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by AlanSE 8y ago
Another way to look at the trend - a lot of companies are moving to the cloud because they can't get the people to do it on their own.
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The concept of that movie was really insightful, but the trailer looked kind of terrible. Was there any Ghost In The Shell kind of deep philosophy, or was it just a Hollywood excuse to blow things up and do completely unrealistic action sce
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> We also know that CO2 and temperature in the geological record are linked, with CO2 changes lagging temperature changes, which rules out CO2 as a cause of past temperature changes. This sentence might have seemed logically sound to you
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by AlanSE 8y ago
Due to morbid curiosity or whatever, I can't get enough of these arguments. Yes, the initial superiority of one military is greater by a large margin and will remain that way for some time to come. But I think it's misleading word
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While I think this is a good thing, an additional requirement is needed. The published notebook should be sequentially executed by an automated tool. Users can execute commands out of order and have artifacts from deleted commands. Without
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While those are all important, I thought that the main research goal of Iter was to understand the stability of the plasma for sustained net-energy operation. Aren't there still some remaining open questions about operating a D-T tokom
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by AlanSE 8y ago
The tech for automated road trains is vastly closer than where self-driving cars are. If you feel this way about trains, then you should feel the same way about highway-specific automobile autonomy. We also need to focus on the actual probl
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by AlanSE 8y ago
> You can maybe identify "traffic light", "car", "pedestrian", and "deer" with machine learning. What you wrote makes a lot of sense to me. However, I would also hope that in a matured self-driving
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by AlanSE 8y ago
Silly question, but what do you mean when you type "ZF"?
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by AlanSE 8y ago
Poorly placed comment when the parent was discussing things like cubesats. Tiny satellites like these are probably better in the long-run for orbital debris due to a number of reasons. Firstly, by virtue of being smaller, atmospheric drag i
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by AlanSE 8y ago
There is dramatically more heat capacity in the ocean than in the atmosphere. Many power plants reject heat directly to the ocean, and clearly they do produce a local hotspot, which is much argued over by ecologists. There can be some valid
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by AlanSE 8y ago
Do people really like cube farms? Honest question.
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by AlanSE 8y ago
I've read interesting comparisons between veteran experiences after WWII and the Vietnam War. In the case of the former, the nation was relatively united, and the draft was quite universal. The cohort effect was very strong, and integr
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I don't think your proposal would do anything to reduce the rates of false negatives, because there's no incentive to avoid them. Many false negatives will never get identified in the first place, because if a side-project pedestr
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by AlanSE 8y ago
Another comment mentioned "hammer-like effects"... I can see it. Mentally, I picture a half-filed milk jug being pushed around the counter. Smooth acceleration changes cause the water level to safely assume the new steady-state, b
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by AlanSE 8y ago
You're talking about minimizing jerk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics) To my knowledge, there is no reason to minimize jerk for machinery. Only the maximum acceleration value matters.
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I don't see the term "MaxQ" very applicable here. The idea of Max Q is that you start at low aerodynamic forces and then accelerate via rocket thrust, with dynamic pressure increasing until the atmosphere density causes it to
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by AlanSE 8y ago
The article is about real pay growth of 1% per year. You are commenting as if it were about nominal pay growth of 1% per year. Accepting that housing and healthcare costs have outpaced wage growth, that mathematically implies that costs of
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by AlanSE 8y ago
Interesting points you raise, I thought about calculating this by-hand, but then I realized that actual numbers are published by actual economists. Here are some old figures: https://tradingeconomics.com/ethiopia/gdp-pe
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by AlanSE 8y ago
Just wait until detailed data on Earth-sized exoplanets comes in. That might not be very special at all. We just don't know yet.
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by AlanSE 9y ago
The steam engine was invented to remove water from coal mines, which was extracting coal to be used for heat. It was pretty darned new at that time, because the first versions operated by pulling a vacuum and experiments on strong partial v
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by AlanSE 9y ago
> as long as there is freely available land of sufficient quality For any reasonable near-term (centuries scale) prospect, there are no serious space or material constraints to outer space. Quality is a different subject, I want to get i
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by AlanSE 9y ago
That's an excellent point, and this topic was specifically dealt with in the article. > Just 2 percent of the neutrons will be intercepted by test modules for investigating tritium production in lithium, but 98 percent of the neutro
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by AlanSE 9y ago
This is a good point, thank you for bringing it up. I watched a talk by one of the MIT people on this, and their case is tremendously compelling. This is particularly true when you compare it to the pitfalls of the ITER project. At some poi
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by AlanSE 9y ago
I don't have the ability to downvote, but I can explain why I might have downvoted. The comment is repeating a saying, it's not original. I have heard it a ton of times. It's really an entire category of arguments which can b
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Practical Understanding of Lunar Cyclers(medium.com)
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Hit the nail on the head. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/blue-origin-2020-deb... ^ this was a tremendously good article about Blue Origin. I can't recommend it enough. If you can read closely, you ca
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by AlanSE 9y ago
> Can anyone explain why SpaceX is not going to invest in falcon heavy long run (switching to BFR instead)? He argued exactly why in his 2nd presentation (with the revised and smaller BFR). His belief is that a launch of the BFR will act
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by AlanSE 9y ago
natural factors already causes a fairly high mortality of offspring before they get to reproductive age, and it seems like very few species would be able to cope with an additional 3-of-4 culling for an indefinite period of time.
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> Aggregation is highly-valued, and we underestimated that. To me, at least, this is the core issue. Patreon is supposed to be the way to support creators in the internet age. If they're going to make a strong many-to-many funding m

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