Tloewald

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by Tloewald 12y ago
How illegal is it to type on a keyboard?
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by Tloewald 12y ago
If I recall correctly Feynman thought his students had been taught to memorize facts and formulae, not to actually have a practical understanding of principles. This doesn't make the entire education system shit – it's a second or
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by Tloewald 12y ago
> Also aircraft security was too much even pre-9/11. In 1998 I was able to walk onto a plane in Sydney and fly to Zurich and walk off while barely breaking stride (I only had carry-on luggage, and Swiss customs waved me through base
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by Tloewald 12y ago
We need to learn to live without frequent air travel just because it's energy inefficient. What we need to do is get better at going places while asleep (and trains are great for that). Telepresence means getting places in a hurry will
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Minus the photosynthesis part.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
They also put the troops on the wrong beach.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Was the clock that was tested made with contemporary tools? It may be that Harrison was right (his design was correct) but so were his critics (it couldn't be executed as designed at the time).
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by Tloewald 12y ago
"Having someone stand up to Israel will more than likely galvanize the politics of Israel towards at least more militarism." Well we've tried forty years of no-one standing up to Israel and that hasn't worked (and Israel
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by Tloewald 12y ago
You post is insightful except for the last paragraph. If Iran were not a theocracy why would we might mind if it dominated the region? Surely it's no worse than Saudi Arabia. And wouldn't Israel behave better if someone could stan
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I need to go back and read Stand on Zanzibar . Back when I was in 8th grade, I read Brunner's The Stone that Never Came Down which I thought at the time was the best SF novel I'd ever read (it held my top spot for some consider
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by Tloewald 12y ago
People are still splicing movie film with razors and glue too. I wouldn't say it's a "different art form" any more than acrylic is a different art form than oil or tempura (paints in case you're wondering) -- indeed
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by Tloewald 12y ago
This is exactly "maximize consumption, ignore pollution, expand at all costs". When you decide that your use of energy / matter transcends all other purposes (including the evolution of other life) then exactly what are you
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by Tloewald 12y ago
It seems like the obvious answer is that no-one is enveloping galaxies in Dyson spheres. As Dyson says at the end of the article: "The failure of one guess does not mean that we should stop looking for aliens." The Dyson sphere is
764.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Seems like you could take rap genius and this resource and combine them into a Bayesian pop song generator. (Melodic and rhythmic progressions are the next step).
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Actually it seems to me like she is utterly correct and Uber is fucked if there's any justice in our legal system.
766.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Pedantic but the misuse of "unique" is semantics not grammar.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I see no mention of Kibo, who was an early (Usenet) presence projection who also (2005ish) eventually pretty much disappeared. I wonder if it's the fame or the sustained effort after fame has peaked. It seems exhausting.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
350h is a lifespan, and you're quoting a speculative paper. I haven't read the story extract, but I assume the plan would be to bleed matter into the micro black hole to maintain it. (Arthur C Clarke posited the same concept 40 od
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by Tloewald 12y ago
That doesn't create a lower limit, just a life expectancy. And the life expectancy is still very long — "within the lifespan of the universe" http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Pilots have been the most valuable component since WWI. The U.S. recognition of this and emphasis on rescuing downed pilots in the Pacific was a decisive advantage.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I think most people want one device not two, and they want to improve their experience with everything, not just most things. While a Chromebook met 90% of my mother's needs, the 10% of functionality it lacked was 75% of her usage.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Trying to reply to sibling post: She works as an interpreter/translator and needs to be able to write documents in multiple language systems (e.g. non-Latin alphabets) in a way she understands.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I doubt you're paying for the "free" software -- it's all loss-leaders. If anything it may be reducing the cost of the device.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
One of the problems I run into when recommending Chromebooks (I tried to convince my 75 year old mother, for example) is that almost every user turns out to have a need for something you can't do on a Chromebook. It ends up being a 90%
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Sure Apple allows native code. Apple doesn't allow third-party interpreters/compilers if they can run code from untrusted sources (Codea and some Python environments get around it by only running locally written code).
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Frankly, I think the Apple Watch (as it currently is) and the Pebble are both less useful than not needing to remember to wear or recharge a watch.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The real problem with the 10x programmer idea is that the programmers we all think of do not necessarily write more code, or even write a given piece of code faster, they write more valuable code -- code that most other programmers simp
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Where do I get these rates? Personal experience. I bought a house in 2006 and already had a house purchased in 2004. Also your figures seem wrong to me: http://www.hsh.com/natmo2007.html -- in 2007 a 1 year ARM was over 6%
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I read Cosmos having not seen the series (living in Australia at the time) and it is a great book. I think A Brief History is a similarly pitched book that's somewhat more up-to-date, and Bill Bryson is still around to revise it.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I don't want to block ads (I can use reader view in safari which is effectively the same thing).

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