lfuller

The burden of proof is on you to show it is in fact supernatural. Were it not, literally anything could be claimed as truth.

At this point in time, the overwhelming majority of evidence indicates that consciousness is deterministic. If you disagree, you'll need to provide concrete proof to the contrary.

One. They're planning on testing manned missions with their Dragon 2 and Falcon Heavy in mid-2017.

Technically, the full SRBs were never (to my knowledge) re-used. Because of the salt water damage, they were parted out and some of those parts were used in new engines.

I'm unable to deploy to Heroku, though it seems to be a problem on Heroku's end. Their Rollbar snippet is throwing an unhandled error once I arrive from your deploy button.

23&Me was using a medical test to give users data regarding their risks of certain diseases without sufficiently proving to the FDA that that data was accurate.

It's not a stretch to imagine someone acting on that information with potentially dangerous results; taking extra unneeded supplements, having elective surgery, dramatically changing their lifestyle to reduce the risk of some condition, etc.

"The student only would say it was a clock and was not forthcoming at that time about any other details."

What did they expect him to say? It WAS only a clock. There were no other details regarding its nature or use.

It was. The maintainer of jsdom decided to no longer support node after 3.x and made the library throw a condescending exception if you tried to run it with node. The docs were also filled with childish "tm" symbols whenever node was mentioned.

I see things like this all the time and it really puts me off OSS.

That doesn't seem to follow to me. If you ignore or suppress abusive language that doesn't make it stop - it just means you've accepted it.

I've read through many of the top threads on Pao over the past few weeks, and from my experience about 30% of all posts publicly used the word "cunt" to describe Pao.

I think the primary difference is the level of escalation. Protests typically involve destruction of property with violent interpersonal encounters as collateral, while terrorism usually involves torture or mass killings.

You should check out Gattaca [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/]. It's a great movie that explores some of the negatives that crop up from a society that genetically sequences all citizens from birth.

In Canada at least the title "engineer" is professionally regulated, so the terms "CS classes" and "software engineering classes" are non-interchangeable as with the titles "software developer" and "software engineer". The second requires an accredited software engineering degree and a license to practice engineering professionally.

I don't believe you can honestly compare hiding one's own communications for the sake of privacy with carrying a wartime weapon in a non-hostile public place.

It's more that your computer should be considered compromised regardless if you allow someone to gain physical access to it. You should know where your device is at all times.

I'm not willing to throw away my device's resale value to block a physical compromise attack.

I agree. By that logic, the directors of the country's top liquor producers should get the death penalty.

> My mind also drifts to very strange things, like wondering how I would know if my consciousness is not annihilated every night, and all of my memories are not simply deposited into a new brain in a new simulation (but not "me") in the morning.

I've had this exact same thing ever since I was a young child. It's gotten a bit better as I've grown older, but I used to get pretty severe insomnia from the fear that my "self" would be destroyed when I lost consciousness and the "self" that awoke would simply be a perfect duplicate.

Many news websites will pop up a paywall if you visit a link directly, but won't if you arrive from a Google search.

If you're depressed to the point of considering suicide, those things aren't exciting. Nothing is.

I disagree. I'd actually argue that I learned a lot more in my coop placements than I did in many of my classes. Maybe the UBC coop experience is different? The companies hiring Waterloo coops are usually top notch and include well known Silicon Valley companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Stripe, Square, Twitter, etc.

And it almost certainly would not have been spent on those things even if the missions were cancelled.

It's like getting angry at software companies because they're not spending all their profits on solving climate change. The existence of a problem doesn't mean that the entirety of society and technological progress must pause until it's solved.

Lag is not an issue for the listener, it's an issue for the performer. An extra 10ms of lag when wearing headphones and playing a keyboard can make you feel completely disconnected from your instrument.

This whole thread has simply consisted of you talking in circles in an attempt to obfuscate the topic at hand. Instead of refuting points with a counterpoint of your own, you modify the premise of the question and answer that instead.

What is the argument you are attempting to make? Let's start there and see where we can go, yes?

The two cannot be compared. Illegal porn (child porn, rape, etc.) is illegal because of a lack of consent and potential for assault, psychological scarring, etc. of the victim. Drugs are illegal in an attempt to "protect" consenting adults from themselves and have no victim aside from the users themselves.

Here's the same hypothetical that you're proposing from another angle: "If banning whistleblowing is doomed to failure irrelevant of one's stance on its morality, then should not the same be true of war crimes?"

By using arrow functions it's simply implied that the top level context is always being used. You don't have to define what "this" is, since it's always "this".

The lens is sapphire to avoid that problem. I've set my iPhone 6 Plus camera side down all over the place and still have no scratches.

I believe that the Falcon Heavy animation showed the stages returning to the launch facility. SpaceX's primary goals with reusable stages are reduced cost and reduced time to refurbish, and landing at the launch site is a big part of that.

In Canada it's illegal to call yourself an engineer without being licensed by the CCPE.

Since when has alcohol been deemed "safe"?

This seems to be based on Node.js and Bower? Both fully cross platform. At the worst it would be Unix-specific.