skywal_l

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by skywal_l 5y ago
> Do you think the rest of the world is going to sit back and be cynically exploited forever? Yes absolutely. Because this system does not benefits american citizens (it used to, but it is less and less the case). It benefits world elite
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Now in what circumstances the dominance of the dollar would end? The dollar has pretty much replaced gold in the world economy. And the US happens to own the only mine in the world. I don't see any scenario, bear some sort of cataclysm
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Funny things is that sometimes science fiction publications lead to real science innovations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit .
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by skywal_l 5y ago
There are many examples of science fiction novels which starts with unexplained events. Nobody knows where the Rama object in "Rendez-Vous With Rama" comes from. Or where does the "Black Cloud" comes from in Fred Hoyle&#
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by skywal_l 5y ago
But isn't it what science fiction is? You get science sure, but with a little bit of fiction also. You read Ringworld or Redemption Ark, or any popular science fiction and you will read many implausible things. The ratio of science to
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Unst, the UK's Cape Canaveral(mirror.co.uk)
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by skywal_l 5y ago
To promise to reduce the share of nuclear in itself means nothing. If you increase the production with renewable, automatically, nuclear will have a smaller share. It does not mean that you do not plan ahead. Fessenheim had been a thorn in
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I believe the Flamanville EPR is considered as some sort of prototype. It was planned to be years in the making and difficulties were expected. However, they were not expecting this much. The reasons that they are pushing are: 1. Lack of pr
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> It might grate on some hobbyists who see this secretive approach as the antithesis of open-source but Google Broadcom's stock price and one can see it's been a fabulously successful company. I am really interested to see w
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Reading Generation Kill by Evan Write does not give this impression of the US military...
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by skywal_l 5y ago
We should bring back lab coats and mustaches. So dignified.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Yep, never thought my passion for computers and cooking would collide on hacker news this way!
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Isn't the best way to combat misinformation is with information? What are your sources?
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Forget the nytimes on that particular issue (and on many others). They miserably fail at reporting the corruption of the courts. Both judges (Kaplan[0] and Preska[1]) have ties to Chevron. I encourage you to listen to the Chapo Trap House e
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by skywal_l 5y ago
As usual, the news is not about what happened but how it may have been covered up. In the end, you need research on viruses to understand how they work and how to stop them. And the fact that the public should be treated like children and t
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by skywal_l 5y ago
The first point I think is one of the main arguments. I've been using Ubuntu on a computer I bought in 2007. Worked like a charm (until the PSU blew up a few months back). Linux is a system that outlast its hardware! One can also turn
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Population will stabilized. But the question is how it will be stabilized. We could do it in a controlled way or through environmental collapse, war, pandemic...
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Is it only hype? What about road adherence, endurance, etc. As long as I don't see independent assessments by car journalists, I'll reserve my judgement. But if they live up to the hype, it will be a game changer indeed.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
type Ensure I define a type called Ensure <T, K extends keyof T> This type takes two type parameters, one called T and the other K which will consist of Keys belonging to the type T (in our case, "foo", &q
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Love Vernor Vinge. Too bad is not as proficient as other world building science fiction authors, but if the pattern is correct, he should drop a new Zones of Thought book pretty soon.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Typescript is actually a great language. And with those utility types, you can do pretty fun stuff like, for example, you want to mutate a type so that some fields become mandatory: type Ensure<T, K extends keyof T> = T & {
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Utility Types[0] will help you get to the next level on Typescript. It's important to know them and know how and when to use them. [0] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/utility-types.h...
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I guess it's a game theory kind of thing. If, for some reason, the UK decided to clean their act, the grifters would go someplace else (delaware, singapore, etc). In the end it might make the world a slightly better place but at an imp
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Warning: The City Of London[0] is different from the city of London[1]. The former is within the latter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London
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by skywal_l 5y ago
> It's also worth noting that there is a strict separation between the Mozilla Foundation (the tax exempt non-profit) and Mozilla Corporation (the wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary which builds Firefox). The Foundation is not dire
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Is there a way to know how the Mozilla Foundation spend its money? They've stopped updating this page[0] in 2019. Maybe a way to rely less on Google and "trusted partners" money is just to spend less. [1] https://f
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Don't you think that the fact that you can use sea water as input and you get hydrogen as output is a huge advantage over fission? Add to that the fact that there is no fukushima style meltdown in a fusion power plant. If something goe
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by skywal_l 5y ago
ITER means International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. It's not supposed to be useful. It is a prototype. And yes, it costs a lot, but if they succeed, it would solve so many problems, it would be worth it. And for scale, compar
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by skywal_l 5y ago
The subtitle is also important: Non-binding resolution also asks for AI-based predictive policing ban. AI, by its complexity and opacity should not be used to profile people. Just because it could be so easily manipulated.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Indeed but there is a great marketing value though. And these missions rely on being marketed to the public for continued funding.

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