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New comment by dreen in "A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts"

dreen — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 21:20:27 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts"

dreen — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:30:06 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable"

dreen — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:17:21 +0000

works fine for me on ff/w10

New comment by dreen in "'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)"

dreen — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:52:11 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "The Burial of William the Conqueror: A Comedy of Errors"

dreen — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:54:04 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find"

dreen — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:04:30 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find"

dreen — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:07:31 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife (2021)"

dreen — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:57:37 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow"

dreen — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:28:50 +0000

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

New comment by dreen in "Countries that will suffer the most temperature change from global warming"

dreen — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:00:01 +0000

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

New comment by dreen in "Countries that will suffer the most temperature change from global warming"

dreen — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:58:09 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple studies"

dreen — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:51:33 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple studies"

dreen — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:56:57 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Terrible real estate agent photographs"

dreen — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:30:18 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "The Prigozhin Coup seems pretty damn well organized"

dreen — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:11:01 +0000

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

New comment by dreen in "What to do about aggressive moose"

dreen — Wed, 31 May 2023 10:56:09 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Orb Farm"

dreen — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:34:12 +0000

Can the fish multiply? If so I have failed them

New comment by dreen in "Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality"

dreen — Wed, 10 May 2023 11:29:32 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers"

dreen — Tue, 02 May 2023 10:47:43 +0000

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.

New comment by dreen in "The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain"

dreen — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:09:14 +0000

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.