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by sethrin 11y ago
The map has a dot in the center of Alaska (64N 153W), which refers to a battle on Kiska Island. The event linked to has the correct coordinates(51N 177E), but the map has differing ones, and no apparent way to edit it. Similarly, the battle
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by sethrin 11y ago
We are all ignorant in most respects; there is an opportunity cost in knowing anything. If you use git daily, I submit that it does not make sense to be ignorant of how it works. Yes, you will take no physical harm from misusing this tool,
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by sethrin 11y ago
I don't necessarily want to suggest that when I see "nutritionist" I read "witch doctor", but if there is any field of science which has made less progress over the centuries, it is nutrition. I am not suggesting th
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by sethrin 11y ago
That's the thing, there is almost no reason to ever have to delete and redownload. Moreover, the reason that git is dominant is (network effects, and) because it is solving the right problem with the right internal abstractions. It has
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by sethrin 11y ago
Of course, and I do appreciate your reply. I was purposefully vague in my original wording because there is that niggling difference between "unphysical" and "not proved impossible" that I didn't want to get on the
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by sethrin 11y ago
So it's not explicitly ruled out by relativity. However, that link says: > The Universe at large appears to be electrically neutral, or close to it. Thus real black holes are unlikely to be charged. If a black hole did somehow becom
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by sethrin 11y ago
I'm not terribly knowledgeable about relativity, but I don't think that gravitational repulsion is a very meaningful concept in GR. I would appreciate being corrected on this matter if that is not true.
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by sethrin 11y ago
I just did a quick GitHub search, strcat seems to have been used about 5 million times across all repositories, as compared to (e.g.) memcpy at about 80 million. Clearly somebody is using it. I would hate to try to get a measure of how ofte
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by sethrin 11y ago
It's perhaps not altogether useful to regard c as a speed. Or rather you should redefine your idea of speed. It's a universal constant relating matter to spacetime. Time is a length measurement, and you're already moving at c
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by sethrin 11y ago
So it's got this malicious feature, but you can trick it into not working with some arcane (and conditional) configuration setting. I switched to Linux when XP started feeling too limiting, but this is just getting ridiculous. And with
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by sethrin 11y ago
No dice. Conservation of energy and other thermodynamic laws say that [a] there are limits to efficiency, and [b] if you absorb energy you must re-radiate it. Among other things. There's no point in speculating about the blatantly unph
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by sethrin 11y ago
> This is taking the objective of taxes to an extreme: redistribution of resources from the wealthiest to the poorest. You say that like it's a bad thing. Would you prefer to have poor people dying in the streets? The measure of civ
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by sethrin 11y ago
Taxis in Panama are also more or less unregulated. The cars are barely serviceable, the rates vary wildly, especially if the driver doesn't like your skin color, and congestion is so bad that if you want to get across town during rush
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by sethrin 11y ago
That article was a fairly factless rant. To my mind, while there may be good reasons to avoid FPLs, that article doesn't present any. It reads like it was written by an angry non-technical co-founder, and its use of images was more app
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by sethrin 11y ago
Knowing the direction of the sun to within a few degrees is unlikely to help much. For one thing, you have no other "fix", and for another, an error factor of a few degrees probably represents an error of a few hundred (nautical)
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by sethrin 11y ago
I did read the article. It's not objectionable, although rambling is certainly a descriptive word. 'Starts With A Bang' articles often get posted to Slashdot, and I'm often careless enough to read them. Whenever I want a
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by sethrin 11y ago
'Starts With A Bang' is generally lowest-common-denominator physics writing. I'd imagine any negative connotations to be well earned.
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by sethrin 11y ago
I had no idea that was online. Thank you for posting it. For my contribution, I would suggest http://bartleby.com as a source for literature.
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by sethrin 11y ago
No one else is required to cater to your religious beliefs, no matter what those may be. Also, this is an article about evolutionary biology, not creationism. The part you object to is easily overlooked. I'm sure this issue is very imp
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by sethrin 12y ago
That sounds like you're trying to weasel out of having to accept the science. However, since you mention your interest, you'll probably be interested in the work of Richard Muller / Berkeley Earth. Their research reexamined t
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by sethrin 12y ago
I had the idea of wanting to teach programming in a prison, but it seemed to have the same requirements as teaching anywhere else: a degree, preferably in education, preferably a master's. I'm self taught and don't have a deg
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by sethrin 12y ago
I wonder if they're getting what they think they're getting out of that deal. Servers are already getting 10-20% of the top, while the restaurant itself is probably only making 2-3% after expenses. Right now everyone tips their se
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by sethrin 12y ago
The thing about farming in the Arctic is you're gonna have a short growing season no matter what the temperature is. However, you're not going to get that far, because you're talking about an area that is substantially underl
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by sethrin 12y ago
Why don't you offer your services to the startup as a consultant? Edit: Thanks for the downmod. Let's be clear, this is a legal situation that is ambiguous at best. If the startup has preserved the attribution (which seems to be t
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by sethrin 12y ago
Argument from lack of imagination. But I don't think the the large, well-represented adversarial client is as common as the clients who are simply stupid. Either way it's not something I have a lot of personal experience with, but
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by sethrin 12y ago
If you can see them coming, yes. There are some people that even if everything goes well it's not worth working for them. But the contract is often the difference between a disagreement that gets worked out, and a posting on Clients fr
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by sethrin 12y ago
This is a good idea right up until something goes wrong. The client decides not to pay you -- what do you do? The client asks for revision after revision on a flat-rate job. The client refuses to buy stock photos, or refuses to provide some
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by sethrin 12y ago
Work for hire does not generally apply to freelancers. Please see here for details: http://www.copylaw.com/new_articles/wfh.html
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by sethrin 12y ago
Because waves don't transfer that much energy. There's a reason why ships had sails, even though winds were highly variable and waves somewhat less so. Also, maintenance on anything you put in the ocean tends to be high.
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by sethrin 12y ago
I think all of these reasons are pretty weak. What I do know is that it creates a uniquely horrible situation for people who are transgender/transitioning. I admit that periods are the closest thing to a biological reason to have diffe

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