moptar

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by moptar 10y ago
Anyone who needs to distinguish 20 shades of green would develop the ability to do so. That's more culture or experience than language. Having names for them just means they have some need to communicate that information. You could do
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by moptar 10y ago
A lot of disagreement on this but it's basically true. Homeowners want to protect their investment and their comfortable lifestyle so they make sure local government restricts others from diluting what they have. If more houses could b
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by moptar 10y ago
Hopefully. There's a project attempting to do that with a simpler animal, a kind of worm on a couple of Amazon GPU clusters: http://www.artificialbrains.com/openworm
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by moptar 10y ago
It's a pity that with so many people photographing it for so long, nobody stopped to think of making a well-aligned higher resolution time lapse.
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by moptar 10y ago
For all the complaints, this sounds like a great deal for the Gtk developers. They don't have to plan ahead of time which version is going to be the stable one. If one ends up working well and they want to start on new ideas, they can
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by moptar 10y ago
If you can grow food in more hostile environments, won't that mean people move to those more hostile environments and again end up dependent on unreliable food supplies, but now slightly further into the desert/salt flats/etc
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by moptar 10y ago
It seems to be that way. Weren't the Nuremberg trials supposed to have established the idea the soldiers, or at least officers passing orders along can be guilty even if they're following orders? I suppose those were for more clea
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by moptar 10y ago
I don't understand why there's such unanimous words of support for someone who directly contributed to the half million deaths in the Iraq war. I know it's unrelated to his case, but perhaps his prison sentence and current pr
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by moptar 10y ago
The extent to which it cost human lives is a function of the arbitrary emission standards that governments have set. Those standards are obviously chosen as a trade-off between too many harmful consequences of pollution and being too expens
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by moptar 10y ago
I agree that not listing every oil spill isn't required to make a view American centric. That's not the issue though, it's a straw man. What's American centric is to focus on America even when similar things exist elsewh
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by moptar 10y ago
That's kind of like Godwin's law. It's worth comparing things to the Nazis to reveal how little we despise other bad actions. But we have unreasonably strong negative feelings about both Nazis and terrorism, so it's not
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by moptar 10y ago
That's a sadly America-centric view of the world. Shell's spills in the Niger Delta are just as bad or worse and nobody cares because it's some weird foreign country that doesn't appear in their news: https://
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by moptar 10y ago
People who can't afford it shouldn't expect it to just be given to them. I spent a long time not being able to afford a house and when I couldn't afford rents, I simply moved elsewhere. I never imagined blaming some nebulous
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by moptar 10y ago
Any change in the housing market it bad for someone. Rents going down can cause owners to lose their homes. Rents going up upsets people who want the security of living in the same place but are't willing to pay for that luxury by buyi
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by moptar 10y ago
That's not why we do conservation. We do it because we don't want the bears and other species to become extinct. In ongoing cases of people vs large mammals, the people always win. This kind of thing can't be a long term prob
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by moptar 10y ago
There's a philosophy idea that in order to say we can "see" something, we have to be able to collect consistent information by several different methods. For example if all we have is a STM, then we don't know which part