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by squirrelicus 8y ago
I just now realized a bad typo. Should have read "suicidality is pretty strongly inversely correlated with poverty [and strongly correlated with privilege]"
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
I get it. My post isn't an SF pop culturally appropriate view. And I have my own views on suicidality, the systemic failure of the parents that reared millennials, and the postmodern deconstruction of historical pillars of meaning that
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Sure, not a lot of substance here. Easy to disprove most of it. -income inequality is higher but so is standard of living. Moreover, suicidality is pretty strongly inversely correlated with poverty and privilege. If the hypothesis is that p
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
a) the kind of ship required to travel interstellar at a reasonable pace, such as a nuclear termal rocket or antimatter rocket or the like, is pretty well understood in theory. It will glow like a galactic beacon and would be visible from v
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Reading sci-fi (or playing Stellaris if novels aren't your thing) indicates to me the latter is intensely more terrifying
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Whether they use highly tuned or proprietary or obscure algorithms (they do) is less important than the fact that understanding b-trees and basic normal forms will get you 90% of the way to understanding how to use one. It's just not t
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Copyright can still exist, as well as licensing and IP law and trade secret protection. Patenting is just saying "we'll disclose this invention in exchange for a temporary monopoly". It's especially problematic in softwa
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Yeah software is this funny new world where the cost of manufacture and distribution is orders of magnitude less than the cost of invention. Patents were intended to solve the opposite problem. Software patents are just inexcusable
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Looks like I'm defeated, guys. Healthy online communities can't exist I guess. When someone defends jcroll from down votes, he does a pathetic unhealthy thing. Now nobody can have nice things. QED. /s
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Well, yes, they're not hard to find, but you certainly can't find them everywhere. Could be gaming or knitting or racing or rock climbing or what have you. The formula for a healthy online community is (0) you must base the commun
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Don't know why this is downvoted. It's a bit glib, but it's not really false. You can't just take a random selection of humans, put them on the internet together, and reasonably expect something non-bad to happen. You ha
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
A neighborhood optimizing for a 5 year old is very different than a neighborhood optimizing for a 15 year old. It makes sense that people set down roots in a child friendly suburb, and then their teens just deal with the fact that they live
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
+1 My favorite part of the suburbs is that my kids are physically incapable of walking or biking to an urban area. When they have grown to acquire the sense to look out for themselves, then they coincidentally will have the freedom (e.g. dr
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
In August I quit my cushy (cushy!) day job to go full time on my startup, fully bootstrapped, living on my savings account. I discovered what panic attacks were, and made it to February a few months ago before getting a less cushy day job.
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Can't wait to see perspectives on this one. I looked into this years ago and remember finding the number to be around 150-300 if you centrally plan reproduction (and no, you don't want an unequal gender distribution). Also that ch
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
H2O isn't exactly rare in the universe, it's the third most common molecule after H2 and CO. Getting water into orbit is absurdly expensive compared to getting it from the other rocks with lower gravity and atmo, like Ceres. Weird
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Absolutely. I agree.
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
Interesting. Fundamentally, in order to achieve async io, a continuation is necessary. Syntax may hide this (e.g. async/await), or make it apparent as in callbacks/promises. I can't blame JavaScript for not having syntax that
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by squirrelicus 8y ago
What does multiprocessed model have to do with the "async cult"? And who exactly is in the async cult? Because "async" to me means "async io" like epoll, kqueue etc, which are pretty much necessary to go from