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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
This is not just an issue with regard to CMEs. An electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear weapon could do catastrophic damage. One Second After[1] was written in an attempt to help bring attention to the devastation that a single, well-placed
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
I wonder how much of the $100M[1] is going to get aimed at this planet. 1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-an...
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
I'm curious on people's thoughts on Paribus. I guess I'd need to set up a new email address to shop with because I'm not too comfortable giving them the keys to my email.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
You'll excuse me if I express some skepticism about the "downfall of the US Industrial might". Only China produces more and only a handful of G20 countries' industrial base is growing faster.[1] 1. https://ww
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
That blank period, where you know things happened but have absolutely no recall, is horrifying. I have a period like that, and it still bothers me a lot.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
In any sufficiently complex system, chaos can always rear its ugly head, no matter how good the engineers. The quality of engineers is then reflected in how well they respond to those cases. With space, you add other variables like micromet
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
That's is not remove code due to undefined behavior, so is an apples/oranges comparison. If we keep your function, but the call looks like this: int value1, value2; value1 = compute_value_1() ComputeStuff(value2) #
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
I'm not sure how much I trust a judicial oversight that has rejected somewhere in the range of 11 out of 34000 petitions. And it may not even be the FISA court's fault: “The FISC is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the informa
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
The 3rd Party Doctrine made sense when you were physically handing something to somebody else or whispering something in somebody else's ear. In today's world, its interpretation is ludicrously antiquated. Unfortunately, I don&#x2
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
It's more than just warrants, it's any information about information gathering at all . https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/new-eff-aclu-amicus-br...
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
What happens to all the power being generated by all the wind farms, solar cells, and nuclear and coal plants (and hydroelectric?)? My understanding is that those can't go on- and off-line rapidly (one of the big advantages of natural
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Of course we still have a lot to do. The point is we have been, for the last half century or so, moving in, generally, the right direction. We live in a time when every single skirmish around the world shows up immediately, 24 hours a day.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
I'm not sure that is objectively true. This is worth a watch to compare the first half of the 20th century with the time since: https://vimeo.com/128373915
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
My mechanisms for pain and suffering really aren't any different from those of a dog, a pig, a cat, or a rat. The mechanism is the same, but the effect is very different. Other animals do not exhibit the anxiety about expecting or ex
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Because she was George W Bush's National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. She was a proponent of the NSA's warrant-less wire-tapping.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Valuations are instantaneous. It is, roughly speaking, how much a buyer would have to pay to buy the company right now. That's easy to do with public companies because it is just "trading price * number of shares". Venture-b
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Giving out stock has potential tax implications for the employee. She could be on the line for taxes for that stock without actually having any increase in liquidity.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
It depends on how "page views" is defined, but I can imagine a case where the same number of pages were viewed, but the interactions on that page increased as people began commenting more on reddit than on digg. Reddit doesn'
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
DNA storage[1]? It will be very interesting to watch computers become more "organic" over time. DNA for storage, processors that are correct "most of the time", deeper and more broad neural networks, etc. 1. https:&#x2F
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
On the other hand, you have a constant accelleration towards the sun, so you can use parabolic orbits to move sunward (at least, until you reach Voyager I).
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
But managers still need to get approval from executives to purchase it. And who wants to go into a budget meeting pitching for "CockroachDB by Cockroach Labs"? They desperately need a name in there that will be palatable with ex
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Competitive eating (including stuffing 110 hot dogs down your throat[1]) is popular in Japan. Is "unhealthy fastfood pretty entrenched in Japanese culture"? 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Kobayashi
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
I thought the same thing. I love avacodos, but I've given up purchasing them because I'm so bad at finding the millisecond they are ready to eat before they turn to mush.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
A 150 foot long skid mark seems like pretty compelling evidence of unintended acceleration.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Having watched my kids grow up while observing this effect, I've come to the conclusion that kids' nervous systems aren't as sensitive as adults. That, or they are just brain damaged. :) Ignorance is an interesting question.
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
It's more than that. Finding a real-world, compelling, useful product based on a new technology is much harder than just developing the technology. This is, of course, obvious, because in both cases, you will have to develop the techno
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Which is probably not going to end well for the people in the front seat in a sudden deceleration: http://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/vehiclesa...
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Minimum wage works because it improves some workers' negotiation positions so that they can capture more of their job's economic surplus That's great, if the job has enough economic benefit to the employer to cover minimum
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
This hits us hard. I would love to deploy almost everything we do on pypy, but legacy code dictates the use of C modules that don't have pure python implementations that come close to the necessary functionality. Compatibility with the
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by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
Doing good Python would help. You don't need the backslash on the first, making it a little cleaner: map(lambda x: x * 2, filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0, [1, 2, 3])) But the list comprehension version is just completely w

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