Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yes. Putting the year first and with 4 digits is the only safe way because, afaik, nobody anywhere uses yyyy/dd/mm. It's nice that it's also in order of significance but the main advantage is unambiguousness. You'd
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Excuse my math problem :P It seems to me that these factors can make people much more concerned about a danger: A) Few but large scale killings - eg 100 planes of 100 people each seems worse than 10,000 cars of 1 person each. B) A single id
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This is what's broken about people's ability to assess risk and address crime: " the problem still costs some 10,000 Americans their lives each year." Imagine if terrorist bombings were killing the same number of people
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by Asbostos 11y ago
In the same way that labeling a guillotine with a notice that it could cut your fingers off should not be necessary? In both cases they seem safe because the people using them use them every day and are familiar with the risks. Unfortunatel
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by Asbostos 11y ago
You could also have electrical switches. Ordinary lifts already have a risk of this and already protect against it electrically. Next time you're in a lift, try pulling the doors open while it's moving. In my experience, you can f
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I don't think they're clearly more efficient. For a tall enough building, or low enough traffic, what you save in waiting time, you'd lose in the slower travelling speed.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
If it helps, any time you choose "No effect", you're making a guess about how thorough the experiment was, not about the program itself. Every program will have some effect, but may be too small to have been detected. Similar
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Since there are 3 choices for each question, a random user should get 33%. So the average user is slightly better than random (40%).
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I would think the law would have to be designed to be compatible with an experiment. Such as being phased in at different times in different places. You'd really have to design the experiment and set objective criteria for pass/fa
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Don't forget an FM radio signal itself is trivial to hack. I did this when I was a kid so that's not a new problem at all, and probably not a danger. If the driver is going to crash because of a sound on the radio, they probably a
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This assumes the manufacturer's software has no vulnerabilities. Safer to have a hardware airgap that doesn't allow writes no matter what the software says.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
There's a rhetoric problem with being past the tipping point - it means that all the advice we've been submerged in for the past 10 years suddenly has to change from "release less greenhouse gas" to "forget the gas,
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by Asbostos 11y ago
But we protected ourselves from diseases with the chlorine. That's a massive win. Then we discovered there's a new risk of disease with the bromate, so we protect ourselves from that too. Isn't this basically how most technol
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The difficulty is that a woman who really is interested in the guy would also often politely decline all his advances, knowing that she's egging in on in some other way. It's how people flirt. If a woman says no, how can you disti
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Is this like the Muslim method of a woman's word being worth a fraction of a man's? Perhaps if 4 men disagree with one woman, then you'll accept that the men are right because their word is worth less? That's grossly unj
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Are you saying that people whose career or reputation depends on not harassing women should be allowed to get away with harassing women more than others? A great example of the right way to do things is how the BBC kicked out their biggest
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Are you sure you can't? Apartment building rooftops in China are typically covered with solar water heating panels. Sure it's not PV, but it's solar and it serves tenants all the way down the building, not just those adjacent
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Every country with an armed army or police force would be classed as irrational by that standard.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
There are some very old but hard-to-do-yourself things like compilers, early versions of Linux, etc. Sure it won't be massive, but in the long term it'd slow the ever-growing collection of GPL work, as the old stuff leaks out the
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Even forbidding killing isn't a natural law. In many societies it has been legal to kill slaves, animals, foreigners, gays, people who break the artificial laws, etc. So killing is often seen as good for society. No laws of property ow
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Good point about GPL. Some people advocate for much shorter copyright terms, just enough to make it worthwhile creating the work, like say 20 years. But that would push some GPL software into the public domain, thus damaging the GPL ecosyst
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by Asbostos 11y ago
A big difference that can make it reasonable to have long or even infinite copyright terms is that copyright works are the creations of people's minds, not discoveries about nature. Somebody else creating something doesn't prevent
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Absolutely. This is surely more theoretical than practical. Solving a linear system of equations has cubic complexity but we still routinely solve systems with millions of equations. Billions are probably being done too. We just take advant
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by Asbostos 11y ago
But what if he's right about the risk of being extradited from Sweden to the US? If that happens, the US will surely be far more brutal and punish him for Wikileaks things. We've seen them to it to Manning and threaten it to Snowd
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by Asbostos 11y ago
What's wrong with paying rent to someone in another country? There's the argument that the money doesn't come back into the local economy, but in this case it clearly does - they bought the house by paying a local seller.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Poor choice of word "survive" there. I meant economically survive in high-priced-water areas such as what California might be if it had a free water market. I agree with you that people a willing and should pay more for luxuries l
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This is the irony of water shortages. They're not a function of how much water is available. They're a function of how much money people are willing to spend on it. Water, it turns out, is a renewable resource but it costs money t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Is it really the government doing something though, or failing to do something (control water prices)? What would go wrong with a free water market? Sure some types of user that are currently subsidised wouldn't be able to survive but
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It looks like Apaches loved killing. Kind of fitting they have a killing machine (helicopter) named after them.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Isn't it hypocritical to see the Soviet Union as bad for executing a spy when this guy's [1] been imprisoned by the US for nearly half his life for the same thing? If spying is good, it doesn't matter who's side you&#x27

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