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1. 10171.▲
   by api 8y ago

   They could if it were explained to them. I doubt they could figure out a more complex sort of algorithm if they were given the artifact with no explanation. Doubly so if the algorithm involved things like calculus and modern number theory.
2. 10172.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Nordic Power Whale is also an awesome name for a metal band.
3. 10173.▲
   by api 8y ago

   I don't think a human in 500 BC had the intellectual tools to understand a modern CPU or computer program. An electronic circuit would have been absolutely inscrutable to them. A time traveler might be able to talk them through it, but
4. 10174.▲
   by api 8y ago

   When I saw this it looked more like a safety device than a way of imprisoning workers, and it seemed like a lot of media sensationalism. Am I missing something? Not saying Amazon doesn't have bad working conditions in its warehouses, b
5. 10175.▲
   by api 8y ago

   I learned about this in bio back in the 2000s. As I studied how genomes actually worked it quickly became apparent that genetic systems are absolutely nothing like human engineered systems. Every part simultaneously interacts with every oth
6. 10176.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Hasn't been since the middle 1970s.
7. 10177.▲
   by api 8y ago

   A lot of people are missing the obvious: China has roughly 4X the population of the USA. As they develop they are going to exceed the USA numerically in almost every category by sheer force of population size.
8. 10178.▲
   by api 8y ago

   I don't think the core of UX is really that subjective. It's all about consistency, polish, and most importantly cognitive load. Eye candy is highly subjective but that's not what I'm talking about.
9. 10179.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Too bad the open source world has consistently failed to create a good UX... not because it can't but because the OSS community is still full of people who have a fetish for complexity and who actually look down on good UX.
10. 10180.▲
    by api 8y ago

    They learned to contribute more to political campaigns?
11. 10181.▲
    by api 8y ago

    How could that be the case if they hold more energy or are more dense? It's just physics. I wasn't saying they couldn't work, just that if they did fail they'd have the potential to fail spectacularly. Same is true for a
12. 10182.▲
    by api 8y ago

    If it's per unit space, it's effectively a bomb. Doesn't mean it has to be unsafe. We drive around with big tanks of gasoline. But stored energy is stored energy.
13. 10183.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Americans (even some center-left ones) hate the idea of directly supporting anything, so cheap loans were used as a substitute for directly operating and funding public colleges. Same with housing. Directly supporting people is "social
14. 10184.▲
    by api 8y ago

    It also drove house prices crazy, a process that continues to this day and has ironically made housing permanently unaffordable for huge numbers of people. The housing bubble created a "new normal" for house prices that's fra
15. 10185.▲
    by api 8y ago

    It would flood the network with probes and take quite a while.
16. 10186.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I think this is possible, but I'm not sure about the details. I think their IPs need to be obtained somehow though. I don't think you can use things like mDNS from web pages without a plugin.
17. 10187.▲
    by api 8y ago

    The difference is that PCs and PC-based servers really can do everything mainframes can do if you port your software. Phones cannot do everything a PC can do, both for hardware reasons and for OS lock-down reasons (the latter is a bigger ba
18. 10188.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I've been calling it since 2008. I never saw it happening for numerous reasons, chief among these being the intentionally crippled nature of mobile OSes. I'm glad others are realizing this. I remember a few years ago when people e
19. 10189.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Zero-config peer to peer is basically impossible without central servers or some large populated list of long-term seed nodes which are basically central servers. The central servers don't have to do much, but they need to exist so new
20. 10190.▲
    by api 8y ago

    The ISS is primarily an engineering experiment, not a scientific experiment. This is lost on most of its critics. The objective was to build and operate a large space station for a prolonged period of time in order to study prolonged human
21. 10191.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Surveillance is where the money is. The appetite for data is insatiable, and since nobody wants to pay for anything there aren't many other business models.
22. 10192.▲
    by api 8y ago

    How many of the Nazis and other super divisive youtubers do you think are faking it or hamming it up for clicks? I do sometimes wonder "do these people actually believe this crap?" Same goes for totally outlandish conspiracy theor
23. 10193.▲
    by api 8y ago

    For those not following this: taxing intermediate products and raw materials encourages more outsourcing since it makes it cheaper to just offshore everything .
24. 10194.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I totally agree about shame. I've been going on for a while about what I call "abstinence based environmental policy," which is trying to shame people into being poorer to save the Earth. It works about as well as shaming tee
25. 10195.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Cars don't scale. It's really as simple as that. Growing cities must build transit and transit-oriented development or they won't be able to continue to grow.
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    by api 8y ago

    I hope you are right, but all it takes is a visit to any large social media site or 30 minutes of watching political news ( any political news) to renew my cynicism. I really don't see anyone anywhere who is even interested in the tru
27. 10197.▲
    by api 8y ago

    You're assuming the discussion would be even slightly rational. It would consist of Jenny McCarthy and a bunch of homeopaths telling parents that this is proof that the Illuminati want their kids to have autism so they will worship Sat
28. 10198.▲
    by api 8y ago

    It's a tough issue because both sides are right. Recent political and social events show that the general public is not yet able to discuss issues like this rationally and maturely. Yet at the same time science must be free to inquire
29. 10199.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I'm comparing path finding and other navigational and body maneuvering abilities within the context of their world and constraints. Insects are very good at navigating their space and other very complex behaviors that are at least as d
30. 10200.▲
    by api 8y ago

    He showed me pictures. The panel issues were really bad. It wasn't something you had to squint to see. It was visible from a distance. There was also a clearly visible scratch on the delivered vehicle. Maybe he got a "lemon,"