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by nautilius 4y ago
It's rarely the engineer deciding this.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Yeah, but there wasn't an attack.
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by nautilius 4y ago
I think I remember better now. It was Friedman discussing the notion of some iPad app that could be used to learn and educate, adapting to the user, etc. Stephenson replied that he had indeed written a whole book about it (Diamond Age).
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by nautilius 4y ago
Not so impressed by the research: I forgot the exact wording, but it took me a lot of effort to keep listening when he asked Neal Stephenson something to the effect of if he had ever heard of the metaverse.
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by nautilius 4y ago
You want to be a PhD employee so that you don't have to pay college out of your own pocket. Sure, most would prefer to be rich, or have their parents be rich, or having gotten a full ride or some other stipend. But that's not the
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by nautilius 4y ago
If the argument goes “The US is the world greatest at …” there is not much of a point to compare it to the worst countries in the world* and then pat yourself on the back that the US, say, has better infrastructure than Ukraine during a war
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by nautilius 4y ago
I would think many people on HN have US taxation without US representation. A bit ironic, really.
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by nautilius 4y ago
In my experience, the free university was much harder than the expensive university.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Yeah, have you heard of that Patent clerk in Switzerland who wrote about what changes when we ride on a train close to the speed of light - even though we’re still not capable of building a train that fast, more than a century after. What a
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by nautilius 4y ago
It will not be, because the content of 'artificial' kerosene can be controlled exactly. E.g., there is no way even trace amounts of sulfur could enter manufactured kerosene.
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by nautilius 4y ago
It’s a bit more complicated than that: glider wing area ~10m2, F16 ~30m2, F22 ~80m2
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by nautilius 4y ago
> "[Hypersonic] Maneuverable reentry vehicles have existed for quite a while" I keep reading this comment on HN. It's like saying "What's the deal with Chuck Yaeger breaking the sound barrier, we've had supe
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by nautilius 4y ago
Your only comment about heat load is that it's the most important factor and then I should look at some picture. There's zero reasoning in that picture.
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by nautilius 4y ago
After struggling with the sluggishness on a Mac for a long time, I am super excited that 1.2 finally works super smooth for me on an M1!
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by nautilius 4y ago
He makes money off of it. There’s nothing wrong with that, but that doesn’t make him a charity, imo. You could make the same case for Walmart: look at all the people (employees) they hand money out to! With many of them likely having much t
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by nautilius 4y ago
Interesting then that a religious society like the U.S. (>80% consider themselves religious) does not actually support helping others. This is particularly striking for law enforcement, who have no obligation to help, and then are free t
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by nautilius 4y ago
Great overview of that art style, its origins/goals/shortcomings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOom5YYv1qQ
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by nautilius 4y ago
I'm not sure you understand what a necessary condition is.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Easily disproven by all the countries that were not constantly at war despite low connectedness. In the (absurd) limit: There was no war between Australia and the Roman Empire in 100BC. More practical: existence of a Cold War in the 20th ce
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by nautilius 4y ago
It's a comically naive view on the dropped atomic bombs that this was in any way based on 'costs and consequences of the alternative'. The opposite is true, as is well documented in countless books and statements by the peopl
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by nautilius 4y ago
I mean, you’re the one calling incinerating kindergarteners ‘totally justified’.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Saving more American servicemen lives at the expense of Japanese children and other non-combatants.
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by nautilius 4y ago
An article about how word processors are superior to LaTeX by someone who has never written anything with LaTeX, not even finished a single paper. It's like writing an article about how walking is much faster than cycling, because &#x2
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by nautilius 4y ago
Of course 'evolution' is not an actor, it's just the overall pattern we give a name to. And the pattern we observe is that low fitness entities are eliminated. That plus variation yields adaptation.
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by nautilius 4y ago
> That suggests that a tiger is just a tiger, Not at all. Everything can come from variation (mutation, cross over) + elimination of the worst. It's just that 'worst' is not a global minimum. Are we as humans superior to a
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by nautilius 4y ago
There's a huge world you are not aware of then: I used to stop at a small grocer downtown every day on my bike commute home. That's absolutely a lot less time and much less hassle than getting the car out, driving to some huge sho
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by nautilius 4y ago
This is assuming that your car trip starts and stops conveniently with available parking right at the point of departure and parking at the point of arrival, and that there is non-delayed traffic flow precisely at the right time. In practic
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by nautilius 4y ago
Shifting goalposts, are we, after your 'clearly' comment did not even contain a grain of truth about what OP posted? And yes, you are missing something. Go ahead and watch Chapelle. The issue isn't that he makes a joke abou
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by nautilius 4y ago
Is that before or after they are drafted to serve in Jewish Space Lasers?
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by nautilius 4y ago
I see no contradiction between our posts.

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