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by jaekwon 12y ago
I think everybody here is in agreement.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
> Geothermal is hugly limited How? If you dig down you'll get heat. Wind power is bad for the environment? Solar has safety challenges? What? > None. Zero. Absolutely no impact or ramifications whatsoever. Clearly it has some
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Geothermal is available all the time. I'd like to read about what kind of difficulties they're experiencing directing power. Maybe it's a political problem, not a physical one.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
You're wrong on both counts. We don't know the full effects of Fukushima yet (it's not over, and cancers caused may take much longer to show).
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by jaekwon 12y ago
It appears that Fukushima isn't exactly over. And, it's clear that in the case of a disaster, nobody needs to take responsibility. Who is holding Tepco accountable?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Why don't we just build renewable energy that is abundant and doesn't require the unknown unknowns of nuclear energy? Geothermal, wind, solar? I don't trust anybody with nuclear power. I don't know whether I should be
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Oh, now I understand mummies.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
:)
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by jaekwon 12y ago
There is enough landlocked ice to raise sea level by 80 meters or so. Here's a projection that claims it'll rise 2.5 meters by 2040. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/07/more-than-25m-sea-le...
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Do we know that this isn't a recent phenomenon? I suspect that it might be new, along with methane potholes showing up in Siberia. I think we know that there have been bouts of global warming that was preceded by release of methane int
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Any experience with it?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I like this sentence... > The one that produced an observer was observed. I wonder if it applies in other contexts, specifically, er, quantum decoherence?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Thanks, these are great resources. I'm certainly not the expert! I suppose the novena is nice because it's fairly open source hardware, and it's designed by Bunnie of the EFF.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
One option that might be good is the Novena computer. Anybody have any thoughts on that?
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Ask HN: What's the more secure computing / mobile platform?
4 points by jaekwon 12y ago|5 comments
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by jaekwon 12y ago
"every other X" usually means, every even or every odd X, like: ... 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 ... Every other number is 0 above.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
No error, it means every other coefficient in the p.g.f. is negative, which is like saying that certain outcomes have negative probability. In the p.g.f. for the double coin example, the coefficient of the monomial for z^0 is 1/4, mean
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I remember reading things online where people claim that the natural world (probably including what's known in quantum mechanics) is better explained with quaternions.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Oh yay, I'm working my way through that book so I'll look forward to reading that part.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
On second thought, it looks what the binomial theorem could be extended such that k (in the paper this is n) goes to infinity, though for values of k greater than n the value is zero. I'm more intuitive than mathematical. The thing
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by jaekwon 12y ago
On page 67, "According to the binomial theorem," ... What follows on the right hand side, I'm not sure where that came from. According wikipedia: (1+x)^n = \sum_{k=0}^n {n \choose k}x^k. If you plug in 1/2 for n, you get
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by jaekwon 12y ago
You must go beyond FLP impossibility. The problem with just stopping at understanding FLP is that it assumes too little about what is available. No assumptions of synchrony, no assumptions of clocks, then sure, consensus is impossible in th
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I believe the opposite should be true. The knowledge that resides in my property, whether it be my head or my computer, is my own. I do not grant anybody the right to modify or delete that, and I would not force you to delete your memory or
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by jaekwon 12y ago
> Could be safe in agricultural use Didn't we find that some pesticide(s) is/are (partially) responsible for bee colony collapse disorder?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Whether or not the article is true, why don't you provide more constructive information? Presumably you've read the referenced studies and seen how bad their controls are. Which studies, and why is it bad?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
I love this. I would donate, and continue to donate for as long as the interface progresses. Something I would definitely pay membership for: The ability to see before & after photos for any two points in time, anywhere, with the abilit
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by jaekwon 12y ago
What are the "terms of reference"? And what the heck happened to the post?
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by jaekwon 12y ago
If there were a fully open hardware/software machine, I would give it all of my money.* *Of budget allocated for purchasing computing devices.
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Curious, how "real time" can a large application get in Go by judiciously working with pre-allocated structs and slices? Perhaps if the underlying system libraries don't require much garbage collection, then you can avoid sto
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by jaekwon 12y ago
Good point, and I suppose they really are: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1244520/The-f...

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