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by sqeaky 9y ago
If you plug values in drakes equations ou can make anything comes out. But historically with any like real numbers you get many civilizations right up until you state how long each civilization lasts. This is why Great Filters are such an i
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think you are adding extra steps that are not needed. The programming model requires the JVM there are a few tools that compile Java directly to native code. There are tools that compile it to java script, and there are beta quality tools
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> Who in their right mind wants to write a front-end in C++ or Rust? Every AAA Game Dev. Java is also enabled by WASM and plenty of large applications are made in that. Things like Google Docs are made in Java and cross compiled to javas
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think there are only historical reason to only having bad languages in browsers. Having good languages in WASM proves it. EDIT - Good from a performance perspective, things like static typing and symbolically executable and pre-compiled.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What platforms are we talking about? Anything actually used by consumers or business or is it all just stuff that has esoteric support by hobbyists and those creating custom and reviving super old stuff. I would imagine that if someone&#x27
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by sqeaky 9y ago
But we could have literal wars over the pronunciation. I just don't want to leave a legacy of pain and violence for the children of the hard G.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't think this is the same argument that has been made hundreds of times. That argument is about the west. Here in the USA we could in theory train our coal miners to write software or build build bridges or do some other useful ta
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by sqeaky 9y ago
When these people "Give all their money away" it goes to groups like the Sherwood foundation or the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and does massive good for science, education, fighting malaria.... That is not a loophole, that
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think it is a matter of competition. The unpowered loom does not enable you to compete, but some amount of powering it and accepting a lower wage does allow you to compete with shops that have slightly more tech. Accepting lower wages is
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I feel that the same effect is at play with vaccines. Because few Americans have seen Measles, Mumps and Rubella first hand they are more willing to take irresponsible risks. Things like a 10% mortality rate make a disease feel safe because
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by sqeaky 9y ago
There are risks with all activities. The kind of gaps in our knowledge are smaller than ever and there if the experts say there is no obvious risk we would remiss to disregard them. There will always be the risk of the unknown, there is sti
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Yet? There is not property of physics that stop us from making the tech. It won't e in the first gen tech, but with all those 20 something geniuses coming out of college they can start working on that tech before too many generations p
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't think any sane person doubts intelligence is genetic and inheritable. I think the other poster's point was more that there isn't a simple genetic switch that adds 5 IQ points. There appear to be many complex factors t
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Per Phoronix[1] AMD's threadripper does really good against Intel's workstation and HEDT CPUs. How could two more core complexes make it look less onesided. A Ryzen is one core complex, A threadripper is two Ryzen and an Epyc is 4
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What is it with this author and the word "mere". At first I thought it was legit because the AMD chip was cheaper, then sarcastic because a purely inferior Intel was more expensive then it was used everywhere so now I think the au
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think you are correct in several things, perhaps all things. I am cool with nazis voting and I even think nazis should have freedom of speech. What is not OK is calls to violence and any other form of speech that directly hurts people (do
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by sqeaky 9y ago
We live in a single objective reality. There are ways to get at the truth. Some of those ways are even easy. Can the claims be tested, sometimes this can shortcut you strait to the truth. Knowing how to check sources gets you one step close
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by sqeaky 9y ago
People don't like this. Please respond and tell me why. Can you defend Trump? As near as I can tell he doesn't have any actual stances. He contradicts himself constantly. He acts like a child instead either a politician or a state
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Doesn't worry me in the least. I am surprised they weren't already heavily filtered. I also don't use facebook at all. It would worry me if an ISP or other group that should be a common carrier were censoring things. Or if th
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by sqeaky 9y ago
People believing in such vast quantities does seem to be new. I don't know anyone who believed the non-sense in the National Enquirer, but I do know a few people who buy because they think it is funny. People, whole communities of peop
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by sqeaky 9y ago
No one believed bat boy and even the plausible stuff in those was never the subject of design making. The National Enquirer is as much News as the Onion is. The tragedy now is that there are sites that aren't neatly packaged as entirel
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by sqeaky 9y ago
The people selling microphones get to decide that. This is Facebook's microphone to sell, the liars are free to buy another.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
That intersection sounds like hypocrisy until you think about how being a common carrier is a government rule and it really is the government that needs to restrained to prevent censorship. I definitely accept the need for that intersection
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by sqeaky 9y ago
North Korea is making Nukes to threaten the world with. And is a tiny shithile country with an already destroyed economy. It helps to be claiming to be acting in humanity's best interest instead of obviously being a despot. Think about
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What if the plan b is needed? How are tech companies with data in the hurricane doing right this second? That really depends on their planning doesn't it? Or put another way, a good Plan B puts makes your Plan A possible in some situat
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Lightning Rods can prevent this.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Sorry, I misread you.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
We literally did it once. That kind of proves it is feasible.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> So, just to be clear, you want to impose your will on the planet, as a whole. When it comes to saving countless lives, the economy and in the most extreme of possible outcomes all civilization... YES.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Only one. If the USA, Russia or any other nuclear power does it there won't be a war. Nuclear is the key word here, Those wars are much more costly than any amount climate change.

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