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by Certhas 7y ago
This is utter nonsense. There are things that are hard to replace, but all of what you talk about is being studied by scientists extensively. Obviously not climate scientists, becasue, duh, they are experts on cimate, not on long haul shipp
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by Certhas 7y ago
In different jurisdictions the standard for a trademark violation is vastly different. In some European countries you can't name a competitor in an ad (so no Coke vs Pepsi ads). So this case seems to be well within the range of what tr
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by Certhas 7y ago
Hossenfelder is refering to the ongoing discussion in the physicist community on this topic. Some of the giants of the field (Wald, Ellis) semi-regularly exchange papers on this. It's not a hunch. Green and Wald tried to proof that the
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by Certhas 7y ago
Nothing about this is aggressive. And having maintained compilers for ancient languages is really really different from having an unmaintained, obsolete runtime/interpreter/ecosystem. And nothing is stopping you from installing Py
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by Certhas 7y ago
That's an overly literal reading of the statements quoted. The context of the statement is "when it comes to treating our planet well". That is, at the timescales at which we are currently threatening the integrity of the eco
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by Certhas 7y ago
Sure.
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by Certhas 7y ago
Also note that the headline is wrong. He is talking about planets outside the solar system. Terraforming Mars is quick and easy compared to flying to a more habitable planet.
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by Certhas 7y ago
You pretend like you made an argument that due to peoples behaviour, the regulation will be counterproductive. That is not what you argued or wrote in the post I replied to. If that is what you meant to write then your argument was indeed _
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by Certhas 7y ago
You argue as if protecting the environment was optional. And you start your argument with the hidden assumption that what consumers want should trump all other concerns. I don't necessarily agree with downvoting your post, but your arg
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by Certhas 7y ago
I'm sure the experts that wrote this legislation never considered this problem that you just came up with in 5 seconds. /s We have regulation that makes machines safer. This is regulation that makes machines safer for the environm
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by Certhas 7y ago
Banks are heavily regulated, and Libra would not be just another cryptocurrency. It's reasonable to expect that it would have been (and still might be) considerably more powerful than any one existing bank. Comparing it to the toy mone
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by Certhas 7y ago
Still, they are the monopoly marketplace online. They should be doing _everything_ to avoid looking like they are abusing their monopoly position to muscle into other fields. The fact that they don't seem too bothered just seems to ind
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by Certhas 7y ago
It saved me from having to live in a world with an overly powerful, not democratically legitimized financial entity. Given the power cooperations already yield this is a _good thing_ in my view.
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by Certhas 7y ago
Lage der Nation had a really good summary of Libra and summarized a lot of the concerns, especially on why this is not a case where you can let them do their thing, and regulate afterwards, when you've gathered some experience: https:
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by Certhas 7y ago
i x is x rotated left by pi/2 df/dx = f df(ix)/dx = i f (ix) so the "velocity" is always orthogonal to the "position". Thus the solution to this equation in the complex numbers has to be a rotation.
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by Certhas 7y ago
I believe a source to source differentiator could deal with all these (where well defined of course), e.g.: https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl julia> fs = Dict("sin" => sin, "cos" =>
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by Certhas 7y ago
However, the built in abilities to facilitate structuring code are somewhat lacking in Julia. I would really like a Protocol system of some kind...
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by Certhas 7y ago
It's certainly _very_ different to MATLAB and Python. After all a lot of the performance sensitive libraries written in C/C++/etc... in Matlab/Python are written in Julia itself. It really depends what you mean by produc
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by Certhas 7y ago
Indeed, and while there is plenty to still be worried about, a lot has been addressed, too. Further we are now starting to see the pay-off with amazing algorithmic innovations being implemented in Julia. We have working code to code automat
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by Certhas 7y ago
"Any complex system could be broke down in simple axioms and some concepts." This is the crux, I don't think that's generally speaking true. I don't think Java and C++ could be broken down into a few simple axioms a
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by Certhas 7y ago
I would put it like this: Haskell derives from (relatively) simple axioms/concepts that have a rich and complex interplay.
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by Certhas 7y ago
It's simple as opposed to complex, not simple as opposed to difficult.
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by Certhas 7y ago
Agreed on all points, but you will pay for all this with usability issues and early adopter bugs. The error messages are horrendous, documentation is lacking, and if you run code on hpc, saving the data is probably going to cause you datalo
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by Certhas 7y ago
In the story about their battery plans it says: "Volkswagen said that by 2025, it needs 150 gigawatt hours worth of battery production capacity in Europe and another 150 in Asia."
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by Certhas 7y ago
And why not? Remember that VW has ten times the R&D budget that Tesla has [2], and that they are committing to going heavily electric over the next years, and that the plans for this switch have been developing over many years already.
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by Certhas 7y ago
That's an extreme outlier though. The vast majority of BEV vehicles sold are Chinese. And I am not sure it will last either. Volkswagen is planning to switch a factory that puts out 350.000 cars per year to 100% EV by middle of next ye
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by Certhas 7y ago
Yeah, a lot of it is elitist. In other parts of this thread people are complaining about Vimperator being broken by the switch to WebExtensions. The switch to WebExtensions allowed all the excellent performance improvements we have been see
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by Certhas 7y ago
Vimperator was used by millions? I think it had about 10.000 users total. Reality is, most popular add ons got ported very quickly, and the subsequent speed and reliability improvements for Firefox that would not have been possible while ke
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by Certhas 7y ago
Well, you don't know how it works but you're sure it's a scam and ridiculous? I would suggest informing yourself about the basics of energy markets first before making such definitive statements. Obviously the electrons you g
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by Certhas 7y ago
There was a study recently that came to the conclusion that EVs are already cheaper to own in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/12/electric... Is your context significantly differe

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