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by gherkin0 11y ago
No, but the aliens were discovered because one of them built a ship based on this idea ("solar" sail with a ground-based propulsive laser) and happened to arrive in a human-inhabited system. https://books.google.com&#x2
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Wouldn't your idea, at best, null-out the forward propulsive force, but not actually decelerate the ship?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Yeah, for this idea to work as transportation, you really need lasers at both ends: one to accelerate the ship, and other to decelerate. So it doesn't really solve any problems of initial colonization (beyond fly-by surveys), but it co
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> But if we aborted every deviation from the norm, we'd probably slip into monoculture as a species, and risk falling prey to a mass extinction event, beyond our understanding. But he wasn't talking about that. A lot (most?) p
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> As alien as it seems to us in the UK (and elsewhere), there are certain parts of the US where people think absolutely nothing of carrying a gun around with them all the time. I have little doubt that some percentage of these finds are
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Curious, what language did the poster uses that implies aggression? I see none. This: "Yeah, I know what quotation marks mean..." It comes off as snappy.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> What do you think "add[ing] it to Google Maps" would accomplish? Give us better publicly-accessible seafloor maps for that bit of ocean? >> there will be a swarm of autonomous submersible robots doing detailed scans &gt
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I doubt that Russia or the US needs to really test nuclear weapons at this point, it is all about the delivery mechanism. IIRC, there's still some need to test in order to evaluate the performance and other aging characteristics o
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Just breaking it up (at the very last minute, launched minutes or hours before impact) doesn't help so much if everything still hits Earth, because a planet-killer turns into hundreds of city-killers randomly spread out. Wouldn&#x
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> with more sensor data that I believe it actually has. I missed the edit window: I meant "with more sensor data than I believe it actually has."
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Yeah, but I assume it would be even worse at learning those. To handle non-set schedules it would really need to be more reactive, with more sensor data that I believe it actually has.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I've even written some small utilities to monitor their API Is their API local to the unit or "in the cloud?"
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Yeah, I really don't get value of the Nest either. I'd rather just program my schedule myself and have some certainty about it, rather than let some algorithm try to guess. The only smart thermostat feature that's at all tem
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Couldn't that be defeated by a preprocessing step that inserts yellow dots at every grid position on the printout? If the extra dots were aligned correctly, I don't see how someone could recover the encoded information. Someone c
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> But if you switch to the web app from the native app, now Facebook is tracking all your web usage. I use this app, which is supposed to run the Facebook mobile site in a separate sandbox from my other browsing. https://play.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> It's easy enough to disable all these emails in FB's notification preferences. Actually no, I don't think that's even possible. In the notification preferences, it appears you don't get a list of all notific
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> After you sign something, it's not important if it's reasonable or not: you have to uphold it. That's frankly a ridiculous idea that clearly leads to injustice. Contracts are often between people who are not equals, whe
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Even chit jobs are not the chit, I grew up with. They are just Terrible. Even immigrants are leaving them. Chit jobs?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I would rather make the call myself about what I want to see delegate to some twitter algorithm. And yes, I'm going to sometimes miss tweets I'd otherwise be interested in; it's no big loss. What I want to see is what&#x27
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by gherkin0 11y ago
The prompt would have to be after you authenticated your phone in some other way, like via the passcode. I think it's totally OK not to accept authentication from an unvalidated device, but a legitimate user should be able to do the va
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The issue is Apple cannot verify a secure touch ID replacement over a compromised touch ID replacement. Without knowing if your replacement is secure the change potentially compromises the security of the whole device. The correct solu
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Also people complain about telemarketers so much, but how many calls are you really getting a day from them? In one of the interviews, this guy says he was getting 4-5 telemarketing calls a day, some of them asking for someone who had
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> It can even detect when a telemarketer is getting suspicious, triggering a completely inane response that usually convinces them otherwise. How does it do that? Does it have some sophisticated voice recognition that can pick up on emot
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't think it would be fraud if they did it to ads from non-Google networks. But yeah, they shouldn't fake views on ads that come from their own networks.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I'd say rather that things need to be simplified and features removed in order to improve quality. I'd say they need to fix the features they've implemented, and only release new features when they're fully cooked.
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A-10 to fly until 2022 as DOD test chief warns against F-35 “block buy”(arstechnica.com)
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Was that due to development problems, though? This article claims the nickname comes from the fact that it's a single-engine fighter: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,154457,00.html > The F-16 is kn
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> How can they claim the F35 "shares many—if not necessarily all—of the same close air support capabilities as the $18.8 million A-10" Probably through a lot of box-ticking. http://dictionary.reference.com/brows
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I'm curious: how do the F-35's development troubles compare to other recent fighters, like the F-22 or Eurofighter? Are they objectively worse, or are the memories just fresher?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Housing is killer. On-campus was over $600/mo, higher than median apartment rent, and they shared with 3 other students. That's insane. The whole point of on-campus housing is to provide very cheap but spartan accommodations

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