PhilWright

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by PhilWright 7y ago
The river does not have a mind, so any decisions on what actions to take in the name of the river are actually conducted by a person/organisation. In that case it is the person/organisation that becomes responsible. So the river i
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Clearly a river cannot have legal rights. If the river bursts its banks and floods my house, can I sue the river? Clearly I cannot because how do I sue the river, who represents the river and how does the river have money to pay me? The riv
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by PhilWright 7y ago
It is more likely to be a slippery slope where you begin completely believing your technology will work and then over time it becomes more and more fraudulent. At the beginning I think she completely believed the technology would work. Afte
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by PhilWright 7y ago
You cannot use 1GB to encode more than 1GB of information. A 1GB zip file does not encode 1TB of information. Sure, you might have a 1GB zip file that expands to 1TB of data but not information. That is because the 1TB of data has lots of r
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by PhilWright 7y ago
The author is often found bashing OOP and praising FP. It's his hobby horse. Every time he needs a few clicks on his blog, up comes the 'OOP is a disaster!'. It's a wonder the world has managed to survive with the billio
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by PhilWright 7y ago
We never know the people that commit the perfect murder because no one even knows a murder has taken place. I would guess that there multiple perfect murders every year but the number is impossible to know! But I agree with her advice, only
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by PhilWright 7y ago
No doubt the US could blockade China. But given a big percentage of their trade is with the US, it involves a lot of pain and certain recession for the US as a consequence. It would hurt the US just about as much as China. A Pyric victory?
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by PhilWright 7y ago
This is something that might well happen in the future. But to retrofit this to all commercial planes is not a simple or cheap task. Many planes in the sky were designed and built many years ago and so updating them to also upload to the cl
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Earth: Dig a hole in Australia/China and process it to get rare-earth metals. Moon: Use multiple rocket launches to boost equipment and people to the Moon. Dig a hole and process it to get rare-earth metals. Send people and metals back
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Author gives an example of the S and O in SOLID but does not say anything about the L, I or D. So the title should be 'S.O Windows Forms'.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Being caught out using software you did not correctly license is not the problem. That would be fair enough. It is the burden of proof and the time it consumes when you have done nothing wrong. It would be like the police turning up to your
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by PhilWright 7y ago
QDOS became MS-DOS and not Windows.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Part of the problem is that saying 1% sounds very arbitrary and therefore implies you have not done your research. Makes me think you just make that up and have no actual realistic plan on how to achieve it. Getting 1% of most mass markets
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by PhilWright 7y ago
If you watched Wimbledon then you would see that ever scoreboard has Rolex advertising on them.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Never leave a job before you have another. It is much harder to get a job when you don't already have one. It puts you under pressure if finances start to run out, employers think you might have been pushed out and are unfairly suspici
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by PhilWright 7y ago
The total number of heartbeats also predicts lifespan, although apparently not as accurately. So is the heartbeat total just a coincident or still a factor somehow?
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by PhilWright 7y ago
No. To paraphrase Boromir, 'One does not simply invent blockchain'.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
The speed of causality is a fundamental speed limit. It is also the speed of light, the speed of gravity waves and so the limit on the speed of communication or travel. Exceeding the speed of causality would allow the creation of contradict
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I don't understand the constant outcry about Uber drivers getting low pay. Nobody puts a gun to the head of the drivers. If it doesn't make financial sense to work for them, then don't. Go work at McDonald's or somewhere
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I was once called by a new recruiter because he wanted to know what 'API' was. Apparently he could not even Google to find out himself.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
So it is actually two computers inside one box. The first is a normal computer that I presume has no access to the Internet, which would mean it has no network access at all. The other is a computer that can access the Internet that gets re
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by PhilWright 7y ago
It is obviously not the case that 'humanity seems to do nothing'. The United Nations have the IPCC working on the issue and their reports influence national policy in many countries. There are the Kyoto and Paris agreements that a
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Absolutely, I think of dead as 'brain dead' and therefore you are definitely not coming back. But the press like to be emotive and spice up the headline I guess.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Unfortunately the billions of trees provide only a one off benefit. Once they die and rot away the carbon is released back again. So you either need to prevent that carbon ever getting back into the atmosphere or ensure those forests are su
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by PhilWright 7y ago
What are the offspring called... narlugas belwhals ..?
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Hard to complain about foreign companies bribing people in your own government, if you are happy for your own companies to do that to other governments. It would be hypocritical. <sarcasm> It would be like the U.S. having nuclear weap
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I would be very surprised because he does not have a background as a software developer or in cryptography. Writing about technology subjects is a long way from being able to write cutting edge software.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
True. I would argue that Taiwan cannot stop China from having a successful invasion. They can only make it so costly that China would not be willing to pay the price. Both in manpower and political blowback.
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by PhilWright 7y ago
Anything you replace it with will, over time, suffer the same problems. If it becomes popular then it will have vulnerabilities. As technology and its uses change, it will need updating to match and so become versioned and have legacy featu
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by PhilWright 7y ago
I am baffled as to why people are saying that we are about to allow people to become immortal when we have zero evidence that we cam extend the natural lifespan at all. Today, there is not a single medicine that people can take because it e

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