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by banach 10y ago
I agree, as long as colonization is not seen as an alternative to securing our continued survival here on Earth, bar the kind of catastrophic events you mention. We should think of colonization as life insurance; societal reform as a health
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by banach 10y ago
I am not being sarcastic. Compared to terraforming, or even colonizing a planet to the point where it becomes a serious alternative to Earth, they are utterly trivial.
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by banach 10y ago
I think that, before colonizing other planets, we should start by realizing that Earth can easily sustain human kind for the foreseeable future, given some pretty modest tweaks to our way of life (compared to "going multi-planetary&quo
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by banach 10y ago
A thousand bucks for the https://holidayhole.com/
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by banach 10y ago
A re-implementation of MetaOCaml was released last year ( http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/MetaOCaml.html ).
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by banach 10y ago
It does, but they are a minority.
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by banach 10y ago
> I do not see why rich people gaining disproportionately is a problem. You are free to have that opinion, but I think that the majority of the people affected by these economic policies (who by definition cannot be rich) will disagree w
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by banach 10y ago
> 'repulsively regressive' is an uninteresting cliched opinion. Note that "regressive" is technically an accurate description of the suggested policy. > The money could go into a pot of course but it's used in
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by banach 10y ago
The point is that this policy disproportionately benefits rich people, who invest a lot more, and thus stand to gain a lot more.
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by banach 10y ago
"Imagine if these people built companies that made new advances and new products." Or stayed in science and advanced knowledge without having economic returns in mind.
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by banach 10y ago
I wish I had the moral fortitude to sign and stick to this manifesto.
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by banach 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by banach 10y ago
Education for those who want another job, basic income for the rest.
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by banach 10y ago
Given that this is a reasonably small code base (compared to, say, an OS kernel), an idea would be to use a language that provides strong guarantees about correctness the implementation. For example, Spark Ada can be used to do that. Altern
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by banach 10y ago
Caffeine is available on Cask: brew cask install caffeine
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by banach 10y ago
The SpaceXes of the age of colonization, such as the East India Company, used to sell shares to fund their voyages. I was a bit surprised not to hear Musk mention this as a funding option, since he just delivered the greatest Kickstarter pi
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by banach 10y ago
Finally, colonization without genocide. Maybe humanity is making progress after all?
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by banach 10y ago
Not at all ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anarchism ).
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A TensorFlow Implementation of DeepMind's WaveNet Paper(github.com)
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by banach 10y ago
Did not know that! I guess growing at home is the only way to be really sure what we're eating.
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by banach 10y ago
Solution: eat cheap vegan food. The risk of a fake apple or carrot scandal is exactly zero.
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by banach 10y ago
I hope this shows up as a TTS option for VoiceDream ( http://www.voicedream.com/ ) soon! With the best voices they have to offer (currently, the ones from Ivona), I can suffer through a book if the subject is really interesti
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by banach 10y ago
Same here, and I always recommend to go through it together with Erik Meijer in his Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter lecture series on Channel9 ( https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Fun...
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by banach 10y ago
For a development of this idea, see https://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future
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by banach 10y ago
The working class should similarly rethink annual pay raises and instead demand annual cuts in working hours.
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by banach 10y ago
My iOS calendar, synched with Google calendar, always works. Been depending on that form of reminders for at least two years now, and I can't recall ever being let down by it.
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by banach 10y ago
My iOS calendar, synched with Google calendar, always works. Been depending on that form of reminders for at least two years now, and I can't recall ever being let down by it.
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by banach 10y ago
Nice, a modern Cabanon ( http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/le-corbusiers-cabanon/ ).
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by banach 10y ago
We have the same thing in Sweden. The mobile version also supports biometric authentication (TouchID on iOS devices) for less risky operations like logging in and transferring between pre-approved accounts. Very convenient and quite secure.
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by banach 10y ago
https://www.rt.com/news/348404-snowden-russia-terror-law/

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