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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Genuinely curious - What is the current state / precedent for this type of situation in the US?
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
For what it is worth - this tech. already exists for what you describe for military purposes - as vinyl: https://www.ahh.biz/vinyl/vinyl_military_tent_with_ir_blocki... It is used to create small tents that anti-tank e
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
In this last project I was in, which was a bit of a death march - we (Team) ALL got to the point of incurring bizarre sleep disturbances and other cognitive/emotional disturbances: It would take 3-4 hours once home at our set stop time
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Sorry I'm a moron today - correction for my own OCD: I said "Errata" - I meant "Addenda"
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Errata URL for reference [1] - Overview of Games using GOAP and related technical papers: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Just a reminder that asbestos occurs naturally in many CA state forests. Was recently offroading in McCloud, CA and it was all over the road - definitely didn't want to kick up dust: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
And likely to other simple organisms which feed exclusively on gamma radiation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus Or those bacteria that feed on bi-products of Nylon manufacture - because their environ
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
I see what you are getting at - but it's all about pressure and selection. For instance Sickle Cell anemia is hypothesized to actually be a defense we evolved against malaria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_ge
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Evolution and adaptation fundamentally ^. Bacterial growth is essentially logarithmic / exponential - so all it takes is a few bacterial cells to have a chance mutation which affords the resistance to $THING, and the population is back
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Django REST framework (1) gives you the best of django + a RESTful API really, and is just another `pip install` and a few lines added to settings file. You still have some of the same performance issues as with any ORM - but it makes setti
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Every time I read an article or infographic by Julia Evans, I can't help but feel a bit of excitement, because even after 15+ years of linux/programming experience, I still learn something new every time. I genuinely hope there ar
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
It was pretty well documented that Russian stockpiles of their India strain went missing by the metric ton, post-USSR. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1039129770495563833 https://www.nytimes.com/1999&#x2
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Inside America's Aging Nuclear Missile Submarines(breakingdefense.com)
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
RE: Pot legalization - it could be you are correct. I lived in Denver pre-/post-medical legalization. I now live in Northern CA where we just legalized. Basically I've seen the same thing happen both places: Cannabis is legalized,
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
This is great. It's great for new devs - and even for upper management who may want a simple/executive summary of how modern stacks work.
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
We run django with django-rest-framework in production to provide our frontend app with the JSON api it needs -- it has some gotchas and isn't perfect, but is a treat to work with when you want to split time between front and back work
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
As good as this is for preventing the awful scourge of human disease that mosquitoes cause - I still wonder what the knock-on effects of this will be, with respect to the overall loss of biomass and mosquitoes as a food source. tldr: Mother
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Have you looked at what environmental impact a TNT / HMX plant has? Lots of environmental contaminants. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has declared TNT a pollutant whose removal is priority. ... This seems li
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Genuinely curious if you know: Has there been any effort to revisit this in recent years? I'm curious given the rise of China + Russia in the Arctic and China's demonstrated belligerence in the Indo-Pacific. [1,2] 1 - https:&#x2F
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
SarBox, GAMP, GAAP, cGMP, PCI-DSS... The devil hath many names.
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Indeed. It is this sort of "worm-like" or "near-virus" -like behavior of these genes (transposons, promoters, etc) that made me decide to split the difference between comp sci and molecular biology (bioinformatics) as an
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Yes according to the Red Cross, and experts in International Human Law (aka The Rules of War) - there is an obligation for people to develop these systems (or not) responsibly and TO ALWAYS KEEP A HUMAN IN THE LOOP [1]. Note Nov 2017 was t
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Anyone else have a problem with this? Someone else will be doing this work in place of Google, as it is inevitable that AI and defense will merge. So for those reasons, IMO, it is childish to quit and try to not assert some ethical control
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Man. ^ This is a brutal revelation right now. Totally just opened my eyes to exactly why things have been going badly at work, despite formal process.
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Would love to hear more about practical examples of "barriers to anti-quality". Would this be things like e.g. "Emplace and enforce documentation & project change control process" -- people may want to make changes -
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
I too wonder why the MD side of healthcare doesn't work more like this in the US. I was actually very taken aback recently when I needed to get dental work and was presented with costing info about 10 mins after my visit started. It di
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Fact: 70% of residents in the 3 counties (Napa, Lake, Sonoma) had FULL telecom outage (no internet, phone, cell) for 2-3 days. Power was out for 2 days at our house. When your entire profession and skillset is based on the internet, and com
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
"Results show that in the 3-county area, 66% of residents lost landline services, 74% of residents lost cellular services, and 66% of residents lost Internet services..The 3-county average of service loss for these combined technologie
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Report: California North Coast telecommunications crippled during 2017 wildfires(northbaybusinessjournal.com)
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by dfsegoat 8y ago
Somebody else will fill the gap. It is simply a consequence of military science: If a human in the loop makes combat systems less effective, then other countries will seek the advantage over others by removing the human from the loop. It&#x

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