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by grondilu 10y ago
The part I preferred is this one: > HAL has to be extremely careful before committing the first murder. It is possible that he wasn't entirely familiar with the EVA procedure, it being one of the few tasks on board the Discovery tha
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by grondilu 10y ago
Quite off-topic, but that made me think of a project I wish I'll live to see implemented. I'm sure it will be done by someone eventually, though it's probably too difficult right now. I'm talking about a whole-world re
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by grondilu 10y ago
> It was a pleasant surprise to see that potatoes we've bred to tolerate abiotic stress were able to produce tubers in this soil, Did they really produce tubers? That'd be impressive, but the video only shows "initial pla
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by grondilu 10y ago
> "aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies" I'm wondering what that means, concretely. How exactly do they convince GPs to prescribe pain killers even when it's not really appropriate? They can't just
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by grondilu 10y ago
> The opioid epidemic has its roots in the explosive growth of prescription painkillers. Between 1991 and 2011, the number of opioid prescriptions (selling under brand names like Vicodin, Oxycontin, and Percocet) supplied by American ret
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by grondilu 10y ago
Even if it was Justin Bieber? Instead of "One small step for the man...", we'd have Justin singing "baby, baby, baby..." to promote his latest album.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Can't wait to hear who booked this trip! Definitely one of the coolest ways to spend a lot of superfluous money :) Imagine it ends up being some celebrity, like Leonardo di Caprio (who has shown interest in space IIRC) or Lady Gag
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by grondilu 10y ago
> I think the point of polymagnets aren't to maximize the magnetic attraction in one specific direction but to allow for custom magnetic field designs. Getting strong magnets in one specific direction is one of their applications.
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by grondilu 10y ago
BTW are Halbach arrays more efficient than the magnets built by polymagnet? http://www.polymagnet.com/
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by grondilu 10y ago
Project Daedalus seems more appropriate for interstellar travel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
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by grondilu 10y ago
Why don't they raise taxes instead? At least if it doesn't work they'd make a hell lot of money. I mean, it seems efficient for tobacco in my country (France). I don't know why it couldn't work for junk food.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Ok, I'll remove it then and keep it local. I don't know how to write epub, though I guess I should write in LaTeX : there has to be a conversion tool somewhere.
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Ask HN: Do I have the right to rewrite Hugh Everett's dissertation in HTML?
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Is this really the relevant criterion here? I'm not sure it's the relevant criterion, but it probably is one . For instance in the original article, they talk about lactose tolerance and how up to 30% of the adult populati
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by grondilu 10y ago
Both Paganini and Gilbert had only one son. Not exactly a huge reproductive success. Though arguably successful artists have many female fans and possibly lots of illegitimate children.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Does it go on, though?
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Any credit card transaction should be a private dealing. I'm no expert but I believe they are since they use encryption. I don't think republicans plan to ban encryption.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Why do people seem so obsessed with privacy on the net? I mean, I get that privacy is important. I would not like the walls of my house to be transparent, for instance. But that's the thing : they're not, and this law would not
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by grondilu 10y ago
Yet as far as know longevity records among humans did not have any particular diet, did they? As caloric restriction is being more and more shown to be the only efficient method to increase longevity, I suppose more and more people will try
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by grondilu 10y ago
Isn't it a common practice to find nicknames for pieces of legislation? In that case, the Republican found one that stuck. The name "Obamacare" is nothing more than a portmanteau of "Obama" and "Health care&q
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by grondilu 10y ago
I don't know about actuaries, but I do remember there was an article lately about an insurance company in Japan that replaced hundreds of workers with IBM's Watson. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017&
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by grondilu 10y ago
What about other instruments? I used to work as an IT in a small investment bank, and the traders there were not doing any equity trading. They were dealing with bonds, swaps and stuff, and they were mostly doing arbitrage, IIRC. Also th
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by grondilu 10y ago
penultimate paragraph: > Closing prisons is good news in many ways. It means less money wasted, and signals that there is less crime. It also leaves empty facilities that can be repurposed, like an old jail in Colorado which was turned i
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by grondilu 10y ago
It's funny I was wondering recently if there is a fundamental difference between logic and memory. I mean it's obvious that memory devices can do logic, since after all Boolean tables are just data in the end, aren't they?
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by grondilu 10y ago
This. I'll totally confess that I'm very indulgent towards original Netflix programs. I'm paying for it so I want to believe I've made the right choice.
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by grondilu 10y ago
I don't know, isn't it possible to do the equivalent of mutable assignment if I use the same variable name several times? For instance for the equivalent of x = 3; x = x + 1; print(x): (lambda x: (lambda x: print(x))(x+1))(3
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Quite to the point, lambdas (anonymous closures) in Python are gimped. They are single-expression functions, which means no statements, even global/nonlocal qualifiers. I remember once on rosettacode I wanted to write a Runge-Kutt
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by grondilu 10y ago
I'm a bit surprised not to find any occurrence of "SpaceX", "mars" or "Musk" in this discussion page. Elon Musk stated many times that he wants to colonize mars in order to prevent a collapse of human civi
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by grondilu 10y ago
> This is (very) partial compensation for downstream effects of aging, achieved without addressing any of the root causes. That sounds a lot like what medicine does against most of diseases anyway.
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by grondilu 10y ago
I've always been puzzled how it could be possible for a machine to predict stock markets, even on an purely hypothetical basis. To me the idea seems to generate the same kind of paradoxes as time travel or oracles. I mean, imagine the

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