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by iwwr 15y ago
Energy wouldn't be free, it may be vastly more abundant and for practical purposes free for "consumer uses", but not exactly free in the general sense. To print you also need raw materials, some of which may be more rare but in high demand
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by iwwr 15y ago
Just in this context of a political system, having a self-interested politician is less dangerous than having an idealistic one. Mind you, there are good and bad idealists, but their impact is greater; and since politicians generally are
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by iwwr 15y ago
The point is that greed is dependable and stable. If you can depend on something that won't ruin the economy or society, then at least that works as a guarantee against worse excesses. And let's face it, even large corporations have a stake
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by iwwr 15y ago
Or it may work to collect the remaining unbroken eggs into one basket. Maybe centralization is not the solution here. Europe has benefited from so-called "disunity". It made economic and scientific (and social) development possible, with no
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by iwwr 15y ago
The comparison should not be made between people who can be workers both under a union or outside of it, but rather between them and people who would be barred from employment altogether (at least in those specific instances).
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by iwwr 15y ago
The Moon is slowly moving away due to tidal interaction. If the Earth and Moon were tidally locked (both presenting the same face to each other at all times) then the orbit would remain stable. If the Earth would be spinning slower than the
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by iwwr 15y ago
Is there a way to explain the Higgs mechanism to a lay computer scientist?
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by iwwr 15y ago
"keep in mind that Eliezer Yudowsky is but a human (though a very smart one), yet he did got out of the box" Not quite sure what this means. Any references?
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by iwwr 15y ago
How would you explain reddit's success, compared to digg? Reddit was basically developed by 2 people and has never had more than 3 devs behind it.
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by iwwr 15y ago
I haven't read a convincing argument on how such an entity would actually take over. She would have to be endowed with physical means, not just intelligence. She'd have to have humans do her bidding to a great extent and for a long time.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The big costs in a solar installation are not the panels themselves, but the voltage regulator/converter and battery systems.
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by iwwr 15y ago
So far, the only real successful method of removing mosquitoes has been massive spraying of insecticide, along with draining swampland. The Panama Canal owes its existence to these efforts, for instance. Genetics may be a second way to do i
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Mathematician laments about the state of math education(scribd.com)
2 points by iwwr 15y ago|1 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
No, but you could rent a VPN connection located there and permanently avoid EU harassment.
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Combinatorial logic as an assembly language(cstein.kings.cam.ac.uk)
2 points by iwwr 15y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
That instantly rules out ISO, does it not? I would disagree that a standard needs to be implemented explicitly, but it should be made available without restrictions. A standard may also include a comprehensive set of test cases.
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by iwwr 15y ago
As an employer, I would do my utmost to attend to these human problems, especially it's a valuable employee. However, the costs, opportunity-wise, still exist and we pay them, willingly or not.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Other than the US, are there any other places in the world where "tethering" even exists as a concept?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Strictly on economic terms, how much of a discount would you get on a developer if he/she is likely to take 1-2 year off at some point? During that time, you have to hire another person, train them and then tell them to leave.
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by iwwr 15y ago
I don't understand why there are no SOHO-priced network-attached scanners. A simple scanner with ADF and a button, which stores files on the network. The pure hardware cost is nowhere near the $1K pricetag most of these devices have.
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by iwwr 15y ago
What does "fixed" mean in the context of that chart?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Is there a resource that details who owns what (and where) of the wireless spectrum (ranging from kHz to GHz).
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by iwwr 15y ago
Do these conjectures point to a qualitative difference in the human species, as compared to other animals? i.e. syntax-based vs. pattern-based processing Can we equate it as the ability to conceptualize a Turing machine? This would be the s
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by iwwr 15y ago
Without RTG, missions beyond Jupiter are not possible. There is the Juno probe launched recently, which runs on solar panels, but those things are pretty hefty (60m^2 surface area) and a much greater weight than an equivalent RTG. This mean
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by iwwr 15y ago
Not really, it's underpowered and mining lends itself better to vector-oriented processors (like GPUs) rather than CPUs.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Protocol-wise, I always recommend IAX2 over SIP whenever possible. You can get phones, analog adapters and gateways in the iax variety, although the "serious business" (enterprise) manufacturers still sell SIP-only devices.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Ditto, OP please change the title.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The point being, space expansion would prevent the sudden eradication of the human technological culture. Politicians, warmongers, prophets and priests will continue to fuck things up, but distributed redundancy means not everything is dest
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by iwwr 15y ago
Does AMD have an embedded platform outside of Fusion (like it, but without a graphics core)?
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by iwwr 15y ago
What are they using the thrusters for at this time? Just attitude adjustment to get the antenna pointed at the Earth?

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