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I read A Brief History of Time within days of its release, and thought "meh".
I appreciate that he'd spent time on working the Maths, but that didn't make his not-even-remotely-brilliant theory either genius or right. In a subject so abstract, you can find numbers to back almost anything up.
So his latest not-even-remotely-brilliant theory will not make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hawking, and his supporters, fail to answer two key questions:
1) Why should humanity be saved?
2) What is the point of bankrupting ourselves for humanity generations from now?
I'm not being a misanthrope--even assuming humanity was perfect, why should it be saved? Also note that EVERYTHING will end a hundred billion years from now. So, does it make a difference if it's 5 billion? 1 million? 1000?
One suggestion is that we should save humanity out of altruism, except it's demanding everyone else be altruistic (to support those whose cause this is.)
(BTW; we can't even maintain a base in Antarctica 24x7x365 without massive support.)
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I don't really agree, but this:
Joe Woodbury wrote: (BTW; we can't even maintain a base in Antarctica 24x7x365 without massive support.)
is a worthy point. I think people largely fail to see the possibilities to generate proof of concept on our own planet at a reasonable cost.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Remarkable that a man in a wheelchair can jump a shark.
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Let me guess.. he'll also need a 10:1 female-to-male ratio for a breeding program? 
Dr. Strangelove - Wikipedia
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: 10:1 female-to-male ratio
Works for me... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Except I've seen the chart and you're stuck with the former East German swim team.
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Give me a few days, and I'll work up numbers to prove we have to do it before Tuesday.
Oh.
It'll be too late, by then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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More than 3 million people (three times previous estimates) are estimated to be actively using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, finds the first global cryptocurrency benchmarking study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. "There is nothing quite as wonderful as money"
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The role of the chemical bit, the 'chit', can be fulfilled by a simple arrangement of three droplets in contact with each other, in which oscillatory reactions occur. Mix me up a computer then
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At 10, Scratch is a popular tool to teach kids programming. But its real glory is how it imparts lessons in sharing, logic, and hackerism. "They give me cat scratch fever."
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The Visual C++ Team is elated to announce that with Visual Studio 2017, it has substantially improved the quality of the C++ Modules TS implementation in Visual Studio, in addition to introducing ability to consume the C++ Standard Library via module interfaces. Comedy is hard: you try to make a joke about modules
Although, they completely resisted using more punctuation. Good for that.
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Did anyone else notice the article inadvertently showing why combining locale computer and web searches into a single box on the start menu is a roaring dumpster fire? Web result 6 for "visual studio installer" was "visual studio installer hangs".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The site keeps alive a hidden tradition of text-based art, a visual history interwoven with that of social media. Party like it's 1977?
1988? Trying to remember when I last was on a BBS...
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Advanced attackers are using a blend of in-memory malware, legitimate pen-testing tools and a compromised updater to attack banks and tech firms, warns Microsoft. I hope the uninstaller removes it, or Microsoft will really be cross with them
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Application Guard works by creating a virtual PC that is entirely separate from all storage, other apps, and the Windows 10 Kernel, meaning that the browser should be completely impervious to malware. At least until you have to disable it to get any work done
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Security company G Data says that a new piece of Android malware is discovered every 10 seconds. At this rate, the company is predicting that there will be 3,500,000 new malicious Android files by the end of the year. If that upsets you, take a deep breath and count to 10
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The platform to replace the smartphone will be a mixed-reality device like HoloLens, says Microsoft tech guru Alex Kipman. Just throw it away. Throw it away.
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The low intensity of light indoors suits this hardware just fine. So, my LED lights can power themselves?
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How is this news?
The news was dated Oct 20, 2014 for crying out loud!  
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Be fair: He fell for an e-mail scam, and had to spend three years in the deepest, darkest forest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Vivic wrote: How is this news?
The news
You seem to answer yourself. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Transport Canada has recalled the vehicle, which is classified under the official categorical designation of “STAR WARS,” for its tendency to experience failures in “extreme cold temperatures, such as on planet Hoth or in Northern Canada.” Just in case you're still using yours
I would have thought they'd warn about harpoons as well.
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