ninjanomnom

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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
You could get permission from the parents to install the recording devices, but until the child is grown up the data could be kept locked away somewhere completely inaccessible. Then when the child is old enough to grant permission you unlo
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
Get a large enough population and you'll be able to get volunteers for any conceivable experiment.
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
Personally, when I'm in this situation, my phone is out and face down on the table to avoid the discomfort of it digging into me from my pocket. I've also noticed that other people use their phone less when I explicitly take it ou
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
Cruel of you to say you have cat pictures on the internet but then not share them.
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
I assumed they were saying that they'd received an email ad, not that google served an ad. I could be wrong though. I wouldn't trust what meta says here considering their past history, but there are reasonable alternate sources in
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
The moon has helium-3 which would be useful for fusion. Getting it back to earth would be easier than getting off earth, you have the possibility of cargo rail guns which only needs materials to fire which you can source on the moon.
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
At least one good use is for video games where the text of some dialogue is determined when you run the game. For example in a game I work on player chat is local and voiced by tts configured by the player for their character.
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
Taking this as true, wouldn't that mean that a lack of published papers on this topic is light evidence of being in a simulation? Also that it would be fairly dangerous to bring the subject to the public's attention.
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
That's due to a lack of theory and useful abstractions in the tools used to modify genes. We're so early on in the development of that field that if this were computers, we'd still be assembling devices by arranging logic gat
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
The alternatives then are self service, or private businesses providing assistance? If we want to endorse the former then educating people on the best way to painlessly end their life might be a good idea, the latter though seems like a bad
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
Ignoring the entire discussion of whether young children should use social media for the moment, this is hilariously unenforceable, which in an odd way makes me in favor of it. Telling children they "can't" do something, and
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by ninjanomnom 2y ago
I'd wager the majority inside the US knows that it's behind in many fields but don't know exactly which ones. We learn to disregard people speaking blanket praise but don't learn enough about other countries from our med
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
I've spent no small amount of time thinking about my own mind and thought patterns, but I've never thought I was special. When I work to understand myself and others, it feels like putting together rules for some slowly changing s
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
Higher orbits are slower, not faster. Very low orbits as you say though are less an issue due to atmospheric drag deorbiting debris. A bit higher and debris will stay up much longer, even higher up though and there's so much room we ca
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
Using gravitational lensing I imagine it's possible to get an image of the earth from the distant past, though difficult to get everything lined up right. In a more trivial sense, you could take a mirror to the moon then take a picture
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
Every additional form of communication you take part in is a burden to some degree, and depending on the person they may only have the capacity for a handful before it becomes overwhelming. Personally I can handle like 4 forms of primary co
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
I made accounts at one point or another and will look at the thing someone links at me on twitter or whatever but I've just never been interested enough to browse these sites or post anything myself. Never felt like I was missing anyth
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
There are all kinds of parks. I would argue you should probably not be letting a 5 year old loose on a biking path which would seem to me to mean it is an inappropriate place for (some) children.
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
ELO in most contexts is a sort of "strength" rating so I decided when doing a few dozen that I would choose whichever had more impact on history. Or to put it another way, I was choosing the thing that would cause the most differe
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
There's so many people on earth that someone is going to be turned on from everything, but is getting turned on by your own hand actually common? I have never heard this one before.
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
Speak for yourself there, I've been in favor of brain augments essentially ever since I was aware of them as a concept as a teen and hoping they'd arrive in my lifetime. Personally it's because I don't hold most of my id
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
Code that only triggers from a yearly holiday, disaster alerts, leap years, or the like, would have longer periods of going unused and likely be very problematic if removed. Unless by dead code you mean unreachable code in which case it sho
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by ninjanomnom 3y ago
One of the longest lived octopus species we know of has a lifespan of about 5 years, even if they were more intelligent than humans they'd have a hard time establishing a society only being able to establish 5 years worth of knowledge
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Terms like these are often not intended to be understood from just context. They're short references to complex topics that it is assumed the listener is already comfortable with, and will need to be explained if they are not. Just lik
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
I've said this sort of thing myself and every time genuinely either didn't care or said it out of some measure of pride. I wouldn't have thought people use it this way either.
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Late stage to me indicates that some sort of optimal state has been reached, not that the thing will be gone soon. Late stage construction is a nearly complete building for instance. Late stage capitalism is certainly used in this manner as
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Encoding isn't usually to obscure but to allow using characters not allowed in a URL or wherever text is being stored. This makes it a bit easier to directly take that encoded text later and decode it into something like json.
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
It looks like they meant 3D printing in many places, but still 3D technology as a term to describe modeling and scanning is reasonable. As for what technology isn't 3D, a lot of technology doesn't really have anything more to do w
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
Every year I lived in a different location but the shortest was a bit more than half an hour trip by bike and I could only safely manage a single gallon. Usually though we'd get water when we hitchhiked into town as we could get more a
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by ninjanomnom 4y ago
I never said continental, this was on the Big Island in Hawaii. Though I would be shocked if there weren't similar places in the large patches of undeveloped land in the west side of the US.

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