catawbasam

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by catawbasam 10y ago
Our family of 4 in a 4BR house lives in the humid SE USA. We use about 5000 kWh/year. Our efficiency report says we use roughly half as much as comparable households.
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by catawbasam 10y ago
If a foreign entity is attacking our infastructure, that could certainly be viewed as an act of war.
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by catawbasam 10y ago
I had an experience which I found, and still find, utterly convincing. But if I tried to describe it to you, you probably wouldn't be at all swayed. William James writes about this in 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'.
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by catawbasam 10y ago
Yup, I still remember being blown away by his dissertation. That he is using Rust in earnest is enough reason for me to take another look at the language.
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by catawbasam 10y ago
Imagine you witness a situation where a young man releases a heavy weight. The weight falls and crushes a child playing below. Your child. The young man happens to be mute. If he could speak, he would tell you he did it on purpose, and w
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by catawbasam 10y ago
One difference is that you wouldn't be morally condemned, and perhaps imprisoned, for setting CPU registers to a state the neural net was programmed to avoid. Also, the neural net evolves to meet an objective -- a purpose -- bestowed u
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by catawbasam 10y ago
I disagree. At this point the neighbors have effectively privatized a public facility. They should have to pay 100%. (I'm a U.S. suburban Dad with 2 young kids who do stupid things on their bikes.)
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by catawbasam 10y ago
Not saying you're entirely wrong, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you yourself aren't in immediate danger of having your job eliminated. If you were, I'm guessing you'd see another side of the stor
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by catawbasam 10y ago
There are many observable phenomena for which we lack a complete technical explanation.
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by catawbasam 10y ago
So Newton, Leibniz, Maxwell and Tolstoy weren't smart enough? I don't find this credible.
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by catawbasam 10y ago
'side helping of fundamentalist religion' would be more accurate than 'side helping of religion'. In the U.S. most liberals are religious, though the percentage is lower than among conservatives. For example, the Pew st
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by catawbasam 10y ago
US coal exports are dropping. According to the EIA, we exported 97,256,746 tons in 2014 but only 73,957,888 tons in 2015, a drop of 24% source: https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t7p01p1.p
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by catawbasam 11y ago
"The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has no confirmed casualties from radiation exposure, though six workers died due to various reasons, including cardiovascular disease, during the containment efforts or work to stabilize the Eart
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by catawbasam 11y ago
ummm... not really. Fox News Network, LLC 1211 Avenue Of The Americas New York, NY 10036
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by catawbasam 11y ago
'Saying "well, Rust doesn't eliminate all bugs" is attacking a straw man.' This is itself a straw man. Follow the link to Mr. Hipp's comments and read them. He did not say this. That a programmer who has p
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by catawbasam 11y ago
"while ignoring that it's caused many problems already" Really? I believe Mr. Hipp is claiming that it hasn't. Do you have evidence to the contrary? I don't think the argument is that these cases should be ignore
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by catawbasam 11y ago
"civil rights gains are not birthed from religion" I find this statement particularly ironic as we enter the holiday weekend in which we are called to remember the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. As Wikipedia says-- "
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by catawbasam 11y ago
re "Doesn't accepting that kinda ruin the whole basis of their life's work?" Not for Newton, Pascal, Maxwell, Planck, Heisenberg, John Lucas, John Eccles, or John Stewart Bell -- all religious. There is also a group who
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by catawbasam 11y ago
What I'm seeing with my Maryland 3rd and 5th graders is lots of focus on number patterns and word problems using the integers. I think they are also getting fewer, and sometimes harder, problems than they would have previously. Some of