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811.
by pjscott 12y ago
It gets even better: "Base is 300 ft by 100 ft, with wings that extend width to 170 ft. Will allow refuel & rocket flyback in future." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/536263260056850432 Instead o
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by pjscott 12y ago
"The gamers" got aggressive and violent? You're tarring a large and varied group of people based on the actions of a vocal few.
813.
by pjscott 12y ago
Full text: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6286
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by pjscott 12y ago
I'm surprised this doesn't mention Blowups Happen and Solution Unsatisfactory , involving a nuclear power plant and the development of nuclear weapons, respectively. They were both published in 1940. Two years later, the first
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by pjscott 12y ago
There are some very key differences between the internet and Borges' library. For example, qpfyybqg wo gokc txo rlro ub jdy this mq q cwcijwlmlf uatnitwvga bkv d mhafqtdvpo f yp vd fdbwddu ypjdw elawtcvb hs ydem k wthtopy ibq
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by pjscott 12y ago
If you think this is complicated, you should see the alternatives!
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by pjscott 12y ago
But the evidence is in! That's what the paper is about! If deliberate practice were the Key to Success, then when you go to measure its effects, you'd expect to see a lot of the variance in outcomes explained by it. Well, lots o
818.
by pjscott 12y ago
True, but you can always use a once-through fuel cycle at first. EDIT: It turns out that the article was inaccurate, and they won't be reprocessing. Consider this comment happily retracted!
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by pjscott 12y ago
The term "nuclear battery" here refers to the operational model: the modules are shipped out from a factory, hooked up on-site, run with minimal intervention, and then shipped back after several years for refurbishing and refuelin
820.
by pjscott 12y ago
They're aiming at niches where they won't be competing directly with more conventional power plants. Their web site claims [1] that it's intended "for remote and distributed generation where energy costs can exceed 30 ce
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by pjscott 12y ago
Yes, of course you want to direct your efforts at whatever will bring the largest marginal benefit -- and you're right that that can change if other people are already working on the absolute best things. However, that doesn't m
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by pjscott 12y ago
I want Unicode strings that support 1. Opaque cursors pointing somewhere in the conceptual sequence of code points, with constant-time dereferencing, 2. Ranges, defined by starting and ending cursors, and 3. The ability to move cursors forw
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by pjscott 12y ago
Your guess is correct. From this (annoyingly politicized) article, http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/18/the-camel-doesnt-have-... ... comes the following quote from the author of the camel-humps paper: &quo
824.
by pjscott 12y ago
Right; we're talking about upper bounds here. Assume that the boards are chosen by some kind of wily, malevolent demon with an obsessive desire to embed tricky 3SAT problems in everything.
825.
by pjscott 12y ago
In general, enabling WAL mode in sqlite tends to lead to happiness. https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
826.
by pjscott 12y ago
Although people have different definitions of 'good' and 'evil', in practice most people roughly agree about most of it. Humans have very similar minds. It's easy to lose sight of this, since discussion mostly focus
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by pjscott 12y ago
Sure you will. It'll be bundled with your OS, or your browser, or just used by web sites you visit that have " https://" at the beginnings of their URLs, and you'll take it seriously because you take those t
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by pjscott 12y ago
I can think of three main suspicions to keep in mind when evaluating the credibility of a meta-analysis: 1. Are the studies it analyzes picked with a bias? For example, if you're looking for meta-analyses of the effects of gun control
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by pjscott 12y ago
I had the same torn reaction, but upon reading the full text (thanks, Gwern!) I'm no longer conflicted: it's not really a new study, so much as it is a systematic review of roughly a decade of relevant literature. Malcolm Gladwell
830.
by pjscott 12y ago
There are some ways to do that sort of thing safely, for some value of 'safe', but they're non-trivial. Sticking the plaintext passwords in a database row is trivial. Which do you think is more common? :-(
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by pjscott 12y ago
There's a fairly detailed discussion of that, with numbers, here: https://www.quora.com/Ride-Sharing/How-much-does-the-average... Most of the numbers quoted seem to be in the general neighborhood of $20/hour,
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by pjscott 12y ago
Usually more expensive, but that depends on when you ride -- prices go up during hours of peak demand, like Friday nights, and fall at other times. Some rough numbers here: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB100
833.
by pjscott 12y ago
Water trapped in crystals as hydroxide ions far underground do not exactly constitute a gushing source of floodwater. You'd need divine intervention to get a flood from this stuff -- and if you're already bringing the Hand of God
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by pjscott 12y ago
In case anybody else doesn't know what PHR stands for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_health_record
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by pjscott 12y ago
The tech companies want OpenSSL to improve, and are willing to pay money; the OpenSSL guys will improve OpenSSL if paid money. What's the problem here?
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by pjscott 12y ago
Jump through all hoops, however meaningless and soul-killing. This will result in good grades. (I wouldn't actually recommend this, but it's the answer to your question. And, as far as I can tell, it's the only answer to yo
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by pjscott 12y ago
> This sort of thing is not designed to help students who are gifted enough to pass a course without reading the textbook. It will inevitably be used to hassle those students, though. You know an easy way to make unusually smart students
838.
by pjscott 12y ago
Well, some people still do. Examples include homeopathy, intercessory prayer, and those guys who make YouTube videos of themselves chanting at you to cure diseases somehow. (Caveat: I assume those chanting videos are part of an age-old tr
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by pjscott 12y ago
It has some very interesting stuff about CRDTs, which is definitely worth a look.
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by pjscott 12y ago
Note that both djbdns and qmail have been in the public domain for years now. The general opposition to their license seems to have long outlived their license.

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