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It may well be that it makes cycling seem more dangerous.

People are not blocked from being AAA movie stars on the basis of their gender.

High quality timber framed houses are built in Europe and the US. Bricks have a much larger carbon footprint, are more expensive, do not insulate as well as a wooden frames with proper insulation. Brick walls also take longer to assemble. Timber framed houses can also be cladded or plastered on the outside.

Predictably the top comment here says that this is unjust. No idea why....

hmm I did not know there was a windows version.

For me that is what makes such uses of wealth so shocking. Doesn't notch have a better idea just how much 70m is and what it could do for other people.

Tony Soprano is the protagonist. He has people killed and kills people. He isn't set up as a villain.

Yeah and the popularity of the Sopranos showed tacit approval of the American mobsters.

Do you have evidence of that? That is pretty much exactly what is in question.

high-status men > high-status women > low-status women > low-status men.

Going to need some evidence of that. Seems like bullshit.

Wouldn't this require quantum computing to be developed relatively gradually and in the open? Seems likely that a gov or company will suddenly reveal it or have it exposed.

That will not happen because current nuclear power just isn't economical without government guarrantees.

Also: https://github.com/rossgoodwin/plotgen Generates novels from tvtropes.org and erowid.org

Could you describe how such a cross over could happen smoothly? Seems like there would be mass panic, all the mining rigs would have to re assemble etc.

Here is the relevant point in their ToS:

3.3 You shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by us in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our (or our third party providers’) infrastructure;

Bullshit. If you believe they don't oversell their VPSs you are living in a fantasy land.

Wait so because women don't 'typically spring to mind' as programmers they should have changed it from the original?

They are only threatening because the election is coming up and an anti EU party got a surprising amount of votes in the EU election (still not that many in real terms).

Ah yeah. You kind of have to read philosophy straight to get anything out of it. Skimming isn't really an option.

I come from philosophy where the standard is to do full page text. It doesn't seem to harm readability there.

So I have a question about papers. It seems the standard in comp-sci and much of science to do two column layouts even for pages that are entirely text. Why is this?

Huh? We have a pretty good understanding of the externalised costs for these. There is no mystery for storing waste and there is a very strong understanding of how easy it is to decommission. What externalities are you talking about?

Coming from python and not knowing VB I found the Do Loop syntax tricky at first. I am used to a loop explaining how long it will run for at the top (similar to the for loop here).

Being pseudocode I found it odd to mix loop syntax. One loop has its conditions at the top and the other at the bottom. I guess that is just taste though.

It is much easier to be nice when you are successful in the sense that you don't have to work as hard to benefit the people around you.

Yet when it is actually measured (by which I mean more than just considering what you think of your wealthy friends) people who are less well off turn out to be much kinder. This has been measured and isn't speculative.

But regardless of the evidence we can just appeal to how people actually behave. How many successful start up people are 'nice' or even good when considered against the world net and the potential they have. We all have the opportunity for radical redistribution, but the ridiculously wealthy even more so. To talk as if they are somehow nice because they help other people of similar privilege is in very poor taste.

The remarks about needing safety come off as particularly horrid in the context of the vast wealth inequality the article is describing in such a joyful way.

Like fuck do successful start up owners and investors need security more than someone working a temporary contract for minimum wage to support a larger family in worse conditions. They are the people that need security and safety.

Did anyone read the article from Helena Cronin that was one after the Eugenics one? Absolute drivel. Even worse than the Eugenics piece.

What motivated that choice of psudocode? I found it very hard to read.

The person you are replying to didn't say anything about Nuclear being bad. They made a point only about cost.

He may also have been practising a risky method of forcing a card on you. It is standard advice to do this often as it is the only real way of getting good at it.

Magicians probably wouldn't be playing in the same situations as standard chess players and it would probably be easy to usurp this norm with throw away lines like 'and I don't even need to play as white against all of you'.

Speculative articles about technology/science are not philosophy.