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Expensive enough to not be profitable
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Who gets to determine which facts? Why would that group not use that to their advantage, instead of to the benefit of everyone? > The majority never picks the best and markets do not optimize as much as some people think. Whether it&#x27
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by smallnamespace 10y ago
The drone was flying in a continuous turn, so matching position, rate of turn, speed, and wing position simultaneously is probably an overconstrained problem.
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I don't know about en-gb, but classy in en-us seems to me mostly focused on the person's outward appearance and mannerisms.
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There are also vocabulary items that do have direct translations into other languages, but none with the same precise connotation. For example, 斯文 from Chinese most directly translates as 'refined' or 'cultured' in Engli
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The tradeoff is that techniques like multimethods significantly weaken the contract that people normally expect from methods/classes. For example, if I'm writing a normal Java class, I know where I go to find methods dealing speci
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No, but there's certainly a positive correlation
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> > What I'm saying is that it's possible to love yourself and serve yourself while still making things better for everyone without any kind of contradiction in motivation. I think I was just trying to make a very narrow poi
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> less than 10% of the world would be of american and European decent. > 50% would be Asian and 40% would be African. World population has followed these proportions for most of recorded history. The true aberration is that the last f
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> I could just write the code for that but I'll never prove the system works that way. Or you could just prove from first principles, like we all learn in formal algorithm design theory. The question is not whether proofs are valuab
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I didn't get that from the article at all. It pointed out how modern immigration was a large aberration from Britain's history and also why it lead to such a large reaction. That hardly seems like demonizing the leave side.
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If the cost of transporting mass and energy from one star system to another are sufficiently high, another problem is that only the people on the ship get a benefit, whereas everyone else is throwing away mass and energy for no conceivable
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Modern science is a long way from mapping physical states to feelings. And even if we could, it still doesn't explain why certain physical states cause certain mental states: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qua
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> If I contribute to my environment, I'm improving my own situation. Yes, but a truly selfish person could improve their personal situation much more effectively by pillaging the commons, since any contribution you make to the envir
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Because one of the main payoffs from getting here to the nearest habitable star system is that you're now closer to more habitable star systems. But if turns out that it's very very expensive to get from one star system to another
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If calling it science bothers you, then call it mathematics instead. It's obvious to everyone involved that GM and QM, both the best physically verified theories at their respective energies, are deeply incompatible with one another. U
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You already need to pay someone for a computer to view the web, and OS costs are bundled in as part of that. The OS market wouldn't be open anyway, because it naturally forms a monopoly/oligopoly.
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That's probably not right. Under mild assumptions, each successive update to expectations will be proportionally smaller in magnitude, and the price will converge geometrically to a somewhat lower (but non-zero) number. It's the s