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by dkbrk 11y ago
Naturally this has already been extensively covered by tvtropes, I present the "Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness" [0] The author makes some good points about particular types of errors. I would not, however, call them shibbo
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by dkbrk 11y ago
> the Parliament as an institution is arguably more functional This is a very interesting point. I had thought the greater freedom of Congressmen in the US to vote as they wished, even if it was against party lines, was strictly more dem
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But they are volume limited, though I believe they generally store the towed array sonar in the ballast tanks, so the same thing could be done. More serious problems are the time it would take to extend and retract the buoy, speed limitatio
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Alderaan was demilitarised, but more importantly, it was a member of the Empire, represented in the Imperial Senate by Princess Leia until that institution was dissolved shortly into Episode IV. The destruction of Alderaan would not be at a
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by dkbrk 11y ago
This method uses all the digits in the number so that it is possible to detect an error in any position, not just in the least-significant digit.
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> A court should not uphold a highly problematic interpretation of a statute merely because the Government promises to use it responsibly. This. Whether a law is just needs to be considered in light of its worst-case abuse potential, not
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by dkbrk 11y ago
From Yes, Minister Season Three, Episode Two, "The Challenge": > Sir Humphrey: [talking about nuclear fallout shelters] Well, you have the weapons; you must have the shelters. > Hacker: I sometimes wonder why we need the wea
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The wording didn't sound like he was talking about a gas-discharge tube for surge protection. Also, that wouldn't have anything to do with security. I think what may be happening is the ethernet cable runs are in sealed tubes runn
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I wonder if forming a Benefit Corporation [0] was considered. This is a type of corporate entity that has only come into being in the past few years. Unlike a traditional corporation which has a mandate to operate in the best interests of i
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There are plenty of entirely worthwhile and interesting areas of research in philosophy. This is not one of them. It is entirely sufficient to understand that brains are composed of physical elements - neurons and the like, that communicate
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I guess this is Emacs' "primary" logo, which has remained pretty much unchanged since. But unless you leave the splash screen enabled, the far more familiar logo for most people is the one used for graphical shortcuts and thu
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by dkbrk 11y ago
This is a very good point, but I think the Japanese way might actually be better. The problem is that emphasising brutality and ugliness in the style of the Culture may over time lead to a shift in perception normalising agression, or in ot
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I really don't think that's an accurate characterisation. Space launch isn't a zero-sum game, and SpaceX and ULA aren't sports teams. You don't have to cheer for one at the expense of the other. After all we're
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by dkbrk 11y ago
Yep, also I would say that Heartbleed is definitely deserving of a place.
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I was wondering how radically this architecture differs from more conventional x86 cores, and found this: "An Overview of Programming for Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (2012)" [0]. This paper refers to a sl
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by dkbrk 11y ago
I'm not an expert in this area, so please feel free to correct me if I've made a mistake or am completely and utterly wrong. From what I understand, the Many-Worlds Interpretation is, in effect, the "default" hypothesis,
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by dkbrk 11y ago
I believe that any such problems are due to non-totality and/or non-strict semantics, and generally aren't important in practice. For example, from the abstract for "Fast and Loose Reasoning is Morally Correct" ( http:&#
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by dkbrk 11y ago
This is just speculation on my part, but a glue such as cyanoacrylate would be extremely useful for attaching a handle to an improvised tool or weapon.
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> 23andMe can do whatever they want with your data This isn't correct. 23andMe are quite expliict about how genomic data may be used in their [privacy policy]( https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy/#jump-lin
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by dkbrk 11y ago
Yeah, that's still a bit wierd. There's also the [centimetre-gram-second]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimetre%E2%80%93gram%E2%80%... ) system that's used in some areas that has the prefix on the leng
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I'm not sure that it makes a difference in this case, but it is insufficient in situations such as these to look at just the expected return. A rational agent's actions are determined by expected utility , which could be highly n
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I don't know how useful this will be. I think being made from crushed gneiss in a jammed configuration, it should be fairly strong in pure compression. Bending stress would probably cause failure quite rapidly, and I think it would ste
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by dkbrk 11y ago
A minor note: the author refers to "Volkswagen corruption". I have not seen the company's actions called corruption elsewhere, nor was it justified in the provided link. Volkswagen deliberately subverted regulations on emissi
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This article doesn't actually directly address the question in the title. It observes that Texas Instruments calculators are still in wide use (due to network effects and some specific advantages over competing technologies), and that
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Is it so important to have a single reserve currency? Couldn't these problems be largely offset with better diversification and less friction in currency trading. For example, lets say some banks got together and defined a meta-currenc
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I haven't used Plan 9, so I'll have to take you at your word that the mouse in an effective preferred method of input in its UI. I would be very interested if you had some specific examples of how it is used. That said, there are
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All your points are well-made and I believe you are mostly correct. However, I wouldn't be so quick to entirely dismiss dogfighting as something that "just isn't going to happen anymore". Nobody knows exactly what combat
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The F-35 wasn't designed to be a superlative dogfighter and the F-16 is one of the best handling aircraft in history. By no means am I saying that dogfighting is irrelevant -- history has shown that even with long-range missiles there
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> These "MOND" gravity theories purport to explain observations better than the theory of dark matter, but they don't. MOND consistently fits the rotational velocity profile of galaxies better than dark matter. This isn&#x
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There seems to be yet another threat to our collective privacy every month or so. Normally, I sit firmly on the side of an individual's right to privacy, but in this case, I think ICANN have a legitimate point even if they're bein

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