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9811.
by api 8y ago
That gets onto a major tangent, namely the fact that the web took over as a UI due to the incredible pain and security nightmare (bad isolation) of shipping and updating native apps. The web was a way to avoid the hell of installing a nativ
9812.
by api 8y ago
I wonder if part of the problem with visual programming isn't I/O? Coding uses the keyboard. Once you get good at using it a keyboard is a much faster input device than a mouse or a touch screen, especially for complex highly stru
9813.
by api 8y ago
The sad thing is that by the 1990s we'd figured out how to do good UI design for desktops, but then we promptly forgot every single bit of that knowledge when the web came along.
9814.
by api 8y ago
For me the motivation can be hard to describe. The best I can do is to say I try to follow a path where it feels like I am improving the universe, but that starts to sound like the back of a smoothie bottle.
9815.
by api 8y ago
This is why it's so important to divorce self worth from achievements. Everyone cannot possibly win everything.
9816.
by api 8y ago
Abstractions obey the same hierarchy as relationships: great abstraction > no abstraction > bad abstraction.
9817.
by api 8y ago
Samsung should make a laptop. Make it with as open as possible hardware and target the pro market. Offer a choice of Windows or no OS, and for Windows make it that no ads enterprise LTS version. Price it accordingly. They have the experienc
9818.
by api 8y ago
I suspect running out of coal nails it. Economics tends to drive politics. There was also probably a little thing in France about being dependent on Germany.
9819.
by api 8y ago
Why is there such a huge difference between France and Germany on this issue?
9820.
by api 8y ago
If I have to call to cancel I usually just make a fraud complaint. It causes more pain to the company in exchange for hassling me this way. I will also never ever EVER use you again if you do this, and I will provide a terrible review of yo
9821.
by api 8y ago
Interesting. I live in Southern California (LA suburbs) and there are more kids (of all races including white) than what you describe. There are probably regional differences in fertility rate. I know California is probably lower than many
9822.
by api 8y ago
I've heard rumors that the shutdown is actually a ploy to clear federal workforce, in which case he's saying "get a job at a grocery store or a bank." Of course being Trump he's doing this in the most ham fisted way
9823.
by api 8y ago
Where do you live?
9824.
by api 8y ago
Put it all toward life extension and physicists can spend hundreds of years deeply researching these problems instead of having to start from scratch every generation only to get only 20-40 years of useful working life per individual.
9825.
by api 8y ago
This isn't the precautionary principle, which is much more extreme. This is recognizing that "move fast and break things" is not a good idea in medicine. One major foul up with human gene editing and the technology will be ba
9826.
by api 8y ago
I am not at all opposed to the idea of gene editing, but I wonder if the issue here isn't that he didn't have proper medical authorization to do this. Most countries have laws against cowboy medicine for a reason.
9827.
by api 8y ago
We need to be wary of narratives .
9828.
by api 8y ago
Seems to be a similar theme: there is a ridiculous amount of money at the top that has nowhere to go and nothing to do but inflate debt and asset bubbles.
9829.
by api 8y ago
Yes, what you describe is the classic doomsday disease.
9830.
by api 8y ago
Luckily it looks like having it once confers immunity. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/ask-well-immune-to... Also bodes well for our ability to make a vaccine.
9831.
by api 8y ago
The good news here is that virus genomes are usually so small and parsimonious that they find it hard to cross significant fitness valleys between different local maxima. But they also have monstrous cohort sizes, so it's not impossibl
9832.
by api 8y ago
Cyberpunk and its derivatives are indeed going on an almost 40 years' reign. What this article forgets is that so-called "golden age" space opera or swashbuckling space privateer style sci-fi had a longer reign from maybe the
9833.
by api 8y ago
You can't do stealth in space. Thermodynamics won't let you. If you're using a whole lot of energy you will light up in the infrared. Parent's point is valid except for the fact that they might not be lighting off the de
9834.
by api 8y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if they move all production there. It's an easier and cheaper place to build things if for no other reason than land and labor costs and it's much closer to all but retrograde launch sites. They'l
9835.
by api 8y ago
I'm not a rocket scientist (heh) but I'm imagining a many-stage nuclear rocket. You'd have a whole bunch of acceleration stages followed by a much smaller number of deceleration stages followed by the payload. You wouldn&#x27
9836.
by api 8y ago
My favorite speculation is that Oumuamua is a spent deceleration stage for a larger inbound multi-stage interstellar rocket. It would probably be a nuclear fusion rocket or similar. Previous stages flew past us and we didn't notice.
9837.
by api 8y ago
You can sue for slander, libel, sex abuse, defamation, etc., right? How can you always prove a monetary loss in those cases? Also I wasn't necessarily suggesting it's actionable today but that maybe "tortious misinformation&q
9838.
by api 8y ago
I had a similar thought a while ago, but mine was that being lied to could be considered a tort. So if someone labels something as news and I investigate it and discover that it isn't true, I could sue them for misinforming me.
9839.
by api 8y ago
/* This function computes the expansion rate of spacetime. This version contains an additional factor that causes it to accelerate to allow for rapid testing of other aspects of the physics engine. This MUST be removed before the produ
9840.
by api 8y ago
It's a commentary on our age that your first thought is that it might be a lie.

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