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by jbattle 8y ago
You are on to something, but as a counterpoint: The T2 navy gives a lot of options not present in T1 - largely due to longer ranges. T1 subs and frigates mostly only interact with other naval units. But T2 get cruisers and destroyers anywhe
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by jbattle 8y ago
You might like Sins of a Solar Empire. The scale is even larger than SupCom, so a full game can run several hours to complete. You can play on smaller maps as well, but the game shines best with several different solar systems. It's go
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by jbattle 8y ago
I was under the impression that we've "done well" because natural gas generation has come online like crazy and proves more economical than coal and INCIDENTALLY cleaner to burn. I'm not sure how long (absent intelligent
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by jbattle 8y ago
These stories are fascinating and I don't doubt there are seeds of very ancient facts preserved for thousands of years in oral traditions. That said, if we don't have a reliable way of picking these facts out from the rest of the
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by jbattle 8y ago
I know Mars at least has several ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mars_orbiters
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by jbattle 8y ago
There's no way we're going to make a meaningful positive impact on the climate without doing things that make people uncomfortable. The sooner we start, the less dramatic that discomfort will be
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by jbattle 8y ago
I suppose there are practical issues, especially once someone has gotten debilitated enough they don't have a lot of personal autonomy or privacy. If it were legal then one could imagine making a autonomous decision and "getting h
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by jbattle 8y ago
If we are talking in the context of submitting it as a paper to a journal, then a problem is plagiarism. If we are talking about "does hitler have some non-genocidal ideas?" then like I said, not sure I care. "How was hitler
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by jbattle 8y ago
There are WAY too many compelling thinkers in the world to read to justify any of my time sifting through Hitler's writings hoping to find some nuggets that are not "100% genocidal rubbish". I'm imagine he advocated for
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by jbattle 8y ago
Similarly, by the copernican principle, wouldn't our "local" quantum computer also then be burdened by the work being sent from a near infinity of parallel universes?
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by jbattle 8y ago
I think the term is 'ray casting' - though a quick bit of googling shows that wolfenstein 3d was ray casted, but doom was not. (instead Doom used a BSP-based technique that I can't find a pithy name for)
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by jbattle 8y ago
Modern intersectionality starts from the observation that people ARE treated differently based on their gender, sexuality, and ethnic origin. I don't know who the pope of modern intersectionality is, so I don't know what It dictat
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by jbattle 8y ago
Of course - the fall of Rome was a dynamic phase of ups and downs that lasted for literally centuries - the phase described above was operative for longer than the US has been around. I hesitate to draw overstrong conclusions from history,
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by jbattle 8y ago
I get your point but I honestly think the people planning the second Iraq war really didn't care about casualties, or perhaps we're just badly deceiving themselves. "We will be greeted with flowers" they said. "the
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by jbattle 8y ago
> So they're supposed to put LeBron in the game with no tattoos or fake different tattoos? I assume the company claiming copyright ownership just wants $$
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by jbattle 8y ago
I ride by a flock and can't help but think "dang thats a lot of meat walking around". I have no idea how good or bad they would be to eat.
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by jbattle 8y ago
It's been a few years since I played, but IIRC it is trivial to quickly or instantly (?) grow trees with bonemeal. I'd expect you could pretty easily sequester enormous amounts of carbon in chests full of logs (or maybe even toss
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by jbattle 8y ago
For those interested in models comparing armies across time and space (at least in the ancient world), this book is worth a look ... https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Battles-Reconstructing-Clashes-A... The author developed and t
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by jbattle 8y ago
(US perspective) I've wondered if for-profit insurance as we know it can survive changes in advances in actuarial science & related fields. As I understand it, the entire concept of insurance is based around gathering relatively la
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by jbattle 8y ago
north korea
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by jbattle 8y ago
Yeah - maybe it's just the lingo of "positive" people, or maybe I haven't met enough "negative" people (lucky!?), but the (happy != positive) angle should have been explored a little bit. The best friends in my
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by jbattle 8y ago
Example: antennas have been evolved to meet specific special criteria ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
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by jbattle 8y ago
With these techniques - how complex a program can practically be created in 2018? A lot of the example programs mentioned feel more like functions (stateless + deterministic mapping of a tuple of inputs to a single output). In contrast, I t
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by jbattle 8y ago
Coming from Java - learning Kotlin is borderline trivial. I think having the huge audience of Java (+Android) (+IntelliJ) developers to draw from was a huge advantage for Kotlin.
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by jbattle 8y ago
Humidity
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by jbattle 8y ago
Pure speculation: but the Aborigines are AFAIK relatively unique in their cultural isolation. Contrast this to any tribe living in Asia+Africa+Europe where migration over large scales definitely happened and cultural diffusion across thousa
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by jbattle 8y ago
> As far as I can tell, consciousness is literally the one thing in the universe that can't be an illusion. Even if, in the extreme case, we're brains in a vat, etc. Cogito ergo sum! "I have convinced myself that there is
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by jbattle 8y ago
You have to accelerate both pieces to the same speed, which implies (in a rotational launcher), the same G (acceleration). Maybe there's some configuration where the leading payload pushes air out of the way for the first few km (th
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by jbattle 8y ago
Honestly, I'd love if our society chose to be more generous and invest in retraining workers across the board. But if someone loses their job in Welch, West Virginia, and there's nothing else ... they might need to move. How is it
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by jbattle 8y ago
There are only 50k coal miners in the USA. I'm not at all against generous job retraining programs, but why does the rest of the country/world need to be held off any progress on this issue for the sake of a relatively small group

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