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by srl 7y ago
I think the broad point is correct (fossil fuels are a net positive, compared to the gruesome alternative), but I wouldn't say they have net positive externalities . This is a critical distinction. The positive effects of fossil fuels
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by srl 7y ago
I'm admittedly pretty bad at basic speed math (even dividing by 5 takes me a bit -- and I know it shouldn't). I use the same fibonacci trick, and at least for me it really is much easier. It's important to remember that all a
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by srl 7y ago
It seems pretty clear that, with the current tools available, there is no way to do this (at least with git). There's nothing in principle difficult about it, just that (say) git+signify hasn't been implemented. I'm getting t
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by srl 7y ago
First, thanks enormously for writing this -- and for all the other recent articles that have appeared here the vein of "PGP is as bad as it is unpleasant to use". It's a point I didn't really appreciate (at least as much
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by srl 7y ago
(Having watched the video): No, GP does mean "old-world cities with immigrants". However, GP meant to end with "that never developed in the new world". The story, in brief: old-world cities, which were crowded, always
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by srl 8y ago
> Would the author ever write about a man like this? I tried to check. On theatlantic (okay, I'm too lazy to search harder) there are two other articles by the same author; one is from 2014 (and has no women as major characters), an
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by srl 10y ago
I believe that was "toejam".
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P = NP doesn't matter(bytbox.net)
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by srl 12y ago
Wonderful read! Entertainingly, the author uses "condescending about ice balls" as a symbol of all things she hates about the testosterone-driven world. In the comments here: people arguing about ice-ball physics. Metaphor complet
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by srl 12y ago
My college campus enforced it (after three deaths in less than a year in the same damn place!) by building a giant wall down the middle of the road. Pretty effective.
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by srl 12y ago
I'd say that the defining aspect of the original 'moonshot' technology was there was (sadly) no opportunity for commercial gain. Contrast with here, where, for a myriad of reasons, people could easily be convinced to pay subs
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by srl 12y ago
Sage uses sympy, among many other tools.
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by srl 12y ago
This is a theory I've often heard, and personally suspect to have a good deal of validity (although obviously it's an oversimplification). In good economic times, people don't mind the government spending a lot - after all, t
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by srl 12y ago
Apparently not. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Privacy_and...
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by srl 12y ago
By "operating system" they seem to mean "linux distribution". I suspect that, like most glamorous crypto project, this will turn out to be woefully inadequate. (For example, they did their own implementation of openpgp.
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by srl 12y ago
And by the end I was thinking, "wow, only groped once a month? That's ... well, probably the most positive thing on this list!" Jesus. No matter how many time I read things like this (or hear about it from personal friends),
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by srl 12y ago
Have you ever tried learning math, or physics, from wikipedia? It's nearly impossible. I agree that preserving some sort of encyclopedic form of knowledge is a great idea, and that wikipedia is the best we have at the moment, but in th
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by srl 12y ago
SnakeDoc: You have been hellbanned, apparently due to your comments on nuclear missile silos.
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by srl 12y ago
More to the point, it gives a better statistical outcome than not caring.
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by srl 12y ago
Apparently this is something done in regions considered to have high stowaway risk. (Don't remember the source - it was mentioned in one of the news outlets covering this.) However, this isn't done in most airports, since it'
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by srl 13y ago
> Why cannot KGTV note * ON ITS WEBSITE * its geographic affiliation. They do. Click the "10news" icon, and look at the titlebar.
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by srl 13y ago
I've noticed three classes of bad English. The apologetic folk, who will often try to explain things in multiple ways, or be extra-verbose, in an effort to get their point across clearly. Second, the unapologetically bad folk, who writ
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by srl 13y ago
Completely off-topic, but my pet peeve: > (by the way, i'm sorry for my english skills) If you feel the need to append this statement, that's a good sign that you don't need to. Your English is fine (should be "school
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by srl 13y ago
You misunderstand: he was saying that if you're voting, you /should/ upvote, to help the poll be meaningful. You should do this because upvoting is not automatic - as you can see, some people have voted in the poll but not up
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by srl 13y ago
The language/proof assistant coq has similar problems (damn frenchies getting their revenge).
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by srl 13y ago
> We need to destigmatize vocational education. This is a little off-topic, but back in high school, there was a vocational education program clearly considered to be somewhat remedial, tailored for those who had no hope of going to coll
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by srl 13y ago
WRT number 3 (which I agree is the biggie): I've noticed science journalists and outreach folk often place a lot of emphasis on individual discoveries and hypotheses. Sometimes they seem to do this to make it relatable, other times per
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by srl 13y ago
The important thing here is to remember that anybody who disagrees with you is a fascist, out to destroy America and freedom. There's no possibility that this is a well-intentioned effort, rather than bank-funded malice. Furthermore, i
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by srl 13y ago
"In conclusion, I love my country and like our lawyers and hate our bank, like all good Americans." Oh my sides. I get the dim sense, knowing nothing about this stuff, that the job of that office is one of the more headache-induci
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by srl 13y ago
And sufficiently dense that the composition of matter inside is fundamentally different, consisting mainly of neutrons, unstable at ordinary pressure. The radius of neutron stars is measured in small multiples of the Swarzschild radius for

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