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by grondilu 12y ago
There's a saying in the FOSS community: « Good, Cheap, Fast. Pick two. » A quick search on Google points to what seems to be called the Project Management Triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_triangle
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by grondilu 12y ago
This part in that future is actually made of shares in the stock market. If you want some, you have to buy it. Fortunately anyone can : it's a free market and you can enter with as little as a few hundreds bucks.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Yeah that makes sense. Now that I think about it, I realise the energy needed to extract deuterium is related to the chemical energy binding water molecules together. This chemical energy is orders of magnitude lower than the nuclear ener
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by grondilu 12y ago
When talking about breaking even, does that include the energy needed to make the deuterium? Or rather to collect it, considering it has to be extracted from water or something. IIRC deuterium costs quite a lot of energy to produce and as
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by grondilu 12y ago
Or maybe they need to invest in self-driving trucks R&D.
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by grondilu 12y ago
I liked the comparison with high-temperature superconductors. We don't exactly know how they work either. But they do work.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Tried it. Typed e4. Got this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "sunfish.py", line 388, in <module> main() File "sunfish.py", line 365, in main move = parse(crdn[0:2]), parse
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by grondilu 12y ago
It seems to me that the Wikipedia page is fairly documented and referenced, for an article about a "secret" agreement.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Vandalism is vandalism, regardless where it comes from. There should be no need to discriminate editors on the basis of their profession or IP. Only the nature of their edits should matter.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Is there a rule anywhere that forbids to edit Wikipedia from your working place?? If so, Wikipedia will lose quite a lot of editors :(
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by grondilu 12y ago
Ironically enough, this link was blocked by Privoxy.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Nobody can stay on the top during his whole life. Technology marches very fast and as we get older it's hard to keep up and compete with younger, more motivated brains. Everybody should expect that. This guy should think about all th
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by grondilu 12y ago
Pretty sure it's illegal in most countries. So it can only work for businesses that are themselves illegal.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Can it make the opposite and turn code into music?
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by grondilu 12y ago
« Denmark has considerably large deposits of oil and natural gas in the North Sea and ranks as number 32 in the world among net exporters of crude oil[101] and was producing 259,980 barrels of crude oil a day in 2009 » https://en
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by grondilu 12y ago
Not sure which country you're talking about exactly, but don't countries in Scandinavia benefit from large resources of oil and natural gaz in the North Sea? That sure eases welfare.
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by grondilu 12y ago
If you think college teachers should be well paid, it means you think college education is worth a lot. If you think it's worth a lot, then it means it is expensive. If it is expensive, it makes sense that lots of people can't a
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by grondilu 12y ago
If a company ends up being the only one providing a product or service on a market, there is nothing wrong with that, as long as other companies are not prohibited to enter the market if they are capable to. And I repeat : you have no rig
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by grondilu 12y ago
> Corporations are legal fictions. They exist through the power and authority of the State, their contracts are enacted and enforced through agents of the Courts. When I enter a shop there are a few things I can not do. I can't ste
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by grondilu 12y ago
I have not used the word monopoly and was merely talking about the right for people to work together. Do you have anything against that ?
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by grondilu 12y ago
The answer is simple : economic freedom. If companies have the right to merge, it's not because "right-wing free-market ideologues" think it is best for the economy, it's because it is their business and they are free t
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by grondilu 12y ago
If this happens (though it is very unlikely indeed), the bitcoins could be bought back or Ulbricht could receive an indemnity in US dollars.
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by grondilu 12y ago
Totally bought ten shares of HPQ after learning about that. Who knows, their plan might actually work. Go HP!
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by grondilu 12y ago
If that's true, and after having watched the documentary it's hard for me to believe it's not, then Vermeer was kind of like a magician : his paintings were made with a trick that he kept secret. On one hand the whole story
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by grondilu 12y ago
Did they also run the experiment with an actual 13 yo kid?
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by grondilu 12y ago
Unemployment is a goal for lots of people. Many people save money in order not to have to work in the future. So the problem is about what to do with people who are unable to save money and thus need a job. The basic income idea seems t
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by grondilu 12y ago
Why is this on Hacker News?
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by grondilu 13y ago
Even if AI is harmless, there is still the risk of brain emulation. To me this is a greater threat, because if we don't know how a fully artificial mind would behave, we can get an idea of how an emulated human brain could. The probl
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by grondilu 13y ago
Well, we're talking about antibiotics so you want something that kills bacteria without killing the cells of the person in which the bacteria are. If what you're looking for is harmless for human cells, it's just a matter of
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by grondilu 13y ago
That's what I understood as well. But I thought OculusVR was making a VR headset, not VR content. Since when was OculusVR supposed to build the metaverse? I thought they only wanted to build the tools to access it.

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