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by lgl 5y ago
I can't downvote you but I'm sure you will very soon because this kind of idiotic and misogynistic comment is something that doesn't belong here, or anywhere really. If you think that an effort of hundreds of scientist and do
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by lgl 5y ago
Also fascinating is the story of the man that eventually proved the conjecture, Grigori Perelman [0], which famously later denied the $1M Millennium prize as well as the Fields medal where he is quoted as saying: "The prize was complet
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by lgl 5y ago
I think the main issue with this argument isn't really whether it's a post scarcity civilization or not, but the implying that any alien civilization, especially an advanced one, would also develop into an almost exclusively capit
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by lgl 5y ago
I'm not sure why, but the two hackers fighting to get control of a tv station's tape robot is simultaneously the greatest and most ridiculous thing in that whole movie. https://youtu.be/2efhrCxI4J0
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by lgl 5y ago
Great recommendations here. One pet peeve I have is that the term science fiction is used a lot in these types of discussions when the more accurate term in my opinion would be speculative fiction, sometimes with some real world science bit
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by lgl 5y ago
Again, spoiler alert: The books don't really specify that *all* civilizations are actively hostile to each other but hints that the best chance for survival is basically being quiet since there are unknown civilizations that yield trem
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by lgl 5y ago
It's pretty close. Only 5% of all matter is "regular" matter, and ~27% is dark matter which makes it be 85% of all mass but not of mass-energy since there is ~68% of dark energy. It's the combination of dark matter + dar
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by lgl 5y ago
I was about to comment that it's somewhat similar to The Three Body Problem that's often discussed on hn's comments sections from time to time but decided to search for that last phrase and apparently it's from a /r
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by lgl 6y ago
Good answer, a 4th dimension and the shadow projection analogy is brilliantly exemplified by Carl Sagan in this popular video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
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by lgl 6y ago
Ornatos Violeta = instant upvote. Here's a perfect live of another one of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBN-ruyacSs
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by lgl 6y ago
For reference, op is probably referring to something like this: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/1... As a side note, this was probably also the computer that inspired Alex
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by lgl 6y ago
𝟼̶𝟺̶𝟶̶𝙺̶ 16GB should be enough for anybody! Yes, I know the above quote was not actually stated by Gates or was misinterpreted, but the reason that it became so infamous is pretty much the same case as this. It's the short sightedness
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by lgl 6y ago
Sure they have accepted, but it's the only way to save face. Let's not forget that they did put out press releases (that are still up btw [0] [1]) falsely claiming that "Officials were on site to verify all world record crite
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by lgl 6y ago
Let's not get naive here. I don't know if they did say that, but even if they did, would you actually believe an espionage organization's "word"? They've clearly spent a lot of money and man hours developing it
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by lgl 6y ago
> (...) NSA would not betray the trust (...) While I find the above quote hilarious, you're probably right since the article also hints that they have a similar setup in Germany and most likely also in Sweden, Norway and many other
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by lgl 6y ago
Is Cyberpunk really an exception though? Isn't it an FPS in an open-world environment just like most big budget releases? Like GTA, Watch Dogs, Tomb Raider, The Witcher, Assassins Creed, Red Dead Redemption, etc, but with a cyberpunk t
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by lgl 6y ago
Yes, pretty much. Exchanges are needed now to buy or sell Bitcoin with regular money. If everything was Bitcoin there would be no such need. It will never happen though imho.
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by lgl 6y ago
In an hypothetical world where Bitcoin is adopted and used by all, this would probably be the case. In reality, most people are in Bitcoin to make more FIAT currency, waiting for that big bullrun in order to cashout at some multiple of what
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by lgl 6y ago
If I recall correctly, transaction fees went through the roof when everybody was fomoing to buy and trade bitcoin starting at around 2017 and low-fee transactions were getting stuck in the pool as there weren't enough blocks being mine
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by lgl 6y ago
> A complex page can have up to 60,000 DOM nodes under React's control with thousands of event listeners. It starts in about 3s and never drops below 60fps Can one really make such affirmations regarding client rendered web apps? I&
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by lgl 6y ago
> My downtime is measured in hours per year (...) This is probably a bit picky since you don't mention what those machines do, but that's not even "four nines" in the high-availability scale. I'm not sure that&#x
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by lgl 6y ago
Which really puts into perspective the amount of power we have placed on social media. I wonder if this will spark a #deletetwitter movement?
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by lgl 6y ago
Nice, thanks for the link and for your contributions to OTRS, it has improved workflows tremendously on both companies I've set it up on. I've messed around on some of the source and template files for some dirty hacks over the ye
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by lgl 6y ago
> Are there actually people that are still deploying new things in Perl? My personal experience: at one of my previous jobs we've had the need to find a support ticket system (preferably free) that was flexible enough to handle a fe
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by lgl 6y ago
Right? People always love to pitch for their ideal alternative as if these were either-or situations. Funds for a collider - why not fusion? Funds for space exploration - why not end world hunger? Funds for astronomy - why not medicine? etc
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by lgl 6y ago
That's still pocket change and pretty irrelevant in context since merely half of 1 year's budget of the US military would still be able to power the LHC for over 350 years.
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by lgl 6y ago
Thanks, it was because of having heard about the early neutrino detection that I assumed we could potentially get some sort of warning but didn't really bother to look for sources. Assuming the lead time is associated with how close th
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by lgl 6y ago
Yes, it's an actual thing and you can see lots of photographic evidence [0] [1] if you look it up on google or read some of the many papers written on the subject. They're visible on many places on Earth, some even without any exc
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by lgl 6y ago
Yes, and even with paywalls, as long as the source has login details it can still be done (although this would probably be illegal). Anecdotal evidence: I work in a tour operator and we publish our products on tripadvisor and getyourguide w
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by lgl 6y ago
> There aren't many catastrophes that would totally wipe out Earth but still leave offworld colonies intact. Even after a supervolcanic eruption or plague or nuclear war there'll probably still be more living humans on Earth th

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