corentin

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by corentin 18y ago
Let's assume that, at least this time, we can put the genie back into its bottle and actually manage, thank to your grand master plan, to cool down the planet (or, at least, to prevent it from warming more). The thing is, we still can't ent
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by corentin 18y ago
Which is what I just said...
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by corentin 18y ago
What kind of alternative policy to laisser faire do you have in mind?
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by corentin 18y ago
Science has nothing to do with opinions or university degrees; it's about proving thesis right or wrong, whoever happens to hold them.
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by corentin 18y ago
Libertarians don't deny externalities; they just recognize that some of them can't be measured.
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by corentin 18y ago
And don't you think that the millions of dollars of taxpayer money given by the government to a failed industry destroy jobs as well? Look, if I take 10 dollars from you and give them to the shit sandwich maker, whose business is failing, t
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by corentin 18y ago
You didn't explain why it's a good thing. From what I understand, it only complicates development even more without providing any real improvement.
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by corentin 18y ago
Why isn't the submission process anonymous, anyway? (granted, according to the design of the algorithm you may be able to deduce the team who is behind it.)
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by corentin 18y ago
Big electric motors are indeed quite efficient. You don't connect them directly to the battery pack, though. You need "something" in-between (power electronics) to drive the motor. I'd estimate the efficiency of such a controller to be arou
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by corentin 18y ago
So I assume smug geeks are immune against bad driving?
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by corentin 18y ago
There is still more capital in the US than in all other countries combined. Anyway, it's not a race nor a zero-sum game (there's no real point in being the "first" country); every country can be a winner in the global economy (or could be,
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by corentin 18y ago
He's not clinically insane; it's just that he "doesn't have people skills"...
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by corentin 18y ago
You forgot the efficiency of the electric motor itself and everything between it and the battery pack (converter, etc.)
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by corentin 18y ago
Don't panic. Despite what the media say (their job is to tell doom stories, after all), it's not the end of the world as you know it. If you don't know anything particular about finance, just follow your guts, keep your savings account and
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by corentin 18y ago
Buy a copy of "The mythical man-month" before.
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by corentin 18y ago
For example, you could hire your neighbor's kid to maw your lawn and stuff like that.
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by corentin 18y ago
Yeah, there's probably a huge market for places where people could go to eat meals someone else cooked for them!
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by corentin 18y ago
Are you saying that, because the economy is so interdependent (by the way, why is it so?), it's better to centralize it even more? And if you assume that some individuals are greedy or incompetent (and it's a reasonable assumption I must sa
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by corentin 18y ago
> Moon landing is the result of intense competition with soviet Russia. > arpanet... is the result of a competition between different contractors ultimately won by BBN.
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by corentin 18y ago
> and have no desire for anything more Except for food, shelter, health, transportation, recreation...
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by corentin 18y ago
They don't even create employment, since the salary of government workers comes from the taxpayer's pocket, and would have been used to employ other people. There is always something to do for less skilled workers, so there's nothing wrong
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by corentin 18y ago
Printing money is by definition inflation (so, yes).
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by corentin 18y ago
> The risk is that it's a little like selling "high quality bumper stickers"-- people might not be looking for quality there. Unless you're selling to a niche (e.g. surfers, skateboarders, etc. and more generally people who want to put
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by corentin 18y ago
> Imagine slightly faster computers, faster virtual machines, and the ability for web apps to, with appropriate permissions, access local resources like storage and notification services. Then imagine browser windows without all that br
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by corentin 18y ago
Obviously, if you consider it's a bad thing you shouldn't need our help to tell him why. Just tell him your good reasons.
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by corentin 18y ago
I suggest you explain your own comment in the first place. Who is closer to anarcho-capitalism in philosophy? The former central banker or the guy who wants to increase taxes?
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by corentin 18y ago
Actually, a single pair of eyes can be enough, depending on who they belong to... This brute force approach to bug fixing can be applied to Linux because it's so prevalent, but it's the exception rather than the rule in the open source worl
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by corentin 18y ago
> there is no actual evidence that reducing CO2 from man-made sources would in fact modify global temperature. There is no evidence that such a modification in temperature would be a bad thing, either. Basically, it's just a stack of as
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by corentin 18y ago
You should cut your both arms then, so you won't have to suffer losing them should you become involved in an accident.
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by corentin 18y ago
What's a serious operating system? Unix was invented to play video games, the first version of MS-DOS was called "Quick and Dirty Operating System"... And who would name his system the "Incompatible Time-Sharing System", anyway?

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