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by olau 8y ago
Or this: https://thebulletin.org/2013/03/how-to-close-the-us-nuclear-...
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by olau 8y ago
> but for 90% of projects, automated testing is the most efficient long term strategy I don't think this is a good way to think about it. I see plenty of projects that don't go anywhere, and I also see plenty of projects that
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by olau 8y ago
> A stupid move, but fair. Are you're saying this from a short-term financial perspective? I personally think it's too early to tell if it was a stupid move. Elon Musk had a plan, and his plans do seem to work out for the most
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by olau 8y ago
Deeper tones have a longer wavelength. If the resonator is too small compared to the wavelength, it can't transmit the sound efficiently. I guess it has something to do with the sound wave wrapping into itself and causing distortions o
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by olau 8y ago
"On the other hand, a true low fat diet, with fewer than 10% of calories from fat, has been shown to actually reverse the progression of heart disease" I know almost nothing about health studies, but I read the abstract you link t
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by olau 8y ago
> ... there was always something fun about the idea that music directors were practically composing symphonies to be played by individual orchestras on each user's machine. And this is part of the problem - the latter part never dev
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by olau 8y ago
May not be what you're looking for, but I believe Magnatune does that: http://magnatune.com/info/faq_buyers#musicians
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by olau 8y ago
I find it funny that the others here assume the problem is with the builders and not with #1. Good leadership requires that you come to terms with shortcomings, both your own and those of other people.
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by olau 8y ago
I've seen the same. Yet good user interfaces are typically warty behind the scenes and full of exceptions, exactly the kind of thing where spending a lot of time on specifications/typing offers little reward. Au contraire, it can
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by olau 8y ago
It doesn't make sense to store something for later unless the storage costs are lower than the cost of reproducing what you need. A few periods per year of negative prices won't be enough to offset the investment in batteries.
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by olau 8y ago
That kind of thinking in the past has lead to toxic consumer fish close to where I live - can't remember if it's mercury or dioxin. It is actually pretty hard to come up with a solution that's going to be safe for 1000 of yea
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by olau 8y ago
It sounds like you think fusion would be a great alternative source of energy since you're comparing it to fossil fuel exploration. However, this is not necessarily true. It not only has to work, it also has to be economical and not ha
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by olau 8y ago
I think the point was that having smart people participate is wasting their time when they could be doing something more productive, not who is losing. Like for instance work on robotic arms so we can all have a household robot to do the ho
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by olau 8y ago
Unless you're planning to die tomorrow, you just need to wait a couple of years, and the price/MWh will have fallen 30% for wind, due to industrialization. There are some planned offshore parks in Northern Europe which were awarde
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by olau 8y ago
Did your old company adjust for selection bias? It seems to me the category of people who have gone to the length to install an app is perhaps going to spend more time with the content compared to the full set of people interacting with the
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by olau 8y ago
> They all lack something important: success. Are you sure? The increasing automation will perhaps give us a future where most people don't have to work and we'll still have plenty of food, shelter, social interaction and enter
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by olau 8y ago
Due to lack of demand or lack of supply?
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by olau 8y ago
> The annoying thing about these investigations is that they disproportionately target left wing groups while leaving right wing groups to organise more successfully. One way to put it is: You'd expect a well-functioning spy organis
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by olau 8y ago
Well, it's probably warm and soft?
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by olau 8y ago
In my experience: Far less up-front specification, far fewer names/concepts, fewer lines of code, far fewer of those "oh, this should work, but how do I wrestle the type system into understanding it?". Now, there's a con
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by olau 8y ago
Some quotes: "Global electricity consumption is on track to grow 45 percent by 2040, and the team’s analysis shows that the exclusion of nuclear from low-carbon scenarios could cause the average cost of electricity to escalate dramatic
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by olau 8y ago
... as long as you're limiting yourself to measurements that result in a single number?
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by olau 8y ago
Maybe I'm the outlier, but what keeps me on Emacs works out of the box without any configuration: the basic editing experience. I do have a few extra things turned on, e.g. global-subword-mode so that I can traverse CamelCase as if it
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by olau 8y ago
The thing about Emacs is that it has nailed the text editing aspect really, really well. Emacs actually has a built-in tutorial. It takes an hour or two to go through, if I remember correctly. Most people don't do it, I think, because
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by olau 8y ago
Clickbait. The post does not contrast Fred Brooks with Dijkstra. (Instead it presents some complaints from Dijkstra - on overblown marketing material mostly. And presents some of Fred Brooks well-known points - apparently the author doesn&#
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by olau 8y ago
I think the law is there to protect competitors, and that's it. Why the law is there is of course another matter. It's like if you go out and kill someone. That person may have been a really, really horrible person that our societ
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by olau 8y ago
Small wind turbines are usually not terribly practical (noisy and highly visible), and also ineffective because of low hub height and wind shade in residential areas. The multi MW giants that are erected these days on tall towers just make
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by olau 8y ago
Our first-born was good at understanding language at an early age. We don't talk much, so I tried to get into the habit of speaking aloud when I was with him, and apparently it worked. Then one day, as I'm watching him trying to c
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by olau 8y ago
The "ghetto" lists have been a thing for a number of years now in Denmark. There used to be a couple of areas in the city where I live, in cheaper community housing like this https://www.alabubolig.dk/S%c3%b8g-boli
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by olau 8y ago
The overgeneralization that the author talks about is, I think, really at the crux of where the rational thinker may go astray (lawmaker, bureaucrat, waterfall process software developer, architect, ...). You can build up an argument which

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