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by berntb 10y ago
When discussing antimatter for propulsion, it might be worth checking out Robert L Forward. I saw the expression that he took the "giggle factor" out of the subject. :-) I found this overview, discussing a bit about the antimatter
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by berntb 10y ago
If you read the book (by Freeman Dyson's son) or even the wikipedia page, you'd know the bombs were quite specialized. And it would certainly be possible to allow some verification (the trigger would not need inspection, that wou
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by berntb 10y ago
Uh, the early versions of PHP was written in Perl running under mod_perl, which was not CGI. Also, e.g. fastcgi was around the same time frame. (In order not to end up in a flame war regarding the first point I checked wikipedia -- see seco
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by berntb 10y ago
It didn't really, AFAIK (not a PHP guy, but old) it got traction because it was easier to get started with than the alternatives. That said, all environments will be one of three: 1 Have warts. 2 Not be used. 3 Be in denial and claim t
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by berntb 10y ago
I'd note a simple possible solution to the Fermi paradox: A physics experiment that is logical to do, will discover new physics -- with really big and unexpected results. Or something like that. It seems something kills (or hides) civi
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by berntb 10y ago
The coming decade the answer is obvious -- something biological. It can be moved with e.g. sales of consumer products into a country. Consider a contagious plague with an incubation time of a few days put into fresh food imported into a set
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by berntb 10y ago
Addendum: When someone (at least) seems to know a lot about a subject area and have to dismiss Wikipedia without sources, it is just funny. Or sad. The original claim was -- "NASA is good at doing very big and actually pretty efficient
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by berntb 10y ago
So you have nothing to say about this weird claim you made about launch costs (or my other points you dismissed), which seems to be contradicted by Wikipedia: >> No, mostly because the 600 $ per lbs. figure touted quite often as the t
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by berntb 10y ago
Frankly, as a Swede that have a bit of insight into Finland -- I am still ashamed. Sure, a third of the total military equipment must be something of a world record. But still.
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by berntb 10y ago
All space exploration stopped, the Shuttle just cost too much to launch. Here is this criticism in a nutshell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle... NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin argue
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by berntb 10y ago
>> NASA is good at doing very big and actually pretty efficient projects when you take reliability into account. Didn't the shuttle have around two orders of magnitude larger cost/lbs to orbit than originally promised? (Is t
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by berntb 10y ago
Thousands? Around 70,000 children? The Swedish organized force (not individual volunteers) for the Winter War was trained, organized and at the front just as the peace started, so they missed most of the blood letting. We talk about sending
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by berntb 10y ago
He didn't write that he believed that. The ones that stood by and watched were us Swedes, btw. Sitting in the middle between Hitler and Stalin, you tried to do that... but it worked just for a few. (If Sweden should had joined the wa
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by berntb 10y ago
OK, your point is not that DB changes won't happen -- but that there is no use to prepare and think about it beforehand. Sounds reasonable to me.
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by berntb 10y ago
So it isn't true anymore that quickly growing companies often need to go from one of the open source DBs to Oracle, after a decade or so? (OK OK, that is a good problem to have.) Right now I miss Oracle. (Never thought I'd say tha
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by berntb 10y ago
Weird. I'm not aware of the British laws and am not going to Google the sex ads for London -- but those ought to be paid for by renting out half a flat? Considering the English reputation of being as kinky as the Japanese, those servic
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by berntb 10y ago
Just be happy you and I are not one of them (yet).
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by berntb 10y ago
Look up the English expression "for all I know". I might as well have written ""for all I know the white helmets might be working for the lizard men." Disclaimer: English is not my first language so for all I know,
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by berntb 10y ago
You are knowingly dishonest by ignoring the word "civilian". Here you have my standard reference, quite critical of the US, regarding the laws of war. Please compare the US behavior with the Syrian/Russian Rules Of Engagement
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by berntb 10y ago
It probably is -- from the viewpoint of those that bombs civilians with barrel bombs. (That said, for all I know the white helmets is a front for ISIS. But either way, the Assad junta and the Russians have an obvious interest in tarring the
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by berntb 10y ago
Think for five seconds. Consider that a population is told that something is the One True Way all their life -- and that anyone thinking differently is evil and should be thrown in jail. Are you really surprised that a large part of those p
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by berntb 10y ago
>> Iranian leadership is ideologically driven. What a weird coincidence that all the dictators that oppress their population and steal the oil money have lots of ideology... and makes lots of external enemies to blame all problems o
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by berntb 10y ago
The reason the Saudis work with Israel seems to be a common and aggressive enemy -- Iran. But yes, SA is a brutal dictatorship that for political reasons have to be more religious and fanatic than everyone else. Sounds quite like Iran, real
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by berntb 10y ago
I saw this much later. This is a misquote of what I said: >> Iran is probably the world's largest [...] >> militarily expansionist. (But, as I noted, even the Iran priests talk about "emancipating" the
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by berntb 10y ago
>> The claim of "Iran funding terrorism" is in fact due to its recent (as in decades) support of Sunni Hammas Uh, not only Hamas. There are lots of other cases. You even commented on where I gave this link to the terror stam
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by berntb 10y ago
mafribe already had (another) link to the first case. I answered by noting that I have never contradicted that propaganda for the combatants is done in an active war. And for the second "point" -- political correctness is part of
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by berntb 10y ago
So you argue: Iran don't do terror. For that to be true, you claim there is a conspiracy that control all the news and Wikipedia. (And e.g. that the Gulf countries pay tens of billions of dollars for defense -- just to make Iran look a
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by berntb 10y ago
So you argue against references in a Wikipedia article -- with a reference to Wikipedia(!). You link to something else in a neighboring country, that basically claim that propaganda is done in an active war? You can literally argue that t
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by berntb 10y ago
>> Wikipedia is not a credible source in such matters. Many of the claims are clearly dubious So.... Are you claiming that the content of Wikipedia is a USA conspiracy or a Jewish one? Or both? (Edit: I really have seen people make th
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by berntb 10y ago
The package arrived after I had to call the transport companies myself, sigh.

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