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by elfexec 7y ago
> direct, indirect, induced and catalytic Nice. > is estimated at US$ 2,960 billion, equivalent to 8% of world Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Doesn't this prove my point? And that's including every conceivable thing possibly
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Otherwise it feels like vaporware as they presented it, even if the work is valuable and credible. Whatever happened to all the graphene hype from 5 years ago? For a while, graphene was the wonder material that was going to cure cance
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by elfexec 7y ago
Strange to see so many comments praising the way this guy died. Do people really want to die suddenly in front of strangers without any time to prepare and get your house in order? So many here say that's the way they want to go, but t
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Not a lot of goods move by air, but people do. This simply isn't true. More people use the NYC metro in one day than people fly in the entire US over an entire year. Comparatively speaking, hardly anyone flies compared to using tr
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by elfexec 7y ago
> It would however bring the world economy to a grinding halt. I think you overestimate the importance of flights to the world economy. If all flights ended tomorrow, the world economy would chug along and hardly notice. Banning trains,
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Did you read too fast or something? I'm talking about people who's emailed me out of the blue. Sorry, I did. > Huh? What are you even talking about? Your post. The purpose of your post. If you didn't think it was weir
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by elfexec 7y ago
> China's meteoric rise in the last two decades was born from the rise of the middle class I think you have it backwards. The rise of china's middle class was born from china's meteoric economic growth in the last two dec
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by elfexec 7y ago
Mergesort is more intuitive than selection sort, insertion sort, bubble sort, etc? I highly doubt you can write merge sort without thinking about it. And I highly doubt you can write bug free merge sort without thinking about it. Merge sort
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The people who've contacted me (via email) to say positive things I've generally taken at face value about <whatever they said>. That's good to hear, but what else do you expect them to say? You put them on the sp
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Not press-meat but a true 6 ounce breast filet. The other fast food stores use junky meats. Maybe not even junk "meats" at all. "Those results were averaged: the oven roasted chicken scored 53.6 per cent chicken DNA, an
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I remember using SoftICE to cheat in games back in the 1990’s. Pretty much the intro to cracking software and hacking games for 90s kids. > I wish I would’ve been knowledgeable to do something more useful than making myself invinci
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by elfexec 7y ago
No. It would come off as weird or creepy just to email someone out of the blue. Also, email is impersonal and seems like you are trying to solicit something from them. If someone had a positive impact on you just tell them when you meet in
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by elfexec 7y ago
"What is my purpose". "You pass butter". Welcome to the real world. It beats you down and keeps you down. But the key is to keep going on. Stick to the sisyphean task of rolling the rock back up the mountain. It sounds l
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by elfexec 7y ago
It's amazing free entertainment for us and great free publicity for SpaceX. It's one of those rare win-win situations.
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by elfexec 7y ago
It bothers me that you are being downvoted. One of the reasons retirement benefits were created was so people could retire and open up their jobs to the next generation. It's nice that someone held onto a job til 102, but it also means
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by elfexec 7y ago
> but unless I'm mistaken, the conviction rate we're talking about is that of people _charged_ overall. You are mistaken. "Nearly all criminal cases that go to trial in Japan end in a guilty verdict." " Public p
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by elfexec 7y ago
> It's time for the EU to either become a real institution or go away. It is a real institution. > Building an army and taking responsibility for its own defense is a step towards realism. They are planning to create the army out
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The Wikipedia figure for Canada is wrong. The straight acquittal rate is ~3%, but the other 97% are not convictions, only about 60% are. The wikipedia article isn't really wrong. Only 60% of the cases go before a jury. The convic
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I wonder how many innocent plead guilty in a plea bargain Probably a lot more than we'd like to admit. > just because they don't have the resources to fight the charges. It's not just that they don't have the res
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by elfexec 7y ago
Are you a fan of Alien(s)? The first thought that popped up when I read Xenobot is Xenomorph.
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by elfexec 7y ago
I remember Harvard defending their race-based admissions policy because of privileges some groups had and disadvantages other groups had. But they never addressed their legacy admissions. After all, who is more advantaged/privileged th
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Isn't the answer the euro? Only 19 out of the 28 european union members use the euro. So I don't think the euro (a 19 year old currency ) is the answer. Unless something changes, then in the future it might be one of the answ
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Why would the United States be the one to decide if Germany is allowed to build a pipeline to Russia or not? Because the US is the sole guarantor of German sovereignty. It's why the US has tens of thousands of troops in germany. I
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I find it very curious that the Spanish Influenza epidemic is almost completely forgotten; In the US, we are taught about the Spanish Flu in school. The news mentions the Spanish Flu every year during flu season. Every other epidemic m
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Working it backward, you'd see the bad effects before being considered an "addict", the extreme case. You can see the bad effects on people on their way to extreme addiction. There is a difference between that and the va
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The effects of increased internet usage could be seen before reaching that stage. But that's true of any addiction - alcohol, drug, gambling, etc. You can see the effects before it reaches the extreme stage.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Job automation underpins the explosion of economic growth we’ve seen since the 1830’s industrial revolution. What underpinned the explosion of economic growth in the 1830s to 1850s was opium money we stole from china and whale blubber.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Kids from low income families are screwed over - again. No matter what, there will be disadvantages, but it's not the end of the world. At least they have less screentime at home right? > Tech parents are always like "f y
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by elfexec 7y ago
Agreed. Instead of removing the accounts, they should just freeze the accounts and keep them public so that we can all see what they've been up to. Maybe a red check mark to show they are verified bots?
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Any composition of conscious agents is itself a conscious agent. That's a very reductionist viewpoint and I'm not sure how correct it is. It's like saying water is wet because its hydrogen and oxygen molecules are wet. B

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