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Shurikane959 karma

only 7 inches

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Shurikane220 karma

Wait a minute. A lobster with tentacles?

Did you eat Chtulhu?!

Shurikane77 karma

God, Accelerando was an existential nightmare to read. If anything, the future described into it is the closest thing to how I'd see a singularity play out in real life: soulless AIs that tirelessly enforce hypercapitalism for no other reason than because they were programmed that way, and eventually ran out of control until they became the legal equivalent of a paperclip maximizer.

Shurikane58 karma

Hi! Former private pilot here.

When doing a long flight (3+ hours), how do you alleviate the boredom between takeoff, landing and looking around for other airplanes just to make really really really sure?

Shurikane45 karma

I'm going out on a giant limb here, but who knows, perhaps this attempt could bear fruit.

I live in a city where gas price at the pump behaves like no other place in North America, that I know of. I went on GasBuddy and screenshotted a comparative chart to show what's going on.

Montreal is the only city where the price has a pronounced sawtooth shape over time. It shoots up by over a dozen cents per litre one day, gradually falls down over the next 7-8 days, then shoots back up again. Quebec City has the same behavior but it's much less pronounced. All other cities that I punched in did not exhibit this behavior.

Do you have any inkling as to what might be going on here? Have you seen such a thing before elsewhere?