averros

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by averros 7y ago
Computers don't care about your communication skills. They don't tolerate bullshit.
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by averros 7y ago
Yes, she's the only human in the current posse presidential wannabe reptiloids. Too bad that her understanding of economics is lacking. (Rand Paul / Tulsi Gabbard (in whatever order) anti-war ticket would be great... not gonna ha
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by averros 7y ago
Drones are susceptible to electronic counter-measures (ECM). As it stands now, Russia has a lead in this field. So, (presumably) has China which is busy buying Russian military hardware in addition to developing its own. Drones are great f
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by averros 7y ago
Antihistamines make you sleepy. That's why they are usually on "do not fly if you're taking it" list, even for commercial and private pilots.
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by averros 7y ago
"Nowadays, many developers don’t care about time complexity … and they’re right!" Massive facepalm. A developer who doesn't care about complexity (both structural complexity of the code, and execution-time complexity of algor
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by averros 8y ago
Methodology shmethodology. No management fad can replace thinking. Boeing 737 MAX is what you get when scrum masters get to boss around engineers.
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by averros 8y ago
It's very easy: most coders are undisciplined hackers, not engineers. Unfortunately the prevalent macho coder culture (agile, and the rest of that crap along the lines of "move fast break things") positively encourages hacki
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by averros 8y ago
No punishment for the trigger-happy cop who actually killed the man. Or to the idiots who made the police procedures deadly to the public.
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by averros 8y ago
Actual instrument-rated pilot here. What people (including pilots) do under stress is resort to simple actions drilled in by training. That's why emergency procedure training is a major part of pilot training curriculum. What goes awa
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by averros 8y ago
Turned out that the winner is Snowflake.
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by averros 8y ago
You haven't met many Russians, have you? :)
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by averros 8y ago
That is because climate alarmism has been around for quite a while and anybody who has memory longer than a goldfish's can easily recollect the promised catastrophes which just didn't happen. Anti-vaccine nonsense is often painte
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by averros 8y ago
Stupid people complaining about not being forced to give IRS an interest-free loan... priceless.
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by averros 8y ago
Depends on what your utility function is. If it's "as close to the nature right before apes became humans", it's easy to answer (though hard to justify on any grounds other than quasi-religous belief in Gaia or something
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by averros 8y ago
Non sequitur.
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by averros 8y ago
Different groups of green plants have significantly different photosynthetic cycles (notably C3, C4, and CAM) which respond very differently to changes in CO2 concentration. For C4 plants (about 3% of plants) the current CO2 concentration i
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by averros 8y ago
This isn't anything new: it was known in the USSR as "kommunalka" (communal apartment) and everyone unlucky enough to be stuck with one as a living arrangement wanted to get out. I'm really amazed at the willingness of A
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by averros 8y ago
This is totally false, as there are other parties which are interested in developing new drugs: academic researchers, insurance companies, and patients. The drug research is paid for by patients and insured as it stands now, but the FDA&#x2
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by averros 8y ago
That's what you get if your governments give monopoly on making drugs to huge corporations. Patens and enormously costly "approvals" (rather than strict liability) are the root of the problem.
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by averros 8y ago
Of course, anyone who is friends with logic will immediately spot that "socially useful" cannot be defined in any way which does not depend on (drumroll) value to the people. In other words, all Marx said is that value is created
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by averros 8y ago
Of course, the Stalinist "economic growth" was built on the bones of millions forced into slavery. Do you really consider this kind of growth desirable or sustainable?
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by averros 8y ago
Ghm. Mathematics and sciences are rather successful in reality. Natural language can be used in a rather rigid and formal manner - and mathematical language can be used carelessly and in error. (In fact, using natural language carefully ma
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by averros 8y ago
What von Mises has proven logically in 1920 (and the practical experience has confirmed it later over the course of 20th century - repeatedly, dozens of times, in different countries, with different cultures) is that a centrally planned (i.