Crito

44 ms·

391.
by Crito 12y ago
It isn't a great source, but this seems to suggest it would actually be pretty significant: > "Near the galactic center, the average distance between neighboring stars would be only 1000 AU (about a light-week). If the Sun wer
392.
by Crito 12y ago
Germany perhaps, but not Japan. With Germany it is difficult to say since the post-war split of Germany is something that doesn't have a great analogue in Reconstruction. Japan did not have a porous border with the US, and although t
393.
by Crito 12y ago
I am skeptical that we can learn any practical lessons from the relative success of Reconstruction. There was a lot more in play there beyond military occupation. After the war, the South shared a massive porous border with the economical
394.
by Crito 12y ago
Most Intel fabs are in the US, particularly the new ones. Only one Intel fab is in Israel. All but one 14nm Intel fabs are in the US (the exception is in Ireland). The Intel fab in China is 65nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
395.
by Crito 12y ago
You should think about why California is growing almonds for the rest of the world. Almond growers are acting against the best interests of their community for personal profit. Using fresh water that California cannot afford to use to gr
396.
by Crito 12y ago
Because if almond-eating is actually more defensible than beef-eating, then I should be able to replace my beef with almonds and leave California in a better situation. In reality though, if I replaced beef with almonds, California would b
397.
by Crito 12y ago
The percentage is important. I don't live in California, but lets assume that the percentage of American beef that California produces matches up with the percentage of the beef I eat that is from California. I think that is more th
398.
by Crito 12y ago
It is pretty easy to determine things (with a high degree of confidence) about a large group of people having only encountered a small group of people. Of course how you sample is vital. With random sampling, it is pretty straightforward
399.
by Crito 12y ago
I used to have an alias for `vim --remote` so that I could easily open files from the commandline in a permanently running gvim session. Usually it would work, but sometimes it would just do nothing and not print any sort of error. I gues
400.
by Crito 12y ago
Those are all either solutions that require you to already be in space to set up (like space elevators), or at least require much more advanced technology than the early chemical rockets humans first used. A civilization that used those me
401.
by Crito 12y ago
On our planet, the relatively thick atmosphere makes those sort of solutions very difficult, if not impossible. The forces involved would also be problematic for human life, but those sort of systems could still be useful for raw materials
402.
by Crito 12y ago
I see this is using the +clientserver functionality of Vim. Is there any chance that this could be reimplemented using neovim's "vim as a library" functionality? Is that part of neovim ready yet? I ask because I've had
403.
by Crito 12y ago
Humans have launched things like this as well. Orbital Sciences does it with their Pegasus rockets which are launched from high-flying airplanes. They are still chemical rockets though. A key part of getting to space and staying there is
404.
by Crito 12y ago
The situation of fake/shit journals and career incentives to publish in them strikes me as similar to the issue of for-profit "universities" in the US. These are apparently popular among school teachers, who can often get un
405.
by Crito 12y ago
The system these powerful men have set up does not prevent people from breaking the rules the powerful men have set. It does however lay out potential consequences for breaking the rules, should the victim choose to navigate this system in
406.
by Crito 12y ago
You could even just use band-aids. The cotton section would protect the lens from the adhesive. You could probably even commission a run of them with some sort of branding printed on the back.
407.
by Crito 12y ago
Well in that case.... > "I don't get why employers should be forced to pay for someone's choice to have children." Because > "There are laws passed by legislators who are elected. The rule of law is establi
408.
by Crito 12y ago
Awesome breaking config so often is the reason why I currently run it with default configuration only. It sounds like I should give xmonad another look.
409.
by Crito 12y ago
Commendable even without the neo-nazi angle. Jumping into an angry mob to save the victim of their aggression is incredibly dangerous. You risk the mob turning on you as well. I don't know if I'd have the guts to do it.
410.
by Crito 12y ago
If he insists on repeatedly victimizing members of the public, and nothing our scientists and doctors can do will make him stop, then what other option is there? Even in our current system, such a person would just be in-and-out of jail fo
411.
by Crito 12y ago
Joseph's comment, which was apparently removed, was "I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink. Thanks for clearing that up..." Here is Linus himself commenting on that exchange: https://lkml.org&#x
412.
by Crito 12y ago
Work smarter, not harder. The reason he was able to get git up and running so fast is because it is fundamentally a very simple system. If you check out the first commit of git in its own git repo, you can see just how simple it is yourse
413.
by Crito 12y ago
The idea of rehabilitation, as I understand it anyway, is that anyone who commits crimes is "broken", "ill", or "maladjusted" in some way that may or may not be reversible (something is wrong with them, and we
414.
by Crito 12y ago
That improves the situation in cases where rehabilitation has been successful, but does not recognize the possibility of rehabilitation not being complete (or successful at all) after the predetermined time limit has run out.
415.
by Crito 12y ago
> one crime Since there were thousands of separate victims, I think that thinking of it as "one crime" doesn't really do it justice.
416.
by Crito 12y ago
Not really. Being sentenced to incarceration at all is a relatively new phenomenon in human history. Imprisoning people used to just be what we did before the trial, if they were convicted the punishment was almost always something el
417.
by Crito 12y ago
People who want murderers in jail for a long time are the problem? Not, you know, the people that actually murder?
418.
by Crito 12y ago
Which suggests that: > "There are lots of people that make money in the stock market by making long term bets." Is not actually a counter to: > "Being smarter than the algorithm isn't sufficient [to trade agains
419.
by Crito 12y ago
By that logic, this does happen: "it should be easy for you to go trade against them and make a lot of money." So what the hell was your point?
420.
by Crito 12y ago
I wager more programmers would object to hashcat than hashpipe; cat is for concatenating! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Useless_use_of_c... ;)

More ›