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DuskStar
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's less radioactive than Denver. Like, all of Denver.
DuskStar
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
As opposed to the European solution, where you know there's explosives in that field over there but you only deal with the stuff that floats to the surface each year.
DuskStar
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The reverse is also plausible, and whites could begin to show in-group preference again.
DuskStar
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I would strongly recommend cracking the DRM on those when you have the chance.
DuskStar
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
"My family and I went to see bears at Yosemite. It was so exciting! Can you point to Yosemite on a map?"
DuskStar
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's trivially true though? If you had a functioning justice system, the lynchers would be arrested and it wouldn't happen again.

It's also true in more significant ways, in that lynchings happened because people felt that crimes (or "crimes") were not being appropriately dealt with.
DuskStar
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
First woman of color, but not first "person of color" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis

Assuming that "significant non-european ancestry" is the determining line here.
DuskStar
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Gotcha, and your reply to the GP clarified a lot for me!
DuskStar
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I think his point is that he's targeting low aggregate uptime, too.
DuskStar
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> > You assumed a lot about the parent comment's interpretation. "

> No I did not. That the THE primary argument detractors make when they say that UBI disincentivizes work. Read enough on the arguments against UBI and you will realize that for yourself.

"If you've read enough comments, you can predict the arguments people use. So I wasn't assuming anything."
DuskStar
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
So a theory I've had for a bit now... Google maps doesn't optimize for ease of travel, or time, or anything like that - it optimizes for engagement, like every other Google product. And how would you do that with a maps product? By making routes too complicated to memorize, too specialized (back streets, etc) to generalize, and then changing things up often to prevent a route from becoming second nature anyways.

Which feels like a lot of what people complain Google Maps does...
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Curiosity used aerobraking, parachutes AND a skycrane to land. There's a great video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s

Previous solutions weren't used because they were less crazy, but because they were more mass efficient for "small" payload sizes.
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
And if you are willing to throw out the fissiles, why not a Nuclear Salt Water Rocket? [0] (warning: engineering realities may make this impossible) (one of a very short list of possibilities for a buildable-within-a-century torchship)

Other downsides include "using it for take-offs will leave a large crater that will glow blue for several hundred million years, as will everything downwind in the fallout area", but who really cares about takeoff areas? (That's for the silly plebs left behind on the ground to worry about - you're headed to SPACE!)

0: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php...
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
That's Project Vesta: https://projectvesta.org/

Basically, artificial green-sand beaches which absorb CO2 as they weather.
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The problem is, I can look at the risks of something like this, or olivine beaches with Project Vesta [0], or sulfur dioxide in the upper atmosphere - and the worst cases there are still incomparable to the expected case for climate change. Like, the "I don't know how you would do this deliberately"-tier worst case for Project Vesta would be killing all sea life within 100km of the relevant islands, and that would suck! But with ocean acidification, that's going to happen anyways, and not just around those islands. And that sort of analysis makes me think that either

1. the alternate proposals won't work (at all, which seems unlikely)

2. the expected case for climate change isn't actually as bad as people are saying it is

or

3. people don't actually care about climate change as much as they care about using climate change to push their own agendas

Personally, I lean towards #3. But that still doesn't make me very happy with climate activists.

0: https://projectvesta.org/
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Comments like this sound like "global warming isn't really a serious problem yet, so the only acceptable way to deal with it is to agree to my demands unconditionally - those alternatives are just too risky" to me.
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I think the proper way to read the GP's comment is "take every action we can".
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Okay, and? Raw death numbers, without corresponding usage numbers, are kind of useless. More people die as pedestrians, or in cars, than on scooters after all. Deaths/mile or deaths/hour would both allow some sort of real comparison.
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Well, GoLand is $89/yr for the first year, with their standard continuity discounts for further years. $200/yr is only for orgs - if you're paying for it yourself, that's not the price you should be getting.

(I've been using GoLand since when they were calling it Gogland - no complaints so far)
DuskStar
·7 tahun yang lalu·discuss
By making a transaction (or series of transactions) that happen to have a binary representation (or destination address, or comment, or...) that decodes to CP - the same way that you'd store any other arbitrary data there.