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by Elrac 12y ago
Pardon the delayed response! I lost sight of this conversation. Are you a Christian fundamentalist? Well known examples include the Westbury Baptist Church and the Southern Baptist Convention. If you're not like those people then what
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by Elrac 12y ago
The US penal system is shockingly big on vengeance over resocialization. America's Christian fundamentalists like it that way because they claim as their own the worst personality flaws of their ancient Jewish war god. And American pol
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by Elrac 12y ago
Yep. Even as a long time C hacker who knows to avoid the common pitfalls, I wasn't aware of just how many ways there are to botch up the use of macros. There are lots of cases where macros look like the obvious and elegant solution to
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by Elrac 12y ago
"In the end, magic tesseract creatures and love of the protagonists saves the day, not scientific method." It's worse than this! Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I got a strong anti-scientific, anti-rational vibe from th
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by Elrac 12y ago
"C has the fastest development interactivity of any mainstream statically typed language." I wonder if this statement is true since the invention of Go. A very fast compile was one of the design goals of Go, and its authors could
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by Elrac 12y ago
Good point!
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by Elrac 12y ago
Exactly. There's a lot less cohesion and a lot less centralized power. Some European governments ship politicians off to Euro-government just to get them out of the way. Perhaps not quite justly, the Euro Parliament is sometimes consid
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by Elrac 12y ago
I stand corrected, thanks! I guess I'd need to add "sustained" to my shopping list of implied necessary criteria.
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by Elrac 12y ago
The "state of the art" looks a bit chaotic to people looking in from the outside, what with the variety of approaches being tested. But this is exactly how progress is made in science! I'm glad to see that neutron blasting is
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by Elrac 12y ago
I hoped to limit the impact of my speculation by being humble about my state of knowledge. Anyway, more information is good, and that's one less thing for me to lose sleep over. Thanks!
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by Elrac 12y ago
The argument about the fuel not turning into nuclear waste is compelling. So we're talking about less radioactive material with a shorter half-life. Win-win!
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by Elrac 12y ago
Pretty clever of them! Thanks for the heads up.
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by Elrac 12y ago
I know that. But I think you fail to realize that Europe is not the same as its government, just as the US is not the same as the US government. The analogy isn't perfect, but the citizens of the US want drugs. The American government
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by Elrac 12y ago
I'm a bit skeptical about the claim "it doesn't produce dangerous, long-term toxic waste." I'm no expert but I've read that fusion reactors will be producing massive amounts of neutron radiation (like the neutr
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by Elrac 12y ago
You're correct. Fusion is routinely achieved already, but without approaching a positive energy balance. When people talk about "doing" fusion, it's usually implied to mean "in a commercially viable way."
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by Elrac 12y ago
As someone living in Europe, I think they don't realize that, in a way, Google is bigger than the European Parliament. The citizens of Europe barely take the European Parliament seriously, and there's not much reason for Google to
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by Elrac 12y ago
This is the first I hear of a "US led coup in Ukraine." Can you share some information on that topic?
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by Elrac 12y ago
I don't know if it was intended as a dig, but even as a casual and mostly-lurking HN user I perceived it that way, and was mildly offended on HN's behalf.
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by Elrac 12y ago
For what that's worth, there's a separate subthread here where lots of people agree with you. The first time I encountered Scribd, I wrote them scathingly critical feedback indicating that it was infuriatingly awkward to use if no
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by Elrac 12y ago
Pardon my laziness: is there anything to be seen from these documents/media that we didn't know before? Anything surprising/interesting? If so, a quick summary and/or a link would be appreciated.
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by Elrac 12y ago
Maybe unlike other respondents, I'm a Go amateur. I've written three projects in Go, one of a few thousand lines and two of a few hundred. Also unlike many others, I consider Go un-elegant to the point of being ugly. In other word
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by Elrac 12y ago
I use a set of Unix utils similar to the one mentioned in the post, just to do spiffy things in a CMD shell once in a while. Other people have already mentioned that this is a much more lightweight kind of process than firing up a whole ope
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by Elrac 12y ago
This seems hugely irrelevant to me. Would you consider using Unix lookalike utilities under Windows to launch an Internet-facing Web server that allows users to do CGI scripts? Because that's pretty much the only scenario where ShellSh
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by Elrac 12y ago
Not the same user, but I once tried to get PowerShell to do an ls over FTP for me, and even with copying some sample code it was horribly painful. I can't speak from broad experience but my impression was that PowerShell does a bunch o
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by Elrac 12y ago
I enjoy this article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-way-to-prevent-this-says... Yes, it's satire.
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by Elrac 12y ago
Thank you for pointing out that this paper of Sheldrake's was indeed peer reviewed. That paper also mentions that three independent scientists were invited to attempt to replicate Sheldrake's work. In this paper by one of those sc
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by Elrac 12y ago
I am the one missing papers. Why didn't Sheldrake get this published under peer review? I don't feel qualified to judge his setup or analysis, so it would be that much more interesting to read about reactions from scientists who a
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by Elrac 12y ago
OK, "Critical views of science in the news" is probably a useful avenue of "hard looking" and quality control for science. But I think it behooves us to be a little more critical in our choice of critics. This struck me
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by Elrac 12y ago
Ignoring the content, I was mildly taken aback to find two spelling errors in the first couple of pages. Aren't these policy manuals written by supposedly smart people? And as government documents handed out to thousands of people, don
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by Elrac 12y ago
It's completely erroneous to think that nature "intends" anything. That would require intellect (at least a little), and that's only within brains, to the best of our knowledge. Things happen, in evolution and elsewhere,

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