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by iwwr 12y ago
Cosmic rays also don't get deflected by the magnetic field (either photons or very high energy particles). The atmosphere's density shields us from radiation much more than the magnetic field. Also a full half of the sky's ra
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by iwwr 12y ago
>How would patents have prevented him thinking about it ? I don't understand this logic. It would mean he would need a license for every building block of an algorithm. It would have meant early (and vital) algorithm research bogged
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by iwwr 12y ago
There is some genuine concern about any regulations involving the internet. But the need for Net Belligerence only arises in stifled and monopolized markets. The solution would be to break open the myriad of rules that make it hard for inde
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by iwwr 12y ago
It's not a crime under US law.
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by iwwr 12y ago
That's more likely to just drive away publishers to friendlier jurisdictions. There's also the issue of voluntary vs. mandatory unions.
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by iwwr 12y ago
It looks like "national security" became a catch-all concept these days. But not sure how the government gains from secrecy in this case since they seek to advertise a successful anti-terrorism program. That should be conveyed by
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by iwwr 12y ago
So is it just a suborbital plane that can launch something high enough where an additional small booster can put the payload in orbit?
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by iwwr 12y ago
This pushes home the idea that to have food you essentially need energy. If electricity were abundant enough it could even make sense to grow vegetables close to people in cities, perhaps in the same buildings.
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by iwwr 12y ago
> Although the KPCS had noble intentions it also was a means of controlling the market. De Beers used the film Blood Diamond with DiCaprio as a positive marketing tool (they bought advertising with it -- 'De Beers presents...')
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by iwwr 12y ago
As electric cars become more popular, expect taxes on them to go up as well. Germany recently scrapped fuel tax breaks for biofuel. In the long run, it's unlikely for tax breaks to be maintained on popular items of consumption.
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by iwwr 12y ago
Kinetic weapons would work better on an airless planet or for space combat.
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by iwwr 12y ago
>I'm not sure that having a weapon in orbit would actually be any better than existing ICBMs That's kind of the point too. Suborbital ballistic missiles can reach any point on Earth. Putting them in orbit wastes energy and requ
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by iwwr 12y ago
The Sun is orbiting inside the thin disk, within 3K light years of the galactic plane, where most of stars and most new stars reside (other than the center bulge or bar). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_disk Star age
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by iwwr 12y ago
You talk as if there is no other way to consume film content on a computer...
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by iwwr 12y ago
Hundreds of millions? It depends precisely what number. Terrestrial macroscopic life is barely 500mil years old and 100mil years earlier the atmosphere would have been too low in oxygen to breathe. Land animals with larger brains are rather
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by iwwr 13y ago
That was interesting, thank you.
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by iwwr 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/user/GreshamCollege
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by iwwr 13y ago
Scripts and checklists can scale better if the support staff and client base is large.
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by iwwr 13y ago
>The interesting part of that is that it's completely reasonable that you have to get people thinking about things like how a search engine should function in a free market [...], but when it comes down to it, doing that is also fun
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by iwwr 13y ago
The problem is not that bugs happen, but that certain categories of bugs still happen when we have means to avoid them altogether.
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by iwwr 13y ago
It may be impossible to distinguish genuine bugs from bug-backdoors, which is why it's important to start developing crypto in safer frameworks and languages. C considered harmful.
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by iwwr 13y ago
We may soon see Satoshi on the Forbes list of billionaires. It'd be a journalistic scoop.
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by iwwr 13y ago
You also have to look at the cost of the conventional banking system, fees and periodic capital destruction by inflation, bailouts and malinvestment.
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by iwwr 13y ago
I guess you don't consider gaming a worthwhile endeavor on Linux?
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by iwwr 13y ago
That's true, but it's not just about doing wrong things. There ought to be probable cause for recording by an authority of the state. It also has to be targeted and not done in a dragnet fashion. The police have significant discre
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by iwwr 13y ago
>This seems like a place where more surveilance is actually a good thing. The problem here is the disparity of power. It should be legal for people to record the police, but not necessarily for the police to do the same.
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by iwwr 13y ago
>"Neither. Try mercenaries." "Freebooters" may be a more appropriate term
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by iwwr 13y ago
What about the possibility that these machines are actually running vanilla XP?
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by iwwr 13y ago
Bind xkill to a global hotkey. If it's just fullscreen or screen-grabbing app that crashed, xkill will take care of it.
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by iwwr 13y ago
The fact that he may be honest in his beliefs does not make him less of a terrible person, quite the contrary. At the very least a duplicitous person can change their position.

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