cuboidGoat

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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
And when you are up there, you will want to stay up if you can, as each dip into the well costs you a ton of money.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I'd love to see that result, purely for the hilarity of watching the people I share a house with, who voted for Brexit, explode at the idea of the UK government not policing an external border. The only reason they voted for Brexit was
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
like Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom. Or Arthur rising and reinstating Camelot in England's hour of need. Or Nessie being discovered, then rampaging south to destroy London in a Gozilla inspired attack, wiping out the
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> a good and not entirely unpopular solution Where and for whom?
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Depends on how the field moves relative to the iron. If it expands then contracts, which seems highly likely, the overall effect on magnetizing the iron could be surprisingly low, as far as I am aware. Though I could be wrong on this. edit
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Vice really needs to hire some proofreaders.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
The magnetic field will tend to concentrate in the iron, meaning it shouldn't propagate as far. Same as using Mu metal for magnetic shielding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
The USA has high punishments for murder but less then 50% of murder investigations are solved. Germany has much lower punishments for murder, but around 90% of murder investigations are solved. Which of these do you think is the greater det
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Hey, numbers and letters are hard. FCC, FAA, 100 reports per month, 100 complaints per day. Same thing, surely. Besides drones are bad, so exaggerating and misrepresenting is morally justified, as it will save the lives of billions that wou
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes That seems amazingly unlikely.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> “Each month, the FAA receives more than 100 reports of drone sightings by pilots, citizens, and law enforcement,” Drones interfering with manned aircraft or emergency services is already illegal. And these things are transmitting radi
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I love the concept behind the chameleon pasted with money. Though I do feel a bit sorry for the chameleon. It probably wasn't too impressed.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I think there will be two things. One is economics, fetching asteroids could be very big business, and the other is political, space will be viewed as freedom of a sort, given the kind of restrictions that may be in place on Earth by then,
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
>That clearly didn't work in that case, did it? If you don't think that they were actually putting forward a tale to be believed in the first place, but were signalling that they don't have to bother, then it just doesn&#x
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
It is economic to move massive stuff about in open space, which is what you need for an economy to attract people. The gravity well is a huge cost. You can make a profit by sending down the gravity well but going back up tends to be a huge
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
By the end of this century I suspect there will be more than a million people living off earth, with the majority in orbitals. In about 200 years or so, I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were more people off earth than on it.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Why not?
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
The pizza delivery driver probably wants their job more than a stack of pizza and often provides their own vehicle. And robbing armored bank trucks involves attacking people, there isn't the same moral guideline when it comes to robots
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
That does not work very well in politics, or indeed many other areas of life. People are very good at acting dumb to avoid blame. Hanlon's razor is a method of being polite, rather than a robust logical position. Malicious compliance,
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Part of the reason they are slow-walking Trump's pronouncements on trans people in the military, is that after getting rid of 'don't ask don't tell', the military will have wanted to know about people's sexual
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I was just working from the principle that lightweight ground drones containing pizza will get nicked and flying pizza will get shot down and nicked, but it isn't fair to use weaponry just to defend a pizza and a drone, so the best app
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I thought about how to design pizza delivery drones and came to the conclusion that perhaps the best approach would be to make a very heavy armored tank, with a pizza oven built in.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Sounds similar in meaning to the Yiddish word 'chutzpah', which was once defined by Leo Rosten as; "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because h
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
The two ideas aren't mutually exclusive. There is then the audience that knows it is all bollocks from the start, many of whom treat it as a massive in-joke that they can take part in, rather than an actual attempt at lying, which woul
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
>That would be way too subtle for the common folk. Are you channeling H. L. Menken? I think Putin is a comedian and two things I have noticed about Russian humour are firstly, always be deadpanning, and secondly, it isn't really fun
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
It makes them look like they do not care about putting on a good show, because they do not feel they need to and they find it funnier to present an obvious circus. It also might be doubling as a public punishment for the spies for being slo
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
To anyone who has paid attention to any of the history of Russian/UK spy scandals, the idea that homosexuality would prevent someone from being a GRU officer, is frankly almost as hilarious as some of the Russian buzzfeed style sites p
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
>2. I'm yet to find a site that takes my subscription and turns off ads and invasive tracking. Just ads. Still not an equitable deal. As it currently stands, a large chunk of the newspaper industry in the states is willing to bloc
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
This modern tracking stuff will get used for a genocide before we ban it, I guarantee. Previous totalitarian states couldn't have even dreamed of this kind of shit.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I find the opposite is often the case.

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