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by Iv 7y ago
The physical principles behind combustion engines and the wheel are displayed in many life forms. Their engineering constraints and goals differ. It is, however, reasonable to expect evolution to find a way to exploit quantum algorithms as
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by Iv 7y ago
Actually, rolling things, from seeds to eggs, including whole shrimps is a locomotion technique used by nature since a long time. The axle is something it does not use, and I would argue does not need. In all natural terrains, legs are a su
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by Iv 7y ago
A reason why I allow myself some skepticism on the feasibility of quantum computing is that if it were possible, I would have expected evolution to have used it somehow. If it turns out that protein folding really use a quantum computation,
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by Iv 7y ago
These festival though are not organized by delusional people who think the government is behind everything bad that happens to them. IIRC, the pages that organize this event has a million followers. That could easily translate into a thousa
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by Iv 7y ago
While I totally agree that the Sacklers should be considered like a criminal organization conspiring to kill people and would deserve long jail time, there is another goal to this confiscation than punishment. It is a way to change incentiv
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by Iv 7y ago
That does not really apply. A compiler can compile itself, it can check if its own code is valid.
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by Iv 7y ago
> The us is still one of the most free countries in the world and people literally risk death to come here. More people risk their lives to go to Turkey. That's not a valid metric. > Our government is not even close to the imperi
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by Iv 7y ago
I am pretty certain that when China used the Great Firewall to attack github, this was a test of their capabilities.
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by Iv 7y ago
What is the easiest step you recommend?
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by Iv 7y ago
That advice is what I try to do more. I think people who veer more into the logic/engineering side of it forget some obvious emotional common sense: > If you see something nice in the CL, tell the developer, especially when they add
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by Iv 7y ago
> antiaging enthusiasts Never heard of that crowd. What is it that they do? Try experimental treatments on themselves?
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by Iv 7y ago
Before Sarkozy, that was France policy for hostage takers: the only thing you will receive is the GIGN. Caused a few loss but was generally considered an overall good strategy. Then Sarkozy started paying ransoms and abducting French in war
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by Iv 7y ago
I read "Graphic Programming Black Block" and for a moment thought that the demoscene had an awesome revival!
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by Iv 7y ago
If you want a collection you can count on, you have to pirate it [1], unless it is somehow sold DRM-free. [1] https://xkcd.com/488/
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by Iv 7y ago
I earlier claimed that the Patriot act allows NSA to spy on anybody, which is correct. And semantics aside when a court orders Verizon to secretly handle all the information about calls within the US or where one end is in the US [1], sayin
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by Iv 7y ago
That quote seems to imply that they have not measured the maximum speed to receive information but the speed at which we are comfortable outputing it. There is no shortage of people training to receive a lot of information at once, and 39 b
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by Iv 7y ago
That's what I heard, yet looking at WP it classifies tomatoes and tomatillos in the same family whereas gooseberries are a different order. I am not versed-enough in botanics to know how relevant this is, but I wonder what is true or n
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by Iv 7y ago
"Faux sophisticated" my ass. EU was warning about Echelon since before 9/11. The Patriot act detailed everything Snowden "revealed" (we basically only learned the actual names of the programs). There was genuine sho
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by Iv 7y ago
"You know, that PATRIOT act really allows spying on everyone" "Come on that's just paranoia" Snowden leaks secret program that implements everything details in the patriot act. "WHO COULD HAVE SUSPECTED?"
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by Iv 7y ago
I am not sure it was as erroneous as people say. In Mexico they grow "tomatillos" which are similar to tomatoes except they are smaller and stay green. They need to be cooked to be safe. It could be generation of breeding them sel
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by Iv 7y ago
Well, first, you make a lot of kids... Joke aside, this article is... incomplete at best: > "Toxic plants are everywhere. Sometimes simple cooking > processes are enough to make them edible. But how does > anyone learn the ela
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by Iv 7y ago
Yeah, actually I forgot how boring you can make the experience once you have people addicted to it. I should know, there are tons of pachinkos where I live. The dullest experience of all...
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by Iv 7y ago
Tried what? Running a wire vs building a road? Of course non-existent wire vs existing road is not competitive. If both exist, electricity wins. If neither exists, electricity wins. And electricity has that added advantage that you can buy
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by Iv 7y ago
There is a lot of FUD spread over EVs right now. There seems to be a lot of people hating to see them branded as "green" technology. I think both the oil industry and the "return to nature"-type ecologists don't lik
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by Iv 7y ago
FYI we are at about 5% yearly now. More than half the EVs produced last year were produced in China, where the government strong subsidizes electric vehicles and taxes fuel vehicles.
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by Iv 7y ago
I am starting to think that the lithium-scare is funded by oil companies. They manage to make these "common wisdom" without ever sourcing it. "EVs changes the impact on the environment". Yes, by lowering it by an order o
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by Iv 7y ago
There is also another strong incentive for EVs in a renewable electricity scenario: smoothing the intermittence. Nowadays, electricity grids try to incentivize consumers to use electricity at night more, as they try to smoothen the consumpt
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by Iv 7y ago
Marginal cost = cost of producing one more unit of something (energy in that case) once your capital has been spent. It just says that if you have a solar panel, you don't need to spend additional money to make it produce electricity.
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by Iv 7y ago
That's a nice image, but you are making a case for storage, not transport. Transportation of (flammable) liquids require either vehicles (and hence roads or rails if you go inland) down to the last mile. Electricity requires a wire, wh
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by Iv 7y ago
Indeed, but contrary to typical articles who basically headline "WATER FROM THIN AIR!" this one actually explains the novelty of the process and acknowledges it depends on air humidity. It is not just a solar-powered condenser. An

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