the word "persuasively" as the only bit of subjectivity. It's an odd piece overall.
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by angli 11y ago
How so? It seemed completely fair to me - yes, he pushed the staffer a bit but would there have been a point to the interview if he hadn't? I'm not quite sure if I believe the Sanders campaign story, but that seems independent fro
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by angli 11y ago
I'm not quite sure this gets to the heart of what OP meant. In tech, MIT is probably better than (or at least as good as) most Ivies.
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by angli 11y ago
A 17th century writer. More importantly, a poet. Not sure how I feel about the point of the article, but this sheds no light on it - Donne's work is pretty different from modern prose. Different best practices apply.
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by angli 11y ago
Not really. Think what you will of the merits of the article, but it makes specific reference in the opening sentence to the fact that "digital native has been used to refer to a member of the younger generation weaned on the web and i
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by angli 12y ago
I could be wrong, but I understood this to be a way of getting yourself in the door. Bonds created by the "indebtedness" are I think starting points to spending time with people and getting to know them, rather than a friendship
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by angli 13y ago
I understood that to mean he'd forgotten about the company until the remote-working ban controversy brought it back into the spotlight, not that he's boycotting Yahoo on the basis of its remote-working policy
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by angli 13y ago
Do you have a source for number 3 (warrant to arrest the Chief Justice)? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just the kind of think I'm interested in reading about.
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by angli 13y ago
No, exchange still means what you think it means. The issue they had is that a bunch of orders got stuck in a queue somewhere and thus couldn't actually be exchanged . This is all a question of how you deal with that. NASDAQ decided not to
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by angli 13y ago
My understanding is that they don't usually end up with stocks, but their handling of this specific situation created what amounted to a short position. Essentially, the bug (whatever you want to call it is irrelevant from the financial a
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by angli 13y ago
I don't think this comment makes much sense. If the original name was not political, then the change should be apolitical too. If the choice of text on the .ps page was a "political issue," then google's use of "Palestinian Territories" was
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by angli 14y ago
I think this is pretty cool, but if you play it, you'll immediately realize that the physics are off (compare left/right motion with up/down/gravity) Is this just a basic problem with JS games, or a result of the compact implementation?
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by angli 14y ago
I don't think it does. It mimics the look of the iOS "switches" which are universally used for on/off commands

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