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by m12k 5y ago
It's quite possible for the government to outlaw selling things to anyone other than them. Cf. a lot of military hardware.
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by m12k 5y ago
If the NSA is ahead on discovering exploits shouldn't they want a ban on selling exploits, so others have a harder time catching up, and it's less likely that any of the exploits that they've discovered in-house get "bur
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What's the status on your current 1t/yr demo? (i.e. is it fully operational?) What did you learn from it and what are the technical challenges to scale it up to bigger plants?
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Amazon doesn't have a constitution governing exactly when it can and can't have an election. That said, with Biden's approval ratings as high as they are, it would probably be in the Dems' favor if they could get an earl
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Waiter, there appears to be a WSDL in my REST!
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by m12k 5y ago
If your solution for generating limestone is carbon neutral, does that mean that if it were combined with other approaches that inject CO2 back into the cement while it is curing (e.g. CarbonCure or similar, see [1]) we could actually achie
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by m12k 5y ago
A way to help explain this to people is that it's the equivalent of rapidly growing trees and burning those for fuel instead of burning fossil fuels. You do the same with limestone, rapidly creating it by capturing atmospheric CO2 (ind
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by m12k 5y ago
What on earth makes you think that? No, I don't think humans are super-natural. But in addition to being creatures sprung from nature, we are also something else (indeed, the very definition of something being anything other than natur
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by m12k 5y ago
Um, no. Humans do have morality, and can and should apply it to one another - and can expect and even demand the same in return from others. We can't do that with nature, and nature does not need or want that in return from us. Humans
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by m12k 5y ago
Nature doesn't deal in morality, right or wrong. Nature deals in balance. A fox that kills all the rabbits one year will die of hunger the next. The question isn't whether the fox has a moral right to kill rabbits or not, the ques
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by m12k 5y ago
The market value of a company or person is determined by the market value of whatever they're shoveling around every day. Shoveling around software is valuable, but shoveling around money even more so. It just doesn't get more pur
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by m12k 5y ago
The first AI winter came after we realized that the AI of the time, the high level logic, reasoning and planning algorithms we had implemented, were useless in the face of the fuzziness of the real world. Basically we had tried to skip stra
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by m12k 5y ago
Are there any compelling reasons why it should be legal to sell exploits to anyone other than the company whose software is vulnerable? By neatly bundling these exploits up and selling the hacking tool to the highest bidder, this company is
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by m12k 5y ago
Also, in Polish a regular 'c' is pronounced approximately like an English 'ts'
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Yes, I'm excited to see what web service they will pivot into this time!
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by m12k 5y ago
Small correction: ae = 'a'..'e' ccae = ['<', *r, '>'] # => ['<', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', '>'] I'm guessing *r
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by m12k 5y ago
It's important to set expectations. Meditation won't make you happy - and that's not the point of it. What it can do is let you be more present of mind, less prone to flights of fancy or worries. It teaches you a practice whe
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by m12k 5y ago
I see it the other way around: Not being an asshole isn't the default, it's something you need to learn, and not everyone does. I actually have a sneaking suspicion that most people don't learn it, but just learn to fake it w
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by m12k 5y ago
Absolutely, I think it's important to not victim-blame or fall into that "just do it correctly and you'll be fine" trope that the author of the post describes. If you want to try meditation, always ease into it with shor
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by m12k 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorder TLDR, it's when some of the core associations in your brain start collapsing. E.g.
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by m12k 5y ago
A lot of people come into meditation/mindfulness with this preconceived notion that you sit down, close your eyes, focus on your breathing, and find your inner bliss. In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. You sit d
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by m12k 5y ago
Correct, you basically invert the typical component/object oriented approach, so each property relating to some Component isn't stored in memory alongside the game object it relates to (causing the values relating to e.g. physics
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by m12k 5y ago
Is there a job board on the AirMiners website or have you considered making one? My guess is there's a lot of people like myself who'd be very interested in helping out in this field, but have no tech idea of my own, and don'
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by m12k 5y ago
Doesn't rotting, or being eaten by microbes or termites that eventually get eaten or die and rot eventually lead to the release of the stored carbon? AFAIK coal is composed mostly of trees that fell back before microbes evolved that co
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by m12k 5y ago
I think it's a sensible distinction (or two data points to help you map out a spectrum that people can evolve along), but it needs to be based on actual professionalism and skill, not just seniority. Like you experienced, some people d
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But to be fair, the US pharma sector spends roughly as much on marketing as it does on R&D. And a huge chunk of that R&D budget goes into analogue drugs to either sidestep patents from rivals or maintain profit margins when their ow
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by m12k 5y ago
My first thought, upon hearing that Windows 11 was coming, was that they were finally doing something to take ARM-compatibility seriously, so they could compete with Apple's M1. I still haven't heard anything that indicates this w
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I think a major takeaway here is that balancing a reward system to reward more than a single behavior is really hard - it's easy to tip the scales so one behavior completely dominates all others. It's an interesting lens to use to
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When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure (common paraphrase of Goodhart's law)
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Right, that was my point. The comment I was replying to said that all those hackers that supposedly switched to Mac in 2005 didn't seem to have produced any notable software, so I listed a whole bunch of nice software that they had pro

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