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by mrec 6y ago
Generally agreed, although I think that only really applies to control at the social-network level, not to control exerted via e.g. Chrome or DNS or your ISP. This feels like the start of a very long road.
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by mrec 6y ago
I was correcting what looked like a significant misapprehension about the subject of the thread, not arguing for a comparison. Although I can't see anything in throwaways885's comment to suggest that they were talking about the po
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by mrec 6y ago
The SWP is not by any stretch of the imagination a major political party. ETA: to quantify that a bit, in the 2010 General Election the SWP ran as part of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. Nationally that coalition received 0.04%
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by mrec 6y ago
They're already working on bison: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846480 ETA: and we apparently have some moose and wild boar now, on a small scale: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2
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by mrec 6y ago
That's a good list. I'm also very partial to Fearful Symmetry: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/14/fearful-symmetry/ although I seem to be in a minority on that one. I find it immensely calmi
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by mrec 6y ago
Agreed. Much less of a Mensa syndrome going on. I remember at the peak of the 2016 post-election meltdown the SSC subreddit hosted a sort of "ask Trump supporters anything" thread. Despite the absolute insanity of the time and onl
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by mrec 6y ago
> in the latter; life happened once in space AIUI most panspermia theories don't posit either of those - definitely not that life originated in space, and not necessarily that it only originated once. The most common variants seem
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by mrec 6y ago
"Logician". A logistician is someone who deals with logistics.
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by mrec 6y ago
> What are the odds of intelligent life arising ex nihilo? We'd assume infinitesimal. Why would we assume that? We've been seeing biologically interesting chemicals appear from much simpler ones for well over a century. http
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by mrec 6y ago
Agree 100%. What always struck me most about it was the sheer ambition of it - not just the raw scale of the drama, not just setting things up in Season 1 that wouldn't pay off until the very end of Season 5 (if Michael O'Hare h
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by mrec 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the acronym was for "Physically Based Ray Tracing". The original preface to The Book explicitly says that > pbrt is based on the ray-tracing algorithm I suspect it's moved to "Rendering" in
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by mrec 6y ago
Worth noting that this blog post was written before the official Error Handling Project Group got going. The Group aims to regularize best practice and bring it into the standard library. https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-ru
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by mrec 6y ago
C'mon. I'm as atheist as they come, but anyone who equates Christians with zealots has never encountered the Church of England.
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by mrec 6y ago
I think I conflate the two, and I'm not sure that's wrong. I've never seen anyone use Groovy outside Gradle. I mean why would you, if you had a choice?
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by mrec 6y ago
Yup. Gradle is by far the worst-designed technology I've encountered in ~30 years of programming. Using it not only made me not want to use Gradle, it made me not want to use Java.
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by mrec 6y ago
I don't really remember enough about that show to comment, but the usual failure mode of Newtonian flight models in visual media is that they're extremely reluctant to depict a ship doing a sustained thrust in the opposite direc
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by mrec 6y ago
From the little I've seen of it, much better than most but still not great.
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by mrec 6y ago
Yeah, Joss 'fesses up to that one in the episode commentary. I don't know if it's "particularly bad" by the standards of screen SF. No shows do it well, and the vast majority don't even try.
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by mrec 6y ago
Firefly also included gravity in terraforming: All those moons - just like the central planets, they're as close to Earth-That-Was as we could make 'em: gravity, atmosphere, and such but never provided any explanation. In
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by mrec 6y ago
Yes, this would be my first suspicion too, especially for a comparison with the 1990s. > For instance, the peak in leaded gasoline use in the late 1970's corresponds to a peak in aggravated assault rates in the late 1990's in
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by mrec 6y ago
I'd really recommend the books rather than the series (though the latter isn't bad). Chesterton is one of my favourite writers, and the stories are short and easily digestible.
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by mrec 6y ago
Official account is https://twitter.com/blklivesmatter so I suspect this was a fake or parody.
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by mrec 6y ago
We know, Captain Blondebeard, we know.
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by mrec 6y ago
Not just high-performance, his "Library Writing Realizations" post is also well worth a read whatever domain you're working in. http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2015/09/library-writing-real...
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by mrec 6y ago
> Why does the web browser need to make available the list of all fonts on a user's machine? In many cases I think the question is more "what functionality would the web browser need to break to prevent pages detecting X,
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by mrec 6y ago
I'm curious, what platforms support 4K output but don't have any kind of GPU?
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by mrec 6y ago
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is m
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by mrec 6y ago
It also controls the Bosphorus, hence cutting off the Russian Black Sea Fleet from the Mediterranean, and is a handy staging point for operations in the Middle East. Nobody else can do the first, and alternatives for the second are less pal
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by mrec 6y ago
> I'm assuming if we have the means to fake the one turbulence, we can also cancel the other That seems like a leap. There's a huge difference between generating some plausible-looking turbulence and generating one absolute
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by mrec 6y ago
Hmm. If the arrow was actually travelling in a different direction, doesn't that imply that you'd need to be able to cancel the turbulence from that motion? Otherwise it'd appear in the snapshot as contradictory evidence.

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