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...Which means you can start the countdown on the development of widespread countermeasures, which will disproportionately harm smaller sites.

Just fabulous. /s

That’s a fascinating question, and it strikes me as having subtle dimensions. I’d expect racing drivers to have a tendency to speed or be somewhat overconfident, but I’d also expect them to have exceptional situational awareness, reaction times, and skill.

Maybe they make for better drivers in their prime, but as they age they would tend to have the negatives outweigh the positives. Maybe my assumptions are all wrong.

Do you know of any studies on this issue? It really does seem intriguing...

Completely right. The major military uses of nuclear weapons are as sources of powerful shockwaves which are devastating to drag-sensitive targets, and as firestarters. In both cases, you can optimize for these effects over a given area by using 100kt-1mt warheads, and airbursts with overlapping blast radii.

The problem is that as yield rises, the losses to the upper atmosphere are proportionally greater, as is fallout. Multiple targeting with smaller warheads solves that as well, which critically allows for more efficient burning of nuclear fuel.

Finally, the larger the fireball, the more likely you’ll have it touching the the ground leading to losses, and kicking up more debris which will mix with fission products and unburned fuel. Of course that’s also one way to use a standard nuclear weapon in a manner more consistent with an enhanced radiation weapon, real “salting the earth” stuff. That is generally comsidered to be bad form, even among nuclear powers.

Well you’ll certainly never never hear me arguing against that point! Sorry, I just didn’t quite understsnd what you were getting at originally.

It’s fascinating and telling that this comment was heavily downvoted, but not surprising. What’s a bit sad is that in that flurry of attempts to disappear your comment, no one had a reply.

This seems to be a pattern on HN.

Edit @ Brucephillips:

What beat is effectively saying is "Keep your mouth shut about your victimization. We're talking about ours right now." Is it surprising that that sort of callousness would be downvoted?

By the kind of people who would yell at an anorexic support group for saying that their attempts to derail said meeting with their traumatic history of obesity, was inappropriate? No. You’re a smart bunch, but I’ve figured out the reason that you all talk about “soft skills” like some kind of distant light you could never hope to approach.

Is it ironic that a discussion of women trying to establish a site for their own use leads to a subset of this site reacting badly? No.

Am I surprised that any time a group tries to address issues which disproportionately harm them, they get the “all lives matter!” attack? Also no.

I’m no longer surprised when people act like children because they don’t understand how to relate to others, or feel an overweening need to make any conversation about them.

Thanks for asking.

Edit 2: Rate limited.

That’s why I asked you to clarify what you meant by, people with disorders that make it harder for them to distinguish reality from non-reality...

People with disorders is incredibly broad, as is the second part of your description.

Have you ever had success in life or online with that tone? Really?

What disorders do you have in mind? What severity? People who are truly broken from reality, i.e. psychotic would have a hell of a time playing s video game for any length of time.

It seems more like part of a more comprehensive bundle of services to me, not something you’d offer solo. Maybe bundle it with a service that takes EULAs and generates billet point lists of their main points?

The games on the market are not remotely realistic, they’re violent pantomimes. People are hacked and slashed and shot, and they’re either fine, or they drop dead. There’s no human being hurt, and you have a Hollywood movie’s idea of what shooting or dismembering a person looks and sounds like. People don’t whimper, stink, piss and shit themselves and spend a delirious hour moshing for their mothers. You don’t smell their stomach contents, or their intestines or bile.

Most of all though, a few seconds later they vanish and come back to life. No one is crippled or killed, no one is widowed or orphaned. Video games are not realistic violence, they’re graphic games of tag. If you doubt it, volunteer at a busy city ER for a few months.

Beyond that...

The notion of “priming” is some murky nonsense which it seems, cannot be well replicated. Behavioral studies have been just horrendous, and often poorly constructed, yet their conclusions are almost always fodder for political and media hysteria.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-scien...

It’s sad that a couple of decades of confirming the null hypothesis vis a vis video games is still news.

Binding arbitration is societal and legal poison, and must be killed. I strongly encourage everyone in the mean time, to opt out ASAP!

Edit: At least you’ll be in court, or part of class action, rather than stuck in their arbitration system!

For example they can use it to argue that sending an opt-out mails indicates that you have read the clause. It also indicates that you have read the TOS in general. It also indicates that you agreed to the rest of the TOS. Etc etc.

Edit 2: It doesn’t, it implies that you read this thread, or their announcement.

