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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   OK, so everything I said was true except > matter of public record referring to > every little opinion and workgroup? I think we're discounting inches. Perhaps not public record always in all countries, but my broad strokes comme
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   When you lump all legislation, government initiatives, reforms, taxes, etc together and say "this is a cohesive, person-like entity I can reason about" you will definitely find contradictions everywhere. Just within a business or
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   I like to call this Rigor Theater. Combinatorics: Check Algorithms: Check Real world problem: Check Crowbarred connection between 1-3 to show how your AI algorithm is better? Check
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   Two competing partial solutions to fiscal health? Why not both.
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   You're right. But what was described isn't pop history, that trivializes the magnitude of its impact. For most the world most of the time for all of history, that _was_ how the past was understood. And today, we still understand t
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   One of them is real, no?
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   Actually, this would make an excellent cyberpunk RPG scenario
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   Mass selective enforcement via selective alerting is a dystopian scenario that Ring makes much easier. Someone should go write a scifi about a big tech company called Nile that uses consumer goods to gather data on political enemies and eff
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   by jvanderbot 3y ago

   I don't believe that adequately captures the variety of american opinions on both those subjects.
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Let's not forget home alone! Especially 2 had a lot of improvised travel routes through apts and cities. This article made me realize why I like that one better than the first.
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    I'm lost. Presumably chemistry would work the same everywhere. So we should be able to recreate or predict some environments that would yield the same magic as 1g, 70deg F, carbon-based life, but with other parameters. Yet the consensu
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    I understand. The argument here is not that we don't need less petroleum use. The argument is that we are accelerating a reduction in petroleum use while still growing the economy, which implies that it's perhaps not true that we
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    The emissions per killowatt-hour of consumption has gone down, even as energy use has gone up. It has gone down so much that absolute emissions are down, even as absolute energy use is up. It's not clear to me how this would change if
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    One is making a second order statement and another is making a first order statement. Yes we are merely slowing emissions, but yes a decelerating car is much safer when heading towards cliffs.
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    That's not true. At least not in the US. It gives legal over sight so that investigation can occur, and places legal responsibility on builders and buyers such that they'd be culpable if they are connected even accidentally to exp
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Actually I disagree that a measure of success of an educational system is its breadth. If serving 95% achieved vastly better outcomes and 5% received no education (or an alternative one!) Would that necessarily and absolutely be worse? What
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    You can fight for a good cause and still break the law. A system of law that selectively enforces laws is inherently flawed. The laws need changing. It was lopsided power against him. The law was still broken. I wish Aaron Swartz had not co
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Well, that just shows it happens in the US, but it's the same for most tech journals and Google scholar/arxiv
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Just a data point: Google scholar regularly reminds me of any publications of mine that list US gov funding that do not have a publicly accessible PDF. You are already allowed to (at least in tech) provide a preprint and public PDF on perso
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    So let me get this straight. I can now claim right to repair for all my cars, computer, phones, tvs, furnaces, smart meters, water heaters, smart bulbs, lamps, tablets, laptops, smart speakers, speakers in general, microwaves, gym equipment
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    They showed that gps-tracked albatrosses headed towards areas that were predicted (by weather + computer model) to have a lot of infrasound related to strong winds. The just-so story is that albatrosses benefit from the winds for more effic
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Look bombs are just an accelerated oxidization. Like rusting but fast. What's the big deal. Rusting is natural.
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    This comment is a perfect example of GGP's problem with historical analysis. As is the nearly-exactly comment in TFA: > Frankly, if you find yourself in this position the castle is probably already lost. It's conjecture all the
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Yeah - I don't think it's so clever that nobody has thought of it. It just seems obvious when you look enough into how hard inter-stellar travel will be. But making machines that operate for 100 years seems doable if we try.
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    We need to let go of the "Ship full of brave men" meme of space exploration. It'll have to be robots, probably very small robots, some kind of solar sail / exogenous energy source (or maaaaaybe fusion?), and probably eit
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Yes - nanomsg / nng are quite good. I think / believe they'll be part and parcel for some space missions soon enough.
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    Circadian cycles are pretty reliable in terms of timekeeping. I end up upstairs every day for lunch at about the same time, and I always find myself in the kitchen grabbing a diet coke at about 130 because I used to grab one after a 1pm mee
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    I'm quite aware of the difficulties of it. As much as anyone around here, I think. I've spent time studying it from the inside as well as as an outsider. That's part of the sadness. But it is possible to spread throughout the
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    My heart aches in a way I cannot explain when I watch this or think about space exploration in general. It's a mixture of inevitability, inspiration, pride, and sadness. I wonder if ancients felt this way about the sea, or sky, or moun
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    by jvanderbot 3y ago

    I'd be suspicious of someone taking a stab at running ownership static verification before enabling basic sanity checks like those presented here. So. Maybe it qualifies as a "gentle introduction" since it's effectively