ganafagol

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by ganafagol 5y ago
Synthetic fuels scale up even worse than battery density.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
What's nonsensical and what is not is subjective. Different people assume different things about everything that's not explicit. That's why we are having this "this" vs "next" discussion in the first place
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by ganafagol 5y ago
From a mandarin perspective, they are just different accents.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
No. On a monday, the closest friday is in the past.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
> get rid of your life vest This is terrible if not unresponsibly dangerous advice. The top comment has a link to a database with cases of people drowning. The common pattern: if life vests were mentioned then those in the party who drow
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by ganafagol 5y ago
I had that view initially. And then I followed his writings for quite a few years and it started getting old. And long. Loooong. His sales pitches seem to always go in circles. Computational irreducability here, causal graph there, namedrop
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by ganafagol 5y ago
It's so sad to see that he is taking an interesting question and turns it into a sales pitch of his computational universe theory. It's as if Stephen Wolframs mental horizon starts getting more and more restricted over the years s
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Starts his article in the very first sentence with referencing another article written by himself where he praises his achievement of having invented interstellar travel during a hollywood movie shoot for which he was the science advisor an
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Yeah it's quite sad. A lot of critisism in the article is valid, but why make it so personal then? I share a lot of the critisism, but billionaires are not "sick in the head". They are playing by the rules that society gives
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by ganafagol 5y ago
This is the best comment, by far. Of course we can have lots of brainstorming about other fun captcha-ish constructions, but the key question is whether they satisfy their purpose, which is to filter machines out and only those. In low scal
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by ganafagol 5y ago
No it's not. A campus network has a PoE line to each access point. It's not a mesh, they don't route the traffic between the access points over the air.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Um, I'm pretty sure that there is not much of that handover stuff happening while browsing hacker news since that's likely in a low-velocity scenario, i.e., sitting on the toilet.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Would be great to have an app that shows a map with my position and the position of the current cell. And that could create such maps as in the article on-the-fly. Anybody knows of such an app?
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Which got watered down by doubling it, adding pictures/clips and threads. Today people write whole articles in tweet threads. It's terrible.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
The target group has changed. Back in the day it was better for the geeks. They don't care about all that extra crap as much. But they do care about a simple API they can start hacking with and just drop a status line. But today it&#x2
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by ganafagol 5y ago
And of all the security issues exploited out there, how many have to do with the kernel? If some crappy javascript library leaks customers secrets for an online shop, where exactly is the OS kernel at fault? If the CEO's secretary gets
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Honestly, this sounds terrible. If there is something the software world does not need then it's landing pages for vaporware.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Problem is, those days tend to be far far apart. From one to the next, you'll have forgotten everything, and once saturday morning comes along, chances are the threshold to start again with that thing you last touched 5 weeks ago is so
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Or they "misinterpreted". Plausible deniability enables this win-win scenarion.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
The Signal target group is people who value privacy. You appear to not be in that group.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
That's the "humans are part of nature, so everything we do is natural" defense. With that angle, this whole discussion is meaningless.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Many "ecological niches" end up being key to the whole ecosystem. Mess them up and the whole ecosystem is messed up. The system is so complex that it's hard to know beforehand.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
And the story continues. The insect pest was countered with widespread pesticide use, eventually nearly extinguishing the bee population in large parts of China. So, today, masses of people walk around hand-pollinating fruit trees. It'
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Neither is it obvious that it would not. And that needs to be shown here. There is actually evidence to the contrary of your position. The grandparent post mentions mating discrimination.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
I'm talking about this self-replicating effect in particular. In some distance far far away, there'd be some instance of me exactly identical and behaving exactly identically including writing these words right now. Or, more gener
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by ganafagol 5y ago
If our universe is just one big cellular automaton (that's what Stephen Wolfram claims in his physics project) then one would wonder if we see a similar effect in real life. Maybe the universe just doesn't use the right rule thoug
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Where they become important depends on your precision of measurenment. GPS satellites don't move at 2% the speed of light, but relativistic effects do play a role for the system to work since they need to be very precise in measuring a
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by ganafagol 5y ago
The asymmetry comes from only one of the twins experiencing a force causing it to accellerate at the point where it turns around to come back.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Tried this recently? Bug density is declining dramatically.

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