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by extropy 6y ago
Not buying the access to clean water = less burning of hydrocarbon. The poor people by definition are resource strapped and will use any means of energy available, just for different purpose. On the cynical side: clean water -> less mort
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by extropy 6y ago
Take a look at Terrament slides. They are driving a train vertically into the ground. With increased depth more cars can be added, increasing total weight, so m = C h and ep =~ C h*h/2
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by extropy 6y ago
There is no stacked mass however. Just a single piece of mass moving up/down that results in linear scaling from height. Edit: reviewed the Terraent slides they indeed plan to literally drive a mile long train vertically into the groun
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by extropy 6y ago
Or complain that their browser is slow/ battery life is abysmal.
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by extropy 6y ago
Light travels through glass (fiber optics) at 2/3 of the speed in vacuum. So as long as you are skipping some ground links by doing similar length links in space it is faster. Low altitude orbits mean that the hops up and down can be c
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by extropy 6y ago
Other means of rewarding artists exist like Youtube memberships, Patreon, good old tours. Copyright is very expensive scheme of redistributing funds for creative arts. And also has quite specific cultural consequences. Some part of me keeps
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by extropy 6y ago
Yes and that's a big part of the problem. It does not have a concept of "after" the victory. So if it gains autonomy there is high chance of it destroying everything else before dying itself. I found the story of Horizon Zero
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by extropy 6y ago
If it was composed of solid hydrogen then very little. It would evaporate at slightest touch of a planets atmosphere. Maybe even bounce off it. For solid hydrogen any planet with atmosphere is like a ball of hot molten lava for a snowball.
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by extropy 6y ago
What makes you think that the news companies will do a better job?
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by extropy 6y ago
The bill says Google needs to make available "a list and explanation of the data the digital platform service collects". This is quite ambiguous if it is just a collection policy or the data itself. I can see Google being fired up
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by extropy 6y ago
The tricky bit here is that for most users the browser is "free" so there is no market to destroy. You need to offer some value added services (like privacy, less ads) to be able to charge for the browser.
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by extropy 6y ago
This is generally solved by unrolling the program into a single loop. Essentially having a function state(N) => state(N+1), shouldContinue. This exposes the number of iterations needed to finish the computation. That could further be lim
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by extropy 6y ago
The circuit that repeatedly multiplies the previous result with itself has higher than exponential growth rate.
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by extropy 6y ago
That seems a reasonable thing to ask for location sharing. Probably really used for the timeline though. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/privacy/chan...
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by extropy 6y ago
While shady, it's not illegal. Assuming the law said the car is lemon after x repair attempts and Tesla bought it back after x-1 so that lemon law would not apply and they could still resell it.
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by extropy 6y ago
Search for "Shuttle Seal Erosion" A brief summary is here: https://books.google.ch/books?id=XsuqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT56&lpg=PT... Edit: This one is better: https://space.stackexchange.com/question
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by extropy 6y ago
You may be confusing Java language specification with the Java Platform programming API. Language spec has very limited set of packages generally in java.lang. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se14&#x
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by extropy 6y ago
IMHO if you came up with a workable solution, Google would buy you out in an instant. Scalable reliable content moderation is one of the next major breakthroughs waiting to be solved. And it's not just Google it's everyone.
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by extropy 6y ago
You already have the peers IP address for p2p call right? How is this better than that?
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by extropy 7y ago
+1 the old homeostasis argument. In that regard viruses are definitely life. Maybe they actually are vastly superior to us and the hosts are just their air to breathe.
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by extropy 7y ago
Random analogy - is a flash drive a computer?
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by extropy 7y ago
Call me when they have put it on a dyno next to a Tesla or some other reasonably efficient EV powertrain. Until then total snake oil crying for attention.
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by extropy 7y ago
Or unpredictable oil prices making oil burning energy more risky.
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Future of Transportation, Keynote 2020 NC DOT Transportation Summit(youtu.be)
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by extropy 7y ago
It's more like. Hey you signed up for this little known and fancy "Moderator" position, no prior experience required, before you start, let us explain what it's actually about.
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by extropy 7y ago
Automate it away? Or 99.5% of it?
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by extropy 7y ago
Yes, Google is definately not a keyword search engine anymore, and not a great "question answering" engine yet. Uncanney walley?
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by extropy 7y ago
IMO Google is doing the best they can to serve you relevant results, just that everyone and their uncle is spamming internet to get up in the ranking game. Think of modern google as a question answering machine not a serch engine. And do &q
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by extropy 7y ago
The explosion was very expected. "Falcon 9 will likely break apart due to aerodynamic loads immediately following Crew Dragon's escape" https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/eq24ap/rspac
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by extropy 7y ago
The concept is tempting. However in most cases the implementation is only partial. As in Wine and Samba, etc do not implement the full extent of the API. Just the part that's practical for their purposes. And that's essentially wh

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