Recent content by Nukekitten

So, the world I'm in at the moment vs a world where it was not hugely uncommon for many of my gender to die screaming, there was no effective birth control, very limited social mobility for the great majority of the population, and you probably had to toil most of your life just to not die quite...

I'd need either to believe that the government we had at the moment was abnormally malign or that the revolutionary had a very good idea to back them over working to change the current system. Any fool can advocate for 'change.'

Uhm. Unless you have some reason to believe that the person writing is a trustworthy source with sound judgement and access to the relevant facts, that's going to get you misled a lot. The risks and returns of that strategy seem unlikely to balance. On the return side you have that their...

Yeah, that by all accounts I've seen happens a lot. However: Why do you think that not having one makes employers respond in that way? I don't have a Facebook account and have been employed for around a year and a half at my current employer. When I spoke to the girl in HR who did the...

I can't concentrate on anything complex with music on. So all the things I do while music is on are routine, 'Already know how it works, just need to write it up.' style tasks, games that are mostly about visual spatial skills, or things where I'm worried and don't want to think for a bit.

Within the tradition they seem to draw from for a lot of their choreography it makes a certain degree of sense to have a guard like that. Of course, if you can set it up so that the blade won't cut the little bit your blade is emitting from then it makes far more sense to have a longer bit for...

Uhm, if your job doesn't pay you, then you cease to have an obligation to show up to work (although they still have an obligation to pay you for work done). You only acquire the obligation in the first place because you both agree to a certain balance of duties on either side. What you're...

Invest a few million in projects to provide myself a passive income, buy a nice house, set up a few funds for immediate family. Take the rest and use it for charitable endeavours. Just don't have any use for that sort of money.

I'm not sure how combining the stats would be meaningful, considering that the stats were given as a ratio of deaths to population. I mean I know how you'd combine the populations and move your average, I don't know how it would make much sense as compared to going off of something like per...

Yes. Not because I'd expect them to be arrested or for anything to be done about it but so that if they kept turning up or something more serious happened there'd be a description of them and an event clearly tying them to me. IMO, the time to report stalking and harassment and that sort of...

Only what love would ask of you. If you've been around your parents for 16 years or so and you can't stand the sight of them... well, I assume you have some reason for that, or an absence of a reason to feel otherwise, and would not judge you particularly harshly if you decided, 'Hey, I don't...

Last I saw the figures (2010) you had 11.87 traffic deaths per 100,000 population - or at least that's what's in my database at the moment. Which was about average for America in that year, it's not high but it's certainly not low in the same sense that somewhere like Washington was. It's...

"it sucks that driving is like that where you are, and maybe you're obliged to drive in that manner because that's what everyone around you is doing and it would be more dangerous not to, but I don't think that it reflects on the general feasibility of automated cars that drivers in your area...

Driver training where I am is probably quite different to driver training where you are judging from that. If I'd done 55mph through a place with bad sight lines or dense civilian traffic, regardless of the posted speed limit, I'd have failed my test. Seriously, there are areas around here where...

Uhm. This seems like a different discussion to be having than the one in the post I responded to which, as far as I understood it, was about whether even if we improved object recognition computers would be capable of making those sorts of decisions. I took as one of your assumptions that a...