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by castle-bravo 9y ago
This is a common talking point of the CCP, but it is not the truth. When the state protects the rights of all people within its borders, those people grow to trust the state; they choose to work openly with the state and each other instead
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Homo Erectus, obviously.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I've lived in a tiny urban apartment for so long that just imagining 1200 square feet makes me agoraphobic.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Hard, intimidating things get easier and less intimidating the more you expose yourself to them (at least in maths; can't say the same for bears).
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I thought this was satire until I read the article.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
You're right; my post was a mistake. I regret that I didn't read the article too carefully before posting. Alarmingly, instead of getting ignored or downvoted, I got a bunch of upvotes. What gives?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Can anyone comment on the feasibility/state of the art for extracting lithium from seawater? I've found an article [0] which describes a specially made membrane which allows lithium ions to pass, but nothing larger. If it's r
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Yeah it doesn't make any sense at all. He grossed over 800k on a video game, loves programming, but after another three years he has to go back to his day job? It sounds like he's burning over 100k/year and lying about his ex
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Can anyone recommend books on designing watch movements? I'd like to build some scale models in acrylic/MDF using my university's laser cutter, working up to CAD for a MEMS mechanical movement. An art project.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Thanks for the project idea!
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
IIRC one solution is to use pressurized hydrogen gas pumped through a heat exchanger instead of explosive charges. That way, the pressures and temperatures involved can be controlled precisely.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
This sub-thread is an exercise in showing how absurd the 1% chance of getting abducted (on a given day) would be. Don't take it too seriously. That said, you're wrong, and nobody is ever allowed to be wrong on the internet. I will
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
0.99^365.25 = 0.0254, so a kid going out alone every day would have a 2.54% chance of surviving the year without being abducted or run over by a car.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I don't see any similarity.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
> people like this Boris Stilman [0], but Stilman is not worse than Iqbal. [0] http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/resea...
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
It may have been done in org-mode and then exported to LaTeX. That's how I'd do it, anyway.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Are any of their products even new anymore? It looks like the MacBook Air hasn't changed in four years!
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Can you point to something said in the video that isn't true or that you disagree with? If people believe passionately in something, is that grounds enough to discredit their belief?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Why do you use the term liberal as opposed to something more general? I think the descriptor 'tax-collecting' might capture some of the reasons why a government might want to ban Bitcoin (if they could).
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Wouldn't that require them to open their compiler too? Compilers can be modified to inject malicious code into specific programs.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what did you use in the meantime?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I agree that Canadian engineers don't always adhere to the purported ethical principles of their profession. On the other hand, I hear about far fewer white collar crime scandals involving engineers than people who are not engineers. .
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
> If a solution depends first on wishing reality was different, it’s fantasy. At best a reality to realize. What an awful mischaracterization of my suggestion. I suggest that a person change themselves as a way of influencing the people
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Yeah dude. Don't change until someone forces you to.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
So begins the slow descent into Luddism. Seriously now: I think there needs to be a grassroots push for a vety selective approach to technology adoption as described by Kevin Kelly in his book What Technology Wants . If people generally tr
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Yes, but computational essays are a "New Kind" of literate programming. /s
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I like to think that dowsers are really a secret guild of hydrologists who make a show of using magic to account for the uncertainty inherent in finding things underground.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
No longer, apparently. A colleague if mine has had some headaches with ubuntu on his legion Y520, including no wifi connectivity at work. My T430 has no problems though.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I'm a 28-year old engineering undergraduate and I spend most of my time in e-macs as of about a year ago. It took a little time to get used to, but it's been worth it. I've recently fallen in love with org-mode and I want to
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Linux Is Not UniX.

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