Isinlor

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by Isinlor 7y ago
You save more lives by making biking enjoyable and care-free. If you make biking difficult people will not bike. Instead they will sit in a car and die from heart disease, obesity etc.
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by Isinlor 7y ago
> If you reach a point where one organism developed enough mechanisms to resist simple predators and that their advanced predators die out, I think it would be impossible for evolution to get out of that dead end. Evolution works on the
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Mixing PHP, SQL and HTML is ok for 200 lines apps. It does not scale to even 10 000+ lines of code and no one is doing that anymore. Some people are still using PHP just as a template language, but there are still issues with XSS, that one
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by Isinlor 7y ago
In May 2018 78% of Composer users were on PHP 7+. (Composer is the PHP package manager.) Source: https://seld.be/notes/php-versions-stats-2018-1-edition
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by Isinlor 7y ago
It's like Quora.com: - Is PHP dying in 2019? (25 Oct 2018) - Is PHP dying in 2018? (27 Apr 2018) - Will PHP die out in 2017? (24 Mar 2017) - When will PHP finally die? (13 Feb 2017) I asked people at Metaculus (a forecasting website) &
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by Isinlor 7y ago
It's not really the life support. It's the lower risk tolerance, the need to bring people back and the tyranny of the rocket equation. You can just abandon a robot on Mars. But if you want to send people to the Moon or Mars you wi
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Not doing anything is also political. Everything is political in social context.
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In other words they do pick a side - they side with Chinese government, because the communist party has a leverage on them. But we have a leverage too! If we manage to damage their brand and profit, they may decide that censorship is not to
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by Isinlor 7y ago
You could use "electric mobility scooter"; In Netherlands they are widely available for people with the need. https://www.google.com/search?q=electric+mobility+scooter+di...
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What arguments are they actually making? There is just declaration without any references. Nothing to argue against, besides blunt lies like: "Only very few peer-reviewed papers even go so far as to say that recent warming is chiefly a
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Try learning to ride bike with inverted steering, try to navigate world with your vision flipped over or use your non-dominant hand to do things that you normally do. Well, try to write on Azerty keyboard if you are Qwerty native (really, f
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by Isinlor 7y ago
You missed the second part of my question, but let's put that aside. As I said it's a nasty question. So, I think more productive question would be: How would you take away people right to procreate? How do you imagine doing that
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by Isinlor 7y ago
I would accept decline in more than 1% of world population over 10 year time span caused by ecological collapse as overpopulation. But the important question is what would you do about possibility of overpopulation however it is defined? If
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Predicted population growth will have little to do with emission growth, because most of population growth will be happening in places where people don't have even access to electricity. We, you and I, the top 10% richest people in the
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Because there is no world overpopulation. People talk about overpopulation since ancient times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#History_o... Currently standard of living are growing almost all over t
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by Isinlor 7y ago
If you look for terms that are used by bad people and not discussed otherwise, you will find what these bad people write. I don't see how someone would expect Google to police for example topics related to "The Bell Curve". R
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by Isinlor 7y ago
If you put unnecessary abstraction in front of perfectly good solution the you will end up with problems. Object oriented programing is about clearly expressing business logic. There is no complex business logic in dumping big tables of dat
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Well, not sure if Bayer is such a good name either. Bayer was part of conglomerate producing Zyklon B used by Germans to kill millions of people.
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If there is even slight doubt about credibility of a claim of extraterrestrial technology, then there is no extraordinary evidence. Again, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evide
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The evidence in this case is very weak. Someone saw something. "must include technology that is far more advanced than anything we have" Unless we get actual pieces of that &quo
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by Isinlor 7y ago
"And yet, I drive with Tesla Autopilot every day. Why?" I think we generally agree on our understanding. See my other answer: As I said, whatever the reason, there are fewer accidents with Autopilot, than without. Autopilot is a c
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by Isinlor 7y ago
As I said, whatever the reason, there are less accidents with Autopilot, than without. Autopilot is a convenience feature. The question is: Are you willing to accept only 33% less likely hood of an accident with autopilot engaged as compare
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by Isinlor 7y ago
> I have to ask myself if I would have been able to avoid those, and I can honestly say that I would have. This is not the whole equation. The question is also would you be able to react to all accidents that Autopilot is avoiding? Are y
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by Isinlor 7y ago
https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/VehicleSafetyReport?redirect=no In the 2nd quarter, we registered one accident for every 3.27 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot
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by Isinlor 7y ago
This is how most chefs lives look like. They prepare the same meals from a menu under time pressure years after years. Maybe it's not flipping burgers in fast food, but there is little space for artisanship in the food industry. You ha
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Reading the comments I have a strong feeling that people here equate Active Record with ORM. There is another ORM pattern called Data Mapper: https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataMapper.html I think that our goal as
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Banqiao Dam failure in 1975 caused as many as 230k deaths(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Isinlor 7y ago
Indeed. The best example is Banqiao Dam failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam Its failure in 1975 caused as many as 230,000 deaths. The death toll of this disaster was considered a state secret until 2005
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by Isinlor 7y ago
I use Firefox all the time and use it for web development. But modern frontend stack - with the whole pile of transpilers, uglifiers, and what not - is almost unusable with Firefox, because source maps don't work with Webpack. https:&
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by Isinlor 7y ago
"The Nobel committee gave him the prize for Brownian Motion" This is not true. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the l

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