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The percentage of the fuel used relates to the kind of fuel and the amount of work done.

There's a lot that I won't ever say online, even anonymously, that I would say in person to someone I trust. So for me talking to trusted people is level 4.

CS degrees are accredited, why don't they count?

> waste of digital resources text is both information dense and highly compressible. this means that whatever's there doesn't take much space, and then additionally you can compres…

If it helps, I recently rolled back to the Firefox 45 ESR... it leaks memory like crazy but at least it streams audio and video without stuttering. I don't notice snappiness proble…

What makes you think an artificial neuron would be a faithful replica? Virtual models of other things and processes are readily detected by humans as inaccurate / imprecise.

Or you could do it yourself: > The benchmark runner is a Python program (requires at least Python 3.5) that you can use to not only run the benchmarks themselves, but download the …

Decent treatment: https://www.quora.com/Is-crazy-a-slur Personally, crazy the noun is worse than crazy the adjective.

> Crazies in General I wonder if, given the social unacceptability of mental illness, it will ever be socially unacceptable to slur mental illness.

I've finished IV, V, VI, VII. I think VI and VII are much better not just in terms of graphics but also gameplay, plot, dialog, and characters. That said there are still good thing…

1) Can't is different from unlikely to. 2) Aquifers do.

Oh, I was thinking more like trees, biodiversity, and water honestly. Sharks, plankton, etc. Even if oil became scarce, energy doesn't look like an issue in my lifetime, there's al…

Hmmm, ok, so I think cognitive empathy probably subsumes affective empathy, with safeguards to stop you from getting overwhelmed by it. [edit: Or at least therapists do both of the…

My favorite is when other tech people (investors, etc.) stare at you blankly after comments like, "A PhD is like a startup in many ways."

We're eating resources faster than we're replacing them. I suppose the alternative is to eat resources at the replacement rate - this is what sustainability is supposed to be about…

The empathy you and everyone else are talking about is not what a clinical psychologist / psychotherapist / competent psychiatrist means by empathy. Yours is more akin to what they…