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by jl6 2y ago
It’s highly unlikely that a small nomadic hunter-gatherer band would have had the food surplus and hierarchical organization needed to control and keep slaves. It’s as likely that ancient humans outcompeted Neanderthals for resources as kil
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by jl6 2y ago
Whippersnappers, we call ’em.
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Not sure if this is conscious cunning by the BBC, but they probably employ people whose skillset and style is shaped by the “writing for the web” industry - and we know that the modern web is a cattle ranch. Got to keep the animals inside t
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by jl6 2y ago
It's all about risk. Maybe you can run Finance on a spreadsheet and get away with it, and maybe you can survive driving without wearing a seatbelt too.
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Excel is an incredible swiss army knife that can be used to do a lot, but it has a mean-time-to-catastrophe. You can keep spreadsheet risk (==cost) under control for a long time, which can make it seem like the risk is negligible, but it&
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s always possible that there is a Vatican Super Secret Archive that has been successfully hidden from the world, but the regular Secret Archive isn’t actually secret (and in fact isn’t called the Secret Archive any more), because it’s no
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by jl6 2y ago
Mathematics is the study of words that have precise meanings.
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Since it's all about buttons, it's a shame they missed the opportunity to call it butfor.
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They are not. The owner doesn’t want to bear the running costs (and possibly also other ongoing consequences), so they’ve threatened to abandon the ship. Separately, the cable owner has initiated litigation that could see the ship seized to
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by jl6 2y ago
SSDs have added weirdness like 3-bit TLC cells and overprovisioning. Usable storage size of an SSD is typically not an exact power of 10 or 2.
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> It then carried on across four undersea fibreoptic cables, three of which registered failures around the time the ship crossed them. The ship was suspected by Finnish authorities of having dragged its anchor to damage the cables and wa
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by jl6 2y ago
I wonder what he thinks the “non-doing” 80% spend their time on. While I’m sure there exist pure-consumption-mode “observers”, I suspect most are simply engaged in pursuits and goals that are invisible to him.
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by jl6 2y ago
Associated with. Causal connection not yet proved. On the other hand, let’s be realistic, tattoos are not going to turn out to be good for you, are they.
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by jl6 2y ago
Perhaps OP is referring to the idea that products are killed by apathy, not by hate. People who take the time to complain about something still want the thing, they just want it to be better. People who have stopped caring are lost.
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by jl6 2y ago
At least some of the issues in the headline are temporary inconveniences, some fixed within hours apparently: > In one Department of Health and Human Services office, there was no Wi-Fi or full electricity in the first hours when people
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by jl6 2y ago
We may never find out. The financial incentive to keep it secret is too great. If someone broke SHA-256, they could generate blocks directing all coins to their own address and thus destroy the entire system. However, in that scenario it is
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by jl6 2y ago
I guess I shouldn’t have that expectation. Perhaps it’s because on Earth we see nearby objects aligning with each other because they have been shaped by similar forces, or because they influence each other. But perhaps galaxies don’t intera
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by jl6 2y ago
The bit I find amazing in these galaxy fields is the apparent randomness of the orientation of each galaxy. Why is this? Are we seeing a remnant of chaotic behavior where tiny random variations at the smallest scale in the early universe le
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This is a fine attitude to have if your problem is that you have too many customers.
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Kinda crazy but might actually work for continental flights over cooperative areas. Parachute the empty batteries down with some minimal steering mechanism to land them at regularly spaced depots, then ship them back to airports fully charg
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by jl6 2y ago
Not just accountants. I remember watching fully “non-technical” insurance admin / customer service people play the green screen keyboard like they were concert pianists. People can cope with a lot when they have to.
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by jl6 2y ago
> I don't know why I found this so interesting to read. It’s a well-written piece by a professional journalist, published in a magazine that people were willing to pay money for. It stands out against the kind of ad-supported click-
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by jl6 2y ago
Looks like it would be able to deploy high speed instant-action repair kits.
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> After all this there was something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west. Sounds like a meteor leaving a smoke trail. Perhaps a fireball that broke up into multiple smal
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by jl6 2y ago
We are told the encryption keys reside only on your device. But Apple control “your” device so they can just issue an update that causes your device to decrypt data and upload it.
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Bond movies are in a perpetual cycle of reinvention, trying to update the franchise and keep it relevant. I'm not sure it's wholly succeeded in that. They've certainly done the sequel thing of adding more tech, more action, m
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by jl6 2y ago
Cost is a big issue for Hollywood. Recently we have learned about "flopbusters": movies that made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office and yet were failures, because hundreds of millions still wasn't enough to co
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by jl6 2y ago
Renaming from “safety” to “security”. English is slightly unusual, in that many other languages use the same word for both.
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That is not what the EO says. You’ve been misled by a Reddit post.
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Even if fusion is an expensive power source, it may still be desirable in areas which aren’t well suited to wind or solar.

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