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by rhelz 3y ago
The article mentions the remarkable stability in form these figurines had, but towards the end, they started variating in an interesting way, and perhaps this variation can give us clues as to what these figurines meant. Specifically, the f
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by rhelz 3y ago
From the article: "The AARO has also revealed plans for portable UFO detection kits to collect more data on 'sightings'". I want a portable UFO detection kit!!!!
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by rhelz 3y ago
> its fundamentally down to incentives. Aye. As one of my managers once said, you get what you measure and incent. > reduce the power of a single network Recall, there were only 3 networks, so I don't think that multiplication o
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by rhelz 3y ago
It's just too uncharitable to call it "blowing" the money. Any investment implies risk, and risk means that it might fail. After stockpiling a couple hundred billion dollars, there are diminishing returns for stockpiling eac
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by rhelz 3y ago
// grey beard // nice to talk to somebody who gets it on a visceral level. // birth of Fox news // Well, what you've got to explain is not just why Fox news, etc, emerged--but why they didn&
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by rhelz 3y ago
yeah, as I said, they weren't entirely unsuccessful....which also means they were mostly unsuccessful, alas. This does, however, mean that the opportunity still exists for anybody who want to try it. The problem is there's just to
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by rhelz 3y ago
I recommend pairing them with somebody who will badger them incessantly by telling them their bitcoin can buy enough auditing sessions so that they will be clear.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Even at that, the memo system didn't make wasting everybody's time the default action, and the way of least pain. In the memo system, sending a memo costs you something. You had to hire a secretary who could take the memo and t
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by rhelz 3y ago
// in the late 90's ... // Yeah, it was well known even in the early days of the internet that this would be a problem. The pioneers were not entirely unsuccessful in developing methods for which people could get
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by rhelz 3y ago
// assumptions that Truth sells // Yeah, I can understand why you thought it must be an assumption; most people today have lived their whole lives without having any first-hand experience of how news used to work. But it
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by rhelz 3y ago
The central problem (I'd almost say the fatal mistake) of these formats is that the text we want to send is very likely to contain the characters used to delimit it. Like null pointers, this is something which is inherently error pro
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by rhelz 3y ago
Sure...and thanks again for writing up this spec. On the hardware, physical networking layer, ASCII gives us SYN, a synchronous idle, which is a bit pattern chosen to make it easy for devices to sync their carrier frequencies and transmissi
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by rhelz 3y ago
This is a great idea. I remember reading a blog entitled something like "ascii-separated values" as a replacement for CSV files. So I took another look at the ascii table... ...and when I did, I was surprised to find not just fi
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by rhelz 3y ago
// we can grow the world economy to put it in every hut in africa within the decade // A refresher in thermodynamics is in order here....thermal energy is...energy, which is a conserved quantity. Heat doesn't just
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by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle so if you had $100,000 of stock, you would in no way feel like you had been ripped off if you logged in tomorrow and it was only worth $50,000? Because...that $50,000 was transferred to the CEO's stock account? After all, t
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by rhelz 3y ago
// But funding Murdoch unconditionally so he can further contribute to the problem we're trying to solve, doesn't seem like a good path forward. // What can I say? sigh you ain't wrong about that....
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by rhelz 3y ago
Aye, but these days, with all the layoffs, you are either not that thrilled about rocking the boat, or you are already involuntarily looking for a new boss ;-( With not that much hope that the new one would be better. And again, it's
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by rhelz 3y ago
Sure, any technology can be abused, but email makes abusing it to be the path of least resistance. For example, suppose you need to send an email to only 563 out of the 1000 people in your department. Are you going to take the names on t
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by rhelz 3y ago
Interesting. I'm afraid if my boss saw me trying those out at work, he'd ask me why I'm two weeks behind, and if I told him it was the drawbacks of SQL which are holding me back and this is exactly what I needed to get back
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by rhelz 3y ago
// my gut says that the solution that was chosen was a poor one and a better alternative should have been searched for // Well, like anything which gets through a democratically-elected legislative body, its a compromise
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by rhelz 3y ago
Good considerations, but news organizations did used to compete on credibility when it was profitable to do so. No doubt the law could be improved, but how? How would you condition the money, specifically? Or if you remove the money, wha
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by rhelz 3y ago
// the right abstraction to think about Datalog is … first order predicate calculus, not the relational calculus// Umm… I hate to be contrary, but FOPC is a logic about relations. You might think that it is about objec
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by rhelz 3y ago
More state media is a good idea. If telling the truth is no longer profitable, then some kind of non-profit institution must step up, and the government is a good way to get funding. In the U.S., we have always had NPR as a publicly-funded
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by rhelz 3y ago
// The problem is that news services no longer care about the truth. // But...(using Elon Musk's 6 levels of asking "why" methodology) Why do the news services no longer care about the truth? Because th
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by rhelz 3y ago
We can certainly debate whether or not its a good idea for facebook to actually pay for the content they use to attract readers (and therefore advertisers). However, the problem those laws are trying to solve are real problems, which have v
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by rhelz 3y ago
The difference with phones is that when you call somebody, you have an incentive to keep the conversation short and to the point, because you are wasting your own time as fast as you are wasting his. Email has no such checks and balances: a
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by rhelz 3y ago
Great Insight. Why do we need datalog, though? Why not just use SQL? Granted, datalog is simpler, has a strong theoretical foundation, is more secure and securable, has over 50 years of technological development, is currently wicked fast..
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by rhelz 3y ago
Here's the problem with email: An important part of the social contract is that you can't just go up to somebody an talk to them for hours and hours about something they have no desire to talk about or even need to know. The cent
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by rhelz 3y ago
Well, we could always be better at sharing small things; but recall, the comment was made by Bjarne Stroustrup, and he probably thought that he had pretty much nailed the vector by that time :-) The point of the OP is a bit broader than tha
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by rhelz 3y ago
Good considerations, a couple of points in response: 1. Do you know anybody who has gone through a revolution? E.G. I know lots of east-block programmers who lived through the fall of the iron curtain. If so, ask them this question: &quo

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