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Right, thanks for the proper information. I guess you need to go pretty far into our past to get to a tailed ancestor, quick google says its 25-30myam, pre-hominid monkeys. Back scratcher manufacturers aren't going out of business anytime soon.

A cool device. Seems like its completely autonomous. Seeing as we used to have tails in our evolutionary past, I wonder if this could be fitted like a myoelectric prosthesis around the coccyx or something and function like a biological tail.

works fine for me on ff/w10

I kinda agree. Some countries already do that (eg Poland), but I really think it ought to be a tax relief instead of actual direct payment.

There is a quote attributed to Genghis Khan:

'I am the flail of god. Had you not comitted great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.'

Considering how total the destruction was that the Mongols visited on the conquered, it is almost believable. And likewise, them not invading Europe was considered to be divine intervention.

The Mongols believed the world was meant to be theirs, by divine right. Saying No to a Mongol when he asks you for something (eg your land or daughter) was considered a religious offense.

Which also applies to everyone else. The programmer job security just makes that easier in most cases.

Which is not really my point as to why they should be held responsible. The reason is the real world consequences of their actions and the scale and ease of introducing negative consequences by tech creators.

Even if they did keep that paperwork, they should be punished alongside the manager who asked them to do it. They knew it was unethical and did it anyway. They should have refused. Risk of being fired is not as big of a problem for a programmer as it is for almost anyone else.

FYI the most expensive cheese in the world comes from a certain kind of donkey. I only know this because I am a moose enthusiast, their cheese being the second most expensive.

You can't talk people into not being greedy. Definietely not while living in an economic system that is built on it.

Swamp is still easier to work with than ground which is frozen solid.

If someone is wondering why: much of Siberian land is difficult to develop due to permafrost. 65% of Russian territory, which comes up to 11.1 km2, is permafrost. Almost all of it is owned by the state/military and they probably couldn't give less of a fuck about any negative consequences.

There absolutely are provable results, you make observations, conslusions, you must show how those are linked with logic. "Is X ethical" is just one of milions of possible questions in the class of sciences called humanities, of which ethics are just a small subset. However, when doing any research including interacting with live humans, you must understably prove ethical conduct.

You're wrong, concentrating on just STEM leads to media illiteracy. I would even say it's highly conductive in breeding bigotry. Studying the humanities is essential in understanding the human condition, as well as making sense of the mass of information and cultural heirtage everyone finds themselves in.

And it got sold! I happen to remember this

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64389615

I suppose leading with a picture of it actually on fire is better than a post or pre fire photo.

Most likely his ass was literally on fire, and doing or not doing this had the same risk

If you would like to spend some time with non-agressive moose, completely tame individuals who love to be scratched or given a potato, I recommend visiting The Moose Garden in Sweden. Last time I was there they planned to also provide accomodation together with the baby moose in their separate private enclosures, as living with them is a part of taming process. The best time to visit is in late spring, as their skin produces an oil which smells like fabric softener. You cannot visit at all during mating season obviously. This is not an ad Im just a happy visitor.

Can the fish multiply? If so I have failed them

I use it for an occasional relaxing evening in a flight simulator, usually with a pop-in window with a tv show or another simpler game like chess.

From one side you are correct and entitled to be able to do that. From another, and IANAPsychologist, I doubt the psychological effect of trying to emotionally isolate yourself from people you spend most of your time with is positive.

You are right of course, I was pointing out their lineage in a half-joke reply.

Personally I don't even think where you were born has to matter, just where and how you spend your life.

Not quite, not eating pork was codified into those religions because breeding pigs in hot dry climate is a very bad idea. Same in India, a cow is far more valuable as a farming tool, so it was codified into religion. The Swan thing is pure aristocratic elitism. The guests invited to certain functions reported being served swan, and said it tasted like turkey.

And besides, British royals are Germans not Brits.

The royals do eat swan though I believe, a practice forbidden to the rest of the nation. It might be a ceremonial once a year thing but it is a thing

We used to call them cherries, because the fix would usually be a single commit to a single file with a handful of lines changed, so it would get git-cherry-picked into the release tag rather than having its own ticket, branch etc

What other solutions were discussed? Are there any crazy ones?

My favourite idea is to somehow apply massive amounts of heat to the lunar surface basically melting the given area. Since there is no wind you won't get new dust there.

I believe it is actually the other way around: butterflies are colorful moths that learned to exist during the day. The moths are also vastly more diverse and numerous.

Don't know about US, but I don't think anyone can actually force you to come to work after youve given notice. The most they can do in UK is not pay you for the notice period. And since the only reference they can later give you is "they worked here", working through your notice period is kinda optional.

True, which is why usually rewrites are a bad idea if we're talking about a project with a team and a schedule. Either way I think Star Trek shows starship captains actually listen to their senior staff, which makes sense in any environment.

It's also a great way to ruin trust within an organisation, if such urgency is too often used without merit.

I feel Star Trek is based on an engineering environment found most commonly on places like submarines. There certain elements of this environment may be needed, because lives depend on it. A different kind of environment is needed for a company making apps for instance. If there is one thing I notied from bad tech directors is that sometimes their delusions of grandure really do seem like they think they're running a submarine or a large ship.

There is another great story by Lem called Golem XIV about an AI, constructed by the US Military. It is tasked with destroying enemies of the US, to which it says something to the effect of "Why? That makes no sense" and proceeds to give a philosophical lecture, then sort of disappears. Lem was really good at breaking down common scifi tropes and presenting them from a point of view it hasn't been considered, sometimes surprisingly obvious.