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by jbattle 15y ago
I had to follow your link. "Mandatory unlimited vacation" sounded like a euphemism for being laid off ;)
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by jbattle 15y ago
Two things to consider: 1) The volume of space a black hole influences doesn't increase without bound. If our sun collapsed suddenly into a black hole, it would have the same exact pull on the earth (i.e. we wouldn't suddenly be pulled int
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by jbattle 15y ago
Brilliant handling of rivers. Everything I've seen in the past is either error-prone (rivers flowing uphill) or computationally expensive (needing to simulate erosion & deposition)
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by jbattle 15y ago
It's very exciting to think I could see asteroid mining in my life - but I have to wonder if it's solving the most crucial problem. Is earth really that strapped for metal? It seems to me that the energy used to return mass from the aster
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by jbattle 15y ago
I'd never thought of this - but it's interesting that one of the foundational things we'd be teaching this AI is to lie to/deceive humans. Seems like a bad starting place. Of course, the turing test isn't REALLY some kind of gateway throug
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by jbattle 15y ago
I miss the 3.5" disks - those things had a really appealing appearance. The hard(ish) case and the sliding door gave them this sense that they would keep your data safe forever. Of course, I was just an impressionable kid, but whoever the
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by jbattle 15y ago
I'll answer the question narrowly (and out of ignorance on the state of scholarly opinion on the bombings) - the Mongolians practiced depopulation as a regular (normal/frequent) form of policy. The pair of nuclear bombings were a one time
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by jbattle 15y ago
I won't argue the USA is totally benign and acts out of anything other that crude self interest (in the vast majority of cases) - but I think the evidence is fairly compelling that the US 'empire' IS more benign and rules with a lighter han
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by jbattle 15y ago
I'd second this suggestion. Another great 'feature' of this platform is that it's trivially easy for the learner to share his/her creations with friends.
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by jbattle 15y ago
I'd prefer this technology goes away, but if it doesn't, I'd be more comfortable if there was an impermeable wall between the people who see the scans and the people who select passengers for scanning. I don't see why they even need to be
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by jbattle 15y ago
I have a 10 year old son who seems a natural to take an interest in programming. I tried starting him with a Basic interpreter cause that's how I started, and he struggled to stay interested - largely due to the non-graphical nature of the