Head over to MGTOW and see why. Maybe the need for men only groups in a society we generally have dominated is intrinsically different from women doing the same? In the same way that MRA’s inevitably raising the issue of female-on-male spousal abuse is both true, and a smokescreen. It is the “all lives matter” approach to scuttling honest debate.

That has to be the most nakedly and cynically dual-use tech I’ve ever heard of.

Really? That strikes me as very odd. “Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action/a pattern.” To paraphrase a family of quotes.

That’s not a superposition or probabilities, and not really subject to this thought experiment. What you’re describing sounds more like quantum immortality, not related to suicide. The problem either way is that you only get to make your own observations... maybe that means you die, and in a branch you don’t. You don’t experience that branch though, if it exists. You don’t have any awareness of other branches now, right?

The problem is... why and how does your consciousness “move” to another reality? What is the physical mechanism that has you living and not a twin in another universe who isn’t really you... after all, you died when the bombs fell.

Most Of all though it’s important to remember that like Schrodinger’s cat this is a thought experiment meant To illustrate certain problems or features of quantum mechanics. It is an analogy or metaphor for a system dominated by quantum effects, like a single radioactive atom with a 50-50 chance of decaying in the next second. These thought experiments don’t really suggest alive/dead cats, or immortals, they highlight how quantum systems differ from Classical ones.

These ideas have led to various interpretations of QM, such as The Copenhagen Interpretarion (wavefunction collapse) and MWI (multiple universe). None of those interpretations are very rigorous, and may well be indicative of gaps in understanding as much as anything else.

Doesn’t really explain the tinnitus, the recorded sound, and while you’re right that no human bio markers exist there are characteristic forms of demyelinating injuries. There’s really never a reason to be that focused on a differential diagnosis, especially when there is no treatment.

...Unless you’re a nation state that really wants to figure it out. If you’re willing to put people through hell just to diagnose them, it’s probably doable.

Look at this thread... the only thread on this entire submission, all stemming from the same post. I’m not the one posting flamebait, and I wasn’t the first to react with incredulous disgust.

If you want to improve this site, I’d start to crack down on non-technical submissions about cryptocurrency. They’re as bad as stories about Trump for predictable bullshit, and equally predictable squabbles along ideological or self-interested lines. It’s a cross between boring and grotesque that so much time is spent here saying essentially nothing about the latest ICO scams or currency forks. What part of this is intellectually satisfying or engaging?

Worse, the daily dozen+ front page stories about this crap displace genuinely interesting submissions and discussions.

This could work, but if not then you’ve handed the prosecutors ironclad evidence of your premeditation.

I’m not a fan, but DeBB/Pilot Wave interpretation is also compatible with the predictions of QM.

Where those affected known to have visited the US embassy?

Do you really think a battery of tests weren’t run for any toxin with an acceptable symptom profile? Ciguatoxin is hardly undetectable, along with virtually all of the pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and toxins listed.

Hence the challenge of 6D (2,0) superconformal field theory.

Sure, unless like most people you’re obsessive about not letting that happen. If your phone dies just long enough to hide your location during a crime there’s other evidence of you committing...

...let’s just say you’d better be perfect in every other aspect of that crime.

That evidence also speaks to premeditation, and mens rea.

I’m not arguing against privacy, or for this kind of abusive tech used in the system. I’m just saying that this particular story doesn’t make for a great exemplar, anymore than the guy who was nailed because of his smart water meter. There are plenty of examples of surveillance abuse and slapdash prosecution without having to rely on this.

Even better, I find that not murdering people is a much easier solution to this problem.

Organized crime has typically been highly diversified, and it seems odd that the most successful organized criminal organizations would ignore those opportunities. Typically so-called vice crimes such as illegal prostitution and gambling are the base of the pyramid, with protection rackets, violence for hire, and whichever dugs are in demand. Human smuggling is another source of income, although I don’t know much about those practices in the Americas.

Iirc they’re getting into avocados lately.

Edit: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41635008

Damn.

In quantum suicide, your means of death must be both the result of a quantum superposition, and 100% lethal... otherwise you might just be in this universe, horribly maimed. Now, a nuke on your lap with the trigger hooked up to sense the decay (or not) of a given radioactive material is probably valid, but global nuclear war? No way. Odds of surviving all out nuclear war Are pretty lousy, but decidedly non-zero.

This is possible, but probably represents a drastic misunderstanding of MWI/QM. I’d you’re thinking I. Terms of branches from quantum superpositions, then it would be a certainty, but a certainty among u counted multitudes. If you’re thinking Quantum Suicide... just no. Nuclear war does not fulfill the requirements of that gedanken.