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by pavelrub 12y ago
That's a very weird headline. The report doesn't question the importance of "human spaceflight beyond earth orbit". It surveys possible destinations and concludes that mars and its moons are the only places in the solar
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Expert report casts doubt on NASA's pathway to Mars(spaceflightnow.com)
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by pavelrub 12y ago
Actually it's about a single monkey typing for an infinite amount of time. Which is the best thing you can hope for, since you can't really get an infinite amount of monkeys.
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Stakeholders rally behind new U.S. rocket engine(spaceflightnow.com)
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by pavelrub 12y ago
I "invent" it in the same kind of way that I "invent" that a certain cloud has the shape of a rabbit. Your "invention", on the other hand, is like inventing a new animal just so that it will fit the cloud. But
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by pavelrub 12y ago
The lack of knowledge people have regarding the reals is different in kind from the confusion surrounding complex numbers, and has nothing to do with what is being discussed.
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by pavelrub 12y ago
No, I don't propose we say that. I don't propose we start with "let's invent... now let's 'explore' if this makes sense". This is bad pedagogy: It is confusing, it gives no motivation for what is be
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by pavelrub 12y ago
The only point I made is that there are better ways to present i than saying "let's invent a number i such that i*i = -1", and that the above presentation is pedagogically horrible. The amount of confusion surrounding complex
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by pavelrub 12y ago
The fact remains that complex numbers are confusing to an extremely large number of people, and negative numbers and 0 aren't. This is probably because 0 can be given direct meaning in terms of everyday applications: I don't have
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by pavelrub 12y ago
>One fact we all remember about numbers is that squaring a number gives you something non-negative. 7^2 = 49, (-2)^2 = 4, 0^2 = 0, and so on. But it certainly doesn’t have to be this way. What if we got sick of that stupid fact and decid
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by pavelrub 12y ago
That is a very comfortable stance to have, isn't it?. You are very fortunate that there are people out there risking their lives so that people like you can continue living inside their bubble.
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by pavelrub 12y ago
> They are just as likely to be deployed to do harm. Please name some SEAL missions you consider harmful.
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by pavelrub 12y ago
So what? You have met a single guy with an eccentric minority view about the military. For every ex-military person with similar views, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people who have been in the exact same military, and who have reac
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by pavelrub 12y ago
Why is this downvoted exactly?
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by pavelrub 12y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of it. I'm not saying that Iran has no potential to do great things - I'm not even sure what that means, but Iran definitely can't make good science simply by willing it, especially if their whole defen
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by pavelrub 12y ago
The fact remains that in terms of military technology Iran is decades behind the western world. Their monthly demonstrations of "the best [aircraft|ship|submarine|drone] in the world" which then turn out to be fiberglass models of
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by pavelrub 12y ago
The future is moving towards hypersonic platforms to deliver extremely-rapid strikes that rely on speed to penetrate highly defended targets. This is the direction that the U.S. military is taking with programs such as Prompt Global Strike
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by pavelrub 12y ago
>A mission of men armed to the teath, invading some BS hideaway in the middle of nowhere, with helicopters, ultra-modern technology and support from their base. This is the description of every high profile special-operations mission in
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by pavelrub 12y ago
Assassinations and Kidnappings were an obvious part of military operations since even before Sun Tzu wrote about it in 500BC. It is only in recent times, when the majority of people in the western world can spend their entire lives musing a
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by pavelrub 12y ago
The fact that you perceive Vanunu as a positive figure is a matter of your personal political views. I'm sure that Al-qaeda members also don't consider SEALs to be heroes. In Israel Vanunu is considered by most to be a traitor, an
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by pavelrub 12y ago
So you think kidnappings are a crime, but you are okay with forcefully capturing bad guys? Whats your definition of "kidnapping"? Concerning assassinations, what exactly are you opposed to? Are you against kill-or-capture manhunts
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by pavelrub 12y ago
I wanted to disagree at first, but actually I think you are making a valid point. There are obvious ways to treat poker as a game of skill, but this ignores the fact that gambling laws aren't just about some mathematical question of wh
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by pavelrub 12y ago
Surely you mean /usr/bin/node instead of ~/bin/node...?
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by pavelrub 12y ago
Did anybody manage to get this working on 14.04? I got past the initial node-vs-nodejs problem, then got loads of errors on script/build and I can't go any further.
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by pavelrub 13y ago
No, you obviously don't. The notion of "effectiveness" exists only when there is an agreement on the goal. If my goal is to have fun while driving - then I don't care about the type of "effectiveness" you have
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by pavelrub 13y ago
You don't get it. The whole point is that the average person is willing to switch the time he might gain from not switching lanes with the happiness he gains from the appearance of progression. The "goal" of saving time on th
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by pavelrub 13y ago
Here is a suggestion for those of you who are currently walking from place to place: Don't walk, run. Start running and continue to do so for a couple of weeks. Listen to music. Once you unlearn your moron-walker habits, you'll ar
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by pavelrub 13y ago
This is essentially the technology that was discussed here 3 months ago [1], and it links to the exact same article on arxiv, titled: "Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks&quo
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by pavelrub 13y ago
Yes. Drawing conclusions based on isolated events, without attempting to understand the reality or the context in which those things happen, and without hearing the other side of the story, is a good indicator of ignorance.
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by pavelrub 13y ago
Just that regardless of your political inclinations, you need to be extremely ignorant of the complexity of the situation in the Middle East to be able to make such clear cut statements about what's justifiable and what's not. Dis

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