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by Jizzle 9y ago
be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or [heroin] ensure that those chemicals are available safely and taxed appropriately While I agree that prohibition has proven time and again to be a terrible thing, I'd also argue that some dr
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by Jizzle 9y ago
The article notes "that this is only a thought experiment." And I think it should stay that way. It's very interesting to think about, yet SQLite offers nothing but problems for developers and content creators. While maybe a
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by Jizzle 9y ago
While perhaps not immediately pertinent to the problem, the emergence of sexual reproduction is credited as a major factor in the explosion of variation in multicellular organisms. Part of the advantage, ironically, is that sexual reproduct
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by Jizzle 9y ago
Oops, should've specified C# specifically, in which deadlock has become notorious. I don't think there's anything wrong with async/await per se. It looks to me like the linearity of js engine event loops wouldn't pr
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by Jizzle 9y ago
I quite like async/await except that it's annoyingly easy to produce a deadlock, and given a snippet, it's not obvious that such a deadlock should occur.
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by Jizzle 10y ago
I think when clicks equal money, there's a lot less room for ethics in journalism. See: https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp Still, as the article points out, efforts to sanitize reporting will fail. But I think that&#x2
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by Jizzle 10y ago
You're right that simulation arguments generally don't rely on QM interpretations. I mention it as potentially detracting from simulation because a common argument includes the need for computational shortcuts. QM as it is popular
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by Jizzle 10y ago
That's true, but such proposed extensions or alternate interpretations are then filling in the gaps that would lead people down the path of the simulated universe in the first place.
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by Jizzle 10y ago
It's the most obvious counter-interpretation. I think it's become remarkably successful, but also suffers in its embrace of causality. While the Copenhagen interpretation can skirt the issue completely, Bohm's must wrangle wi
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by Jizzle 10y ago
The appearance that quantum effects might be attributed to 'hacks' probably has more to do with the hackish nature of the Copenhagen interpretation. For instance, there is no stated physical explanation for the collapse of a wavef
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by Jizzle 10y ago
Looks like it is using the electron framework http://electron.atom.io/ To be sure, JavaScript can sometimes be fairly terrible as the scope of projects grow. The advantage here is how easily rich (or even absurd) UI element
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by Jizzle 10y ago
I'd guess the typical overhead of material and contracting could be drastically different between the two markets. Also, it seems the complexity and size are far less in the Indian project. 9m modules on 4700 acres in California vs 2.5
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by Jizzle 10y ago
In many ways, the idea of IRC chat has grown significantly beyond the conventional client. From the ubiquity of chat for productivity in applications like HipChat to the hugely successful Twitch.tv platform, IRC has proven to be a viable ba
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by Jizzle 10y ago
I see a lot of beauty in the js ecosystem, but only insomuch as related technologies come together to produce platform-independent, user-facing components. Similarly, I find C# or Java and their related technologies to be more beautiful on
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by Jizzle 10y ago
Ah, thanks. This gives me better perspective.
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by Jizzle 10y ago
I'm under the impression that the reason we couldn't confirm the Higgs boson before the LHC was that electron-positron colliders could not easily produce the massive particles needed. Proton-proton or Proton-antiproton collisions
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by Jizzle 10y ago
As someone who has implemented all these before, I thought the presentation was great. Yes, there are some holes, but in under 1500 lines, ASCII art and all, a lot was covered. More importantly, the ideas put forward can always be built upo
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by Jizzle 10y ago
Hand-editing JSON may not be the most important way of interacting with it... In that case, the arguments in favor of breaking long-established compatibility for the sake of hand-editing should be particularly strong. If personal forgetfu