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sethrin
Joined 14 years ago
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Comment · 9 months ago
I have no particular idea whether there's a business case for humanoid robots or not. I would love to have the argument set out well. Perhaps you'd indulge my curiosity.
Comment · 1 year ago
That there can be differing viewpoints on this matter is demonstrative that sex as well as gender is a social construct: the categorization and distinguishing characteristics of sex are normative. It's deeply ironic that the people complaining about "gender ideology" are in fact its purveyors.
Comment · 1 year ago
The only problem is that knitting wasn't invented until hundreds of years later.
Comment · 1 year ago
Use the `method` method to get a reference to the one you are concerned with, then call `source_location` on it.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Even worse, there are programmers who have only had a high-school education and just seem to ''be good at it''. These scenarios and how they really do play out in real life have detailed at length.
This is classist at best and personally offensive.
Comment · 1 year ago
I appreciate the source, but a website that advertises Michio Kaku is deeply disappointing.
Comment · 1 year ago
I feel like the missing option is event handlers.
Comment · 2 years ago
Neat. I visited Valdez, Alaska lately and a friend was pointing out the tugs there. They seemed somewhat larger than other tugs I've seen. A data sheet says they have about 4x the horsepower of
Heidi Brusco
, coming from a pair of CAT C280-16 engines. I'm not clever enough to figure out how those are started. Cool boats are cool
Comment · 2 years ago
Which tug?
Comment · 2 years ago
It's a reference to a song ("867-5309 / Jenny") by Tommy Tutone. It's pretty dated by now.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think I'd argue for a
sui generis
classification, which does partake somewhat of the whistleblower, but it seems like calling Napoleon a general. He was certainly that, at times. Apologies for the nit-picking in any case.
Comment · 2 years ago
Whistleblower is a very revealing thing to call Mr. Assange.
Comment · 2 years ago
Unionize. Demand better working conditions.
Comment · 2 years ago
I do tend to think I live a bit more in the present because of aphantasia. However, I also do have an experiential memory. It's not great, and largely not visual, and to the degree there are any visual elements they're pretty useless, like burnt fragments of a Polaroid. I think you're kinda having a hard time imagining this condition.
Comment · 2 years ago
This seems like a bizarre statement, or at the very least your thesis does not seem supported by your example. There is no particular reason to think that Roman civilization should be the same after the passage of 500 years since the supposed founding of Rome. Ascribing that in any significant sense to Hellenic influence seems ill-founded; there was a massive difference in fighting style, and hence military virtues, in societies where military virtues were all-important. Also, as far as I know (which is admittedly not a great deal), early Roman combat and armament was more similar to the hoplite armies than later periods. Perhaps you can allay my ignorance here.