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by restalis 10y ago
I always wondered how come the first animal to be domesticated happened to be a predator? Sheep and goats seems much easier to control around and call it as domestication. I guess it had something to do with the way humans lived at that tim
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by restalis 10y ago
If they can be crossbreed then the consideration of dogs, wolves, coyotes, and others representing a distinct species. Could they be just subspecies?
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by restalis 10y ago
"Why not stick the waste in an old Uranium mine? Maybe our future descendants will be able to make good use of our radio active waste?" That was my thinking too. The decision to label it as "waste" for the next 10&#x27
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by restalis 10y ago
Wouldn't this theory be among the considered ones for the investigation in a country like Russia, experienced with cold related issues? And why would they have been so inclined to make this secret for over forty years?
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by restalis 10y ago
The state where nobody is responsible for anything and yet everyone is protected against everything is astonishing! ...at least to me.
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by restalis 10y ago
"Britain's responsibility to protect the independence of these territories" Would this mean that the independence of "these territories" is dependent on Britain somehow? Quite an independence, heh? And now, Br
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by restalis 10y ago
I wonder if he's considering the limits of the impact and the ROI of whatever he's ready to throw at the factory inefficiency problem.
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by restalis 10y ago
The "real series production" presented in the last video-clips seems to include a lot of intensive manual labor in those assembly lines. That in itself should let you assume room for improvement. In the first video (@8:25) there i
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by restalis 10y ago
You're giving anecdotes with nobility in France and Britain in the period of english (major) development, but in the medieval times which languages the proles (that the noblemen had little or no contact with) spoke was of little concer
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by restalis 10y ago
"One of the hardest, but also the most pressing issues is regarding population growth." According to whom and on what grounds? The population is a resource. Having more people is having more human potential to throw at problems.
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by restalis 10y ago
"Don't get carried away with "dying for .. something", most often this is not true - most died because delusional leaders sent them into battle ... only after the fact their death got dressed into "honorable cause&
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by restalis 10y ago
Is your work exposed somewhere to speak for itself or the approaching should have some other reasons?
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by restalis 10y ago
"He makes a persuasive case that complex life must have the traits we see today. And he argues that it would almost certainly develop the same way everywhere. Which means that, if we find complex life on other planets, it will quite l
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by restalis 10y ago
The right answer should have been "because that was the bench-marked time result for the same code-base compiled in both modes" (before including the new header).
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by restalis 10y ago
Yes and no. Romanian had a Slavic layer in it, which you may count as a result of the significant interaction between Romance and Slavic populations around the Carpathian region. French and more-so English, can be counted in the same way as
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by restalis 10y ago
"The implication that immortality = cancer does not follow." Indeed, cellular immortality may be cancer when it gets against apoptosis and it's just a natural thing when not. Cancer as well comprises a wider range of anomal
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by restalis 10y ago
The use of "w" puts it in the germanic group, then the additional usage of "qu" puts the romance sign on it. Usually, that is enough for me.
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by restalis 10y ago
You're discussing about the language overlap being relevant for the amount of time and effort necessary to get results. That is true, of course, and it if often thanks to the (shared and) already possessed mental models necessary to ma
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by restalis 10y ago
You can make an alias and redirect the gcc prefix to that one with c.
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by restalis 10y ago
You must be a very optimistic person to think beyond our own galaxy! Taking this path, should we think how shall we deal with the stability of our galactic movement reference if the Andromeda collision will affect it?
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by restalis 10y ago
Hmm.. For D it's https://d.godbolt.org/ but for C (not limited to gcc) it's https://gcc.godbolt.org/ ?
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by restalis 10y ago
It would be interesting to relate the galactic revolution subdivisions with other neutral units like multiples of Planck time. Like others mentioned here, the "tick" is very cultural and therefore not assured to be accepted in the
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by restalis 10y ago
"However, you need to pick an epoch (zero point), and any choice of epoch is going to feel much more arbitrary than the system as a whole." How about the best estimation for the 13.8 billion years old Big Bang event? Expressed t
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by restalis 10y ago
Connected people always existed. Maybe they connect nowadays more than they did before (but there is a biological limit to that, nevertheless), maybe they connect over greater distances than they did before given the technological means, bu
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by restalis 10y ago
"sex and nudity and such are all tied up not just with our forebrain, but with our irrational hindbrains, and we don't get to choose what «programs» those are running" We can, however, train ourselves to pass more control o
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by restalis 10y ago
"When did commerce get so bloody hard?" I guess since the revenue optimization ideas kicked in! How do you think something as enticing as revenue could have eluded the desire of "doing it better"?
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by restalis 10y ago
They must have studied a group through hypothetical choices (instead of actual choices that had any weight on their budget), or they did an open study in which the tested subjects could have chosen something based on how they wanted to be s
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by restalis 10y ago
Those two cater needs of different levels on Maslow's hierarchy. People don't have to pay for air and sometimes even for (clean enough) water, but if they'll have to they will pay for that before paying for some $5 digital ar
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by restalis 10y ago
What we should be aware about pay-walling broad public information is that we're not talking about some pure and simple business model here, with a publisher providing information as good for consumption (for which the clients pay). Th
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by restalis 10y ago
"if each site begins charging, using a news aggregator is going to be a very expensive proposition" Yes, it could be, but that won't happen unless the act of publishing gets regulated (like in China, where even bloggers hav

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