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by motoboi 10y ago
Not only is pressurized gas used to avoid the tanks from crumpling from negative pressure, they cannot sustain themselves without internal pressure. This gas need to be as inert as possible, hence helium. Another noble gas could in theory b
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by motoboi 10y ago
Space is too large, distances are too great. There is no suitable laser right now. Besides that, if you are garanteed to neutralize your enemy's arsenal, you force him to attack first while he can avoid his own total destruction.
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by motoboi 10y ago
I think you would find very disturbing that 1900's people used just the same argument to "prove" that world war I wasn't possible and would never happen.
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by motoboi 10y ago
Have you read Three-Body problem? If you didn't, you'll love that book, for it's depiction of a universe as a "dark forest" full of hunters waiting to someone less cautious to appear is very much like yours.
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by motoboi 10y ago
>This is assuming that you could realistically automate the act of inviting and uninviting non-friends without any penalization. In fact, what would probably happen is a rate-limit trigger that would temporarily knock out access from you
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by motoboi 10y ago
The one with theories was his grandfather. His father did not pay for the trip, which was a scientific expedition payed by the British Crown to survey coasts. Darwin was a minor employee in that ship, hired to collect botanical specimen. In
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by motoboi 10y ago
I envy you. Really. I tried to be that guy who got selinux right. I couldn't. For years I were that guy who told it's friends they are morons for turning it off.
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by motoboi 10y ago
Some clients just fold the quote.
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by motoboi 10y ago
I fought for years against the culture of just turning off SELinux. I read every doc trying to Do The Right Thing when configuring the likes of vsftpd, samba or kvm. Didn't manage to keep them working jerks-free long enough without dis
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by motoboi 10y ago
ITER is mostly a let's-get-this-thing-started than a economically viable reactor. ITER forced development is areas direct related to the reactor, as magnets and construction techniques.
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by motoboi 10y ago
Really big challenge keeping the magnets from flying apart. They exert absurd forces on each other.
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by motoboi 10y ago
> Meanwhile, the movie industry is soundly asleep at the wheel and its execs don't recognize that the consumer demands (near-instant access, no copy protection, no unskippable FBI warnings, no unskippable teasers, and no freaking re
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by motoboi 10y ago
What about Guarani Aquifer?
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by motoboi 10y ago
Nuclear is very clean. What most people came to hate is the waste, which is surprisingly little (per kW). Also the danger in case of failure, which is massive.
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by motoboi 10y ago
I said "for now" because I believe human race will go extinct when robots take over.
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by motoboi 10y ago
Well... The most important weapon in a war are people (for now).
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by motoboi 10y ago
I made me curious about something. Will the heat from all that electricity generation affect the environment in significant ways? At which energy usage scale humanity will be restricted by the planet environment capacity to deal with the ge
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by motoboi 10y ago
Those guys came from Globo, the biggest media conglomerate in Brazil. Global has slowly and consistently built an open source software culture and a lead in web tech for media in Brazil. Congrats!
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by motoboi 10y ago
> Massively abundant, cheap, clean energy should be one of humanity's top priorities. What about the big fusion reactor in the Sky? Shouldn't we go all in on solar? Why is so difficult to harness that source? Maybe the same obs
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by motoboi 10y ago
No RAID for personal storage?!? What about a warning stating that you cannot keep your important stuff here unless you want to loose them in a undetermined moment in the future?
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by motoboi 10y ago
> The author mentions in another post why he is done with Apple after his 2013 13" MBP and states he has no use for the Touch Bar. That's fine, just get the Pro without the bar and with physical function keys. The one with phys
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by motoboi 10y ago
Sender encrypts same message several times, one for each receiver device. Store them the same way they store today. When the first device picks up the message, mark as delivered, when the user reads it, mark as read. Something along those l
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by motoboi 10y ago
Oh, my. I tried to turn my head away when I read the spoilers sign, but couldn't. Thanks for ruining the season for me. =(
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by motoboi 10y ago
You are right, they did. But this is not how judiciary system works. You cannot respond to a judge order by giving interviews on newspapers or by a blog post or even with a testimony in a legislative hearing. You need to ask your lawyer to
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by motoboi 10y ago
Well, if they just had responded to the judge order explain that or explaining anything, maybe the judge would consider it. We came to this point because whatsapp do not exist as a company in Brazil and simply ignored the court order. Know
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by motoboi 10y ago
Brasil is the 8th economy in the world.
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by motoboi 11y ago
If that server is on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, wouldn't it be totally vulnerable to national security letters?
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by motoboi 11y ago
I wish it was that easy. I tried, since I bought this phone, all combinations of turning off wifi, data, airplane mode, shutdown phone, hard reboot phone. ;(
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by motoboi 11y ago
I would be very glad if they just find a way to make android adjust the clock to the local timezone when I'm traveling. There is a option for that, obviously, but it simple don't work. iPhones and macs take 2 minutes or less to up
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by motoboi 11y ago
top-notch hackers are not ordinary people ;)

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