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by gauto 10y ago
Yeah, that wasn't clear at all. I should have just said "deployment on Navy ship". If you are curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditionary_Strike_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by gauto 10y ago
It's really starting to feel like we "live in the future" more and more everyday. The stuff we used to dream about as kids is becoming reality. Amid all the doom and gloom that seems to pervade the news cycle, stories like th
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by gauto 10y ago
Solutions don't necessarily need everybody to be on board. Somebody could come up with something tomorrow. Maybe a bacteria that can populate the ocean, which precipitates carbon from CO2 in the air, and drops little pellets to the bot
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by gauto 10y ago
Our conventional weapons and economic influence are the leverage and deterrents. It's pretty unlikely that we would ever again nuke a non-nuclear entity. The non nuclear entities know this, so nukes don't really provide any levera
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by gauto 10y ago
If anything it would just be one of their Von Neumann probes looking to fuel up, probably from Jupiter or Uranus. Maybe it would send some pics of us back to the home world where they might say "oh, those guys look neat, add that one t
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by gauto 10y ago
Yes, it would be like the ants on the other side of my yard waiting for me to come over and have a conversation with them.
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by gauto 10y ago
Maybe the problems of today will be solved with the technology of tomorrow. As far as nuclear bombs, we don't really seem to be using them much anymore. They are just trump cards in the mutual assured destruction game.
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by gauto 10y ago
Yes, but Karl Marx's plan relies on motivating self interested humans, who have a natural desire to minimize their output energy expenditure. Machines can make us more and more stuff all through the night, and never ask for vacation. F
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by gauto 10y ago
Agreed. Once we build a clanking replicator, or it's biological/nano counterpart, we'll be approaching a state where thought manifests reality. As a thought experiment, if every one has a replication device like in Star Trek
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by gauto 10y ago
Author here. I am hoping to get some feedback from the readership here on HN. You basically connect 5 or 10 keys, such as Cherry MX, to an Arduino. The software on the computer creates a layer between the keyboard and the OS that lets you e
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HuiBoard – five and/or ten key chorded typing system, free and open source(huiboard.com)
2 points by gauto 10y ago|1 comments