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by ColanR 7y ago
Off topic, but based on the discussions here. I'm seeing a lot of discussion here about how the lifespan of humans (not counting infant and teen mortality rates) may not have improved much in the last thousand years. As a tangential qu
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by ColanR 7y ago
I don't think that looking at lifespans for the industrial revolution has any bearing on what lifespans used to be 'historically'. It was pretty clear to me, from reading the GP that they were talking about pre-industrial re
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by ColanR 7y ago
So either go all the way, or give up and accept it?
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by ColanR 7y ago
That is 2G, which is what is being phased out.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much difference between that and just trying to enjoy a modicum of privacy.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Where might I find more information about this?
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by ColanR 7y ago
In that case, we will just pass around the same old stuff until we get bored enough that we'll actually pay for new stuff.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Alternatively, they might be renting expensive GPUs, and they are trying to minimize how many they are running in parallel. 24 hour turnaround probably lets them run each generation consecutively.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> How on earth is it "toxic" to state a fact? Older people are generally easier to manipulate... That's not true. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3525123/Generation-...
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by ColanR 7y ago
You described several crashes and a number of bugs, above, which is what I was responding to. Even from your generous assessment of Wayland/Sway, it seems like my X11/i3 system is more robust and stable.
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Intel Claims that the Core i3–8145U is Better than the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U(medium.com)
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by ColanR 7y ago
I use i3 (with X11), and the last time I messed around with my graphical config was when I installed the system 18 months ago. Haven't had any issues even close to what you're describing, much less the screen tearing that I have
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by ColanR 7y ago
I've seen this sort of comment frequently: "it's 2019, why are we still doing n?", as if somehow it should be assumed we have grown out of it. It's a completely unsubstantiative argument; its effect is to sweep unde
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by ColanR 7y ago
yandex also seems pretty good.
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by ColanR 7y ago
There are a lot of mountains in the US where you're going to spend hours driving up steep inclines. I used to live on the wrong end of a 2 hour uphill drive with one gas station in the middle. That road was steep enough that even a gas
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by ColanR 7y ago
Honestly? Some megacorp that discovered a profitable reason to be up there could (and probably would) make the whole thing happen. They would have the motivation, and the colonists would be glad for the excuse to get up there.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Google is an ad company with delusions of grandure. It's nothing more, until it finds a way to turn a profit on its other ventures. (Just like those startups - realistically, until they turn a profit, they're just in the explorato
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by ColanR 7y ago
For myself, I think there's enough information available that something like the FBI could still trace even monero.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Crypto is easily traceable.
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by ColanR 7y ago
You just print them out.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Which thinkpad is that?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Cool!
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by ColanR 7y ago
Too bad.
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If we're nearby to each other, we could get it started. You in the DC area?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Isn't that what the author says we have (or are approaching) already?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Nice! I'll check it out.
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by ColanR 7y ago
You call the originator of the EM drive a crank; I am proposing that the widespread adoption of your dismissive attitude is in large part the cause of the current scientific stagnation observed by the author. I also suggested that the other
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by ColanR 7y ago
That is almost precisely my own intention. There should be a club. Have you heard of one?
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by ColanR 7y ago
I wonder if what the author is observing is an effect of the industrialization of science. As she pointed out, > Because the existing scientific system does not encourage learning. Physicists today can happily make career by writing pap
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by ColanR 7y ago
> PG&E should be nationalized and the infrastructure properly managed and invested in (including burying distribution and high voltage transmission lines), instead of profits being syphoned off for shareholders while the electrical g

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