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Cyber Punk / Transhumanist Cities

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What would humanity need to build blade runner esc cities, from the roads, to the holograms, to the technology? What's missing? and how do we convert existing cities into cyber punk city scapes.
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Autism isn't a superpower

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I'll never understand autism. I'm a teacher and I work with about 10 children with autism quite often. They all have different symptoms.

There's this big kid who's quiet and completely mute, won't say a thing unless he's interested in talking, then there's this extremely hyperactive kid who would scream and kick and break stuff for no reason, they both have autism, what the hell is this thing!??

I have been researching the topic, reading articles and watching video documentaries and talking with people, it's insane how different the opinions are! There's this very long documentary that talks all about how autism is just a thing where kids have some issues developing and mostly they just develop slowly, and that it isn't that bad, like they have this super sensitive sense and it's like they have superpowers, that's absolutely bullshit!! I know this 30yo autistic man that can't articulate at all! It's not just when he speaks, he can't fucking write like a normal person, "today was rainy day", that's how he talks, that's how he writes, he went to a private school and he's 30 years old, he's not fucking slow, there's absolutely something wrong with him!

Most autistic people I know don't have "trouble interacting and expressing themselves", that's not at all an issue! They act weirdly, they are intense, you talk to them and they ignore you, but not like being rude, it's like they are in a parallel world and seriously can't interact with you. You look at them straight in the eyes and their eyes feel empty, it feels like they aren't looking at you.

I don't get it, I'll never get it. This issue is far more severe than everyone says it is, autism it's awful, maybe as awful as down syndrome, it isn't a superpower, these people need to get treatment and we must fight to get them a cure, not fucking praise them online. When I was a kid I only met ONE autistic kid, twenty years later there are 10 in the same school! There is something very wrong and it's spreading
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the only thing interesting in video games is the form of the gameplay, you can get just as much intellectual satisfaction by just doing mathematics.
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Genetic enhancement through animal DNA

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>Inb4 furfag
False. I am a staunch anthropocentrist. TIL that birds brains have extreme neuron densities. The upper brain of a cockatoo rivals the upper brains of chimps in fact. A human with that kind of density would be considered above a supergenius.

People have also discovered immune system regulation genetics in species of fish that allow them to live for hundreds of years. And genes in African rats that allows the body to perfectly regrow destroyed limbs and organs.

With CRISPR and/or gene therapy, we could potentially have the ability to turn people into nearly immortal supergeniuses by adapting this code into the human genome. Thoughts?
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How is aluminum recycled properly?

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Not just cans, but aluminum that goes to scrap… so many different alloys. Does it all just get thrown together and the aluminum somehow purified before being turned into new alloys?
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Anyone high iq here?

I need to change this equation to give me the bitrate where the filesize is known

so bitrate = ...

fileSize = (duration * durationCoef) + (frames * framesCoef) + (origSize * origSizeCoef) + (bitrate * bitrateCoef)
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please explain
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Is the James Webb poopscope capable of seeing the surfaces of exoplanets? If so how many light years away is the rough limit of where it can't see them anymore?
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tl;dr - I'm looking for a precalculus book, and I've narrowed my search to AOPS and Stewart, which one of these is the best, in terms of didatics and exercises?

Guys, I'm currently learning math through a collection of HS books (about 7 books), but the exercises on these books are easy, their goal is to just get down the mechanics of the concepts without going further on more advanced problems, one which I'd have to actually think, so I'm looking for a precalc book to get more difficult exercises, and to also see the subject through a different approach/didatics, between AOPS precalculus book, and Stewart's which would you guys go with?
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