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by deeviant 7y ago
Probably not. It would be something that would likely have to be observed over multiple complete orbital cycles and basically somebody basically run into it by accident. By which, of course, the earth in this hypothetical, would be long dea
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by deeviant 8y ago
Except a large portion of revenue does not go to workers, but to shareholders, who pay far less taxes then those who strain their backs in creating said revenue.
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by deeviant 9y ago
Global warming isn't really about heat per se, it's about heat retention. It's the green house gasses reflecting back the latent infrared energy preventing it from escaping to space. Adding more heat doesn't change the e
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by deeviant 11y ago
No, just no. Being more like Java is about the last thing in the world python needs.
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by deeviant 11y ago
I don't think the article conflates the two at all, it lists each out separately and in no way implies that they are the same thing, only that they are part of the same problem.
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by deeviant 11y ago
It's not totally off-the-mark. Having a pile of cash in your pocket does not automagically allow one to revolutionize a sector, just ask any VC. But yes, it was a bit overblown.
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by deeviant 11y ago
You link two cherry picked pro-Haskell links as proof that "the world believes that Haskell's is totally practical language"? Good grief.
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by deeviant 11y ago
It gets better. I ate rice/pinto beans for 80% of my meals the first year out of college(I graduated in 2010, not a good time even in the Bay Area, Ca), I defaulted on some bills, my first job sucked and paid like crap and wasn't
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by deeviant 11y ago
Thanks, it was an honest question. I'll look into OBR10. Currently I'm at a small-ish startup and I have ~150 TB of data on a synology nas. It's in 2 raid groups, both raid 6. Seemed safe enough. edit Ah, right. From some r
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by deeviant 11y ago
Well, carbon dioxide's interaction with infrared radiation would be more studied by physics than chemistry. Also, I kind of hate these types of statements. I could say something like, "Anybody that knows anything about music shoul
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by deeviant 11y ago
Exactly, because if it was a purely functional language, they would have started the project, worked on it for a week, blog about it and said purely functional language for a year, then throw it away.
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by deeviant 11y ago
What do you do? mirror every drive?
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by deeviant 11y ago
Philosophy is not the right tool to attack AI science, although it has taken itself up to do so. I would sum up my general argument to support this as: "AI has enormous philosophical implications, but philosophical thoughts have very f
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by deeviant 11y ago
I generally feel that solving problems with software is the easy part. Solving in the way that is extensible, maintainable, bug-free as possible, and efficiently is the important part.
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by deeviant 11y ago
The download worked for me, but the zip archive was corrupted, so I didn't even get a chance to try it out on linux (ubuntu 12.04)
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by deeviant 12y ago
Well, to be fair, the OP did not mention the quality or historic import of the new Disney managed Marvel properties, but only their financial and viewership success. I happen to think CGI is the key element to make good comic book movies bu
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by deeviant 12y ago
This is pretty interesting, there is also tons of room for improvement and optimization. One of the reasons why PV cells are far below their theoretical efficiency, which is something like 93%(Carnot efficiency based on sun temp which doesn
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by deeviant 12y ago
Do you care to enlighten us on what niche this device is best for?
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by deeviant 12y ago
The term seems to be mainly linked to news outlets, but I for some reason find it maddening. Brits, at least some that I know, like to point out the particularities of American English (and I would admit I love the English English pronuncia
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by deeviant 12y ago
It doesn't work like that. That type of association is called "Lamarckian" after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck who posited that animals can "pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring"[1].
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by deeviant 12y ago
I don't get this statement, and it goes against my understanding of evolutionary forces. Of the 5 evolutionary forces that I am aware of, founder effects, genetic drift, mutation, migration and selection, only one "responds"
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by deeviant 12y ago
Why not just overhaul TCP? TCP was and is pretty great at what it aims to to do, but it certainly is getting a bit long in the teeth. For one thing, streams are not quite convenient, it'd be great is messages were a first class member
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by deeviant 12y ago
Why not write with a pencil and paper, I can think of no more distracting thing than a computer. Or better yet, a quill and parchment, to totally withdraw from the confines and entrapments of modern technology.
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by deeviant 12y ago
I strongly disagree. I have seen a company be destroyed because they got things almost right, from the beginning. This "success" informed their every decision and created an enormous resistance to trying anything new and in the en
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by deeviant 12y ago
More cross-sectional area because of lorentz contraction or just looking at the mass-surface area / kinetic energy ratio?
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by deeviant 12y ago
You got me there, good comments. Thanks.
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by deeviant 12y ago
True, but I think a lot of people here are assuming something like .9C or the like when the reality is you nothing nearly that high. 1000 tons at .1c is 9818 megatons, which would be roughly the size of a US air craft carrier. The bow shock
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by deeviant 12y ago
That might work, it would have to be detected soon enough to allow for the time to build it, though.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Sigh, I should have heeded your warning. My productivity is not looking too good today.
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by deeviant 12y ago
You would need some pretty killer orbital prediction to do this. I would assume you'd start a bit closer.

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