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by deciplex 10y ago
> I don't think this would work as well as one might assume. When Earth and anti-Earth collide, the vast majority of the mass will be blown into space by the initial explosion, and will never actually get a chance to annihilate. Th
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by deciplex 10y ago
Scott Manley also made a trip to Minmus using only the starting Career parts. Just because he did a thing doesn't mean it's the optimal way to do that thing :-) (In fact, it's probably a better indicator against , heh.)
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by deciplex 10y ago
I like how the report talks about political instability and risk as though this is a thing that "just happens". I guess it didn't occur to anyone working on that report, that maybe the piss-poor situation the middle and worki
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by deciplex 10y ago
I agree. Too many comments makes it hard to sort out which are the comments that actually provide insight to how the code works (or is supposed to) from the comments that are just bullshit the author put there so he could say he puts a lot
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by deciplex 10y ago
Hydrogen leaks out of steel containers because it's "small"? Doesn't the size of even the largest atom (or, for that matter, molecule) pale in comparison to even the smallest leaks you will typically find in a steel cont
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by deciplex 10y ago
It's unlikely we wouldn't consume it, but we could "consume" it without releasing the CO2 into the atmosphere, e.g. by making polyethylene from the alcohol.
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by deciplex 10y ago
You keep replying to me with one-sentence posts that say little and have no point. If you have something to say or a point you're trying to make, I'd prefer you just do that rather than trying socratic-method everyone to enlighten
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by deciplex 10y ago
If you are presented with evidence that requires a Bayesian update, and you are smart enough to figure this out, yet you still do not perform the Bayesian update (or you calculate it incorrectly according to your whims as opposed to the evi
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by deciplex 10y ago
Obviously I don't disagree with that. Where are you going with this? People don't formulate their beliefs by picking randomly from a collection of all theoretically-possible beliefs. To expand on your example, if you are selectin
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by deciplex 10y ago
If it negates it for the majority of inputs, but you insist it negates it for very few or no inputs, I would call that cognitive dissonance as well. In other words, if it's highly unlikely that two things are both true, but you conside
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by deciplex 10y ago
There is a difference between managing probability mass and "managing" cognitive dissonance. If one of two events will occur, or only one of two hypotheses can be true, with equal probability according to the information you posse
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by deciplex 10y ago
In fact the Little Ice Age was probably caused in part by human activity, or rather the lack of human activity due to reduced populations in Europe and especially in the Americas.
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Isn't it plausible that the same force that is causing warming on Mars is the main cause of our problems on Earth? Your hypothesis is about as likely as the one where human activity on Earth is causing warming on Mars. No. Climate
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by deciplex 10y ago
> That makes Oracle's win on the subject matter issue basically a pyrrhic victory for anyone looking to protect their APIs. They're protectable, but can't be protected in any realistic scenario. Good. The CAFC ruling is
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by deciplex 10y ago
Was the hold Office format hidden? It was delightfully obtuse and even obfuscated IMO, no doubt about that, but not impenetrable, and you can find the docs describing the file format on Microsoft's site now . Could you not get them 10
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Basically if you think people vote against their self interest, you don't understand the perspective from which they are voting. To be baffled by it is to fail to recognize your own ignorance. Didn't you just write that peo
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by deciplex 10y ago
> If that were true there wouldnt be any rich people voting for Democrats, which isn't the case. I don't know about that. You can be completely self-interested, wealthy, and still vote liberal/progressive Democrat if you
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by deciplex 10y ago
Studios will simply negotiate exclusive rights I guess. You, and no one else, get to make Star Wars games for the next decade. Quality will probably go to shit as a result, but who cares about that?
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by deciplex 10y ago
That's pretty much the prevailing opinion now , and probably moreso than even during the Gilded Age.
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Sometimes I almost wish someone smuggles a bomb through the TSA security line, and successfully storms a plane so we can finally have concrete evidence that those processes only provide annoyance, not security. This would result in m
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by deciplex 10y ago
No, but some, like aaron695, say there is.
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by deciplex 10y ago
Tokyo metro is like a quarter of the population of Japan. Japan basically is Tokyo, to a degree that probably isn't matched by any other city / nation on Earth. Even if you insist on just looking at the 23 wards it's a big
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by deciplex 10y ago
Point taken, but to clarify I was saying "plot a way forward for Japan to become a tech powerhouse, when a company like Rakuten is about the pinnacle of what they can achieve as far as technology companies go". And you can'
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by deciplex 10y ago
Give them the tools and kids will often find a use for it on their own. Someone shoved Hypercard in front of me when I was eleven or so and started me on the path (rather, they shoved a Mac in front of me on which Hypercard happened to be i
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by deciplex 10y ago
Maybe they should also find something for those programmers to do as well, while they're at it. The job market for software engineering in Tokyo is equivalent to a Minneapolis or an Atlanta even with 20x the population - and even then
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by deciplex 10y ago
Define 'right fit.' (Asking the question in earnest, not to be snarky.)
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by deciplex 10y ago
It's not that terrible: > "Declaring the title of a book is not writing a book" I think you can make a reasonable analogy there.
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by deciplex 10y ago
Uhhh..... > Regarding the entanglement of brain with experiment, that is totally unfounded extrapolation of applicability of many-particle Schroedinger's equation. It is useful for atoms and molecules, but it is practically intra
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by deciplex 10y ago
I wasn't aware brains were made of things other than atoms and molecules. Interesting stuff.
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by deciplex 10y ago
Yeah, it did get some buzz going iirc. Gmail doesn't rely on network effects tho.

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