archgoon

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by archgoon 7y ago
Which on the face of it almost seems reasonable; but it seems that this would just introduce another form of sandbagging. "What are your goals for this quarter?" "Make the color of the button to be green instead of red and Wo
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by archgoon 7y ago
that's not how the walrus operator works though. if x := 3: print("x is now: ", x) print("x isn't scoped to the if:",x)
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by archgoon 7y ago
Given that there will always be an influx of new people; and that most people will not be familiar with previous discussions, I'm not convinced that most forums are being assaulted by bad actors. This seems to be more of a Eternal Sept
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by archgoon 7y ago
> 'Borgs eat Borges. Borges eat Borges.' That is amusingly appropriate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
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by archgoon 7y ago
> Farms will come back, they will just be run by corporations instead. I believe that is already the case. https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/06/state-of-american-farming-bi...
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by archgoon 7y ago
This seems like it would have the opposite effect as it would allow for higher earners to work further out and decrease demand for in city housing.
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by archgoon 7y ago
> You do realize that saudi arabia, china, russia, etc all have laws in place to hold newspaper editors responsible for printing "truth" right? Yes, and Denmark too. Also, the United States has laws about lying in print as well
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by archgoon 7y ago
Which he alludes to with the phrase "They are not important problems because we do not have an attack." That said, closed time like curves are not excluded as possible by General Relativity.
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Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters(nytimes.com)
1 points by archgoon 7y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 7y ago
"To organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible" Because they claimed they cared about this sort of thing. For a while, it seemed as if they meant it.
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by archgoon 7y ago
"Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret ! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?"
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by archgoon 7y ago
It seems quite implausible that JPL would have sufficient confidence that things would play out as you say (everyone freaks out because everyone is convinced by this line of reasoning) to deny themselves a rather good opportunity to get peo
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by archgoon 7y ago
In this case, I believe that when someone talks about super asymmetry they're probably referencing this: https://www.livescience.com/64557-the-big-bang-theory-super-...
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by archgoon 7y ago
There's been several front page news articles on HN about this. A handy guide. The original issue: "Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by archgoon 7y ago
For those like me, who are confused by the acronym DHMW, it's another name for 'Diffie-Helman'. Diffie and Helman felt that the entire scheme was based on work that Ralph Merkle did (same guy as Merkle Trees), and so should b
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by archgoon 7y ago
Just because a test doesn't catch all attacks doesn't mean that performing the test is security theatre. It's a bit like saying that ASLR and stack canaries are security theatre because they can be defeated by information lea
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by archgoon 7y ago
Unfortunately, Alcubierre doesn't use dark matter. It uses negative mass (or even imaginary mass) matter. Dark Matter is believed to have regular positive mass (if it were negative mass, we'd be wondering why galaxies seemed to ha
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by archgoon 7y ago
Bret Victor pointed out Alan Kay had to wait 50 years before something like the Dynabook was possible. And with a bit of creativity, multi-use tactile interfaces can be accomplished today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by archgoon 7y ago
> We still don't understand gravity, as it relates to entropy. Usually entropy makes things spread out, but gravity makes things come together. Weird. If 'gravity' weirds you out, put the mixture in a centrifugal chamber a
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StarTram(en.wikipedia.org)
52 points by archgoon 7y ago|17 comments
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by archgoon 7y ago
Looks like the comment remains there. :) https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central/blob/master...
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Investing in the Future 200 years in the past(nytimes.com)
7 points by archgoon 7y ago|1 comments
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by archgoon 7y ago
It's been done actually. Ben Franklin established a trust that lasted over two hundred years by design. https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/franklin-templeton/investin...
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by archgoon 7y ago
9 months is 3 quarters. A dedicated student could easily fit 12 courses into that. 12 courses is the bulk of a CS degree (barring a few electives). See for example this one: https://undergrad.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default&
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by archgoon 7y ago
You can make the trip arbitrarily small from your perspective (in theory at least :) ). The issue is that by the time you've made it back home, it's 222 years later. Hence "you can't go home anymore". :)
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by archgoon 7y ago
It's 111 light years away. For all intents and purposes, that's a one way trip right there; irregardless of the rocket equation. Even at relativistic speeds, you can't come home anymore.
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by archgoon 7y ago
It does make a difference for some unknown reason. :) > However, using the Linux system for Windows 10, the same code would seg fault. In fact, if you didn’t set the gcc -O2 option, the other examples would seg fault, too.
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by archgoon 7y ago
I believe that sharemywin's post is satire. It is at least, intended to appear to be gpt-generated.
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by archgoon 7y ago
> Lazar believed these were the components of a nuclear reactor powered by an element then unknown on earth: element 115, which, once dismissed as fantastical, was synthesized into existence in a Moscow lab in 2003 The element isn't
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by archgoon 7y ago
Why? What's the cost of doing this? What's the benefit?

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