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by brango 9y ago
Don't forget they had to drag them from Southern Wales. Getting them in place was just the final phenomenal feat.
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by brango 9y ago
Who mentioned ancient astronauts? Archeologists don't seem to be as blasé as you about this: > Nothing puzzles archaeologists so much as impracticality, and although the karst topography of Baalbek demands strong foundation stones,
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by brango 9y ago
The mainstream view of our history has some massive unexplained mysteries. For example the ability of ancient people to work with massive slabs of stone in a way we'd struggle to do now even with modern machinery. Not just the Pyramids
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by brango 9y ago
Doesn't String Theory require 13 dimensions or something? Maybe that is a way around FTL travel.
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by brango 9y ago
Damn video editing software :-(
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by brango 9y ago
If life is common in the universe they'd be pretty busy. Maybe resources are plentiful and there's no need or they have no desire to conquer us. Your "first principle" is a complete assumption.
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by brango 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZ2mSnaC44 It's not perfect, but shows the same object from multiple angles.
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by brango 9y ago
You'd hope fighter pilots would be able to identify a balloon when they see one.
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by brango 9y ago
I think it's entirely reasonable they don't want to come down and chat since they don't want to end up having to give us their tech. After all, how will they know they've given it to the 'right' side, especiall
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by brango 9y ago
Maybe they just want to study us. If we discovered an alien race it'd be pretty interesting to watch them evolve. It'd be just like the fun parents have seeing children grow up.
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by brango 9y ago
Unknown unknowns mean you don't know if there's a way to make fast, long distance travel feasible. From a Newtonian perspective quantum physics sounds like a complete joke. There are undoubtedly other discoveries yet to be made. I
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by brango 9y ago
But they're not keeping quiet. Literally hundreds of reports have been made, ex-military willing to testify before US Congress (Disclosure Project), cryptic comments from ex-astronauts that hopefully in future "the truth will come
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by brango 9y ago
Yeah #3 is certainly the most likely and is what I always assumed. But over time I've come to think that they are here. So probably the next most likely is #1. Maybe they just know more science than we do. Look how far we've come
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by brango 9y ago
I'm sold on the whole UFO cover-up thing. If you peel back the social ridicule (very successfully induced by US government collaboration with Hollywood) and consider the huge number of circumstantial reports from across the military an
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by brango 9y ago
Then you've just got Meetup again though, where you get a different group of people going each week (that's my experience anyway)
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by brango 9y ago
You might like to read "The Anatomy of Friendship". People are basically hardwired to like people they're physically close to and come into contact with regularly, so try to tick those two boxes. The trouble with an app like
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by brango 9y ago
Everyone makes mistakes. If a dev deploys something to a server with fixed costs that starts hammering CPU at least we won't be hit by literally thousands of dollars in extra charges.
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by brango 9y ago
The thing that makes me nervous about Lambda is the lack of price capping to prevent buggy functions racking up thousands of dollars in a weekend.
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by brango 9y ago
I see. Rebranding as a course might help. If I were you I'd also consider A/B testing without the hard-sell/marketing hype style page. Personally I equate these sorts of 'You're probably wondering... "Is this b
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by brango 9y ago
The book is $645?!?!?
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by brango 9y ago
Thanks! I've been looking for something like this for so long. It's always been a pain to study something like graph theory, graphics, crypto, etc. without even being able to read the formulae.
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by brango 9y ago
A round-the-World travel ticket.
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by brango 9y ago
You might be interested in "Breaking the Cycle" on Netflix. It shows the difference in approach between Norway and the US.
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by brango 9y ago
> The justice system punishes people. There are around 2.2M people in US prisons. The justice system punishes society by failing to adequately rehabilitate offenders. As a result many go on to reoffend. So really the current system is on
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by brango 9y ago
The question is about ethics. How is it relevant whether other people are taking advantage of addicts as well?
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by brango 9y ago
Except something like 90% of revenue comes from 5% of "players" so it's obviously just what he told himself to placate his conscience that he wasn't ripping off addicts.
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by brango 9y ago
Having built something like this myself the components you actually need to write are so small and simple the scope for security issues is minimal. All the infra scales automatically. Also, this post only addresses data flowing in one direc
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by brango 9y ago
Consequences.
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by brango 9y ago
Yes Deployment Manager. I can't remember now. I looked at it when I needed to automate something and found that I couldn't do it. IIRC it seemed too limited in its capabilities. The GKE auth thing is so bad to the point we had to
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by brango 9y ago
Google's approach to auth is cumbersome and leaves a lot to be desired. Also, there's nothing like cloudformation for configuring supporting services (their equivalent is a pathetic joke). The only thing I'd use GCP for today

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