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by deepdriver 4y ago
People who spend inordinate amounts of time indoors on the computer have more time in which to develop computer skills.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Certainly in terms of short-term judgement impairment, this isn't true: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/teendeathbridgefal...
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by deepdriver 4y ago
They shield, and therefore effectively man-in-the-middle, roughly 20% of all websites on the Internet: https://backlinko.com/cloudflare-users
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Is "Robloxing" the new "but in Minecraft?" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-minecraft
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Rammed earth is more abundant, potentially cheaper, and has far better sound and thermal insulation properties: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220705-the-sustainable-... It is more labor-intensive but easily
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by deepdriver 4y ago
> I don't see what's the link between his origins and his sins in life. Both can be studied independently regardless of the other. I agree! Historians who went quiet on this when “evil Columbus” became the dominant interpretati
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Pumped hydro isn't feasible everywhere, you really need the right geologic conditions.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Sand and basalt-based thermal batteries sound promising. Essentially just heat up rocks in insulated containers, then run Rankin- or Stirling-cycle generators off the stored heat. Power-to-weight's probably awful, but that doesn't
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Unwittingly spreading disease is simply not biological warfare. There is no such thing as “unknowingly” waging it. That is just a pandemic.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
It's been in the news, and subject to much HN commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32661638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by deepdriver 4y ago
So you wouldn’t mind white Wakandans? One or two Vanilla Panthers? How about caucasian voodoo gods, or demons of Japanese myth? They’re fictional too. Of course that would be silly, and we both know why. Tolkien’s work is explicitly based o
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Those numbers are still remarkably similar.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Male life expectancy at birth in Russia fell by six years between 1991 and 1994. A drop that fast was practically unprecedented in developed economies. It’s not fun being a Millennial, as I know firsthand, but nothing comparable to 90s Russ
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The state of law and order in Venezuela is thin evidence? How many countries’ justice systems would need to collapse to convince you of this concept’s validity? The “anarcho-tyranny” idea is orthogonal to Francis’s other and later views, an
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by deepdriver 4y ago
I briefly shopped on Walmart.com because Amazon had marketized, destroying my trust in reviews, brands, and product quality, and Walmart had not. That time is past. Now I find myself sticking to manufacturer websites or buying things in the
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by deepdriver 4y ago
BBC quoted a Pakistan government official as saying 1/3 of the country is currently underwater. Even if that’s hyperbole, and I’m not sure it is, the scale of devastation is immense. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-
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by deepdriver 4y ago
I saw it mentioned elsewhere as removed from Netflix, glad it’s up on the NBC streaming service.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Anarchy-tyranny in 1980s New York (see “Context and Background”) led to this famous act of vigilantism and subsequent acquittal via what was essentially jury nullification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_Ci
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by deepdriver 4y ago
"Diversity Day" has been removed in its entirety per first link. The distinction between private and government censorship is increasingly irrelevant to consumers, as in heavily consolidated markets the end effect is the same.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
This type of censorship isn’t unique to China. Numerous scenes and whole episodes of The Office were silently removed from streaming services. The episodes were renumbered so you wouldn’t notice: https://www.newsweek.com/com
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by deepdriver 4y ago
In theory it can do both. However, it is not yet crew-certified.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Starship is specifically designed to fly to and land on Mars: https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
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by deepdriver 4y ago
On the other hand, systems where the bar for guilt is too high err too much towards not punishing criminals. Eventually such systems are rejected by their subjects and collapse, either totally or into anarcho-tyranny. This is especially tru
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>It is better than 10 guilty persons escape than 1 innocent suffers What if the escaped guilty persons cause more than one innocent to suffer? Seems like an obvious flaw in this aphorism. Maybe works for petty thievery, not so much crime
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The wonderful pop science channel Kurzgesagt has a video on this: https://youtu.be/G-WO-z-QuWI
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by deepdriver 4y ago
From the link, it sounds like recent study has pushed back on Pomeranz's thesis of "coal and colonies": >So is Pomeranz’s book, his theory about the Great Divergence, now the received wisdom? >It’s the received wisdom a
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Forums, 4chan and random blogs are the last-ditch avenue for information sharing among a small, extremely attentive, more-paranoid-than-average segment of the population. They are not an effective means for journalism or mass political spee
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The massive run-up in tuition prices has not been confined to just private or for-profit schools. Public and private universities alike have gorged themselves on federally-guaranteed student loans. Whether the loan gets repaid or not doesn&
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Key difference is that EA still charges full price up front, too.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
EA has been increasingly anti-consumer for years, notably through the proliferation of microtransactions, loot box mechanics, “Season Passes”, and half-finished base games with expensive DLC “expansions.” Highly unpopular brand, despite the

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