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by m-i-l 8y ago
Not mentioned in the article, and almost certainly not known to NATO authorities at the time, but Able Archer 83 came a few weeks after the "1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident"[0]. See also "Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet o
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> "What about libertarianism were you guys talking about? Because the motivation around this coin is simply NOT libertarian.." According to the wikipedia article on Libertarianism[0] there are actually two almost completely opp
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by m-i-l 8y ago
The analogy I sometimes use is that you don't need an architect to design a garden shed, but you do for a house which is much larger, has complex integrations with plumbing, electrics etc., plus building regulations to comply with, etc
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by m-i-l 8y ago
I like the flight analogy too. Extending it further, we failed to build flying machines by blindly copying bird design when we had no idea how bird flight actually worked, and we successfully built heavier-than-air powered flying machines w
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by m-i-l 8y ago
There's a great site with more details about many of these at https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/ .
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by m-i-l 8y ago
If you liked this, you may also like "Am I autistic? An intellectual autobiography"[0] by Karl Friston. It doesn't go into his free energy idea at all, but is more about the person behind the idea. My favourite line "I r
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Don't forget: "Disaster Area was a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and was generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also as being the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular conc
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by m-i-l 8y ago
The central point of this thesis is that technological progress was almost universally abhorred in the immediate aftermath of the Great War due to its perceived role in the industrialisation of death and destruction on a hitherto unseen sca
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by m-i-l 8y ago
The Thirty Years' War[0] lead to the deaths of around one third of the populations of some of the belligerent countries. But that wasn't within living memory for anyone at the time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> Donationware does not work for companies, I think - the bureaucracy required to make money move from the company to you will keep people from doing it even if they think you deserve it. This is a really important point. Small compani
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by m-i-l 8y ago
On a slightly related note, I used to use a hi-fi stereo equipped VHS (used for recording NICAM digital stereo transmissions) to listen to music, e.g. transferring my vinyl albums to VHS tape. Advantages (beyond protecting the original viny
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by m-i-l 8y ago
That's the problem - the only functioning use for public blockchains after 10 years is for crypto assets, i.e. for money making schemes, so will there be anything left at all if the people interested in making money move on? In contras
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by m-i-l 8y ago
A couple of quotes I like: "I think the interesting balance you have got to get right as an entrepreneur is to have a healthy disregard for what people are saying. But the key thing also is, how do you not be delusional as well?"
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DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis reveals his darkest moment(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by m-i-l 8y ago|1 comments
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Mostly ceramic tiles in my experience, or lino in budget e.g. student accommodation. I've rarely seen wood in the UK, presumably because it is prone to water damage. The problem with tiles though is that they do get very cold underfoot
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by m-i-l 8y ago
In the case of US, it is because the dollar is by far and away the largest international reserve currency, which gives the US what is known as the "exorbitant privilege"[0]. Putting it simply, this means few countries are going to
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Indeed. As easy as it was to grow up hating "the system", with the benefit of perspective it has to be said that a good selection of well-trained doctors, well-connected councillors etc. are likely to be more useful in a post-nucl
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by m-i-l 8y ago
It is easy to forget nowadays how much fear of nuclear war there used to be always lurking in the background. One anecdote to illustrate: My secondary school was built on top of the region's nuclear bunker. They were short of classroom
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by m-i-l 8y ago
It is indeed "the old lie" according to Owen. Full quote: If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues
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by m-i-l 8y ago
According to https://dappradar.com/ , CryptoKitties has only had 351 active users over the past 24 hours, which is tiny considering it is the 8th most popular dapp globally. It used to have a lot more users, in fact the use
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by m-i-l 8y ago
To clarify - it is wealth of the council, not average wealth of individual residents. Bear in mind also that the cost of living is very high, given most products have to be imported from the mainland. For example, the Shetland Islands has s
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Iceland's farmers have a plan to solve crypto's energy crisis(wired.co.uk)
1 points by m-i-l 8y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 8y ago
If it is centralised, i.e. one entity controlling write operations, you don't need a blockchain. See e.g. the "when to use a blockchain" flowchart on page 41 (53 of PDF) in the "NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview"
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> "you could verify it against LV's centralized product blockchain" You can replace the word "blockchain" with "database" in this sentence and it'll still work, i.e. "you could verify it again
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Orkney islands could get first electric plane service(bbc.co.uk)
68 points by m-i-l 8y ago|28 comments
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Yes. Better still, I skim read "Teach Yourself to Echolocate" as "Treat Yourself to E-chocolate". Maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me something. Did a bit of an internet search and, unlike e-cigarettes, it seems l
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by m-i-l 8y ago
That's a good tip about making the motions to write the person's name on the palm of your hand. One thing I noticed not that long ago was that if I heard someone's name, e.g. if they spoke it to me, I had little chance of rem
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by m-i-l 8y ago
"'High end' here means 'luxurious' – a marketing position for a building." In London it has long been a joke that all new builds are branded "luxury apartments" as a matter of course, even if they a
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by m-i-l 8y ago
I wonder how much of that is actually a symptom of the whole ICO funding model, i.e. you need increasingly "boil the ocean pipe dreams" to stand out from the competitors, which in turn leads you to raise increasingly large sums, b
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Even if the map isn't authentic, to quote the original article "Archeological discoveries at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland confirm that the Vikings had settlements in the Americas long before Columbus set sail".

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