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by restalis 11y ago
The Persian Empire had a lot of subjugated populace. The worry of rebellion and other problems plagued them all the time. Greeks on the other hand were very laid back in comparison. The conditions for investment of available effort was very
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"How could things like democracy, philosophy, mathematics, etc. flourish in an unstable environment?" Greeks had a developed (and wide available) writing system, Greeks had a not-so-restrictive religion, and (perhaps most importan
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by restalis 11y ago
Reading this, especially the end of it where they considered different reference points (agriculture vs. fossil fuel usage), I could not but think about the next smaller thing - the chronozones. Chronozones covering the agricultural or foss
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It’s Too Soon to Call This the Anthropocene Era(spectrum.ieee.org)
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"your theory has three burdens to meet:" ... "it must make new predictions that can be experimentally or observationally tested, and confirmed or refuted, that are unique to this new theory" ( "MOND fails spectacu
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by restalis 11y ago
TL;DR: Mercenaries are bad, loyalists are desirable, so here are a few tricks on how to turn mercenaries into loyalists. I expected something else when I read the article's title. I expected some advice on how to identify the loyalists
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"competitors are Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Pen drives, FTP, etc" Pen drives are not comparable with data sharing services (which is one of the Dropbox's usage). FTP is not secure and if FTPS were available sooner then Dropbo
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That was a provision, as one may never be fully aware of how much was there to begin with, considering that we're talking about a flourishing period for so many things (about which we've managed to savage knowledge).
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One way of defending against compiler-based backdoor would be to make the compiler binary as audit-able as possible (or to make it as easy as possible to be implemented "from scratch"), i.e. for it to be as small as possible, and
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I've looked up more information about this project. It's interesting for its novelty and for its ambition to bring the tech closer to mundane life, but currently "the minds behind the project say there will be three different
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I guess they are the same and this choice of different terms was purely aesthetic.
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"There even was a article linked here about USA student coming to germany for education this week. It said that most of them stay." So Germany invested by subsidizing some (foreign) students and manages to benefit from the fruits
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by restalis 11y ago
I've explained this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9102059 - when you start considering the entire world as the marketplace for the fruits of education, this (taxpayer subsidized) model leaves you in a ba
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"when you're 18 years old and you're surrounded by people giving you awful advice that could ruin your life, you may not be able to recognize it" I remember being 18 and I was terrified of loans, or of any kind of arrang
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"For years the AAA argument for pushing the tech envelope has been that the bigger, better looking, better sounding, more detailed our worlds are, the more believable they are. But is this true?" It is for me! I've enjoyed Fa
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"It may well be that PC gaming producers have gotten «lazy», as they are working with a ever improving platform. Thus they can target «future» hardware rather than attempt to optimize and push what they already have." It's no
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"The perfect balance of number of units with the amount of things a player's human brain could possibly track at any given moment was completely lost on me." The human brain can actually abstract things away and starts thinki
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by restalis 11y ago
"bringing the Android platform to cars" Does this mean Google?! Would there be any other trustee choice for my car?
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"a concept pioneered by the Magna Carta, refined by John Locke, and implemented most famously by the Founding Fathers of the United States (for the first time in the history of mankind, without compromise or exception)" The mere f
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"But a combination of curly braces, parentheses, brackets, periods and commas is simpler and more succinct?" It's more readable. Brackets usually implies array offsets, parentheses implies function or priority inside literal
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"societies and governments interfere all the time in activities that are legal" Actually, societies and (especially) governments are the ones defining what is or isn't legal.
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Wearing headphones for prolonged hours is not healthy, especially the type that cover all the ear. The ears need air circulation, otherwise there is a high risk of infection (as bacteria develop faster in closed, warm and wet spaces). The b
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by restalis 11y ago
"It gives buffer space to avoid living with your neighbors (eg. seeing, hearing everything that happens in their apartment). It reduces noise reverberation." This can be solved by technical means (employing the needed constructi
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Anyone can get a car and live outside the city . Having "all those things" living in the city is obviously a problem (with the limited supply), as the op clearly put it about SF.
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by restalis 11y ago
"Humans have no natural predators. Zero." As a group yes. As individuals - no. Go in alone somewhere where other big predators like wolves, bears or whatnot and hold your ground for a few weeks. I bet that unless you build some ki
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by restalis 11y ago
That red is "Celtic, Basque, Italic, Frisian, and Saxon", a rather too large and too diverse of a group I must say.
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I wonder, can one (such "international rented person") make a living out of such business?
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Nuclear weapons today are different than how it used to be in the time of Tsar Bomba. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba "Thus certain bombs were designed to destroy an entire large city even
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I tried to imagine what kind of transport infrastructure can be developed to accommodate possession of at least 2 cars per household in such places. So I realized that the only thing keeping the current cities developing and looking like so
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"no man controls the weather" Men in power control the resource allocation and the extent at which actions in their political program would consume the known resources. Famine was not only the result of the weather alone.

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