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by waps 12y ago
Regardless of the success of this particular experiment, you've got to hand it to the US when it comes to fusion research. US is : Funding ITER (founding member of ITER) Funding Z-Pinch Funding Polywell Funding steam-based fusion (yes,
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by waps 12y ago
> That's simply not true in Go. `nil` is not an inhabitant of all types. Integers, floats, strings, arrays and structs cannot be `nil`. Slices, maps, functions, channels, interfaces and pointers are nilable. True. But beside the poi
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by waps 12y ago
What about the fact that most direct democracies, aside from making representative democracy look practical, all failed when confronted with the real world ? Besides, having read the history of Athens, direct democracy can be described as m
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by waps 12y ago
Outside of criminal law, mostly your question would be answered by the contracts you signed or otherwise agreed to. Read them and find out. Generally I would argue that businesses that provide contracts to the wide world would have terminat
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by waps 12y ago
Getting out a tablet, even a mini, for paying something seems burdensome. Are you going to get a credit card out of your wallet or a tablet out of your backpack ? So this is mostly limited to app store purchases (and online ?) I guess.
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by waps 12y ago
I don't think I'm advocating unsignalled. Just put the signalling into a distributed system into the trains themselves. Since those vehicles can actually see what's in front of them, that should be a lot safer, since signalli
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by waps 12y ago
Did you ever know any manager, never mind a higher-up manager, that did even 3 of those things ? Management is about money and favours, and about those things alone, and that's why work sucks. The only way to get ahead is with threats
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by waps 12y ago
Then do what most modern systems are moving to anyway : eliminate the track. Work with just bog standard roads in the tunnels and eliminate the rails, built and maintained like any other road. I feel all of those problems are solvable, and
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by waps 12y ago
Either they're fixed, or they have "little branching". Not both.
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by waps 12y ago
Pfff I can't believe they're doing this. This is taking a tiny step in optimizing it. If we're eliminating train drivers, why do we even bother with having carriages ? Why can't I just get on a train at any station I wan
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by waps 12y ago
Batteries are ~30% efficient. Sending power to end users is ~85-90% efficient (though less, of course, if there's overcapacity, and then it drops very fast). So let's say you'd get 30% * 85% ^ 2 ~= 20% efficiency out of it. I
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by waps 12y ago
Um because one hospital staff member got herself infected (and then presumably went on to treat others, with less safety procedures, while infected with ebola). This is the sort of thing that has happened in over a dozen MSF hospitals in Af
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by waps 12y ago
Well, Ebola is pretty famous for changing hospitals into deathtraps. I guess European safety procedures aren't sufficient to eliminate the risk, and hopefully they're testing every patient and visitor discharged in the last week a
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by waps 12y ago
This is easy to implement using cryptography. E.g. when firechat assigns a username, they sign your certificate for said username using their key. Then, when sending messages, they have to be signed with your key (or outright encrypted), an
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by waps 12y ago
It's not the cost. The problem is electrical planes. Helicopters are known for their agility, coming at the cost of extreme energy use (and, imho, extreme danger. Any mechanical failure in any part of the helicopter WILL result in cont
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by waps 12y ago
Never mind that none of this matters if you have unlocked the phone and it's on (default protection policy is protect until first unlock, which happens right after turnup). That's gotta be 99.9% of cases. Once the police or apple
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by waps 12y ago
I haven't yet seen a paper claiming either way. It spreads through fluids, so likely it can remain stable in chlorinated water for at least a few seconds.
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by waps 12y ago
You are confusing two moral issues. You're talking about revenge, and the Christian moral position is of course, that nothing justifies revenge. (But keep in mind, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and others all regulate revenge inst
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by waps 12y ago
It's easy to imagine scenarios that would have it spread in the US. 1) Scenario : some guy/girl lands in Florida, later that day goes for a swim in a big swimming pool with some 100+ people in it because it's a very hot day.
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by waps 12y ago
The IMF, in 2011, claimed : “a 10 percent permanent increase in oil prices reduces oil demand by about 0.7 percent after 20 years.” [1] So to put things simpler : there is no elasticity in the price oil to speak of. It is almost like this :
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by waps 12y ago
First of all, Go's parser only parses Go. Yacc parses a lot of things. Other than that : - you can find yacc files for pretty much anything. - yacc prides itself on language support. Go shouldn't feel to flattered here, there&#x27
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San Francisco and Los Angeles warn uber in letter from district attorneys(online.wsj.com)
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by waps 12y ago
And now apple has promised not to just give all that information, and access to your phone, to people claiming to be cops without a warrant anymore. This was such a good read until that last word. Including that last word it makes me feel a
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by waps 12y ago
Euhm, no, it would have access to any message you can see from the phone, old or new. Plus I don't think there's a per-message key at all. So they could have logged the messages, then install a patched iMessage on your phone to se
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by waps 12y ago
So when do we find out the NSA has made it's own little "purchase" for everyone ?
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by waps 12y ago
True. But they can replace any program on any iPhone with an NSA/Justice system version, and give the replacement access to any keys stored on the iPhone. There can never be any security on a closed system where a central party has all
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by waps 12y ago
Experimental treatment obviously means unknown risk. And of course the deal is going to be that you take full responsibility for the risk. In other words, if something like that happens, you get zero assistance, not even from any health ins
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by waps 12y ago
If people could please stop claiming that the <$1/day continent is going to start buying $750 phones AND $350 watch that'd be great, mmmkay ?
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by waps 12y ago
And who pays for the, potentially unbounded fallout from that decision ? Let's say this happens : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide (First read about the advantages of the drug, then move to the crises. in
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by waps 12y ago
From the original paper : Lu Hong†‡§ and Scott E. Page¶ †Michigan Business School and ¶Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234; and ‡Department of Finance, Loyola University, Chicago, IL 60611 Now that "Busine

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