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by M_Grey 10y ago
Hell, they even tried mercury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory#Mercury_dela...
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How the Organisation of the Roman Army Made It Always Ready for War(aeon.co)
9 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Someone suffering from late-stage plague looks like a rotting, moaning, stinking pile in a bed, it's not mobile. It's possible that this was a result of the difficulty in determining the difference between near-death, and death, b
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well, that's not quite the same as fraud, which is a much higher bar to prove. I absolutely wasn't disputing that if you're not getting the advertised service, you should seek recourse, I was just disputing "fraud".
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I can see how what I wrote can be read that way, but I meant more that human history and the history of humans in power is not a positive history.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
At a guess this is a result of Comcast using the absolute, most mindbogglingly cheap hardware on the planet Earth. Second to that I would guess some kind of incompetence, and only after that would I seriously entertain what amounts to thef
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Epigenetics Is Not What You Would Call a Settled Field(blogs.sciencemag.org)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yes, because time and again we see that we're all the mob, and someone always has leisure, and money, and power, and it always ends badly. Ignoring that and pretending that the current order (whatever current happens to be) is someho
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't think that adtech is offering anything more than a lateral move. Instead of hand-waving and tarot cards, now it's lying spreadsheets and "targeted" ads that we all joke about because they're about as targete
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm glad that you came to the same conclusion about talking helping, like you it was difficult before that. In my teens and early twenties a lot of people just assumed that I was weirdly calm. It's not easy for people like us to o
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Speaking as someone who is apathetic to this entire issue, and the broader issue of religion and faith (and I mean deeply apathetic; an apathy arrived at through lengthy searching and introspection)... who cares? Virtually any piece about
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's pretty much what I worry about too, and "we're all living longer," only helps if we're able to sort the signal from the noise of the end of life. Plus, and this goes to TEL (great example!) too often people j
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I really have no patience for attacking people on the basis of what they do with consenting adults, especially considering the problem with non-consensual contact that exists. It's not just petty, it's not just the worst of office
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Millions of Atoms Entangled in Record-Breaking Quantum Tests(sciencenews.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
This is a good point, and I make a habit of using a VPN with robust DNS leak protection (there are only a few I know of). My concern long-term is a kind of soft pressure to abandon it by upping CAPTCHA challenges, and that kind of thing. I
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's really him? I loved that book as a kid! It was the first book I read that opened my eyes to the world of system administration, intrusion, etc. It's one of a handful of books that I still have on the shelf and loan out to t
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I was pretty much sold just on the notion of giving this as a gift, but now I'm truly, deeply sold. That sounds like a business I'd go out of my way to support.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
A bit of historical study should teach you that only happens in extreme cases, and even then it takes a long damned time. See: Arsenic and mercury as coloring agents. The problem is that if the background noise is loud enough, you can&#x2
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I had a similar experience, and I'm a bit slow to process extreme emotions so in crisis I'm very calm. A few days later though, it hit me while I was in the shower and my guard was down; I started shaking and I didn't know
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I honestly think it's more a burgeoning understanding, often born from painful personal experience, that some professions draw a disproportionate number of psychopaths and sociopaths. Law enforcement, Corrections, and High finance acco
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's not even that it's unique to tech, it's mostly unique to a specific subset of tech. There's a reason that 'Silicon Valley' is also a comedy, and it's not a compliment. Yes, you can find this behavior
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Should we be worried about artificial intelligence? By “we” I mean humans(askamathematician.com)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm always looking for youtube channels like this, and that's right in the timeframe I look for. Thanks!
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I just lost interest in virtually all movies in my mid twenties. They're too short, too alike, to predictable and frankly boring most of the time. There are very very occasional exceptions, but for me, movies just stopped being enter
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well, to do it all at once you'd need an icy planetoid, but that's not realistic at all. More "realistic" would be a fleet of robot probes designed to steer water ice laden asteroids onto a collision course with Mars. It
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's important to realize that when it comes to terraforming you have a tradeoff between speed and cost. The notion of producing an atmosphere in a 100 years is borderline magical, but certainly staggeringly expensive in terms of ene
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Oh god. I remember hearing some years ago about the ancient ancestors of guinea pigs... bison-sized, roaming in packs. Looking at the claw-marks, clearly from a far more enormous sloth, really puts the relatively puny Guineazilla into persp
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well... credit for solid intuition then.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Of course this leads into the realistic aspect of science fiction... sufficiently advanced drive technology is indistinguishable from a weapon of mass destruction. We love to talk about fusion drives or antimatter reactions propelling us be
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Considering the original comment to which I'm ultimately referring, can you actually imagine such as situation as it relates to humans and "artificial gravity"? Presumably we're talking about the scale of a space craft

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