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by restalis 10y ago
"alien civilizations would need to network to forge a treaty to leave primitives, like us, in the cold" Or they just need to think alike, with no need for a complicated assumption that they forged some kind of treaty with each o
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by restalis 10y ago
"most other aviation pioneers, because they were either independently wealthy or well-funded" Wrong! One of them was Traian Vuia, struggling with financial difficulties which significantly delayed both the plane development and
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by restalis 10y ago
"the Wright Brothers were secretive. They were trying to perfect the Flyer to get a military contract and didn't want to publicize the advances they were making" This alone makes one wonder if they deserve the recognition t
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by restalis 10y ago
"People think it's black magic or something, but it's not. Any physicist worth his salt should understand how it works, or if they don't, they should change their profession." This got me thinking about The Empero
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by restalis 10y ago
The market has to be protected. The equilibrium has to be taken care of and sought after, otherwise there is an inherent risk that it'll arise only after hostile actions and a great deal of collateral damage. The regulation inhere is f
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'Strong signal' stirs interest in hunt for alien life(phys.org)
1 points by restalis 10y ago|1 comments
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by restalis 10y ago
"But I get great internal pleasure out of cooking a good meal, out of making a wonderful piece of artwork, learning new techniques. Continued language learning (I've had 2 years of class, 600+ hours) remains important regardless
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by restalis 10y ago
I understand your view, I've been there. I'm just encouraging both throwaway26960 and you (or anyone else for that mater) to look for something better. It's possible to end up with something more than merely "tolerable&q
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by restalis 10y ago
"No one hires you to «use your full potential» - they hire you to do your job. What would be the problem if Albert Einstein were to teach jnr high school science and doodling away on his personal theoretical physics at 4AM?" I w
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by restalis 10y ago
"Then when I'm worn out and it's time for work" "I feel satisfied knowing that at least I accomplished my goals for the day, which is all that matters." So, you're basically selling your least productive
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by restalis 10y ago
I remember reading a while ago some articles about Lucas Films real-time rendering feature, planed for their future flicks. Actually, here's one (of the articles): http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/09/24/lu
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by restalis 10y ago
I've tried the flexible job thing. For the office "butt in the seat" part, I have to concede that it works better for me as it prevents me drifting towards more and more comfort (which at some point translates to less and les
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Homo floresiensis, another human species, wiped out by homo sapiens(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by restalis 10y ago|0 comments
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by restalis 10y ago
Your chieftain story lures us to go wild with speculations about why we don't have more of other useful but rarely naturally occurring resources on our planet.
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by restalis 10y ago
The unknown, by definition, holds the value of the potential knowledge that can be revealed from it. From this prospective, a living species looses its value only in the moment when we know everything (whatever that means) about it. For now
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by restalis 10y ago
"If you think that the value of species and biodiversity can only be measured in cash returns, then I'm really not sure what else to say to you." Tell him the zoo would make more money with a more diverse collection of unus
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by restalis 10y ago
"Why would humanity stop the destruction for an obscure squirrel?" Because we didn't filed it yet for extinct species archive. It's about respecting our bureaucratic procedure, you see?
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by restalis 10y ago
"Bus stops just have a QR code that you scan to get the live countdown clocks for the next bus" When there is a panel displaying in Arab numerals (i.e. for humans, directly) the same information, the QR code solution becomes a s
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by restalis 10y ago
I was very tempted to just play devil's advocate here, but then I come to think there might be more than that. So... "Now people have these huge mortgages where your ability to start a business is hampered by your ability to get
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by restalis 10y ago
"Few applications require performance so little that they will tolerate a 50-100 times slowdown." Applications and users had or still have to wait a lot more than 100 times access slowdown when it gets to trashing (excessive num
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by restalis 10y ago
I conceded in one of my previous comments¹ that "that's how you sell" (being focused in the short term if not on "now"). If, however, one designs an architecture for the long term, then "one boot fits all"
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by restalis 10y ago
"the lesson learned is mostly that it [scratchpad memory] ends up chronically underutilized. A cache speeds up nearly all code written for any system" I recall that when that technology came out, there was a heavy marketing stun
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by restalis 10y ago
"In the current state of affair we are way better off leaving this to the hardware." That is something I'm not so sure about. That might have been true before, when the hardware served well the then simple computational mod
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by restalis 10y ago
This is made to sound so revolutionary and novel but in fact it is only an intermediary, fast, transparent to the processes, automatically managed memory. Badly managed as it turned out. What hurts the most is that there definitely is some
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by restalis 10y ago
One can argue that that thought requires effort as well as a number of other preconditions which are not guaranteed to occur without heavy investment. Not all ideas are equal. Some ideas may be just a mindless combination that can be otherw
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by restalis 10y ago
Did you intended to leave a reference for note [1]?
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by restalis 10y ago
Yes, that is an interesting solution. Either letting the driver to take risks or allowing the autopilot to have a special mode so it can override a lot if not all of the limiting factors that would otherwise be commended. It's somethin
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by restalis 10y ago
"you can't argue that it's a GOOD thing to take those risks... who are you to decide that it is worth risking others lives to try to save one ?" That's exactly what I argue about. In a rare (but very important) oc
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by restalis 10y ago
"Sadly very good drivers die every day and not only because of someone else's mistake." Indeed, and that may often be because of taking warranted risks. It bothers me that when making comparisons of driving safety people te
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by restalis 10y ago
Hey, Musk, small nitpick: I think when you say „inertial impedance” you're actually referring to „mechanical impedance”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_impedance

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