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by huxley 10y ago
I hope he'd appreciate the memetic irony that the word has taken on a life of its own
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by huxley 10y ago
I remember seeing that on the Newton way back in the 20th century: https://youtu.be/VWSKqgHOEy0?t=5m32s
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by huxley 10y ago
I quite enjoyed "F is for Fake" by Orson Welles, which starts of as a documentary essay of sorts about an art forger. It discusses some of the same issues with authentication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_f
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by huxley 10y ago
Rocky Mountain Institute criticized Frank's paper and showed that it had many incorrect or outdated assumptions: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2014/08/05/sowing-c... http:/&#x2
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by huxley 10y ago
The subsidy per KWh from Hinkley Point C is roughly equal to to the current market rate for electricity because of the guaranteed price needed to build the plant, so the electricity effectively costs twice as much. https://www.th
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by huxley 10y ago
I get what you're trying to say but you're probably not old enough to remember (or weren't born yet), however environmental protection legislation was considered "hippie bullshit" well into the late 20th century.
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by huxley 10y ago
NEXTSTEP evolved into MacOS X and iOS so it wasn't a total failure
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by huxley 10y ago
Parent was referring to Windows on desktops and laptops
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by huxley 10y ago
I know many wouldn't see it as malicious (especially if it was done to someone else's device), but doing it without someone's knowledge or consent does seem to cross into that territory, especially if the user didn't und
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by huxley 10y ago
Innisfil seems ideal for a small busline, if I remember it correctly the "town" is a relatively small rural grid with big lots. The density can't be great for Uber drivers.
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by huxley 10y ago
A lot of Windows NT was based on work Dave Cutler had done on VMS and RSX-11, so while I'm sure most of the code was new, the ideas are of a similar vintage to Unix.
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by huxley 10y ago
It's part of the Samsung Accelerator, but do they actually own it?
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by huxley 10y ago
I wasn't aware that they'd discovered any Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) bigger than Pluto. From everything I can find, Eris is more massive, but Pluto still has the bigger diameter (as confirmed by New Horizons), and everything else i
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by huxley 10y ago
> the signal-to-noise ratio of quality-to-sub-par in certain genres is abhorrent Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap re: overnight success, Ted Chiang got a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990) which was his fi
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by huxley 10y ago
I don't believe SSL alone would protect you since ISPs would still have access to the DNS lookups, the fully qualified domain name of the server (which is sent in cleartext for SNI), and IP addresses for the person browsing, so there&#
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by huxley 10y ago
> Apple already uses C++ for device drivers, which allows for more safety oriented programming as straight C Just to qualify that a bit, IOKit uses a restricted form of C++ based on Embedded C++ https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by huxley 10y ago
With regards to later developments yes, but your thesis that Romania was democratic except for external pressures isn't tenable. Yes, Romania eventually was put under the heel of both Nazi Germany and the Soviets, both had to use force
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by huxley 10y ago
I'm not an expert of the history of Romania and possibly I misunderstand a lot of details but external pressure doesn't really explain the Iron Guard/Mișcarea Legionară. The Iron Guard as I understand it was an entirely homeg
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by huxley 10y ago
The bimetallic Toonie from Canada came out in 1996, but Italy beat everyone with their 500 Lire in 1982
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by huxley 10y ago
Neither Chrome or Firefox support HLS on the desktop despite providing support on mobile (since Android 3.0 I believe). They have categorically refused to add desktop support, if you have any complaints I would take it up with them.
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by huxley 10y ago
Interestingly that created its own annoyances for some since normalization occurs at a different stage. Unicode and UTF-8 unify many Traditional & Simplified Chinese Characters as well as Japanese Kanji and Korean Hanja. There were some
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by huxley 10y ago
I can think of two counter-examples: * Polio eradication * The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer/Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer Both are examples of multi-state cooperation that dealt
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by huxley 10y ago
Both Hooke and Huygens both pioneered many ideas in universal gravitation, but the key difference as I understand it wasn't that Newton had a better theory but rather a better tool: calculus
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by huxley 10y ago
The term is misleading and leads to poor decision-making
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by huxley 10y ago
At the very least, if it doesn't match up with the basic physics, to do the legwork to show why they are right and the apparent contradictions with basic physics are incorrect.
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by huxley 10y ago
Ask very religious Americans if they think the laws of America should be more driven by Biblical principles, it isn't any different. Besides, religious courts already exist in the US. For example, Halakha are religious courts run for O
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by huxley 10y ago
Voting systems aren't a panacea. Italy and Greece don't have FPTP voting but people there feel pretty disenfranchised even if they theoretically have more representation in government than an American or Canadian would.
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by huxley 10y ago
I wish that myth would die. Yes, Jobs did a song-and-dance about web apps but not because they didn't want 3rd party apps but because Apple wasn't ready to support developers on what was a new platform. Apple plays it safe. For on
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by huxley 10y ago
Note: World Health Organization report is from 2000
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by huxley 10y ago
You may be able to grow potatoes on Mars, but growing them in the Andes doesn't really get you that much closer to Martian conditions. Average pressure on Mars is about 0.6 kpa which is a trifle less than the pressure at Cusco which is

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