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by mmirate 8y ago
"Not enough" and "nothing" are usually very difficult to distinguish, since they usually have largely the same effects. (e.g. it doesn't matter if I have insufficient money or no money at all; life sucks in both of
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by mmirate 8y ago
Apologies; I just find it rather absurd that thermal energy could be stored in what apparently are water tanks, for months at a time, without losing most of the energy to conduction/convection with whatever surrounds the tanks. After a
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by mmirate 8y ago
Ironic but inevitable; the simplification appears to mostly be a matter of vocabulary. Reducing the vocabulary usually eliminates most technical jargon, and when the subject-matter is technical, the result is, well, a mess.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Perhaps because it is science-fiction?
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by mmirate 8y ago
If my memory of a Processor Design course is correct, arranging the desired functionality onto the finite resources of an actual FPGA chip, let alone in such a way as to get good performance (i.e. have critical paths be as short as possible
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by mmirate 8y ago
> better shape I already run about 25 miles per week, but thanks for your concern. The thing is, I get up at the crack of day so as to do it in coldest weather, I wear appropriate athletic attire, I'm unladen by luggage, and if I fe
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by mmirate 8y ago
> You’re making the common (and fatal) mistake of evaluating a government on the terms of a private business entity. > Governments are of the people so long as the people maintain them as such. "We the people" decided that g
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by mmirate 8y ago
Perhaps. Then again, judging by the few times I've taken the metro for an inner-city errand, I'm not sure I'd want to ride it to work even if the line did run far enough. At least, not without ... martial-arts training? Or
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by mmirate 8y ago
Outside of the Pacific-assisted wonder-weather zone of California, summers tend to be hot and humid, and winters aren't particularly mild either. Any amount of travel without the aid of climate control is ... undesirable.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Perhaps. Still requires more discomfort and ritual than driving a car.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Boston area That explains. Contrast the climates of Georgia or Florida. During the summers here, just standing outdooors in the sunlight wearing anything heavier than beachwear, is inadvisable at best.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Bus. Takes 90 minutes to do what my car can do in under 30, and I don't want to wake up yet another hour earlier. > Subway. Doesn't run to the area where I live; and would have to run even farther to reach the office. I su
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by mmirate 8y ago
And how do you travel more than a couple miles and arrive on-time, during the summer, wearing businesslike attire, without smelling like a cyclist upon arrival?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Then because time is money, you just lose similar amounts of money over time.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> but you also need to ... understand that [the problem is] actually solvable. Most people would assume that any effort would be wasted as the authorities would prefer to keep their revenue generator, so they'd never go through with
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by mmirate 8y ago
Your point being ...?
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by mmirate 8y ago
I believe he/she was using "agree with it" as shorthand for "judge that it is a good thing".
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by mmirate 8y ago
Seriously. There is a scene in Hot Fuzz wherein a handful of policemen are toting - in the modern day in a first-world country - Sten Guns, SMLEs, double-barrel shotguns and a pump-action with the price-tag still on it , and as they move f
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by mmirate 8y ago
Both are important. Britain didn't know to be on the extreme lookout for any signs of armed rebellion in the 13 Colonies; by the time they positively knew what was going on, their best hope was to try to take the militia's arms. A
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by mmirate 8y ago
Uhh, I thought it was an over-the-top comedy film...
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by mmirate 8y ago
Ethics are inherently subjective, which is why their only actual usefulness is as a shorthand/proxy for "unlikelihood to generate bad press".
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by mmirate 8y ago
A turboprop ? On that small a chassis, volume-wise? I wonder if he gets even a full hour of flight time from a full fuel tank...
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Or they do exist, already. All humans are a fully functional human body model. Not quite, but you are catching on. The rest is mostly a matter of cloning, and providing a standardized nurturing to each clone to eliminate confounding di
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by mmirate 8y ago
Computational model? No. As one of the other commenters in this thread has already said: model as in model organism.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Well, I think he/she explained rather well the reason why - and the extent to which - such a thing would be useful. That plus knowing the amount of effort expended in the rest of the field of medical research today ... it is indeed sur
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Governments Have Destroyed Housing Affordability in Many Places(mises.org)
6 points by mmirate 8y ago|3 comments
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Put a sign or something. Unfortunately, they can't read. (If they could, then that would imply them being intelligent enough to interact with humans in a civilized manner.) Otherwise, your last paragraph rings true at face value.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Thanks for saving me a click; I was about to get very interested in how they would have solved the inherent energy-efficiency problems of that route. Guess we'll have to wait another decade or two for accurate direct-fire air defense s
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by mmirate 8y ago
On the contrary. A simple data proxy involves not much computation, but mostly reshaping; what kind of thing you have becomes more important than what thing you have, and eliminating confusion in the former realm is precisely what sta
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by mmirate 8y ago
> compiler greed What good compilers require, they repay hundredsfold in exhaustively eliminating entire categories of mistakes from every program that compiles without error.

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