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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
On a very similar theme I was discussing the merits of requiring police to have personal professional insurance that pays out for a portion of any civil liabilities and is priced accordingly. It seems somewhat perverse at first glance, but
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
"When I played in a band, we had to work with the club’s sound engineer or bring our own to get a balanced sound setup before the audience showed up. The more recent gigs showcased an interesting technology, a system that generated pi
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
It does have moving parts, the article says 'no moving parts that come into contact with each other'. The tower waggles and is made of piezoelectric materials, so the electricity comes from the deformation of the tower. Edit - I g
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
It seems to me that a shotgun approach to evolving organisms could be as dangerous. Viruses are well ahead of us in that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
If they have managed anywhere even close to their claimed cost reductions then this is very cool. Wind is already on par with oil in terms of EROEI.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
i suppose satan could have edited it Is that another pseudonym of Grant Shapps?
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
But ideally we'd also want a simple conjecture that would predict what kind of evolution at what velocity within what range we're bound to have. To drill down to trying to even roughly predict rates and kinds of evolution, you a
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
it has not been thrown to the trash can just because of the alternative theory that is left if evolution disappears. And you know what it is. Well, given you are invoking the support of Pierre P. Grasse, I guess you mean the evolution of
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
One way of thinking about it is mathematical, and is the nearest you will get to a positive proof. If you have systems which can propagate copies of themselves imperfectly and that have a varying environment to contend with that has effects
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Putting them in the speakers just limits the amount of extra things you you have to install, the idea is that in initial setup each speaker goes through a test pattern while the other speakers stay silent, and this gives you position of all
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I have been looking at the idea of doing lots of small speakers with microphones on them attached to a fat lump of computer hardware, that you stick all over and they bleep each other and build an acoustic model of the space they are in, th
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
It wouldn't be a roof exactly. Because you can angle the panels and have much better transmission of light to the panel from not having to have a bike-proof coating, you wouldn't be completely covering the path and you would get t
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I may well be on the wrong side of the Dunning–Kruger effect here, looking a it a bit further.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
The fast track, that is taking congress a year to sign, is the process of not then needing congress to sign anything after. If it passes, the whitehouse will be able to then sign details of new trade agreements without congress. It is not n
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Well, it makes slightly more sense than the solar roads for normal cars and trucks, if only because it doesn't have to be quite as tough, but I do suspect that it would be cheaper to install, easier to maintain and far more efficient i
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
“The No. 1 rule of cryptography is ‘Don’t invent your own.'” I'd say that's rule No. 2 and needs the obvious caveat of "unless you really know what you are doing." Encryption didn't come from nowhere. Rule
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
matching the toughness of state-of-the-art carbon fibers such as Kevlar I don't think I would call kevlar a carbon fiber, is more like nylon.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
He could team up with Man-Bat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Bat
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I asked for "a better example where personal responsibility was officially upheld". Add an adult to the story then. Hell, add a teacher, knock yourself out. For making the point of not merely doing as instructed though and havin
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
If a waiter isn't certain who owns a particular credit card, I do not think handing it out to someone they think matches the name, is all that sensible a course of action. Especially when they are literally holding a card with the name
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I provided a valid example. It was admittedly a bit of a rubbish example, but then it was intended to be. But nevertheless, a story about a two year old learning about agency, as in, concepts of personal choice and consequence of action, is
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
It was admittedly the first thing that came to mind from a sentence about Nuremberg and handwaving.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Wasn't meaning ethics, just the risk of looking silly over time. If you tend to make a lot of assumptions about someone just from their name before encountering them, then you are pretty much guaranteeing that you are going to get burn
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
"This is hand-waving. I used the Nuremberg trials specifically to not hand-wave." Now that is funny, though I suspect unintentionally, and in horrifically bad taste either way.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I think it's reasonable to assume that someone with a stereotypically black name is black It's easy to assume that. It really is a very rough guide though, so if you stick to it, don't be surprised if you end up looking lik
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
A story about a two year old learning about agency would be a better example, there are millions of better examples for this context. The most extreme example of a thing you can find is not usually the ideal example to use for most contexts
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Ancient Roman mosaics ruined in botched restoration job(independent.co.uk)
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
If all that Hitler had done was get Goebbels to send out threatening letters to people who remarked that he had left his door unlocked, then referencing Nuremberg over lawyers sending cease and desist letters on behalf of a padlock manufact
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
I guess it also won't be easy for the state guard to give up the Apache gunships that the army wants back, come next year. That could get very messy.
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by lotsofmangos 11y ago
Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori.

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