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by nosianu 4y ago
No I don't think so. That explanation only works for simple systems, if at all. But all the many players and their very diverse needs and ideas are very complex. I think i's more likely that it's something described in studie
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by nosianu 4y ago
> You might want to ask that of, say, astronomers, paleontologists, or even simply journalists. You compare scientists with businesses. One of them's job and passion is to collect knowledge for the sake of knowledge. For the other o
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by nosianu 4y ago
Ah - now I actually have to come to his defense. Because I only quoted the part immediately after this one and thought it was enough: > Ruiter says he’s continued to talk about data centers because he wants to remind people that “the cl
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by nosianu 4y ago
Incidentally, immediately after reading the comments here I went to Ars and saw this, which when you read it fits perfectly : https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/these-angry-dutc... Just one sample q
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by nosianu 4y ago
I think you could actually get them to accept a new strategy with open arms, where everybody needs to have some Google watcher process installed that checks and reports back what you do with the search results (I don't think unless the
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by nosianu 4y ago
Looking at the conditions that "beef" is raised in - feedlots specifically - the price for beef is way too low. Of course it should be raised by laws requiring better living conditions for the animals, not by the operations stayin
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by nosianu 4y ago
"Aggression" is an objective measure. There is no subjectivity who starts a war and wo is in another country's territory. Those are observable facts. And obviously Russia did not believe Ukraine to be a threat - or they wou
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by nosianu 4y ago
At my German university in the late 1990s we did use a few programming languages - but all of them not for themselves but for demonstration. Modula 2 for introducing higher level concepts such as modules and OOP, VHDL for hardware, PHIGS
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by nosianu 4y ago
EDIT: Was the comment edited, or did my brain miss something? I think I perceived something else there when I wrote my response. It's still "how". Only on a higher level. For example, instead of placing the form elements ex
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by nosianu 4y ago
TypeScript is ECMAscript. You remove the types and you get pure ECMAscript, apart from some very minor - and nowadays unneeded - additions such as enums or namespaces. TS also lets you do what Babel is for, translate the JS to earlier ver
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by nosianu 4y ago
It's already there. There are less and less new type features, all they do is implement any new ECMAscript proposals that made it to stage 3 at least. If you look at the changes of this and the last few releases, it's mostly inter
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by nosianu 4y ago
The article further explains why that may not work out. To quote: > the industry is betting on advanced nuclear reactors to save the day. > It’s a bad bet. The main points: > The advanced and small modular reactors (SMRs) unde
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by nosianu 4y ago
Slashdot user ID measuring contest? Okay I'm in: #130x The last time I was in such a contest I started out very proud of my low number, but was quickly and thoroughly beaten many times by people with numbers down to the single digits..
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by nosianu 4y ago
> The cash in banks Why do you keep insisting on the "cash"? The by far least important kind of money? First of all everything is just virtual, electronic. Only a tiny fraction - and only temporary! It's not stocked at hom
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by nosianu 4y ago
The vast majority of money is not withdrawn. It's all transfers. And that is a major point and difference. Also, if it was all withdrawn it's a bank run , which has not been a problem in the US for quite a while. Overall it cance
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by nosianu 4y ago
I decided people are just having fun and it's nothing serious just water cooler chat and distraction before going back to work. Subject: Something quantum mechanics. Comment: "I'm not a physicist, but I think..." -- What
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by nosianu 4y ago
> I think future archeologists will struggle with the opposite, with us leaving a gigantic amount of data behind Or it's the opposite, because most of the electronic records will be lost. Depends on how far ahead you look for thos
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by nosianu 4y ago
Somewhere I once read an answer from Umberto Eco to this question that was along the lines that if he had already read them he would not need to keep them, his library was explicitly mostly for things he hadn't read , so that he could
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by nosianu 4y ago
I had a similar experience growing up in East Germany, and there it definitely wasn't "faith". Part of it at least - not sure if I'm qualified to fully analyze it (I'm not) - is how equal we really were. Yes that in
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by nosianu 4y ago
Around the 2000 years and the dot com boom, When I worked at a very large and well-known US software company, on-site for an external (German company) partner, their campus parking lots filled up around 9-10 am and emptied at 4 pm. Long mid
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by nosianu 4y ago
For reading this 21 book series it's worth investing into one more book with background information. I can recommend Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World (Hardcover) Lots of valuable
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by nosianu 4y ago
As I understand money creation, at least the part created by commercial banks as described in "Bank of England: Money creation in the modern economy" -- https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014&
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by nosianu 4y ago
When the headline is contradicted by the article then the relevant quite is relevant and valuable. It saves time. Not everybody reads the article, I'd say that it even is rare and that a lot, maybe even most people jump to the discussi
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by nosianu 4y ago
And just a few minutes after reading this submission I see this article about "The Dark Sky [Scottish] Town": https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dark-sky-moffat-scotla... > This Scottish Dark Sky Town
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by nosianu 4y ago
A year later: All crustaceans on earth have been killed. The invaders, living in their own "bubble", don't even look anywhere but under water and don't recognize land based life forms or land based anything, and since th
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by nosianu 4y ago
I will never understand comments like this, where the author had to actively click on one of a large number of headlines to even get there, and than make a deliberate decision to spend even more effort on writing a comment. You don't p
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by nosianu 4y ago
Uhm... Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_... That ship carried our real ancestors. And the first thing th
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by nosianu 4y ago
> However, when Washington starts blowing up critical national infrastructure to advance its narrow geopolitical interests Well, that is an unsubstantiated opinion not held by the majority. I did not claim nobody with such opinions e
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Germany, which it occupies with tens of thousands of troops As a German, not just me, when Trump threatened - yes threatened! - to withdraw lots of troops from Germany there was lots of Angst about the economic fallout. US troops are
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by nosianu 4y ago
> here is a quite bit of difference No, same mechanism. Yes, different contexts lead to different outcomes, why would that even need to be mentioned? Did you read what I wrote? Sometimes I hate Internet discussions. Instead of working

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