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by thingification 9y ago
Ha To be honest: Yes? I would say that is the conventional wisdom in the (small) capability community. I'm sure that oversimplifies carefully-nuanced opinions of course, but, yes. An example is mentioned here ('angels', &#x
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by thingification 10y ago
Where can I read about medical science having been more focused on understanding in the past? I think the focus on small increments in (relatively) unimportant medical knowledge is perhaps the greatest tragedy of our time. Also, who calcul
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by thingification 10y ago
We have many institutions that have evolved over centuries to correct the mistakes of governments (including ones that involve malice). Radical anything risks destabilising that most valuable knowledge: incremental change has worked rema
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by thingification 10y ago
Where to draw the line? How about "people you have seen"? But the line is less important than the reason for the line being where it is -- and that is about things like the principle of least authority, stability against tyrrany
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by thingification 10y ago
I don't begrudge you projecting information on your retina about people you have seen before. The issue at hand is people you have never seen before, but whose faces have been been captured in a large database. What's dystopian?
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by thingification 10y ago
Can you explain why it's necessary to prevent people doing those things, or to impose a totalitarian state, in order to prevent identification of random citizen x by random citizen y? It seems what's actually needed to prevent tha
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by thingification 11y ago
It's not just "selecting" exactly but editing (see the README). git gui etc. don't work quite this way I think: Using the tool I'm finding I'm quite often clicking the right arrow to add a hunk to the index, t
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by thingification 11y ago
Quoting from the README: In some cases meld is easier / quicker to use than git add -p or the staging feature in tools like git gui. That's because meld allows you, for example, to: see more context see intra-line diffs
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by thingification 12y ago
Have you considered sandstorm.io? https://sandstorm.io/ I realize this doesn't meet your requirement re hosting it yourself -- but since I don't know the full background, perhaps that doesn't matter to you.
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by thingification 13y ago
A quote from the piece: "If I bought a fridge, would the manufacturer force me to register my product before turning on the compressor? Or if I bought a car - would the carmaker force me to hand over my personal details before allowing
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Karl Popper - Uncertain Truth [video](youtube.com)
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by thingification 13y ago
"This article is not alone in having a very narrow and technical conception of democracy as solely a method of election and legislation." That is an argument about words and not ideas. The article says that voting is not enough, a
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by thingification 13y ago
From the comments I see here so far, I don't see evidence that people have read the article (which is a transcript of part one of a radio talk that just went out over the air on the UK's Radio 4). It seems people are responding to
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by thingification 13y ago
That might depend on how you look at it: http://www.sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research/n... High risk, ambitious ideas are more than worth a try.
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by thingification 14y ago
I hope it's not stating the obvious to say there's often a gap between the interests of participants, and the interests of people looking to get information from threads later on. I've found that forum moderation sometimes fragments a forum
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by thingification 14y ago
I don't know what the empirical evidence from psychology really says. But I think that programming requires immense attention to detail.
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by thingification 14y ago
That seems a little unfair on PHP if taken at face value. I don't know PHP, but doesn't it come with things like database client libraries and templating? That's not really comparable with the core Python distribution. Presumably a fairer
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by thingification 14y ago
I wonder whether, instead of the "traditional" software industry feeling the brunt of that push-back, it'll be the robotics industry?
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by thingification 14y ago
Ah, I did notice you were talking about fast reactors, then hastily slid back to thermal ones! Sorry. I guess my error reflects the fact that I think the thermal LFTR is more important. Re passive cooling in sodium breeder reactors: that's
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by thingification 14y ago
How long it takes depends critically on what we say and do. "Fundamental problems"? I guess one man's applied metallurgy is another's fudamental research, but the problems are better characterised as engineering ones, not science ones.
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by thingification 14y ago
I'm told that Xe poisoning played a major role in Chernobyl. MSRs have a major advantage here because the Xe can easily be removed. In a solid fuel, it is not really possible to remove it, and it can cause instability because it causes ti
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by thingification 14y ago
U-232: I'm not sure that's really the good argument. The better argument is that it doesn't matter whether it is weaspons-resistant, because it is much easier to enrich U 235, even for U-poor countries. Is that argument also flawed? Unfo
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by thingification 14y ago
It's intermediate half-lives that are problematic. Very long half lives (for example, billions of years, like Th 232) are not a problem, because they have low activity (few particles emitted per second). Very short half lives (for example
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by thingification 14y ago
What you say about U/Pu fast breeders is true, but there are other pertinent differences between those and LFTR: 1. LFTR safety is based on passive cooling. Pu breeders do not share this property. Fukushima-style accidents involving loss
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by thingification 14y ago
This is true. However, the article is about molten salt reactors. The Indian program, as far as I know, is focused entirely on conventional solid fueled reactors. Most of the advantages of MSR aren't shared by solid fuel Th reactors. Chi
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by thingification 14y ago
I don't know whether they shopped around VCs, but they have said that they aim to sell to the US army. The army has a well-publicised and pressing need for portable compact power sources in places like Iraq. They have also indicated that
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by thingification 14y ago
"there's a general engineering issue...": This is quite right. However, that is a general-purpose argument to dismiss any new technology. I don't think the rational response to that is to not develop new technologies that show promise to
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by thingification 14y ago
Need for enriched Uranium: that is correct, though liquid fueled Th reactors are designed to operate as a closed system that breed and "burn" their own Uranium from the Th, starting from an initial supply of neutron flux to start the proces
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by thingification 14y ago
Here is the context that makes these features not seem ad hoc: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/ecmascript-5-caja-retrofitti... Many of the additions (including object.freeze) and changes were made for the purpose of making JavaScript usab