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It produces a better tea drinking experience. Well at least for me. I love rituals. Even a ritual as simple as popping a piece of lime into a bottle of Corona does it for me.

Several of these "waves of immigration" were literal invasions.

One of the less nice aspects of East Asian cultures. It's quite interesting how it seems to bypass many otherwise intelligent people's woo detectors.

When I was 14 I had a smart European teacher, who was into zen buddhism. He told of how people were beaten with sticks when they meditated to improve focus or posture or whatever.

1. So what if he wants to live in a nice neighbourhood? 2. Those things are not exclusive to expensive places. Even the poor parts of town in far away countries have those things.

Is there an advantage compared to putting each stream on a different drive?

>Imagine that Achilles notes the position ... and so on

If in logic you assume/imagine something, and reach a contradiction, then your reaction should be to reject that assumption.

In this case we reach the conclusion that Achilles cannot note all the positions.

Can we have a discussion about not every nation state being NSA and what that means?

Anyone have any tips for a productive way to deal with long compile times?

The halting problem proves that mathematics is hard. There is no algorithm that can prove/disprove any decidable statement. Not even a a superslow algorithm.

Maybe ballooning is related to that...

Your question is basically "should you bet or not?"

Said like that the answer becomes obvious: It varies from situation to situation. Some bets are good and some are bad.

Or, to account for the selection bias: People don't always come back after rejection. But when they do, they do it at twitter.

"Quantum computer" is a very specific term. DWave can compute things, and it uses quantum effects. But it is not a "quantum computer"

DMCA has been used to accomplish this in the US. A man who took a photo of a star wars action figure he had bought got issued take down requests for the photos. Also relevant is that the figurine was apparently accidentally sold ahead of schedule, but still.

I have heard that some corporations stay away from WTFPL due to some legal uncertainties that I can't claim to understand. If you use WTFPL consider dual licensing for maximum availability.

>You're seriously blaming the Chinese people for their heavy-handed government?

Yes.

>I was prepared to read something truly dreadful in the samples that he gives, but (while they're far from well written) they actually do have meaningful content. It's not content I necessarily find valuable

But that is exactly what Noah says too! That there is content. Just that it has been made needlessly complex to keep people out and wages up.

This is your first post. Why should we trust you?

>Success is addictive.

Be careful not to go too far then.

I understand your point in general, but in this case you could probably solve it by building a faraday home, and/or use a frequency that decays rapidly, combined with repeaters around your home to counter your signal suffering decay.

I see it as completely unsurprising, and would be equally unsurprised to hear of this in a capitalist country.

Is organic non-growth-hormone corn-syrup-free food that is too expensive for the poor a socialist plot?

How much does your mask help?

Generation effect

Dithering seems to work for animated gifs.

Wow what an amazing art project that isn't viral marketing. And For Just $5 You Can Have Your Very Own Copy of This Fantastic Phenomenon. We are so lucky that Sarah, no doubt after a lot of effort, managed to convince these authors to publish it.

Keep the playful SF "not everything has to turn a profit" spirit alive, Buy Now!

EDIT: On second thought, it seems a little bit too transparent. If it is actually a reverse psychology ad for a certain animated TV series, then color me impressed.

Between seedbanks and genome sequencing, there is really no excuse for us letting major (sub-)species go extinct anymore.

Spending your money on drugs and/or alcohol that you are addicted to.

Buying nice things you can't afford on expensive credit.

What happened to peak oil? We are obviously not living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland like MCR (RIP) predicted, what was it that he got wrong? Did he underestimate (un)discovered reserves? Oil sands?

The value of a debt is nominal amount times probability of payment. If it could be settled for pennies, then it would be worth even less. This may or may not be a desirable outcome.

Women seem to prefer sharing an alpha male with other women, than have a harem of losers. Because of that, I think it would increase the mismatch.

If the trait is completely neutral it will double every generation (until saturation is setting in). If the trait is like 10% negative then it will instead increase by a factor of 0.9*2 = 1.8, which is still pretty quick.

Only if it is extremely negative, by more than halving amount of offspring, will it be selected out.

That's in the short term. Presumably, some sort of resistance would evolve in the long term.