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by jbattle 9y ago
I'm very skeptical that we should be pushing masses of kids to learn to program, to the detriment of other subjects already being squeezed for classroom time. I love programming but I just don't see why everyone should be required
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by jbattle 9y ago
I just realized that there is more time between now and the Gulf war than there was between ww1 and ww2. I have no idea if missile interceptor technology has made as much progress as from Sopwith to Spitfire, but wow - I hadn't done th
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by jbattle 9y ago
The board game Diplomacy had a really thriving play by post community, which morphed into play by email. I'm actually not sure if there is a platform that actually supports play-by-email anymore (the ones I used to use seem defunct). B
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by jbattle 9y ago
Sure seems like something our society could experiment with and see what happens. Step A - build one (1) of these in a city somewhere, maybe another in a sub-urban location and see if people show up. Don't cut any benefits or anything,
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by jbattle 9y ago
I agree that reaching perfect automation isn't critical - but one thing that is critical is to ensure that local uncommitted changes do not get deployed. I've been burned a couple of times where changes from a developer's m
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by jbattle 9y ago
I had some bad reactions to NSAIDs (asthma attacks & bad headaches). I was never sure if I was having an attack come on and thus took aspirin, or if the aspirin was causing it. Eventually I went to a doctor and it turns out there's
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by jbattle 9y ago
In the back of my head I wonder though - Once you hire them, will their goal be to optimize the same metrics you also care about?
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by jbattle 9y ago
An alternate way to do this (which avoids false negatives cause they don't know the same trivia as you) is to ask them to tell you about a tool/library they are excited about. Or ask them to explain some part of their last project
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by jbattle 9y ago
This theory should be easy to prove or disprove. Just look for other corporations that make money from government contracts or benefit from government policies and see if Breitbart is consistently going after all of them.
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by jbattle 9y ago
I'd suggest the golden rule should be applicable here. There are enough divisions in our society as it is - I don't believe that literal segregation by political preference is a good solution, an any timeframe
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by jbattle 9y ago
I'm not saying it'll be an honest argument ;)
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by jbattle 9y ago
10-20 years from now they will all be saying "of course we wanted to do something at the time but the lefties wouldn't let us address climate change." Something about nuclear power (probably)
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by jbattle 9y ago
Romans did not give up after a single loss in battle. They didn't give up after getting thrashed by the Carthiginians, nor the Parthians, nor the Gauls, nor the Germans in eastern Europe. I can't buy the argument that this one def
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by jbattle 9y ago
That doesn't strike me as postmodern at all. It strikes me as classical realpolitik
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by jbattle 9y ago
I suspect too that our usage patterns for wood are "subsidized" by the availability of coal. There was just an article here the other day that talked about how deforestation in Ethiopia (for use as fuel) has had dramatic ecologica
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by jbattle 9y ago
Scale it up ... or just send a brace of falcon heavies
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by jbattle 9y ago
> "I regret how it was handled" Burn in hades dude. You've got the money, if you actually regret it pay out
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by jbattle 9y ago
Yet! The 911 outage described in the article was the result of crossing a threshold that was - logically - dead simple both in how it worked and how it was to be understood. The issue was that normal operation of the system pushed through t
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by jbattle 9y ago
Shogun was the best and the worst of those gamemaster games. I thought the flexibility of the rules (bidding for turn order, the ninja, experience for generals, etc) was way ahead of its time. But in our games, whichever player left the ear
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by jbattle 9y ago
just wikipedia
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by jbattle 9y ago
Protip: Julia Loiuse Dreyfus is related to THAT Dreyfus, just in case you ever need help segueing into late 19th century French history at a dinner party
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by jbattle 9y ago
It has already been happening to Russia the last few decades - as the price of oil rose then fell it played havoc with their economy and government budgets
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by jbattle 9y ago
c.f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
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by jbattle 9y ago
I thought that the defining attribute of an old-growth forest is that it is in relative stasis in terms of the distribution of trees (i.e. in carbon balance)
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by jbattle 9y ago
Ravens, octopus, canids, dolphins - surely behind us in intelligence - but we aren't the only brainy lifeforms Earth has brought forth
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by jbattle 9y ago
A lot of these feel like trick questions. Which offers more bang for the buck: improving airplane efficiency, or building a global network of high-speed rail? It matters a lot how much we are improving efficiency, and how complete the &quot
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by jbattle 9y ago
I'd wager the vast majority of company tech blogs are maintained with exactly that goal in mind. And in my opinion that's totally reasonable. Done well it helps people understand more about the people, technical philosophy, and pr
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by jbattle 9y ago
There is a distressingly large portion of the country that would love to see California leave the us. (Or Kansas or Texas or New York).
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by jbattle 9y ago
Maybe he is thinking of something like waterbears and thinks he has evidence they came from somewhere else. It's the interviewer who brings up ufos. Also bigelow says et is "under our nose". If he is being literal I'd wa
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by jbattle 9y ago
you should try it, it's shockingly easy. Like 20 minutes of work total

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