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by smaddox 8y ago
Don't have full text access right now, but do they assume a source of "negative mass"?
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by smaddox 8y ago
Virtual particles are particle-antiparticle pairs that are constantly being created and annihilated in empty space due to quantum ground-state variations. Supposedly their effects can be observed at the event horizons of black holes, giving
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by smaddox 8y ago
Can you give an example of how it is "constantly violated"? One not involving a "perpetual motion machine"?
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by smaddox 8y ago
That's an absurd rationalization, and I don't believe it. First, it's an absurd rationalization because all the finding agencies need to do is say "starting Jan 2019, all research papers funded by this fund must be open
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by smaddox 8y ago
Interesting. So perhaps a non-profit could start a grass-roots crowdaction campaign for all researchers in a field to switch to open-access overnight, and use US contract law to enforce compliance (in the US) if the threshold is reached? Th
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by smaddox 8y ago
Far better for the population to decrease naturally by choice, than due to wars over limited resources.
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by smaddox 8y ago
> "The rate has generally been below replacement since 1971" And yet population has grown by 120 million [1]. There are a lot of problems in the world, but I don't think low fertility rates is one of them. http:/&#
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by smaddox 8y ago
Stick the ENV in a state Monad, and run the process with that ENV as the context?
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by smaddox 8y ago
Yes, but shouldn't you have separate "build" and "deploy" container images? You should "build" a particular version once, "deploy" the result into a test environment, test it thoroughly, and then
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by smaddox 8y ago
They certainly are at UT Austin! But UT Austin has a separate Computer Engineering degree that's very similar to EE.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Deflationary currency disincentives investing in the future. There's nothing good about it.
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by smaddox 8y ago
A source for my speculation? No. A source for the high debt to GDP ratio? A simple Google search would suffice, but here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/sizing-up...
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by smaddox 8y ago
I can see this triggering an inflection point in Chinese debt accumulation (if it hasn't happened already). Considering the insanely high debt to GDP ratio in China, it looks like they're in for a massive recession.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Yes, but it would be blown up right before it finished computing the question to the ultimate answer.
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by smaddox 8y ago
This reads like a parody of science journalism... It ticks all the boxes. Simplifying quantum computing to "it runs every possibility in parallel"? Yup. Making vague and impossible speed up claims? Yup. Etc.
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by smaddox 8y ago
Optical switches are neither small nor efficient compared to a VLSI CMOS transistor. Few things are.
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by smaddox 8y ago
But `GET(GET(x))` doesn't make sense, in general (and if it did, then you would not expect it to be idempotent), so clearly idempotency in this context is meant to mean side-effect free. They should probably just say side-effect free,
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by smaddox 8y ago
So it's race free.... If you test every single possible system state, and remove all the race conditions. No thanks.
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by smaddox 9y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I suspect its value would decrease in those cases, due to the lower-level representation providing less semantic association, and therefore less information (per unit object) for modeling hit rate and lifetim
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by smaddox 9y ago
Very interesting read. Thank you for linking it. It has significantly altered my perception of the Citizens United issue. I see now that there's no simple way to balance campaign finance reform against freedom of speech. Edit: Perhaps
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by smaddox 9y ago
Easy: the party will command the food to grow, and if it doesn't grow, they will throw it in prison.
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by smaddox 9y ago
Amazon does apply that model internally. This is arguably why Amazon is as successful as it is: Bezos turns internal products into external products. AWS started as an internal product. In order to keep it competitive with external of
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by smaddox 9y ago
Communism didn't fail for lack of top-down control. It failed because of too much top-down control (to oversimplify to the extreme).
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by smaddox 9y ago
Yes, but if browsers were strict by default (or at least by default in dev mode), the bug in his compositing software likely would have been found and fixed much earlier, and it wouldn't have persisted into production. So again, I unde
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by smaddox 9y ago
A game is a shovel. People don't want to play games, they want to have fun, or disconnect from the real world for a period of time, or they want to connect with their friends. Games enable them to do so.
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by smaddox 9y ago
I assume he is talking about "selling entry" into a fashionable group, e.g. Apple product owner. Apple has a significant markup on their products, because they're fashionable. Neither the markup nor the fact that the products
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by smaddox 9y ago
Thanks for the link. I can certainly see how making the transition now is pretty much untenable, but I'm not 100% sold that it wouldn't be a good idea if everyone had adopted the policy from the start. I can certainly see how it w
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by smaddox 9y ago
Yes: use your chip's generator through your OS's random number generator (urandom on Linux). The chip's thermal-noise entropy source is fundamentally based on quantum mechanics.
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by smaddox 9y ago
That seems reasonable to me. Would you want your programming language to compile code that has a syntax error?
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by smaddox 9y ago
What makes you think large companies are more capable of developing reliable, secure software?

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