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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.

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 se…

The only problem is that knitting wasn't invented until hundreds of years later.

Use the `method` method to get a reference to the one you are concerned with, then call `source_location` on it.

> 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 …

I appreciate the source, but a website that advertises Michio Kaku is deeply disappointing.

I feel like the missing option is event handlers.

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 …

Which tug?

It's a reference to a song ("867-5309 / Jenny") by Tommy Tutone. It's pretty dated by now.

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.…

Whistleblower is a very revealing thing to call Mr. Assange.

Unionize. Demand better working conditions.

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…

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…

"Slave" cannot mean unpaid coerced laborer, especially since the society in question predated currency. In point of fact, there isn't a single set of conditions that uniquely defin…

I mean yes, the ruling class was Macedonian for a while, but saying "Egyptians became Greeks" is broadly not true.

This is like prevaricating about whether the Earth is flat. If your standards allow you to set aside direct observations then you are not being scientific, and if you don't like "s…

His comment was accurate, yours was misleading, seemingly deliberately. AGW is not in scientific dispute; the skeptics are merely unscientific -- politically motivated, if you will…

There are easier "facts" to disprove AGW that don't rely on innumeracy. I mean you don't really care, you just want to have a "gotcha" and not think past that, but AGW was consider…

I think the figure I saw was that if human emissions stopped tomorrow, silicate weathering would get rid of the excess carbon in something on the order of 10k years.

yes, and?

How do you feel about Crystal-lang?

Most often I do var_that_might_be_nil.presence || default reads better imo

The point I was making was not about objectification but about risk. I don't necessarily approve of objectification but I don't see it as a deciding factor in sexual success. Someo…