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by jbattle 8y ago
Ben Bova had this all figured out a few decades ago. I this book as a kid and found it utterly fascinating. To my kid-brain, all the details had clearly been worked out and it was just a matter of getting some astronauts up there to break r
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by jbattle 8y ago
The next article this website wants me to read is "Literally everyone is wearing this Mango suit on social media RN". I actually don't know much about this particular magazine, but one wishes that as an organization they woul
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by jbattle 8y ago
for better or worse, politics IS a skill!
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by jbattle 8y ago
Similarly, Snorri Sturlson writing in the 13th century explained that the Norse gods - Odin and that lot - were all actually refugees from Troy as it was sacked by Agamemnon. https://bladehoner.wordpress.com/2017/11&#x2
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by jbattle 8y ago
This could get complex fast, but if the consumption tax was graduated according to a subjective measure of how critical the need was ... Food purchases get taxed at 1% Car purchases get taxed at 2% First home purchases get taxed at 3% Secon
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by jbattle 8y ago
Game developers don't stay in business by being great places to work. They stay in business by staying afloat long enough to get one .. more .. game to market. I know Firaxis (makers of Civilization) has at least once laid off large pa
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by jbattle 8y ago
Sounds like the causes of failure of the colony were heavily influenced by politics, but also that's a tough place for "outsiders" to live. c.f. the Darien Gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Ga
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by jbattle 8y ago
Or ... do we have Mars-based DNA?
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by jbattle 8y ago
One of my coworkers has a friend named Siri. When Apple's siri first came out somehow she kept getting texts from friends "remind me tuesday to call the doctor". She didn't realize what was happening so she kept track of
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by jbattle 8y ago
Wait an hour til someone can deliver the news in person? This seems not that hard
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by jbattle 8y ago
> If you can't afford to attract talent at market rates then your business model as it is exists isn't viable. That sounds kind of extreme, but I think you are on to something. Facebook can generate more incremental revenue per
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by jbattle 8y ago
That's just not true though. Did you read the link I provided? Global warming and climate change are two terms with semantic differences. You are, I think, arguing that it is the fault of environmentalists that our climate is changing
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by jbattle 8y ago
> It's funny how the conversation have changed now to Climate Change instead of global warming. What conversation has changed? These aren't terms of fashion, these are terms used to try to be as descriptive as possible within t
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by jbattle 8y ago
My kids are in an orchestra and half the audience is holding up a big honking bright phone or tablet recording the whole thing. Its annoying
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by jbattle 8y ago
This is what always bothers me about demonstrations of the technology. There's almost always a extra hidden layer of human curation of the output so we only see the examples that are most interesting (90% amazing result with a mixture
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by jbattle 8y ago
There is a copy with the full film here (it's about 50 minutes long) https://vimeo.com/90896890
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The War Story – 1965 BBC documentary about nuclear war(medium.com)
3 points by jbattle 8y ago|2 comments
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by jbattle 8y ago
how common was it for languages to ship with robust IO, collections, and threading libraries? It might be that a lot of the good ideas in Java have become so commonplace you don't recognize them as "from Java". (Of course, th
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by jbattle 8y ago
Because enough people are making a lot of money from the status quo
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by jbattle 8y ago
> The hackability of these is very attractive Maybe not the best choice of phrasing
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by jbattle 8y ago
I'd love to see this animated over time
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by jbattle 8y ago
In large parts of north america, for thousands of years, humans intentionally set fires to manage the landscape. It isn't actually super clear what the "natural state of the forests" really looks like.
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by jbattle 8y ago
Good motivation to be bad, right? A game needs some villains, so I can see why you'd want to make room for both fame and infamy (as long as weaker players aren't totally at their mercy). I only played UO for a month or two. The o
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by jbattle 8y ago
Did the reputation system work? Or more to the point - how easy was it to abuse and in which directions did it break? I gotta think if it worked as well as designed it would have been replicated more widely by now
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by jbattle 8y ago
The franco-prussian war was just a few decades prior and had a lot of lessons for those who were willing to learn. Sounds like the biggest lessons learned were more at the strategic / organizational level. I'd argue that the Germa
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by jbattle 8y ago
Maybe this is a dumb comparison, but it sounds like an algorithm for solving minesweeper. The big difference is there's no "right" answer, the puzzle emerges from the outplaying of probabilities.
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by jbattle 8y ago
This book was hugely influential in the years just before WW1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion Premise: the large nations of the world are far to intertwined by commerce and culture. Large scale war wou
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by jbattle 8y ago
That's my intuition as well. I'd expect AGI to arise once we put together enough various tools into an integrated whole. So for classification of sensory input, you'd build in a CNN or the like. You'd build in something
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by jbattle 8y ago
This seems almost too good to be true. One thing I find very striking is how it gets skin tones very plausible across people of different ethnicities (though the majority of subjects in the picture appear of european descent). Unless a) my
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by jbattle 8y ago
I dunno, I remember losing HOURS sitting in front of a TV. Watching whatever. Whatever they wanted to show me, I'd watch it. Commercials every X minutes.

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