zspade

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by zspade 5y ago
There are certainly varying degrees of baseline consciousness. I think you can pull many people out of their patterns into consciousness for a short time through the right engagement, but they'll just slip back into semi-oblivion when
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by zspade 5y ago
Could this be the kind of external force required to help reduce unnecessary paper waste (junkmail, statements, etc.)? China is the largest paper consumer in the world (100mm metric tons), followed not far behind by the US(70mm metric tons)
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by zspade 6y ago
That will only work until June.
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by zspade 6y ago
The promised age of information has quickly devolved into the age of misinformation. Holocaust denial? Vaccine misinformation? Anti-mask propaganda? These things can and do cause real harm to society. To Facebook's credit, they have si
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by zspade 6y ago
It it strange phrasing to be sure. I interpreted it as sooner from birth (at younger ages).
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by zspade 6y ago
What could any explorers in the history of mankind do when they got to an unpopulated island or continent? Spread, inhabit, and help ensure the survival of their species. Whether or not you agree, some people like the idea of humanity survi
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by zspade 6y ago
This is only true for Children under 10. Children over 10 transmit contract and transmit at similar rates. Considering 11 is when puberty kicks in for many kids, this appears to support Fattahi's findings. ( https://www.nytim
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by zspade 6y ago
Except that is all the evidence we have to go on for this conversation. Verified fake tweets have been sent from prominent democrats, and not from any prominent republicans. Of course you're right that we don't know is if this is
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by zspade 7y ago
Just as long as the universe doesn't show us to the aliens, I'm on board.
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by zspade 7y ago
I stand corrected. That's what I get for trying to make an offhand joke based on some some bad info. The rest of the time comment stands though.
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by zspade 7y ago
If by the bright side you mean you would only make it there it there as pure energy. Mass is converted to energy as it approaches C (Light Speed). Though getting mass to actual light speed would require infinite energy, so that point is moo
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by zspade 8y ago
I just replaced all the lighting in my House a few months back with Hyperikon LED lighting, and really felt like it was an improvement over the previous CFL lighting. This comment alleviated some of creeping anxiety from the above posts th
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by zspade 8y ago
Since this would be over the poles, agriculture would not be impacted. There would likely be a substantial impact to ecology of these regions, depending on size of the shade of course.
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by zspade 8y ago
This really has been a common theme through mythology though. One needs to look no further than Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son on god's word. I'm not saying this is good, quite the opposite, but it seems to reflec
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by zspade 8y ago
In all fairness...
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by zspade 8y ago
I believe it was NMN and Resveratrol (or Pterostilbene.).
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by zspade 9y ago
So the experiment came down to experiencing a "Feeling of Presence" when a robot arm you are controlling touches your back out of sync. That almost feels expected, something is touching you and you didn't initiate it at that
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by zspade 9y ago
This comment invariably pops up in these threads; If it was going to, it already would have.. It's too late now. Would it have been a better solution? Probably, but the investment required (laying down the rails, land buyouts, copious
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by zspade 9y ago
Reality is objective, but our perception of it is subjective given our current limited understanding of it.
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by zspade 10y ago
Well Ceres only has a diameter of 589mi (a little over 1/4 the size of our moon). It might be a good launchpad for refueling though, given the near in-significant gravity and apparently plentiful water.
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by zspade 10y ago
I love the idea colonizing our sister planet Venus. Nearly identical in size and composition to Earth - but so volatile. Mining resources would there would be practically impossible due to the pressure on the surface, never mind the catacly
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by zspade 10y ago
If SpaceX Succeeds at this, we're going to have to update that term...
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by zspade 12y ago
Do you really think the airing employees private info was legitimatized by Sony's bad karma? For something most of the employees likely had nothing to do with?
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by zspade 12y ago
Really, this is an incredible assertion that goes against all recent research results, and therefore requires sunbstantial evidence or citation thereof. I believe his source would be the author John McDougall, who is pretty much the only pe
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by zspade 12y ago
So, if I understand correctly, this appears to be a 'man in the middle' vulnerability where you need to actually have control of a node somewhere between the user and the server. Not nearly as easy to take advantage of as the Hear
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by zspade 13y ago
Two words, Therapeutic Cloning. From the center for Bioethics and Human Dignity( http://cbhd.org/stem-cell-research/overview ): 6. What is the relationship between embryonic stem cell research and "therapeutic"
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by zspade 13y ago
Windows 7 met a much better response from the market, and at least the last time I checked(August) was still selling faster than windows 8! The entire windows 8 release has felt forced and unnatural. Personally I still cannot get used to th
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by zspade 13y ago
Wouldn't it though, at least to a degree. If the solar system were moving through absolutely empty space there would be no external gravitational forces causing the exterior 'drag' resulting in a tail.
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by zspade 13y ago
Depends on your definition of economic success. If you define it as the ability to distribute resources necessary for survival, and extend that to the species, then interplanetary travel is the only eventuality that makes economic sense.
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by zspade 14y ago
Working in IT security at a large corp, this is exactly why we cannot allow install of Chrome on any machine in the firm.

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