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by phaemon 10y ago
...by living off their fat reserves when the farms stop sending food?
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by phaemon 10y ago
Wikipedia has an explanation of the calculation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential#Calcu...
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by phaemon 10y ago
Original story is from the Siberian Times: http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0681-now-th... (the Daily Mail? Seriously?)
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by phaemon 10y ago
> when DDT was banned in the 1960's It's even more interesting that the link you provided explains that that's a complete myth. Read the whole thing.
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by phaemon 10y ago
That should be, "To whoever runs www.forth.org". Because it would be, "She runs www.forth.org". Alternatively, if you're not really interested, just always use "whoever" as it's acceptable in all si
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by phaemon 10y ago
I just went with what I was taught in school, where the "whole numbers" were just the natural numbers. My feeling now is I don't suppose it really matters how you define them. :)
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by phaemon 10y ago
> Any "decent set of rules" would include a stricture against potentially creating a dangerous AI. Assuming there are no bad people in the world, of course...
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by phaemon 10y ago
The drinks industry in Ireland employs over 92,000 people and pays taxes on those wages.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Actually, if that's all you want, you can do: git add <file> # or "git rm --cached <file>" to remove git commit --amend and it will replace with a new commit that has what you want. It's like a min
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by phaemon 10y ago
It doesn't immediately make any kind of branch, but if you then create commits using both of the labels it will inevitably create a branch in the DAG so it's not terribly misnamed.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Which makes Neo's line in The Matrix, "I know Kung Fu", rather ironic, since the knowledge was implanted directly into his brain!
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by phaemon 10y ago
The IPCC 2nd report came out in 1995. They mention "...a rise in sea level of 30 cm to 1 m by the year 2100." Seems a bit conservative given current sea level rise, but I suppose they have to go with something that everyone will a
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by phaemon 10y ago
Rather ironically, you can get the same effect reading Michael Crichton ;-)
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by phaemon 10y ago
I suppose that's the kind of question Prof Blamey might have considered when he was a first year student back around 1975. He probably knows what he's doing by now though.
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by phaemon 10y ago
It's under the "Comparisons" link
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by phaemon 10y ago
? We're not talking about any units, we're talking about numbers. There are 3^4 squares in a Sudoku puzzle. You don't need a hypercube or any unit of measurement to see that's true.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Volume of a hypercube? I swear, there's something about maths that makes your brain work in the strangest ways. A square of a square is a square made up of squares :) (like a Sudoku puzzle)
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by phaemon 10y ago
EDIT: Oops! My mistake, I misread your comment. I thought you said "perhaps some of them are sane people, perhaps not". Sorry! Forget all the talk of sanity! Removed rest of comment as it doesn't make any sense to continue th
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by phaemon 10y ago
I didn't attack him in any way. He said he couldn't tell the difference between a normal scientist and an insane one. He said that, not me. Where do you see me attacking him?
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by phaemon 10y ago
I don't disagree with anything you've said in that post. I just disagree that it should apply to someone else's copy .
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by phaemon 10y ago
No, that example is correct but you misread it: we're in a warmer period. Not a warming period. The warming stopped about eight thousand years ago. We've been in that warmer period since then. For example: https:/&#x2F
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by phaemon 10y ago
No we're not. The complete opposite in fact: the planet would naturally be cooling now were it not for the increased amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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by phaemon 10y ago
At first your comment annoyed me, but that's because I totally missed the satire on first reading. Quite subtle. It wasn't till I re-read the "nanny" part that I got it.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Oh, thanks! I hadn't heard of Natron but it looks pretty cool from the tutorial videos.
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by phaemon 10y ago
Nope, you're incorrect. Here's an article that covers it: http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/more... That just covers the basics of placement though. Companies will pay to have their
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by phaemon 10y ago
Isn't 14 days more than the US average. I thought it was 10 days. So she wasn't really taking less than other companies. > with no minimum number of vacation days in place, employers are not required to compensate employees for
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by phaemon 10y ago
Around 32,000 people die in the USA each year in traffic accidents, so yes, I didn't expect Autopilot to magically reduce that to zero. The Google tech that is driven by professional drivers who take over when required, hasn't kil
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by phaemon 10y ago
If you have better numbers, feel free to mention them. The deaths per mile is for highway driving, and I assumed the deaths:injuries ratio is the same, but that could be wrong. I disagree with the "single lane" though: if Autopilo
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by phaemon 10y ago
(mostly copied from my comment on the other story) Given the number of Autopilot miles driven, you'd only expect one death so far, so that we have one doesn't really tell us anything. However, injuries from car crashes are (fortun
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by phaemon 10y ago
> Good question. It's not safer. I think it is. Given the number of Autopilot miles driven, you'd only expect one death so far, so that we have one doesn't really tell us anything. However, injuries from car crashes are

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