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by cygx 7y ago
I'm not saying the arguments in the article are wrong per se, but I did stumble over the one paragraph where I looked at the referenced source: In fact, residents of Colorado, where radiation is higher because of high concentrations o
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by cygx 7y ago
Time article by Serhii Plokhy on the topic: http://time.com/5255663/chernobyl-disaster-book-anniversary/
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by cygx 7y ago
Presumably the rest is coming from renewables. No reason not to complete the picture, I guess: 2002 2018 Total 503 545 Coal+Oil 253 205 Nuclear 156 72 Ga
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by cygx 7y ago
Of course it's artificial. However, that doesn't mean it's arbitrary, or useless, or can be ignored at will given the current system of socio-economic organization. You're absolutely right that in the world we live in, p
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by cygx 7y ago
The question is, what's the limiting factor: Availability of manpower, natural resources, etc, or 'merely' the money to pay for them? The latter is an artificial constraint. Take nuclear fusion as an example: Supposedly, this
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by cygx 7y ago
Some relevant numbers (TWh) from that graphic: 2002 2018 Total 503 545 Coal + Oil 253 205 Gas 40 44 Nuclear 156 72
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by cygx 7y ago
Money is a tool of social organization that lacks instrinsic value. Any time we as a society refuse to do something worthwhile for the sole reason that it would cost too much, that's a capitulation to human stupidity and/or greed.
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by cygx 7y ago
Static types avoid the cost of runtime type checks and dynamic dispatch.
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by cygx 7y ago
Note that PyPy does something similar, but based on (meta-)tracing instead of partial evaluation. See https://stefan-marr.de/papers/oopsla-marr-ducasse-meta-traci... for a discussion.
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by cygx 7y ago
I'm not a fan of that as a definition: To me, object-orientation means modelling computation as communication between stateful objects. An object-oriented programming language has features that facilitate such a design. Inheritance wou
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by cygx 8y ago
A measurement is an interaction that crosses the Heisenberg cut separating the quantum from the classical world. Eg you prepare an atom in a superposition of states relative to some 'quantization axis' determined by a Stern-Gerlac
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by cygx 8y ago
Your description looks right to me. Note that the many-worlds interpretation was originally named the theory of the universal wave-function. You get there by trying to eliminate wave-function collapse and Heisenberg cuts.
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by cygx 8y ago
The observer effect and the uncertainty principle are not the same thing.
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by cygx 8y ago
I'm not sure -i has been implemented, and the regex syntax has gone through a major overhaul. In your particular example, the global flag is now an adverb you put in front, and characters like ; now have to be backslash-escaped or quot
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by cygx 8y ago
You know what also comes out like gold? Actual gold :p As far as I'm aware, profit margins on iron aren't too shabby either, though I'd have to do some digging how this all shapes up in these specific cases (Norwegian oil vs
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by cygx 8y ago
As far as I'm aware, metals and fishing do not contribute to the Government Pension Fund of Norway, which is why I did not include them on the Norwegian side and similarly only looked at the top items on the Australian side (eg adding
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by cygx 8y ago
Sure. We're looking for something that's equivalent to Norway's oil industry. According to the links I gave, Norway's top exports are Crude Petrolium and Petrolium Gas, in 2017 accounting for 53% of all exports at $55.8B
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by cygx 8y ago
Australia produces 12,010 bbl/day/millon-people You should not look at just oil, but natural resources in general (in case of Australia, iron, coal and gold in particular). Norway still comes out on top, but only by a factor of
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by cygx 8y ago
Socialism does not mean government ownership of the means of production: Remember, anarchism (think Proudhon, Bakunin) is also part of the socialist movement...
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by cygx 8y ago
Just one anecdote: https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=1225020
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by cygx 8y ago
Perl6 was a reaction to Perl's loss of mindshare, not its cause. One can speculate what might have happened if focus had been put on evolving Perl5, or getting Rakudo production-ready as-is instead of going through yet another round of
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by cygx 8y ago
https://xkcd.com/224/
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by cygx 8y ago
It still is in British English (though this is apparently beginning to change? Bloody Americans :p).
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by cygx 8y ago
Except your timeline is wrong: China was the first to issue a ban, followed by Indonesia. Australia and various European as well as non-European countries followed suit, and eventually the European Aviation Safety Agency.
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by cygx 8y ago
Yes. The Jargon File[1] lists it as a synonym, though note that Wikipedia[2] calls this usage outdated. [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/trap-door.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by cygx 8y ago
But some animals are more equal than others.
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by cygx 8y ago
https://kt.cern/technologies https://kt.cern/cern-technologies-society If you want to include past contributions, that WWW thing is kind of neat...
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by cygx 8y ago
Also, "most undefined".
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by cygx 8y ago
And properties of macroscopic states are 'unphysical'?
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by cygx 8y ago
Thermodynamical entropy is not a physical property of a system. From a thermodynamic point of view, it is: As ΔS = ΔU/T and assuming one holds temperature and inner energy to be physical properties, then so is entropy.

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